After spending years recovering from a severe infection, I now know precisely what I want out of life! Life is too short to not be appreciating all of the beauty and good fortune it holds! If you, like me, know what you want out of art, and if you know you are searching for unique pieces with thick, textured brush strokes of vibrant colors, please enjoy my paintings!
Yes, my paintings, although cheerful, do have deep meaning. I try to make that meaning revolve around celebrating life and healing changes.
My paintings deliver a positive burst of energy to you. The bold color and movement in my work is for those of you who are sensual. Have a tasty glass of wine while perusing my art. Why not just imagine yourself escaping into the joyful places I depict during your meals? Share my art with others! After all, my art is all relaxation and no angst.
Anne Greene was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She studied drawing and classical piano as a child, choosing to pursue art at Rhode Island School of Design as a painting major. Intaglio, photography, clay, and stone carving, the latter with Jane B. Armstrong, have been additional areas of study. Her career has included teaching art to children, teenagers and adults since 1971 for arts councils and other non-profits and state-sponsored programs; designing cover and text illustrations for literary volumes, most recently drawings for Passion for Place, stories and art reflecting the Carmel Watershed; directing art galleries in North Carolina, Rhode Island and California; and restoring the art work on clocks since the age of 13. Anne’s drawings, canvas paintings, reverse paintings on glass, prints and assemblages have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina and California.
Visual Arts ● Fabric Arts ● Watercolor● Collage● Papermaking
Since 1971 I have been providing students with a multitude of artistic techniques. In addition to traditional drawing, my teachings include exploration of shape and texture, dimensional skills, water awareness through art and poetry, as well as interesting processes from around the world.
Class descriptions:
Art Around the World Grades 3–6
“Travel” worldwide to make shadow puppets from Java, Chinese tangrams, Huichol yarn paintings from Mexico, Japanese Notan and more. Inspired by native cultures, these exciting techniques are taught using child-friendly materials.
Making a Splash! A Water Journey through Art & Poetry 4th Grade only
Students will become aware of the impact water, in its many forms, has on our lives. They will illustrate their watershed showing their homes, nearby river, hills, schools & shops, and roads. The water cycle, aquifer, groundwater will be studied and more, through fun and varied techniques, including texture rubbings, visual poetry, marbleizing paper, rain sticks, and painting the movement of water with watercolors.
Triangles, Circle & Lines, Oh My!: Super Shapes Grades K–5
Explore contour, concentric, geometric and modular shapes through two and three dimensional projects, “stained glass” shapes and concentric shape drawings, masks, mobiles, shadow puppets, sculptures.
Lumpy, Bumpy & Rough: Terrific Textures Grades K–5, 6-hour workshop
Discover textures in the environment and learn how to create textures with various media: painting on textural surfaces, printing with paint, papermaking, rubbings and relief collages. An exploratory course with fun visual surprises; designed for each grade level.
Media Mélange Grades 3–5, 6-hour workshop
A series of projects combining materials in a single work including: imaginary animals using crayons and watercolors, cyclones made of wire and fluorescent paper, crazy hats, festive clay sculptures and collages. Students discover that art can be made from almost anything, and gain an appreciation of the artistic qualities of ordinary objects.
Böbe was born and raised in Hungary. She began her twenty-plus year journey studying fine arts in Europe. In 1989, following five years of formal study, she began expanding her repertoire, traveling abroad to learn languages and experience new cultures.
In 1992 she settled in Munich, Germany where she experimented with different painting techniques by taking art classes in different art schools, including one year at the Kunst Academy (Academy of Arts). In 1995, Böbe had her first major Art Show in Munich, which consisted of twenty oil paintings of various subject matters, including the children of the war in Yugoslavia.
In the summer of 1999 she moved to California and started a new family and a new chapter in her life…Today Böbe lives in Carmel with her family. She continues to refine her artistic skills featuring the beautiful landscapes of the Carmel region, and creating unique surrealistic paintings.
In 1996, I moved to California where I found a new countryside of unlimited vistas, incandescent color, and an ocean full of drama and light. Suddenly I was attracted to landscape and it changed everything. I picked pastels as my medium and for a number of years successfully sold my work through galleries. I entered The Academy of Art University and graduated Cum Laude with a BFA. After graduating, I joined several artist groups including Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association (MBPAPA) where I served on the board and as President, and continue as Signature Standards Chair. Recently I was featured in the North Light publication Incite, Dreams Realized, The Best of Mixed Media.
I received my bachelor’s degree in Advertising Art from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, in 1965. After spending most of my working life in the Printing Industry, I have decided to pursue my lifelong interest in painting. My work primarily consists of landscape watercolors, although I occasionally work in pastels as well. With the use of both on-site and studio painting, I try to capture the beauty of our local scene, choosing to depict what one might see while visiting Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas.
I am an amateur photographer, who enjoys the challenge of photography and seeing the results of my efforts. Photography is a way of meeting people, learning about new places and sharing different ways of viewing the world around us. My photography is a way of capturing and preserving a moment-in-time. The subject matter is varied and ever changing. To me, the ideal photograph is one that evokes an emotion or memory. It can elicit a laugh, a smile or a memory of a story long forgotten.
After early experience with watercolors, I fell in love with the qualities of this medium – the vivid colors and the expression of fine detail. I enjoy interpreting what I see thru color and imagination. I have recently completed a series of local scenes to capture the beauty of the Monterey Peninsula Coast. In this series of trees and cottages, I have included elements both of the sunshine and the sea mist that defines the light of this region. I also enjoy painting portraits, landscapes, and Monterey Peninsula wildlife.
Christine’s 35 years experience in the arts ranges from painting murals in some of America’s most beautiful homes to painting fine art oils in her own Monterey Peninsula neighborhood, and as far afield as Europe and the Fiji Islands. She is a respected teacher who believes artists have a mission to foster the continual growth of the arts and an appreciation of beauty.
Born in 1959 in Indianapolis, IN; Dan Beck has been creating art as long as he can remember. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College with a BA in Philosophy. His formal art education includes - Oil Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Lithography, and Art History. In addition, he has studied perception as well as aesthetics. With the development of the computer as a medium for painting and aesthetic expression, and the remarkably positive response to the finished work, he has made it possible to view and own this new work.