Meet the Artists
We are proud to collaborate with these talented individuals and present their latest works.
Teri Gammalo
According to Teri, she is happiest when she is creating. Her paintings are a reflection of her love for life, children and nature. As a self-taught artist, Teri has crafted her skills by attending classes, workshops and studying with other artists. She now passes on this knowledge as an art instructor. Her award-winning work has been juried into many local and national exhibits as she explores a variety of mediums and subjects. Teri is grateful for her mentors along the way, but feels the most valuable lesson she has learned is to believe in herself.
Jenifer Hernandez
Jenifer M. Hernandez is a fine artist who has shown her colorful abstract work in both solo and group shows. She is also a graphic designer who has worked with a wide variety of clients and projects, but always finds the opportunity to pick up a paint brush. Jenifer started her higher education in zoological illustration, then to studio art. In 1992, she was given the opportunity to study art and art history in Oxford, England where she enjoyed traveling throughout England, painting and sketching the historic and scenic countryside. According to Jenifer, “my love has always been creative art and painting – the interactions of color, shape and textures, drawing the viewer in – finding something new with each glance.”
E.E. Jacks
According to Teri, she is happiest when she is creating. Her paintings are a reflection of her love for life, children and nature. As a self-taught artist, Teri has crafted her skills by attending classes, workshops and studying with other artists. She now passes on this knowledge as an art instructor. Her award-winning work has been juried into many local and national exhibits as she explores a variety of mediums and subjects. Teri is grateful for her mentors along the way, but feels the most valuable lesson she has learned is to believe in herself.
Denise Marshall
Denise is the quintessential California girl who derives her inspiration from the colors and feelings experienced during a day at the beach. Sparkling sand and surf, wildflowers and sea life are favorite themes in her various mediums, driftwood art, glass mosaics and ceramics. If you take a closer look at many of her pieces, you might find a hint of darkness, something that doesn’t below, in life, as in nature, pretty is not always perfect. Denise is a master of combining the dark and the light. She loves working with glass in its various forms, contrasting it with other surfaces, exploring different dimensions and manipulating it into the pieces she creates.
Jane Ouweleen
Jane has been a serious photographer for over 20 years. She has worked in a variety of mediums–film, digital, infrared. Jane’s digital compositions, blended from unique sources, are carefully curated to create a world simultaneously ancient and new, real and imagined. Their subjects offer a tale, inviting the viewer to create a story. - maybe a little surreal, maybe a little whimsical, yet always thought provoking.
John Sollom
Ever since he was a teenager John Sollom has been fascinated by the essential unreality of the universe. This vision of the world comes through in his work, especially his assemblages which blend a collection of everyday items into a contemplative piece of art. He has been exhibiting since the early 90s after earning his Bachelor’s of Fine Art from California State University, Long Beach. Since that time, he has had more than 20 solo exhibits and participated in over 30 group exhibits across Southern California and the Southwest. John has also been hailed as one of the finest oil painters in the Orange County area. His scope of work is as diverse as his creativity. John Sollom is always showing up with something thought provoking, slightly edgy and pushing the boundaries of his talents.
Meryl Skyler
Meryl was introduced to photography as a teenager when her best friend got a camera. One click of the shutter, one roll of film, and her journey through the photography rabbit hole began. Starting with film and a darkroom, then transitioning to digital the ever-evolving technology she continues to push the envelope. Primarily using her own images, a splattering of acquired ephemera and the power of Photoshop, she creates worlds of her own making.
Shaney Waters
Although being born in Ohio, Shaney spent much of her life in a small village in the Netherlands. She decided to be an artist by the age of five and holds a BFA from Pacific Lutheran University, continuing her studies at grad school to become an art therapist. Shaney uses art to help her understand the world, creating pieces that explore relationships and finding beauty when it might be overlooked. Much of her work features animals in both real and fantastical ways. For her current work, she uses water-mixable oil paint on raw linen or wood panels with bright and bold colors, combined with a touch of shine from gold, silver and copper leaf.
