Park Street Gallery Artists
Kenyon Banks enjoys the experiential process of creating Raku style pottery. A traditional Raku pottery firing process involves subjecting the vessel to intense stages of heat, fire, and rapid cooling. This sequence infuses carbon into the ceramic body and glaze, resulting in distinctive patterns and colors. The outcome is unpredictable, yielding dramatic, one-of-a-kind effects.
Kristin Inman offers exquisite, handcrafted jewelry. Each piece reflects a timeless work of art, which began as a sheet of sterling silver, wire, clay, or scrap. She expertly transforms her settings through soldering, forging, casting, or firing until each stunning design emerges. Stones are carefully chosen and individually sourced. The result is an array of exquisite necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings, that are comfortable and sturdy enough to wear daily and treasure for generations to come!
Linda Elling is a painter whose artistic foundation is built upon a lifelong dedication to drawing and painting. Her work is driven by a fascination with the natural world and the quiet tensions it holds-light and shadow, liquid and solid, movement and stillness. Through oil paint, she explores these opposing forces, seeking moments where they meet and create balance, atmosphere, and emotion. Through these contrasts, she seeks to capture subtle transitions and movements of visual tension that evoke depth, balance and quiet contemplation. Linda is actively engaged in the artistic community and serves as President of the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters, where she has achieved Signature Status.
Linda has been a jewelry artist for 50 years using silver, gold and semi-precious stones. Her pieces are typically one-of-a-kind with the exception of production earrings in silver and gold-filled. The stones provide inspiration and dictate the design of each piece. Lately, Linda has been dabbling in enamels on fine silver using cloisonne and champleve techniques. She loves the transparent color of the glass on silver that has been textured and shows the reflection underneath.
Linda is an award winning plein air painter working in oils, pastels and graphite. She has a passion for interpreting the golden light of the California coast and the western way of life. Her work is characterized by an exceptional use of color, light, and shadow. Her landscapes bring the viewer into each scene to experience the glow of early morning, late afternoon, or the shimmer of light across water. She has been honored with Membership status in multiple esteemed art organizations and has appeared in several well known artist publications.
Lucy Hunt-Pierson’s figurative works reflect her personal quest to foster and explore an appreciation for classical figurative expression by using explicit and honest human anatomy. Her sculptures calmly express the connection of the spirit plane to the physical. Flowing lines of anatomy, water, and wind metaphorically reflect the transition of awareness through time and space. Lucy Hunt-Pierson sculptures are represented in collections throughout the United States and parts of Europe.
Mark Frank found his career in sculpture after exploring forests of the Northwest. He was inspired by a rare form of Ponderosa Pine, nick named Millennium. His themes are primarily organic and abstract and he enjoys incorporating mythical elements. He begins by creating a wood sculpture, which finds its voice and seems to come alive. It's like dancing with the wood's natural patterns - a true collaboration of mind and nature. He then creates a direct mold of the wood sculpture so that it can be cast in bronze.
Mary Velasquez is an award-winning artist who designs Navajo style jewelry. Mary fell in love with the Native American designs and beadwork while residing in Flagstaff, Arizona. Ghost beads are sometimes purposefully woven into the design, out of place. Each bead is thought to possess a soul and ghost beads provide protection against evil for the wearer. Mary's exquisite necklaces are intricately woven around magnificent cabochons, creating a true statement-piece for the wearer.
Matt Duran began his artistic journey painting abstract versions of Native American scenery. After attending his first gem show, Matt discovered a new found love of crystal, semi-precious and precious gem stones. Whether at the beach, forest or in the desert, he would come home with pockets full of rocks! Matt took classes and learned the art of jewelry fabrication with silver. Matt learned the spiritual and healing properties of stones, his favorite being Turquoise, as it represents wisdom, tranquility, protection, good fortune, and hope.
Melissa Campbell has been a professional glass artist for over 45 years. The ocean is her muse, which is reflected in many of the extraordinary designs of fused and stained glass work. She loves working with a vast selection of blues, teals and turquoise glass, while adding unique textures and embellishments. She often adds dichroic glass into her radiant free standing designs and wall mounted platters. Her work is dazzling, and is widely collected in homes and businesses throughout the Central Coast.