We previously introduced you to the eight talented artists who have been featured in past shows and will once again be participating in the Catalina Island Conservancy’s Catalina: The Wild Side Art Show & Sale on Sunday.
We previously introduced you to the eight talented artists who have been featured in past shows and will once again be participating in the Catalina Island Conservancy’s Catalina: The Wild Side Art Show & Sale on Sunday.
This week, in the final installment of this series of columns, we would like to you to meet two newcomers to the show. They painted on Catalina for the first time this year, capturing its conservation in their works as part of the Conservancy’s unique program to preserve the rich visual history of the Island’s conservation for this generation and future generations to enjoy.
The sale of theirs and the other artists’ works will benefit the Conservancy, including establishing a permanent collection of art depicting the Island’s conservation and preservation, which can be viewed at the Nature Center in Avalon.
Among the newcomers is Jesse Powell, who is a third generation artist. He says his love for art started an early age, for which he credits his father, nationally recognized artist John Powell. A native Angeleno who lives in Carmel, Jesse Powell said he has developed a deep attachment and respect for a rapidly disappearing natural landscape.
He is an artist member of the Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society and a Signature Member of the California Art Club and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
Kate Starling lives in Rockville, UT, and visited the Island’s wild side for the first time this year.
“It was an experience I will never forget,” she said. “I would find myself thinking while I was there that this was how it was 100 years ago. I could imagine myself back in time.”
Kate is an oil painter who lives and works in the canyons of southern Utah. Schooled in the importance of direct painting from life, she has spent years painting outside, learning the way light plays on the land.
“I have been involved in the preservation movement in small ways since I was in high school, she said. “Preservation of the remaining wild places in our country is something that I believe in and has led me into many of the endeavors I have taken on in my life. Catalina: The Wild Side Art Show and Sale and the Catalina Island Conservancy were a perfect fit for me as a painter and as someone who cares about the place.”
Please join us for Catalina: The Wild Side on Oct. 26. For the first time, the event will take place on the mainland, at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Balboa, to bring the beauty of the Island to a larger audience. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.catalinaconservancy.org or call 562-437-8555 ext. 239
Bob Reid is the Catalina Island Conservancy’s chief development and communications officer.
