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The Silver Lake Art Gallery
Our fine art gallery features artists who specialize in our local area. Come in and view a nice selection of original artwork depicting the high sierra and the Mother Lode region. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics and photography are the gallery specialties. Among our Gallery friends are: Dale Laitinen, Linda Erfle, Robert Reynolds, Naida West, Tom and Ann Harris, Roy A. Clifton, Katherine Venturelli, Herb Boxhorn and many others. Gallery is open daily 8 am to 9 pm mid-June through mid-October. We also offer a variety of activities every summer, conducted by artists, writers, musicians, historians, photographers who enjoy sharing their love of the Sierra. We also organize multi-day Workshops with well-known artists and photographers. Check our Calendar of Events for date and time schedule.
Meet the Artists
	Herb Boxhorn, a guitarist and vocalist. He is noted for his vocal styles of jazz, blues, and an eclectic mix. Performing regionally for over 30 years, Herb puts his signature on many jazz standards and contemporary tunes.
	Pauline Bradshaw, violinist, is a professional musician from Red Bank, New Jersey. She is a regular member of The New Philharmonic of Morristown, New Jersey. She performs as a duo with organist, Camille E. Thompson.
	Roy Clifton has been a part-time, professional freelance photographer for over thirty years.  He does portraiture, wedding and sports photography, but prefers photographing the great outdoors in the Sierras.  For many years he and his wife, Janet, have worked extensively in the Silver Lake to Carson Pass area.
	Jason Dunn, former Kit Carson Lodge’s guest and employee, is an emerging California Illustrator; he brings his animals to life through sketching in pen and ink and painting in Prismacolor color pencils.
	Linda Erfle, Placerville artist who produces works of representational art through the mediums of transparent watercolor and/or gouache. Linda finds inspiration for her paintings everywhere, nature close-up, deteriorating store fronts, people and her favorite, Sierra Nevada Mountains with their incredible rock formations and abundance of water.
	Tom and Ann Harris are responsible for the beautiful and popular vases and bowls exhibited at the Silver Lake Gallery. Ann is also the author of “Wildflowers: Which Name?” and “Wildflowers Wild”, books of rhymes and watercolors. Ann paints the wildflowers directly on white clay pots that Tom has slip-cast in molds he made from his original wheel-thrown pots. Ann refers to her watercolor paintings as she paints the pots. Besides the wildflowers, Ann paints a variety of subjects in watercolor and acrylic.
	Kit Carson Mountain Men verbal and hands on presentation on the fur trade and special techniques acquired by mountain men. The Mountain Men will have a display of furs, weapons and they appear in their full Mountain Men costumes.
	Dale Laitinen is best known for his watercolor paintings of the mountains and deserts of the Western United States. He is drawn to the topography of exposed rock which manifests itself as light catching ranges of mountains, deep canyons and broad expanse. He is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor West.
	Bob Madgic, fly fisher and hiker, author of books on fishing and related ventures: Pursuing Wild Trout: A Journey in Wilderness Values and A Guide to California’s Freshwater Fishes. He is a contributing editor at California Fly Fisher magazine, and has had many articles published in it as well as in other magazines. His newest book, Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite’s Half Dome, was published in 2005.
	Robert Reynolds, Robert Reynolds is a California artist whose paintings celebrate the natural beauty found in the land and waters that surround him on the Central California Coast and during his time spent in the High Sierras. His work defines and reaffirms our important relationship with the world of nature that eternally provides us with so many visual gifts. Reynolds has conducted intensive, summer painting workshops in the High Sierra for the past 30 years. He has recently published coffee table book “The Art of Robert Reynolds: Quiet Journey”.
	Katherine Venturelli, a Northern California artist, creates unique and limited edition artist books from her etchings and monotypes. Her artwork depends upon the power of symbolic imagery. She has lectured and facilitated monotype workshops for amateur and professional artists, and develops art outreach programs for children for over 30 years. Actively involved in the community arts, she was curator of the 1995-96 traveling exhibition “Monotype Forum”.
	Jeanne & Bill Watson, members of Oregon - California Trail Association, adopt-a-trail volunteers for USFS and longtime guests of the Lodge. Jeanne is the author of "TO THE LAND OF GOLD AND WICKEDNESS" – the 1848-59 diary of Lorena L. Hays who came the Carson Route in 1853 from Illinois and settled in the Ione Valley.
	Naida West, author of "EYE OF THE BEAR" and "RIVER OF RED GOLD" (Novels about early California people prior to and during the Gold Rush era). Her new book, “Murder on the Middle Fork”, is based on an actual historical murder. Naida is currently working on the third novel in her California Trilogy “Rest for the Wicked” that will be released in 2008.
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