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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. Gallery is open daily 8 am to 9 pm mid-June through mid-October. Wildcelt.com 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
	Roy A. 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.  www.cliftonimaging.smugmug.com
	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. www.lindaerfle.com
	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.
	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. www.dalelaitinen.com
	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”. www.robertreynoldsart.com
	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”.
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