A curated art show featuring four local artists will be on display March 1-31 in the Friends of the Buellton Library Room at the Buellton Library.

The artists will be present at the opening reception only.

On other days, the show can be viewed 10 a.m.-noon Mondays; 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays, and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays.
 
No sales of art pieces will be done during the show, but all of the artists will have their information available there, so interested buyers can contact them directly to make a purchase or see other pieces of their work.
 
Following is information about the artists, as well as what they have to say about the show and their craft.

Susan Belloni of Solvang

After graduating from UCSB with a degree in art Belloni started to exhibit paintings at local juried, invitational, benefit and solo shows in galleries, libraries, museums and businesses.

Belloni has a painting in the permanent collection of the Main Library at UCSB.  Her work is in local corporate offices and private collections around the country.

Belloni sells original oils, acrylics and charcoals, as well as, limited edition prints on canvas and paper on her website.

“The paintings in this show are all acrylic on canvas, started on location, and are about a serene place I love.

“For me, painting is a matter of setting out to choose a composition and something that attracts me and seeing what happens next.  I have one idea, and the weather, painting or canvas may have another.  I like that the known and unknown somehow mysteriously work together.”

Laura Scandalis Cross of Solvang

After retiring, Cross took an art class at Esalen, after which she began painting in earnest and selling her works at art fairs. One of the paintings now hangs in the reception room of a film producer in Paris, France.

“When creating art, I feel I’m diving into that realm where I put into a visual mode that which before only feelings could touch,” Cross said.

Ginny Speirs of Santa Ynez

With a lifetime dedicated to the practice and mastery of oil painting, Speirs has cultivated a distinctive voice in capturing the ephemeral beauty of nature. 

Her paintings reflect decades of observation, patience, and a reverence for the subtle interplay of light and form.

Each painting is an invitation to pause and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, the delicate curve of a petal, the play of light across a surface and the quiet poetry of nature’s design. 

“My paintings reflect decades of observation, patience, and a deep reverence for the subtle interplay of light and form,” she said. “Each painting is an invitation to pause and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, the delicate curve of a petal, the play of light across a surface and the quiet poetry of nature’s design.”

Sherry Uyeda of Buellton

In 2018, Uyeda learned to sketch in charcoal in the “Fundamentals of Drawing” class at SBCC taught by Stephanie Washburn.

In 2022, she attended Irina Malkmus’ class Introduction to Painting with Acrylics/Oils at Buellton Recreation Center. 

In 2023, she began her series “Loving Connection” in oils and charcoal, featuring portraits of sister with brother, aunt with niece, daughter with cat, culminating in a family reunification oil painting inspired from the 1972 movie “Sounder.”

“As my own strong emotions arise, so does a deep desire to channel them through imagery by the oil paint application of color on blank canvas or by the surprising subtleties of charcoal smudges on paper,” Uyeda said.