Untangled                                                                                                                                                                                             
 
Unlike most abstract work, there is a rare uniformity and subtle depth in the series titled: Untangled  

This series represents the natural uniformity that can occur by chance, if only for a moment. This new series serves as a counterbalance to the chaotic and active String Theory Paintings.

Untangled uncovers the moment of uniformity that naturally occurs in a time and place. It’s hard to imagine such a thing in an environment of random chance and movement. Given time and perspective, it’s inevitable. Uniformity provides a sense of comfort. The feeling that things are in order as they should be.
 
A departure from the irregular tangle we push through in our daily lives.
That is the intention with these abstractions.
From a distance, these paintings appear simple and uniform.
With a closer look, the energetic colors seem to push and pull as they
vibrate above and beneath the surface. Explosive moments jump alongside cascading opaque and translucent tones. 

The developing colors along the lines in the foreground and background begin to bleed...
Eventually these colors will again inevitably become tangled by chance.
 
Chris Hanson
 

Carolyn has been painting, drawing and sculpting since she was a child.
Graduating from University of California Irvine with a BFA Fine Art and Art History, Carolyn believes her nature themed pieces bring a healing quality, as well as a sense of well being, harmony, and tranquility through her subject matter and use of color. 

Having been commissioned to do an Asian themed art piece Carolyn fell in love
with Gold and Silver leaf as a medium. She now works almost exclusively with the medium.

The physical process begins with coating and sanding the canvas until it becomes a silky surface. Then she smooth’s on a traditional red paint, lays the gold or silver leaf, and coat it with layers of varnish.

Using the finest quality sable brushes, Carolyn paints layer upon layer of paint and varnish developing the image until it culminates in a moment of light!

Carolyn's biggest inspiration is her granddaughter who paints anything and everything she can imagine.

“ Inhaling the scent of a water lily at the age of eight in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens was, I believe, the first time I experienced intoxication. The combined beauty and overwhelming fragrance imprinted in my mind forever,” says LA based artist, Stephen Schubert.  Have you ever sat around a table of great, simple food and wine and felt transported? Or gotten lost in a soft focus dream? This is what Stephen likes to explore in his work; finding out where we find ourselves. His process is mostly unconscious.  

Captivated by themes of transitions and transformations, his abstracts are created on elevated birch panels with a technique that includes placing up to 15 layers of paint. His approach includes dragging a spackle knife, board or other found object over the wood surface, then applying a topcoat of resin. But it doesn’t end there; Stephen then begins the process all over again. The result of this labor intensive process? A phenomenal vibrancy, great depth of color and surprising imagery. 

Stephen has a love of foreign cinema. He’s been fortunate to attend film festivals around the world, which provide him with stimulation and inspiration from watching different perspectives on screen as well as from the cities and towns in which the festivals take place.  

No stranger to television and film sets, his work was prominently featured in the Steve Carrell film, “Dinner for Schmucks.” Prior to becoming an artist, Stephen began his career acting and was the spokesman for Lincoln Mercury, Macy’s and guest anchored on the E! Channel. He was also seen on a classic Seinfeld episode.  
Specializing in custom work, Stephen loves collaborating with designers and on projects for high-end residential, hospitality and health care design.  

"Alfredo Navarro transports his collectors out of familiar environments and into a heightened state of contemplation.  As one of Spain's most intrepid seascape painters, it is important to expand upon the artist's historical influences and asthetic innovations within the contemporary art world.

The novelty of a painter that embracesthe challange to paint solely the ocean and composes his seascapesto quietly achievea rare intersection between Modern Art and the Romantic Movement popularized at the turn of the nineteenth century.  Capturing locales ranging the rocky coast of Finland to the Mediterranean suunsets of Majorca, Navarro uses the shared experience of gazing on the ocean as an invitation for viewres to appreciate both nature's beauty and the artists effort to render it.  We belive his work produces a heightened appreaciation and understanding amoungst current and future collectors who, like Navarro, are compelled by the allure of the sea".  Michelle Hudson Walton M.A. Art History Georgia State University

Ripoll Arias holds a Bachelor’s degree from Sant Jordi Higher School of Fine Arts University of Barcelona. Spain and professionally started showing his work in 2002.In 1980, he founded “VMRA Diseño Gráfico Editorial” in Barcelona through which he collaborated with most prestigious publishing houses in the country.He has received several prizes and awards in USA, Spain, South Korea, UK, Switzerland and Germany.

"Reality itself suggests genuine aesthetic and imaginative possibilities which I attempt to capture. I approach it to analyze a series of perceptions which I am trying to express to propose another reality."

“Suggested reality” expresses in a few words what I aspire to inspire in my pictures. One of my favorite topics is urban landscapes, details in large cities through a palette of colors, lights, shadows and sometimes natural elements like rain, snow, fog, etc. All of them are ingredients helping me to better determine a fictitious reality. I like to tone down colors, I try to avoid a sharp contrast in images, and I play with the composition of the picture  to catch observer’s  attention.

Art is the language which allows me  to speak and talk about other alternatives to understand our surrounding world.

Congratulations to artist Katharine McKenna (K.L McKenna) for being on the cover of Southwest Art Magazine

Chris's work was chosen to be on the cover of Constructivist Foundations.
Constructivist Foundations (CF) is an international peer-reviewed e-journal focusing on the multidisciplinary study of the philosophical and scientific foundations and applications of constructivism and related disciplines. Congratulations Chris!

Pushing the boundaries of light, color and design, Bette Ridgeway is best known for her large-scale, luminous poured canvases, which, in recent years have garnered notable international recognition.  The artist’s recognition is as much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation as with the gem-like veils of transparent and translucent color which have characterized her work since the early 1980s.
Art Tour International Magazine has awarded Ridgeway “Top 60 Contemporary Masters 2017” and in 2016 she received the prestigious Leonardo DaVinci prize in Rome, Italy. In addition she won the Oxford University Alumni Prize at the “Art of the Mind” exhibition at the Chianciano Art Museum in Tuscany in 2012. She participated in the inaugural London Art Biennale in January of 2013 and at the Gagliardi Gallery in London in April 2013.
Trained as a watercolorist, the artist’s love affair with water media began as a youngster growing up in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York (only a few miles from Canada) where she was surrounded by the beauty of nature.
Informed by this early experience, she has traveled the globe, studying, painting, teaching and exhibiting her work, while embracing the customs and colors of the diverse cultures of Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia, Mexico and South America. Ridgeway’s formal art studies at Russell Sage College, New York School of Interior Design and the Art Students League gave her the basic tools in the use of materials and technique. Her personal style, however, was a long time in development.

Born in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Ridgeway’s education preceding her four-decade art career began with graphic design at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Professional designer with Reuben H. Donnelley Advertising Corporation was her first position. Next came the School of Interior Design Art and the Art Students League, both in New York City. Studies continued abroad: painting, exhibiting, teaching, immersed in the cultures of Madagascar, Australia and Chile.
Returning to the United States, her fine art and professional careers continued. Visual arts specialist for the Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission and Executive Director and CEO of Very Special Arts an educational affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, were amongst her positions.
1970s- Acclaimed Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jenkins, saw a light in Ridgeway and closely mentored her over several decades. Forty years hence, her signature technique of “Layering Light” on large-scale, luminous poured canvases and metal sculptures has been perfected.
Mid-1990s-current Ridgeway has been creating and residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Global exhibitions include 80+ museums, universities and galleries, including: Palais Royale, Paris, Embassy of Madagascar and London Art Biennale.
Mayo Clinic and Federal Reserve Bank are amongst Ridgeway’s many permanent public placements.
The artist’s paintings are featured in many books, among them: “International Contemporary Masters 2010” published by World Wide Art Books, “100 Artists of the Southwest,” published by Schiffer Books, “Masters of Today” and “100 Famous Contemporary Artists” both published by WOA Publishing, Stockholm Sweden.  Ridgeway has also penned several books about art and process.

Born in Berkeley, California and a long time resident of Woodstock, NY, K. L. McKenna divides her time between the Hudson Valley and the American West. Her luminous landscape paintings reveal a profound attachment to the natural geology and essence of place in her paintings of Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah and Arizona. Monumental rock formations meet flat plains; angular roads eerily cut through landscapes seemingly uninhabited; endless sky and natural geometries dominate. McKenna's influences are evident; Gauguin and van Gogh in color and line; Bonnard in flattened pattern; and Georgia O'Keeffe in the skillful fusion between the abstract and the figurative. "My goal is to create indelible images that are uniquely individual, each with their own identity, personality and purpose while at the same time exhibit a recognizable voice."
McKenna's inspiration is rooted in childhood experiences with her paleontologist father, whose expeditions with the American Museum of Natural History in New York exposed her to the American west, a territory that represents to her the concept of wide open spaces, dirt roads and the last frontier. Museum exhibitions include the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, the Booth Western Art Museum, the

Yellowstone Art Museum, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Desert Caballeros Museum. She exhibited with the State Department's Art in Embassies Program in Burkina Faso, West Africa as well as at the Rubin Museum, NY, National Arts Club, NY and the Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville, TN. McKenna's paintings happily reside in permanent collections of the Rockwell Museum, the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Booth Museum, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum and at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, AZ.
K. L. McKenna recently won the People's Choice Award 2015 at Cowgirl Up! Exhibition at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum.
K. L. McKenna has a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Anthropology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, and a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She has worked in a variety of disciplines over the years, including museum exhibition design, computer user interface design, and color consultation. She currently teaches painting and color at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, NY. She serves on the boards of Pratt Institute, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and the Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY.

Brad Robertson has painted all his life.
Born and raised in the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama, his earliest inspiration was the landscape-the indigenous pines and oak trees, and the waters of Mobile Bay. The coastal landscape is still a major source of inspiration for him. At Auburn University, Robertson spent time studying architecture and industrial design.

During his time in college an art professor created the foundation for what would eventually become Robertson's career as a professional painter, encouraging his unique ability to work with color and texture to create depth, complexity and expressiveness.

Robertson earned his BFA in graphic arts in 1999, leaving painting behind for a time and moving to Atlanta to work as a full-time graphic artist at a production company. After a few years he decided the structure and monotony of big-city life was not for him, and began to think of his roots in Alabama. Robertson moved back to Alabama in 2002, lured back to the more relaxed coastal way of life.

Since then Robertson has become an award winning artist with collectors throughout the United States. Hanson Gallery Fine Art is proud to represent the work of Brad Robertson.

Hanson Gallery Fine Art welcomes Jaline Pol to the Gallery for a Holiday Exhibition beginning December 9th  2:00 to 6:00

Jaline Pol works exclusively with a palette knife which renders a three dimensional relief, giving the illusion of sculpted paint. She masters thick layers of paint on the smallest to the largest of surfaces, from the leaf of a flower to the vast expanse of meadow. One is attracted to the tactile nature of her works and this often provokes a desire to 'pick the flowers'.

The event will be sponsored by Hanson Spirits. 

RSVP to 415 332-1815

Born and raised in South Beach, Florida, Randolph has lived and studied in Paris and New York, finding motivation for his work in his immediate surroundings. His paintings and murals have contributed to the collections of a global clientele and have been represented in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. 

Randolph paints landscapes, seascapes, portraits and still life works of art inspired by the beauty and diversity of Sonoma County, where he resides and maintains a studio on his family ranch.  The California Dreamin' series highlights the world class California Wine Country with it's exceptional vistas and the notion of a quieter lifestyle where time seems to slow down and the hustle of the big city is left behind. Johnson's work makes you stop and think about an existance where vineyards, ranches and farms meld together in a perfect setting creating a lifestyle envied by many.

Christopher Owen Nelson thrives in the vast arid landscape of the American West. As a Colorado native, he studied fine arts at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design where he learned classical methods in drawing and painting. While developing a deep appreciation for composition and form, Nelson focused on employing alternative materials; sculpting with used carpet, found objects and painting on glass. He continued on to pursue a career in construction, whereby gaining valuable knowledge in concrete, steel and woodworking that would eventually lay substructure for a new and innovative artistic approach. Electric power tools became primary instruments, with paints and textiles applied at later stages in conceptual evolution. 

Nelson’s creativity is fathomless, as is evident in all aspects of his life. As a successful songwriter/musician, he conveys feelings of beauty and loss, lightness and dark intertwine. These same concepts are mirrored in his visual art, where barren, leafless trees fracture solitary space. Nelson’s portraiture suggests that even the people we are the most intimate with will forever remain mysterious beings. Here, beauty is drawn from the darker aspects of life. There is a consistent thread that runs throughout all bodies of his work; a need to transform shadow and grit into something beautiful and smooth. 

Critical attention and art world accolades have been swift and abundant. Early honors include the Most Promising Artist Scholarship Award, and being named as one of “21 Under 31 Emerging Artists” earmarked for success, by Southwest Art Magazine. Recently Nelson’s achievements in the arts have been featured in several national publications, including: Western Art Collector; Luxe Interiors and Design; Western Art and Architecture; Santa Fean magazine, and American Art Collector. 

A show including original works of the artist Robert Bissell will be on display at Hanson Gallery 669 Bridgeway Sausalito CA and will continue through December 31st, 2016.

Inspired in his childhood of animals in their natural settings gave the artist a special perspective on nature.

While out in the field sketching, a tiny field mouse scampered into view.  On a lark he decided to include the field mouse in his landscape which, to viewers, became the engaging element in the work.  From there Bissell realized he could suggest narratives to people through painting animals.  “The paintings are really about the human condition, says Bissell, the animals are the protagonists in my narratives.  I don’t try to emphasize human qualities in the animals, I try to get people to see animal qualities in themselves."

His coffee table book “Hero: The paintings of Robert Bissell is inspired by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.  

In Bissells hand those on the heroic journey are all sorts of wildlife but mostly bears and rabbits.  Like all on a quest or following a calling, they often face challenges and obstacles-physically as well as ones that call into question lifes bigger questions.

Despite a calm whimsical world there is often a bit of edge to Bissells somewhat peaceable kingdom.  There can be a menace there.  I find life is like that.  I am never sure what people are thinking.

While he doesn’t see himself as an environmental activist, it is part of a message he hopes to communicate. Bissells work disarms by narrating vitally grown-up and urgent allegories in the guise of childlike humor observed the late New York Times art critic William Zimmer.  "Like a latter day Beatrix Potter, in whose illustrations everything is seen from a rabbit’s eye view, a good deal of Bissell’s content suggests menace, and mirrors human existence.  Bissell’s creatures great and small easily become our surrogates, and the paintings may be read as life lessons."

On a spring day in Sausalito, CA, Gail Morris is hard at work in her studio overlooking the San Francisco Bay. A hazy blue sky peeks through windows that stretch along the north and west sides of the warehouse space. A stunning view of Mount Tamalpais greets visitors, and in the middle of the 800-square-foot studio sit two easels. On one rests a landscape inspired by rural Sonoma County, featuring a stream slicing through lush grassy fields. A thin strip of low-hanging fog hovers close to the ground. The second easel showcases a large-scale, more abstract scene that evokes a strong, harsh southwestern light on walls and buildings. She refers to the painting as one of her “deconstructed works with man-made underpinnings.” 
The paintings represent the two differing styles in Morris’ current body of work, which has evolved organically over the years. When Morris first started painting seriously in 1996, her inspiration sprung mainly from the early California Impressionists and their portrayals of atmosphere and light. Back then, Morris’ paintings tended to be tighter and more realistic in the vein of William Wendt and his contemporaries.
But gradually, using bigger brushes and creating countless quick plein-air sketches, Morris says her style shifted into something looser and more contemporary. Today her works straddle the line between realism and abstraction. A quintessential Morris painting evokes the mountains, fog, fields, skies, and seas of Northern California in a spare minimalism often punctuated with layers of vibrant color. Christi Bonner Manuelito, a partner at Bonner David Galleries, which has represented Morris since 2004, says, “Gail has a unique linear view of nature and combines it with an emotional expression of color. She captures the essence of the land, removing details that are not important to her eye.”

The painting QUIET AFTERNOON represents what Morris terms her more traditional work these days. A stream meanders through a field toward a vanishing point in the distance, complemented by layers of a pale-to-navy-blue sky. AROUND AND DOWN as well as ST. LUCIA WATERLINE [see page 84] are what Morris calls prime examples of her “deconstructed” landscapes—each featuring many shades of the same color and a great deal of distressing to create the final image. Morris distresses canvases with sandpaper, steel wool, X-Acto knives, and rags, leaving faint impressions or “underpinnings” behind. Describing both her more traditional as well as her deconstructed works, Morris says, “I see the sky as an element that pushes down on the earth. So rather than going back to a vanishing point, I see the landscape as elements stacked one on top of the other.”
Indeed, Morris’ early interest in California Impressionism has been replaced by styles more reminiscent of the color-field painters and abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko. The flat-planed perspective of artists like Rothko and, closer to home, Californian Richard Diebenkorn, are among her important influences today. Morris says half-jokingly that her attraction to flattened perspective may stem from being farsighted in one eye and nearsighted in the other. “The flat perspective has always interested me because of my vision; it’s the way I see things,” she says.
When creating new works, Morris is fond of alternating between the traditional and the more abstract. Hence the two easels. For example, if she has been painting larger abstract pieces, she “reels” herself back in and journeys to nearby locales to do pastel sketches. “Wolf Kahn referred to it as keeping yourself from going into never-never land,” Morris says. “You always need to go back outside to the source of your inspiration if you are a landscape painter.”
While Morris is often inspired by the California terrain, as well as scenes from northern New Mexico and Hawaii, she has traveled widely to far-flung destinations around the world. She brings a treasure trove of memories and photo references of global landscapes to her artistic table. She grew up in a string of cities across the Midwest, including Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, attending six schools by the time she was in seventh grade. When it came time for college she studied painting at first, but a professor told her she wasn’t going to make it as an artist. Become a teacher, he advised. So Morris shifted to art history as a major while at Webster University in Missouri, and to satisfy her creative nature, she took up photography. Through a boyfriend who was a tour manager, she was eventually hired as the official photographer for the Joe Cocker Band. Soon she was leading the vagabond life, traveling abroad to cities such as London and Amsterdam.
The photography gig lasted three years, but finally, growing weary of life on the road, she settled down in Amsterdam. While there, Morris managed an ethnographic art gallery and continued to sell her photographs to magazines and newspapers. In the late 1970s, she returned to the United States with thousands of slides and negatives in tow. One day soon after her return, she deposited a 35-pound suitcase full of slides on the desk of an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Impressed by her work, which included 3,000 images of the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa, the editor took Morris under his wing and began publishing her human-interest stories in the paper.
A move to San Francisco in 1980 marked a period of major transitions and milestones in both her personal and professional life. Once ensconced in the City by the Bay, Morris began working in the film industry as an executive producer and met her future husband on a film shoot. After the birth of her two daughters, she decided to work part-time as a location scout for movies and television commercials. The work catapulted her across the country to scenic back roads in search of the best places to shoot car and truck commercials. “I took hundreds of photos of these locations and also stockpiled them in my brain,” Morris says. “This is when I developed a real appreciation for the western landscape.”
In 1995 and 1996, she lost her best friend and her father, both of whom were artists, signaling yet another artistic turning point. Morris had not painted since her college days, but she suddenly felt the need to as part of her healing journey. For the next several years she took workshops with both Michael Workman and Wolf Kahn. There was never any doubt that her subject matter would be the landscape. “I like nature untouched by man,” Morris says. “I rarely put anything man-made into my landscapes—the exception being a little wooden fence or perhaps a dirt road on occasion. I do, however, have a fondness for barns.”
She sold her first painting in 1997 and 10 more to a San Francisco law firm that same year. Two years later she was garnering attention and acceptance into a number of regional and national shows and winning top prizes.
In the opening lines of the 2003 book Horizon Lines: The Paintings of Gail Morris, her former teacher Wolf Kahn wrote, “The landscape paintings of Gail Morris are spare and elegant. Economical divisions set off the near from the far spaces. Color relations are abstract and resonant. These pictures are evidence of a sensuous and celebratory response to nature and to life in general.”

Although her style has changed somewhat since the publication of the book, the quote could easily apply to her work today. Her canvases are color-saturated, featuring multiple layers of thin, diluted oil paint, and she is dedicated to subtracting any element that is “fussy,” all in pursuit of keeping a work “spare and elegant.” Throughout her painting career she has celebrated nature and elements such as water. Wherever she goes she seeks out vistas with streams, creeks, wetlands, rivers, and oceans to sketch or photograph as reference material. These days Morris, an avid swimmer and scuba diver, is intrigued with capturing the many stunning shades of water, such as the aqua in the shallow waters of Hawaii’s Big Island and the pinks, purples, and grays at sunrise and sunset.
No matter what style describes her work, it suggests a sense of place while evoking an emotional response. Interestingly enough, although Morris’ canvases are vibrant, viewers also find them “calming,” says Manuelito. They seem to get lost in time and submerged in the color harmonies and compositions. That suits Morris just fine—as long as calming doesn’t mean boring, that is. “I love landscape and what I paint, so if someone stands and stares at a painting, or if someone wants to buy a painting because they are able to look at it over and over again and see something a bit different each time, then I feel like I have communicated what I feel and love, through my art,” she says

Steve Michael Beck is an award winning commercial Director. He directed commercials for First Union, GMC and Chevrolet, McDonalds and Gatorade. He has spend several years working for ILM as an Visual Effects Art Director on Films like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "The Abyss" and "The Hunt for Red October".

In his words, “I’ve spent the last 30 years pursuing the art of storytelling through advertising, film and television.  Specializing in visual effects oriented processes(and their often unique narratives), my direction constantly reflected my infatuation with animation the notion that any object or idea either contained “life”, or could be conjured into such (needless to say I had an imaginative childhood).  These projects and life lessons were all but stepping stones, leading me to see the potential of a new type of storytelling through combinations of sculpture, photography, text, and found object.

In the eyes of Giuseppe Palumbo
 “Giving breath to a fistful of clay or pulse to a crucible of molten metal defines art for me. I strive to add the intangible that words inadequately describe soul."


Sculpting is the natural progression of decades of designing and building architectural projects. The components that make each successful remain constant: concept, proportion, aesthetic, execution. 
To arrive at these, the natural world is a source of inspiration and knowledge of proportion.
With a foundation in classical objective training my interest is not to replicate an object or being but to create a spirit or archetype felt as well as seen. I am curious by the unheard voice beyond the academic, believing that true knowledge is a subjective process from within.

Spanish Artist Evaristo Alguacil is known for feeling, movement and light in his pieces.

He has taken the same feeling and has applied it to new works from his visit to San Francisco,

a place Evaristo has a great affinity for. 

"My paintings reflect the poetry that I see in the moment when light falls on a subject and creates a profound depth of color and mood." Born and raised in South Beach, Florida, Randolph has lived and studied in Paris and New York, finding motivation for his work in his immediate surroundings. His paintings and murals have contributed to the collections of a global clientele and have been represented in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. Randolph paints landscapes, seascapes, portraits and still life works of art inspired by the beauty and diversity of Sonoma County, where he resides and maintains a studio on his family ranch.

During the fall when Sonoma, Napa and the wine growing regions of the United States turn their attention toward the harvesting of grapes, Thomas Easley has focused his passion on creating wine still life paintings that are reminiscent of the warmly lit rich style of European masters filled with attitude and elegance. It is in his wine paintings where the color and texture in the background builds upon the romance and emotion of the subject. The senses are encouraged to drink the wine and taste the fruit. His painting style with the wine pieces encompasses impressionism, realism, abstract, miniaturist detail and often surrealism to create an image all his own.

Tholen's inspiration is drawn from the landscapes in Northern California. The sustenance of stunning mist laden rivers, lakes, and waterways infused with atmosphere and sense of tranquility. Searching for what she loves and trying to capture its essence by showing how interesting that moment. In pursuit of the abstract, the timeless and transcendently rational, the work speaks to the cultural complexity. Hopeful in feeling, they suggest real and imagined, material and ethereal, familiar and foreign places.

Ask Sheila Finch if she is an artist, and she replies “Yes, that is who I am.” Not 'what', but 'who’. The deep truth of this statement has been borne out over and over as she has become the latest source of delightful works for private and corporate art collectors around the globe. Landscapes on the verge of abstracts reveal both her passion and her genius for color, for creating not just a scene, but the mood it engenders, as well.

Asked about the concepts behind his paintings he explains: “It’s the subtle shifts in perspective that I am drawn to. I love ambiguity in a painting and am genuinely interested in the different interpretations each person has. I think the singular influence in my work is TS Eliot. When I search for imagery and meaning as I paint my mind often goes to Four Quartets.”

Hanson Gallery is proud to announce representation of the
master artist and sculptor Michael Parkes. Michael has had one-man exhibitions at the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, Art Chicago, New York Art Expo, Frankfurt Book Fair, Amsterdam Art Fair, Tefaf Art and Antiques Fair Maastricht and is represented by prestigious galleries in Amsterdam, Paris, Denmark, Italy, New York, Los Angeles, Hanson Gallery Fine Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, and around the United States. In 2007, Michael was the guest of honor and featured artist in the international show “Venus and the Female Intuition,” exhibited in Denmark and Holland .

In 2007, Michael Parkes’ work inspired a contemporary ballet production by Scorpius Dance Theater of Phoenix, where his art came alive in the ballet’s sets and characters.

"Sheila paints from and is inspired by the Bay Area, but her paintings have universal appeal. There is passion and emotion in her landscapes and scenes of the sea. He compelling use of color and sweeping brush strokes draw you in and it is impossible to take this art for granted."

Gay Clyborn, Associate Vice President of the Carnegie Foundation at Stanford

Hines received an Honorable Mention at the MarinMOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Member Summer Exhibition "Out of Order."

Thomas Easley’s works are recognized by a signature style. Using layered and modeled acrylic paint on board, a rich vibrant image is created, They are bold and life affirming.

Thomas has created unique pieces for us in celebration of the Americas Cup.

"Color and light form the very core of the art of painting. Gail Morris takes these principles to unexpected places. Her paintings can be both precise and expressive and her control of the medium is astonishing. Snapshots of dawn, dusk or radiant sunlight etch themselves into our souls. They nest there and become memories-unlived but permanent and personal."
—GUILLERMO DEL TORO, WRITER/DIRECTOR OF THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM, "PAN’S LABYRINTH"

Damon Hyldreth has completed his newest commission for a
Newport California building.

Adair just completed his most recent commission
titled "The Dance of Autumn"
Measuring 60" x 48", the piece is one of the largest
commissions since his Lincoln Hills series.

The hyperrealistic style of Marco Di Nieri with
his landscapes evokes a sense of super reality.
With his perfectly patterned brushstrokes he
pays homage to Japanese woodblock printing.

Internationally recognized Bay Area artist Archie Held is now showing his work at Hanson Gallery.
Archie's work is included in many public and private art collections. He works primarily in bronze
and stainless steel, and water is often used as a central element to further compliment his designs.

HANSON GALLERY FINE ART has opened in the new Kenefick wine tasting room
at 1371 Lincoln Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515-1805. Please stop by to see the art
and enjoy a glass of wine while you are there.