Name: Barbara Baxter-Berman
City of residence: Palo Alto
Work of art: "Li Syao," water-based color on Chinese paper
Studio space: She works out of her home, but her art is being shown at the Cubberley Community Center April 19 and 20.
Specialty: Figure paintings
Highlights of her work: Baxter-Berman is a trained classical Chinese brush painter. She creates a great deal of her work on large canvases. Most of what will be on display from Baxter-Berman is done on 4-by-7-foot sheets of paper. The art will hang in the windows of the community center, giving the room a stained-glass effect.
Name: Rochelle Ford
City of residence: Palo Alto
Work of Art: "Mask #17," a metal sculpture
Studio space: Ford's studio is a converted garage at her Palo Alto home where she has lived for 18 years. She has transformed the area strictly to fit her artistic needs and passions, with specific lighting and tools to help enhance her work. Ford will open her garage to the public. Some other works that Ford has produced will also be on sale during the tour.
Specialty: Ford creates objects from recycled material. "I look at trash and see treasure."
Highlights of her work: Ford concentrates primarily on metal sculpting. All her work is made from materials that have been thrown away. She has been metal sculpting for 11 years and has traveled to New York for art shows on two separate occasions.
Name: Marguerite Olson Fletcher
City of residence: Palo Alto
Work of art: The painting "Surf/Mountains"
Studio Space: Olson Fletcher works entirely from her studio at the Cubberley Community Center, where her work will be on display for the public during the tour.
Specialty: For the last seven and a half years Olson Fletcher has been concentrating on landscape motifs from rural parts of California. The paintings can reach anywhere from 5- to 7-feet tall. She creates her work in whichever situation presents itself. "I work in a rhythm between representational and abstract art."
Highlights of her work: Olson Fletcher is most proud of an art class that her and a companion teach at Cubberley. The "next-step" art studies is a privately organized teaching venture. "It's for an artist that is beyond the beginning stages," she says. The class enables her to teach in a "nontraditional" format according to Olson Fletcher. The class has traveled to Greece and Italy and this year will be flying to England. Her work will also be on sale during the tour.
Name: Anne Russell
City of residence: Palo Alto
Work of art: "Hill in Mist," an oil pastel
Studio space: Russell works entirely out of her home where she has a studio adjoining her garage. She does a great deal of work painting landscapes. Her work will be on display at her home and will be on sale to the public.
Specialty: Russell deals primarily with oil pastels. She studies natural settings and paints landscapes.
Highlights of her work: Russell strives to invite people into exotic and wild places in her work. "I try to find a wild area, like a little country road, find out where it goes and sketch a meadow or a pasture for a while." Besides the open tour, Russell has had some of her work recently shown in a series for the Pacific Art League.
--Colin Crook
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