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Sievers and The Green Art School featured at Z Cafe

FALLBROOK – The Z Cafe will be celebrating the winter season with an international artist and a new art school. The new exhibit is on display until June 4. The restaurant will host a reception, 3-5 p.m., Saturday, March 24.

Debra Sievers, a Fallbrook native, attended the Philadelphia College of Art and continued in New York at the Art Students League and New York Academy of Design. Sievers studied with several contemporary masters culminating with six arduous months of classical training in France.

A passionate wanderer, Sievers lived and painted in New York, California's central coast, Taos, New Mexico, and her beloved Greek island, Poros, where she spent two years painting the local landscape and people while renovating an old shepherd's cottage.

From people and ancient olive trees, Sievers has shifted her interest to the sea, inspired by the light, movement and water of Pacific Ocean waves.

International collectors include Shirley MacLaine, Circus, Circus Casinos, Del Mar Racetrack, Hilton and Loew's Resorts. She's been a featured artist at New York's Art Expo, and her paintings have been on many magazine covers. Locally, her murals can be seen at Estrella's Restaurant, Harry's Bar and Brooktown Cafe.

Sievers has taught at Sedona Art Center, Taos, Idyllwild, and California's Central Coast and currently she is teaching at the Fallbrook School of the Arts.

The Green Art House is showcasing its inaugural art show at the Z Café, which will be judged by Barbara Marks, a worldwide art teacher of all ages and media for the last 35 years.

The Green Art House is a nonprofit, eco-friendly art school located on the grounds of Pala Mesa Resort in Fallbrook. Art classes, workshops, demonstrations and lectures are offered. The school opened in April 2017 in Bonsall, but it outgrew the space and has recently moved to the present location. The staff and students invited the public to their grand opening 1-4 p.m., Saturday, April. 7.

Richard Stergulz, teacher and one of two founders of the Green Art House, is a wellknown master figurative and portrait painter who has won many awards. His work hangs in Santa Monica, California, and Boca Grande, Florida. Leslie Sweetland, the other founder of the Green Art House, also teaches at the school. She has won numerous awards and her work hangs in Fallbrook, Vista and Santa Monica, California. Courses include painting fundamentals in all mediums, pastels, sculpting, clothing construction, fiber arts, mosaics and crafts.

 

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