FAA announces Spring Show, demonstration by Karen Tarlton

FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Art Association announces their Spring Show, March 2 through 30 at the Brandon Gallery, 105 N. Main St. This year a special theme prize will be awarded for "Spring is Bustin' Out All Over," but all themes are welcome.

Intake for the show will be Friday and Saturday, Feb. 23 and 24, from noon to 3 p.m. The reception will be held Saturday, March 3, 5 to 7 p.m. This year's judge is Sally Pearce, who earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from the Art Institute of Southern California, attended the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Art, and studied at the Idyllwild School for Arts and Music.

She was awarded a fellowship grant to the Vermont Studio Center's Residency Program to study with Michael Goldberg and Hugh O'Donnal. Pearce has exhibited in group and solo shows all around Southern California, as well as Aspen, Colo. She currently teaches and works in Oceanside, and has been painting for over 24 years.

Pearce will be awarding Best of Show, first, second, third places, and eight Judges Choice Merit Awards, as well as the Bev Thordarson Memorial Theme Award and a Plein Air Award. Membership is not required to enter this show. For more information and entry forms, see http://www.fallbrookartassn.org/.

The public is invited to the Fallbrook Art Association meeting Saturday, Feb. 17, at 9:30 a.m. at The Fallbrook Women's Club, 238 W. Mission Road. The meeting will include a critique for members' paintings, one work each, from 9:30 to 10:15 am, followed by artist Karen Tarlton demonstrating a painting in oil applied with palette knives.

Tarlton is an American Impressionist painter, with a unique sense of color, texture, and light. She creates lively, engaging, colorful art, and her work is collected in galleries, and private and corporate collections worldwide.

"My paintings are a visual journey that allow the essence of my subject matter to come to life," said Tarlton. "I paint with the palette knife because it gives me the opportunity to interact with paint in a very tangible, expressionistic way. Using loose strokes and bold color, I bring a unique perspective to the contemporary art world."

After Tarlton's demonstration, she will conduct a workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. in oils using palette knives. The workshop is open to both beginners and advanced painters, members and non-members. The cost for members is $40 ($35 to the artist, $5 to FAA), and the cost for non-members is $50 ($45 to the artist, $5 to FAA).

To register, call Carol Reardon at (760) 731-6677. Participants need to register in advance by sending in checks to reserve a spot. Reardon will then email a list of supplies to bring, and the class agenda.