Tom Gracy’s mindscapes are edgy and at times almost "out of this world". With a decidedly surreal quality, he creates scenes that, at first glance, seem plausible, but upon closer examination, are highly unlikely. There are natural elements of a landscape in his paintings, but a viewer will empathize with a solitary tree and at the same time feel the loneliness of an endless fallow field. Gracy confirms that his inner eye perceives an entirely different point of view.

Cie Goulet’s magnificent large-scale works are both fanciful and realistic. The sky is full of ever changing billowy clouds coupled with rolling mountains, sunflowers, fields, vineyards, oaks and olive trees. Her process is elaborate and the resulting oil on paper mounted on birch panel has an impact that is both unexpected and stunning. From her point of view one enters a land that engages the imagination.

Chris Newhard takes us back to different mood and period with his turn of the century tonalist view of paintings. He deptly renders the California hills near Folsom and awakens us from dawn to dusk, with muted colors, soft contours that evoke a quiet, thoughtful mood. His tone plays with low-key color harmony along with diffused and diminished lighting effects. Newhard’s contemporary view is of the here and now.

Welden is a Sacramento favorite.  A master of painting, Larry Welden for the past fifty years, continues his tranquil use of the paintbrush. The delicate and fluid application of his selected substrate offers a sensitive view of water, mountains, skies or a high valley street. Welden is salient and contemplative. In painting he applies the physical qualities inherent in watercolor paper or canvas allowing the spontaneity of his brush to weave abstractively throughout his works.