{"id":2307163,"date":"2026-03-01T23:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307163"},"modified":"2026-03-01T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:04:47","slug":"four-local-artists-featured-in-friends-of-buellton-library-exhibit-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/four-local-artists-featured-in-friends-of-buellton-library-exhibit-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Local Artists Featured in Friends of Buellton Library Exhibit | Arts &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artworks on display March 1-31 at Buellton Library. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A curated art show featuring four local artists will be on display March 1-31 in the Friends of the Buellton Library Room at the Buellton Library.<\/p>\n<p>The artists will be present at the opening reception only.<\/p>\n<p>On other days, the show can be viewed 10 a.m.-noon Mondays; 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays, and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>No sales of art pieces will be done during the show, but all of the artists will have their information available there, so interested buyers can contact them directly to make a purchase or see other pieces of their work.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Following is information about the artists, as well as what they have to say about the show and their craft.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Belloni of Solvang<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from UCSB with a degree in art Belloni started to exhibit paintings at local juried, invitational, benefit and solo shows in galleries, libraries, museums and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Belloni has a painting in the permanent collection of the Main Library at UCSB.\u00a0 Her work is in local\u00a0corporate offices and private collections around the\u00a0country.<\/p>\n<p>Belloni sells original oils, acrylics and charcoals, as well as, limited edition prints on canvas and paper on her website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe paintings in this show are all acrylic on canvas, started on location, and are about a serene place I love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, painting is a matter of setting out to choose a composition and something that attracts me and seeing what happens next.\u00a0 I have one idea, and the weather, painting or canvas may have another.\u00a0 I like that the known and unknown somehow mysteriously work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura Scandalis Cross<strong> <\/strong>of Solvang<\/p>\n<p>After retiring, Cross took an art class at Esalen, after which she began painting in earnest and selling her works at art fairs. One of the paintings now hangs in the reception room of a film producer in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen creating art, I feel I\u2019m diving into that realm where I put into a visual mode\u00a0that which before\u00a0only feelings could touch,\u201d Cross said.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny Speirs\u00a0of Santa Ynez<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p>With a lifetime dedicated to the practice and mastery of oil painting, Speirs has cultivated a distinctive voice in capturing the ephemeral beauty of nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her paintings reflect decades of observation, patience, and a reverence for the subtle interplay of light and form.<\/p>\n<p>Each painting is an invitation to pause and discover the extraordinary\u00a0within the ordinary, the delicate curve of a petal, the play of light across a surface and the quiet poetry of nature\u2019s design.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy paintings reflect decades of observation, patience, and a deep reverence for the subtle interplay of light and form,\u201d she said. \u201cEach painting is an invitation to pause and discover the extraordinary\u00a0within the ordinary, the delicate curve of a petal, the play of light across a surface and the quiet poetry of nature\u2019s design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Uyeda<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of Buellton<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Uyeda learned to sketch in charcoal in the \u201cFundamentals of Drawing\u201d class at SBCC taught by Stephanie Washburn.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, she attended Irina Malkmus\u2019 class Introduction to Painting with Acrylics\/Oils at Buellton Recreation Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, she began her series \u201cLoving Connection\u201d in oils and charcoal, featuring portraits of sister with brother, aunt with niece, daughter with cat, culminating in a family reunification oil painting inspired from the 1972 movie \u201cSounder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs my own strong emotions arise, so does a deep desire to channel them through imagery by the oil paint application of color on blank canvas or by the surprising subtleties of charcoal smudges on paper,\u201d Uyeda said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.noozhawk.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artworks on display March 1-31 at Buellton Library. 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