Corona, California

E-Mail: sandywc@sbcglobal.net

Web Site Address:  www.sandywc.com

Sandy’s watercolor paintings capture a sense of serenity and peaceful contemplation, with the drama of rich color, texture, shadow and light.  Her scenes of California missions, mission benches, statuary and Spanish architecture remind viewers of less troubled times in a less complicated world.

Originally from rural Southern Illinois, Sandy remembers always loving color.  Her first attempt at mixing colors was when she was a toddler and she learned to “mix colors” by melting down her crayons on her grandfather’s coal chute.  Art classes were a luxury, and Sandy’s early art experiences were self taught.  She will always remember when her Uncle Henry, a sign painter and artist, gave her a set of artist’s pastels when she was 12.  The pastels became her prized possession.

After moving to California and turning from acrylics to watercolor, a Riverside art gallery offered Sandy a one-artist show if she could paint 20 watercolors of the Mission Inn and local Riverside landmarks in six weeks.  It turned out to be the perfect experience in architectural subject matter.  Her years at the Laguna Beach Art-A-Fair Festival added to Sandy’s learning experience in transparent watercolor.

Sandy continues learning by attending watercolor workshops, including Patricia Allen’s yearly Paint Yosemite hosted by signature watercolor artists such as Dale Laitinen, Stephen Quiller, George James, Donna Watson, Ted Nuttal, and John Salminen.

 

EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS:

Orange County Design Show, Costa Mesa , CA, 1990
Plein air artist and exhibitor, Riverside Art Museum’s “Gardens of Rumsey Drive,” 1991
Plein air artist and exhibitor, “Una Sera in un Giardino Italiano,” Riverside, 1992
Exhibition, Wells Art Gallery, Riverside, CA, 1992
Riverside Art Museum Selected Exhibitor, 1993
Mission Inn Incredible Gift Corner (1993 – current)
San Juan Capistrano Mission, 1994
Friends of Mission Inn Foundation exhibit 1994
Art-A-Fair Festival, Laguna, California, 1992 – 1998
Textures Interior Design, Riverside, CA
Mezzanine Exhibit, Riverside Art Museum, Nov/Dec. 2003
Art Alive, Riverside Art Museum, 2003 and 2005
Riverside Rape Crisis Annual Gala Fundraiser, 2007, 2008

 

MEMBERSHIPS:

Board of Trustees, Riverside Art Museum, 2001–2006
Artist member, Riverside Art Museum
Artist Member, Riverside Arts Council
Associate Member, Watercolor West
Riverside Plein Air Artists, 2007-2008

 

PAINTINGS AT PUBLIC PLACES

Chemical Bank, New York
Mission Inn, Riverside, CA.  
Riverside County Courthouse, Riverside, CA.  
San Bernardino County Courthouse, San Bernardino, CA.  
Appellate Court, Fourth District, Division Two, Riverside, CA.  
Victor Miceli Law Library, Riverside, CA.  
Western Municipal Water District, Riverside, CA.  
Metropolitan Water District, Riverside Facility
City Hall and Board Room, City of Riverside, CA.  
U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy
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ppellate Court, District, Division Three, Riverside, CA.

 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden
Best Best & Krieger
Haight, Brown & Bonesteel,
Varner Saleson & Brandt
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Law Office of John Vineyard
Law Office of Bernard Donahue
Graves & King Law Firm
 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Inland Empire Magazine, “Putting Color Into Watercolors,” October 1995
Inland Empire Magazine, June 1997
Inland Empire Magazine, August 1998
Cover, The Legal Secretary, Nov. 2004 edition

 

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