This year at the Art at the Matador on May 11 and 12, Morea Martin will be showing oil paintings with her animals and figures series on display.

  Linda Karr creates antler and driftwood handle baskets and handmade books featuring Amatruda handmade paper from Amalfi Italy. She states: “Making beautiful books is the perfect way for me to utilize the many craft skills I have accomplished through the years. Eco dyeing, Coptic binding, leaf printing, embroidery, stitchery and book coverings.”    … Continue reading Linda Karr | Art at the Matador July 11-12 2018

  Sheryl Cummings states: “The Oasis, the room theme will be filled with many treasures to delight and calm your senses. Join us for a trip to the “Oasis” to find that special gift for your mom or yourself for  Mother’s Day. We’ll have beautiful handmade books, soaps, photographs, jewelry and baskets to carry off… Continue reading Sheryl Cummings – The Oasis | Art at the Matador | May 11-12, 2018

“Each piece is a transfer, a movement of a personal inner world, a relocation of flashes of imagery and snippets of brain activity into a viewable medium. A painting builds up over time into a raw, transparent image composed of layers representing the changing nature of thoughts. I pursue a sensitivity to the moment in… Continue reading Mariam Pakbaz | Art at the Matador May 11-12, 2018

Patti Lloyd’s work is always intriguing as she has a poetic imagination, a great sense of humor, and surrealistic tendencies. Her room themes in past years at the Art at the Matador have always been an experience.  Last year she took us to “Wonderland… through the Rabbit Hole” complete with amazing costumes… This year she… Continue reading Patti Lloyd | Art at the Matador May 11-12, 2018

  Teal Buehler will be showing collages, paintings, pillows and cards at the Art at the Matador on May 11 and 12. Her work often depicts landscapes or animals, in bold and bright complimentary colors with lots of texture.   She likes experimenting with new methods and styles and she states: “Each piece is a… Continue reading Teal Buehler | Art at the Matador May 11-12, 2018

  Christine Connerly lives in the forest and loves to take photos and make mixed media art using natural materials. She creates felted creatures, scenes, and soap with wool, collages with paper, sticks, fabric, leaves, paint, and found objects, and jewelry with stones, paper beads, shells, glass, and fabric.     She learns about birds,… Continue reading Christine Connerly | Art at the Matador | May 11-12, 2018

Brenda Schlegel’s work ebbs and flows, but it is always evolving. She states: “While I am wanting to do more with ‘patinaing’ on a larger scale, maybe for sculpture, with the jewelry I have gone back to wanting to work basically with the metals: silver, gold, bronze and copper. Essentially, I like inserting a piece… Continue reading Brenda Schlegel Jewelry | Art at the Matador| May 11/12, 2018

Los Angeles has Watts Towers and Chico has The Matador as manifestations of personal dreams.   The Glumac fulfilled the classic immigrant dream of achieving success in America through hard work—she as a seamstress and he as a steel worker.  In 1943, the couple travelled to Chico to buy an almond orchard. Instead, they fell in love… Continue reading The Matador as a Dream Fullfilled

Eva Farley’s recent series is watercolor birds in pen & ink settings. Eva will be sharing a room with Dolores Mitchell.