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Sebastopol Regional Library is delighted to showcase two art shows by two artists simultaneously this January 28, 2025 to March 14, 2025. Stroll the forum room to enjoy Amie Hill's Fanciful Collages and Marilyn Sommer's Luminous Paintings. The community is welcome to meet the artists and enjoy refreshments Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 3-4:30pm.
About the Artists
Artist Amie Hill:
Writer, illustrator, and calligrapher Amie Hill began making collages for her own amusement and that of friends and family in 1989. Her collages are not manipulated by computer, but are created with scissors, paper, and glue, with occasional touches of glitter, fabric paint, and/or decorative border tape. The work in this exhibit features fanciful imagined scenarios, richly colored and often centered on human or animal figures, with references to the natural world and the use of outer-space images. She also frequently combines collage with drawing and/or calligraphy. Since Amie sometimes uses copyrighted material to achieve her effects, many of her collages are not for sale or reproduction. She identifies the work of other artists when the information is available, but as many of the original images come to her as pages torn by friends from magazines or calendars, this is not always possible. She is a resident of Sebastopol.
Artist Marilyn Sommer:
Marilyn Sommer began painting as a child with her watercolor sets. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts where she was surrounded with multiple, rich images and cultural diversity. She recalls being taken by her parents to many places within the city where she would “bump into land/cityscape images and ideas.” Sommer graduated from Columbia University Graduate School, and moved in 1970 to Northern California where she continued to study art in Santa Rosa with Maurice Lapp and Michael Loffredo. Marilyn Sommer’s oil paintings are bursting with color. Sommer’s versatility is displayed in her adept handling of still lifes, landscapes, figurative works and interiors. “I always look for what is most beautiful for me. Now, fortunately, I can begin to find this beauty in the most common, everyday scenes. I feel an urgency in the joy of painting, and also an urgency to paint because of time’s restraints.” Sommer begins painting by using a minimal line drawing in a very light color. This generally establishes the composition. She may place a wash over the entire canvas, or proceed directly to painting after the line drawing is accomplished. After this step is completed, she charges in with pigment, working the entire canvas at all times.
Marilyn's work has been featured in galleries, wineries, restaurants, Chamber of Commerce brochures, television, and is in over 270 private and public collections.