Artist Tim Huhn is inspired by days long past, he takes vintage cars, mid-century modern architecture then he adds people living their best life and creates paintings that speak to us. Take a look at these four new paintings and see which one speaks to you. This artist’s work are limited-edition giclee prints on canvas and they can be purchased in more than one size to fit your space.
Houston Llew started off as an artist with a singular purpose- to make art that creates happiness, sparks joy and brings hope to each person who encounters it! Each piece is made by hand with a copper canvas and colorful glass. The enameled image is enhanced by natural “crazing” which magnifies the luminescence of the glass. This image is coupled with an uplifting story that wraps around the edges: each Spiritile is as unique as its collector.
At any given time, there are roughly 74 Spiritiules in the current collection. A few times a year, some of the current collection is retired, making room for a new release of Spiritles.
If you're looking to help commemorate a life milestone, a birth or a marriage? Let your best friend know how much you appreciate them? A sweet memento to remember that vacation or adventure that brought you so many wonderful memories, then Houston Llew Spiritiles will be that unique gift that they will remember forever.
Houston Llew’s Spiritles are the perfect piece of Art to celebrate the ones you love and to inspire you to follow your dreams and ambitions! Whether you are adding to your collection or starting a new one these Spiritles make the perfect gift for someone special, they will spark hope, a warm memory or just bring a smile to the one you gift it to.
How are Spiritiles made? Each Spiritile is made by hand using copper and finely ground glass called “frit”. By layering glass frit onto a copper canvas using stencils, sifters and playing cards: the image and story start to come to light. Fired in a kiln and cooled under a planchet, the flat is then rolled with a pin to create “crazing". These natural cracks increase the light refraction and magnify the luminescence of the glass. Each copper canvas is fired flat and then molded aropund a soilid frame of wood to create a Spiritile. The story, author and Houston’s signature are wrapped around the sides. They come in a gift box with a brochure full of information and images of Houston’s other Spiritiles.
Come visit us here at Studio Seven Arts to see what we have in stock and if you don’t find the tile you are looking for, we can order it for you.
Studio Seven Arts has a complete framing design room, bring in your art to have it reframed or framed for the first time with our team of associates, we can help you pick and choose what works best for the art and your space.
Studio Seven Arts can help you frame a variety of pieces. Bring in your favorite team’s jersey to frame. We can create a shadow box with grandmas’ brooches or grandpas’ metals. If you have purchased a rolled canvas, we can stretch it for you and frame it to compliment your space. Our framing encompasses framing family photos, newspaper articles, pages from books, vinyl albums. If it can be put in a frame, we can help you create a piece of art that everyone will love to look at.
Framing cost depends on size and whether it requires glass or not, stop by with your piece of art or just bring the measurements with you and we can do a quote for you on how much it will cost to get that piece out from under your bed and onto your wall. We would love to help make your space reflect what you love and make your house feel comfy and cozy.
Studio Seven Arts is your hometown art gallery, and we feature many local artists, we carry handmade jewelry, glass, bronze sculptures and art that features local landscapes. We are a great place to buy that perfect gift and we gift wrap for free.
Studio Seven Arts glass ornaments have arrived, they are all handblown and are up to shop, come take a look at Elias Studios and Gina Lunn’s ornament, they make gorgeous gifts, each ornament is one of a kind.
Elias Studios is a hot glass studio located in the coastal village of Westport, Massachusetts. John and Jennie Elias, a husband and wife team, have worked together since 1991 to create a line of colorful, functional, blown glass items that bring art to everyday life! John does all the blowing and Jennie handles all aspects of running a busy production glass studio without standing in front of a two thousand degree furnace!
Their specialty is unique color combinations. John patterns the glass using small chips of colored glass called “frit” and each one is individually blown using traditional glass techniques. “I enjoy playing with unique color combinations combined with layering which can evoke a remembered visual experience: a garden, a Tiffany window, a Monet painting, a bird…each piece bringing a surprise of unexpected, personal visual imagery to the viewer. Unlike my work in clay, I appreciate the immediacy of glass and the demands of being completely focused on each step in the blowing process.”
John Elias discovered glass after years as a potter. He was immediately intrigued by the similarities between throwing pots on a wheel and shaping glass on a blow pipe. This initial encounter has endured into a thirty plus years exploration, inspired by the challenging fluidity and limitless potential of glass to use color. The frit flows across the surface creating movement and rhythms, making each piece unique and allowing the viewer to find their own personal imagery within.
John, a former college professor, holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Glass from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Prior to starting the Studio, John was an assistant professor of glass and ceramics at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, for six years. As a production glass artist, John’s work has been carried by numerous fine craft galleries, museums, and botanical garden shops. Jennie, also a former teacher, holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from University of Massachusetts. Together, they strive to bring their love of glass, color and light to each piece, and sincerely hope you will share their enthusiasm.
Gina Lunn's study of art glass began at Palomar College, San Marcos, CA where she attended classes for two years. She was able to further her experience by attending several workshops with accomplished instructors Lara Donefer, Ross Richmond, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Stephen Rolfe Powell.
Attending Laguna Beach Art Festivals gave Gina the inspiration to become involved with this ancient and beautiful art form.
She has been working with Michael Hermann since 2005 using traditional Venetian cane techniques. Sharing similar interests and motivation with the medium, their past experience and knowledge quickly grew into the designs you enjoy today.
Since 1998, Jonathan Baran has worked as a decorative painter, a trade which he learned form a seasoned French craftsman in Montréal. Jonathan has also painted television, movie and theater sets. He relocated to California in 2002, where he operated his own business until 2018. Throughout his career, he has worked for the upscale clientele of Montreal, Sacramento and San Francisco, doing fine residential decorative finishes. After attending graphic design and 3D modeling classes at American River College from 2012 to 2016, he decided to focus on his own artistic production and started showing his work.
Jonathan strives to create art which is an esthetically pleasing and vibrant. His artwork reflects how he views his surroundings. Jonathan is always looking to find beauty and inspiration in the most unlikely places. He also derives great joy when he can translate his vision into an image that he and others can enjoy. Jonathan is mostly a self-taught artist, and he also thinks of himself as a blue-collar painter. His goal is to emotionally connect with the viewer through an expression of simple beauty.
Jonathan favors strong contrasts, saturated colors, clear focal points, decisive strokes and there is a lot of depth in each one of his paintings. Jonathan While works with a variety of media such as soft pastel, acrylics, and oils, he also enjoys developing a series of images that connect with each other while standing alone.. like his “Transformer and Palm Trees” series.
Jonathan is self-motivated, hard working, and a dependable individual with a unique set of creative skills,
a keen sense of visual balance, and a deep understanding of color theory. He is proficient in the real and virtual worlds.
Come take a look at Jonathan’s new painting’s here at Studio Seven Arts, find which one is your favorite.
Michael Rizza is 95 years young, still excited about sculpting and here at Studio Severn Arts we are featuring his amazing stone and bronze pieces. Michael's connection to the arts began when he was a child. His older brother was taking an art class in New York City, so Michael was sent along because it was safer with two young boys taking the subway together. He went on to take a drafting class in high school and then applied to be a draftsman after graduating because he couldn't afford college. Some of his adult life was spent designing ornamental work for high rises in New York. He did not necessarily consider his work "art" but took opportunities to be creative when they came along - for example, when he worked on a project with sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Michael later owned a business creating seismic seals and has a number of patents in his name for products he designed.
Over the years, Michael has studied art through various programs and community college classes. Michael credits one of his junior college professors with helping him recognize the need to develop his own vision for his work. Michael had created a portrait of a women in bronze and attached it to a teak bowl. The professor gave him an A for the finish but asked Michael when he was "going to do something from within." After that, Michael's work became about expressing his own ideas about form instead of copying what already existed.
Michael has created sixty maquettes, or small scale models of a fully-realized three dimensional sculpture. However, he has executed only fifteen of them as full scale works. Michael says he would "need two lifetimes" to complete the number of works he has envisioned. His plan is to give some of the maquettes to his associates because he realizes he won't be able to finish them all.
About fifteen years ago, Michael developed macular degeneration and is now considered legally blind. However, his generous spirit and willingness to mentor younger sculptors has resulted in his having a number of artist friends who help him continue his work.
Trung Cao is a conceptual, realist artist residing in Vallejo, California. While oil is his favorite medium, Trung also works with graphite, charcoal, acrylic, and gouache. His artwork reflects on themes of values and exquisite beauty, real or imaginary. Through the lens of classical art admiration, and behind the aesthetic surface, many of his work’s critique on how we derive values and meanings from myth, folklore, or legend. Displaying complex, yet subtle emotions, the moving countenance of my character studies are motivated by human concepts that connect us to history, society, emotions, moral compass, and the understanding of the self. Trung strives not for photorealism, but a wholehearted realistic endeavor towards creativity and ingenuity in realism.
These pieces are all 6” x 6” original oils on canvas and can be seen and purchased at Studio Seven Arts.
KLUCKED! is Stacey’s series that takes aim at celebrity pop icons who merit a portrait as an ornamental chicken. Tribute or Troll is a matter for the viewer to decide. These are original oils size 11”x14” and come framed and ready to enjoy.
Stacey was born and raised a Connecticut Yankee, Stacey Gregory was one of the chosen few who received her BA in fine arts and art history from the University of Pennsylvania, standing proudly alongside 2200 engineering, business, and pre-med majors. She attended Pratt Institute, studying Communication Design while working in packaging design for Donald Deskey and Associates in NYC. After two years, she headed to California where she met her husband and began a life crisscrossing the US while raising two daughters with a 150 lbs Newfoundland in tow. Eventually she landed on California’s Central Coast, a Connecticut Yankee flummoxed by Santa Cruz, she migrated south to her final destination: the breathtaking Monterey Peninsula.
Enjoy these images and come to Studio Seven Arts to see them in person.
Houston Llew started enameling in a poorly constructed leaning garage in Atlanta. At the time he was unemployed and in the middle of the great recession during a record breaking hot summer. Through fortuitous circumstances, Houston befriended the master enamelist Zingaro, he shadowed the artist around his studio until he gave him the keys to enameling that would later evolve into Houston’s first works - Spiritiles.
For months Houston spent every waking hour over a kiln, experimenting, sketching, living on only "ramen and beer". The only reason his art exists today is because he had no other option - no job to fall back on, no security other than what he could create himself. Tenacity is what keeps him going. When one thing doesn’t work, step back, retool, and try a new path.
Houston love spitballing ideas and trying seemingly crazy things just to see if they work. By harnessing that constant experimentation, art evolves. That’s how it’s possible to create a dueling form of enameled imagery and with bending stories and quotes out of context into something entirely new… Houston calls it “design” but it’s something unnamed.
What pushes him forward is the uplifting thoughts and musings. This is the cornerstone of his work- creating art that uplifts, and brings a hopeful connection to life.
What is a Spiritile? Houston believes that meaningful art is about emotion. Thus, every Spiritile created reflects a piece of our story. These icons stretch our memory and bring to mind the people we love, the things we cherish, and the passions we pursue. When collected, Spiritiles become a montage of moments that make us smile, laugh, remember, and dare to dream.
Take a look at these new original oils from artist Tyler Abshier, featuring the Pleasanton Ridge, Sunol Wilderness and Los Osos Valley. Tyler loves road trips and when he is traveling, he is always stopping to take pictures of the places that inspire him, once he gets back to his studio, he then begins to create the photos of the pieces that inspired him most. Come see these new works at Studio Seven Arts add one of these to your collection or start a new collection with one of Tyler’s pieces.
