Featured ArtistsBella Fiore is proud to offer art and gift items created by local artisans and crafts people. Each showing lasts several weeks and includes a "Second Saturday" date to meet and talk with the artist. Second Saturdays are an excellent opportunity to experience local artist's work and spend an evening in Fair Oaks Village. Several galleries throughout the Village display a variety of artists and offer complimentary refreshments. Join us for one of these fun, family-friendly events or stop by any time to enjoy the beautiful art and the charm of Fair Oaks Village. Read more about our current displays and Second Saturday events in the Local Art area. |
Gayle Anita
Gayle Anita is one of Fair Oaks' more distinguished and acclaimed artists. With diverse compositions that range from the celestial, nature scenes, or the abstract, Gayle brings a skilled and personal flare to each of her subjects. Gayle is an honored recipient of the Best in Show at the St John's Art Festival, with juror Scott Shields, Associate Director & Chief Curator for the Sacramento Crocker Art Museum for her Butterfly Nebula painting (featured above). Dedicated to art and nature, Gayle paints, writes stories, rescues animals and
accept the challenge of learning nature’s mysteries through the process of observation - knowing that nobody ever gets there. Teresa Mihalko Harbert
I consider myself a “latent artist”, having discovered my artistic passion far along this path called life. It’s hard to describe the terror I felt as an elementary school child when the teacher asked for a drawing to go along with our assigned stories. The writing came easily to me…and straight lines and simple forms I could handle, but if the illustration called for anything more than the sun and a tree, I was sunk.
Later as a college student, I experimented with art forms such as quilting and cross-stitch. Notice the recurring theme of straight lines and simple forms? Around this time I learned about some fabulously decorated eggs called pysanky and I recognized the culture and heritage my Russian grandmother had tried to pass on to the uninterested teenager I was years ago. With a mail-order kit of wax and dyes I began the slow process of teaching myself to make these eggs. Marriage and family interrupted my art endeavors but now as life begins to slow down again, those straight lines and simple forms call me with their elegant rhythms. And once again I can indulge my passion for this ancient art called pysanky. In 1995 I debuted as an egg artist in the Sacramento area. Read more about Teresa's Egg art on her Website. | Charmaine Austin
"When I was little I would draw the Charles Schultz comic characters, Snoopy and Charlie Brown, until they were coming out of my ears. I drew so many Charlie Browns that I got the nickname of 'Chuck' from family and friends. I remember also as a child painting my first mural on my family's above-ground pool. I believe most anything and everything can be used as an art canvas! Since my childhood I have dabbled in painting watercolor, acrylics, and oils, and have also done work with ceramics, metal, fabric and other mediums. Being a conservationist, I love to rescue "junque" and re-purpose it into useful pieces.
Studying business in college left me uninspired, so I decided to switch to a subject that has always been my passion. I earned an art degree from UC Davis and later want on to get a certificate in graphic design from the same university. I live near he Fair Oaks Village with my two children, two dogs, a cat, and five hens. I believe that everyone has an artistic side... it is just waiting to be unleashed!" Merriel A. Taylor
Merriel A Taylor is an artist from the Plymouth area specializing in Pastel paintings. Pastel is NOT colored chalk, which is limestone substance. Pastel is pure pigment. The same pigment used in making all fine art paints. It is most permanent of all media when applied to a permanent ground and properly framed. There is no oil to cause darkening or cracking, no other substances or medium to cause fading or blistering. Pastels from the 16th century exist today, as fresh and alive as the day they were painted.
di LYS DESIGNSLysa Markey-Barthel, local jewelry artisan.
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