Palo Alto, Menlo Park Artists To Be In Peninsula Art Institute Exhibit

Paintings by Alice Weil (left) and Mary Stahl (right)

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News from the Peninsula Art Institute:

Vistas - Landscapes and Other Scene Paintings

Exhibit runs from July 2 through August 9
Artist’s Reception Sunday July 19th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Two Bay area artists, Alice Weil from Menlo Park and Mary K. Stahl from Palo Alto, come together in this exhibit to display their accounts of nature, with distant views of landscapes, seascapes, pastoral and garden scenes as well as close-up views that highlight the beauty of nature and delight the senses.

Alice finds peace painting under the shade of mighty oaks as they grace the golden hills around the San Francisco Bay Area. Her paintings reflect the power and strength of the Bay area landscape, omitting the hand of man in most of her paintings. She is inspired by the fog-laden Coast Range and the dramatic seasonal changes in the surrounding foothills. Her goal is to take the viewer to a quiet relaxed place.

Intrigued and inspired by the effect of light in the natural landscape, Mary strives to capture that phenomenon in her pastel and oil paintings, many of which are produced en plein air. Her pastel landscapes, in particular, have been described as having a peaceful or “dreamy” quality. Mary hopes to captivate viewers’ imaginations, uplift their spirits and give them a unique sense of time and place to pause and enjoy.

About the Peninsula Art Institute (PAI)

PAI is a department of the Peninsula Museum of Art. Visit www.peninsulaartinstitute.org for more information about exhibits and classes, or call 650-692-2101. The Peninsula Art Institute Gallery is across the courtyard from the Peninsula Museum of Art’s main entrance; and is open the same hours as the Museum, Wednesday through Friday 11 AM to 5 PM.