New Heron Hall Art Exhibit! "California Flora: Botanical Paintings in Colored Pencil by Nina Antze"

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 3-5pm (free)

Heron Hall, Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Light drinks and snacks will be provided. No RVSP necessary.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 3-5pm

California Flora is an exhibit of botanical paintings by colored pencil artist, Nina Antze. The paintings were created over the past eight years and focus mainly on California natives. Also included are paintings documenting Luther Burbank’s Experiment Farm in Sebastopol and a piece from the Alcatraz Florilegium, a documentation of the plants of the Alcatraz gardens.

Nina Antze is a botanical artist and quilt maker living in Northern California. She has a degree in Fine Art from San Francisco State University and has a Certificate in Botanical Illustration from the New York Botanical Gardens. She teaches Colored Pencil classes in the Botanical Certificate Program at Filoli Gardens, at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and around the Bay Area. (NOTE: Drawing the Colors of Winter and Spring: Colored Pencil Techniques Workshop with botanical illustrator, Nina Antze, is Saturday, February 20, 10am-3pm at Heron Hall. Cost: $85. Pre-registration required.)

Her botanical paintings and colored pencil drawings have been exhibited in New York, at the Huntington Library, and at Filoli Gardens and her quilts have won numerous awards. She works in colored pencil, watercolor pencil and fabric. Her botanicals can be viewed at her website, www.pcquilt.com

Exhibit on display in Heron Hall: January 7 through April 24, 2016
Reward yourself by visiting this beautiful exhibit in Heron Hall opens weekdays Mon-Fri. Because of the variety of hall uses during the week, please call ahead to make sure you can view the art (707-527-9277, x107). Another great time to view the art exhibit is during our 2nd Saturday of the Month Open House 10am-3pm. Open Houses are FREE and open to the public.

Proceeds of art sales benefit the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation works to preserve and restore the Laguna de Santa Rosa and to inspire appreciation for this Wetland of International Importance.

For more information: www.lagunafoundation.org, or contact:

Anita Smith, Public Education Coordinator, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation

(707) 527-9277 x 110, anita@lagunafoundation.org