The Cayucos pier was originally built in 1872 by Captain James Cass, who was also the founder of Cayucos. Soon after it was built, steamships from Los Angeles and San Francisco began docking several times a week. According to the Help Save the Cayucos Pier website: “The steamers carried passengers, took butter, milk, and other farm and ranch products to market and unloaded lumber and various goods. A steamer might load as much as 8-10 tons of butter and 90 passengers from the pier. All of that activity meant that as many as 120 teams of horses were tied to 700 feet of Cayucos hitching posts on Butter Day, the day before departure.” The Cayucos pier is scheduled to be re-built beginning in October. I remember my father-in-law used to love to fish from the pier; he really didn’t care whether he caught anything or not. He just enjoyed the view and fresh air. HelpSave the Cayucos Pier website says it best: “For residents and visitors alike, the pier has become a place to walk and lose oneself in grand views of the sea running to the horizon, spectacular sunsets, uninterrupted coastline, surfers dropping into wind-swept waves and Cayucos nestled between the Pacific and coastal hills. For many of us it is a vehicle that takes us back to younger days: time spent with parents, grandparents and cousins, adventures in growing up, memories of weddings, July 4th fireworks and Thanksgiving day walks.” The photo above is provided by Central Coast photographer Dave Coronel, who celebrates our area with a camera and a good pair of walking shoes. See Dave at Art in the Park this Labor Day weekend in Morro Bay, and visit his website (link below) for more beautiful photos of the Central Coast.
I saw these pendant lamps hanging in the front window at the Hands Gallery in San Luis Obispo, and kind of flipped-out. (It’s true, I’m from the 70’s) Such incarnations of the Central Coast! Local artist Rowan Chase confirms; “I feel a very strong connection to the geography and coastline of San Luis Obispo County and if I had to pick my most inspirational influence it would be from those sources. In my artwork, whether paintings, sculpture, or other mediums there is a common intensity which I attribute to my relationship with this part of the world.” Personally I think this combination of 3 dimensional abstract and impressionistic art, combined with illumination and function makes a “universe” of enchantment. You may quote me on that.
Artist Morgan Green says she was raised to be an outdoors-woman and keeps an active life which compliments her artwork. According to Morgan, “I think this first-hand experience aids my art. Drawing and painting have always been my way of commemorating the singular instants of beauty I find “out there”. I want to bring my patrons the sensation as well as the sight of, say, an ocean wave smashing a cliff, or the lazy heat of a wildflower meadow. It is a challenge I immensely enjoy.” Here is her view of Santa Barbara during a “Wet Wednesday” Santa Barbara Yacht Club race from her former racing boat the Zepher, a 32′ Beneteau model crewed by women. The boats in the painting are sailing downwind and flying their spinnakers. More than 60 boats participate in the Wet Wednesday races which take place Wednesday evenings during Spring, Summer and Fall months.
Meet my newest acquisition, a pelican with an exotic palate! While visiting the “Vessels” show currently running at the Art Center of Morro Bay, we bonded and I had to take him with me. Artist Jade Herrera is a retired nuclear medical technologist, originally from Northern California. In 2008, Jade and her husband rented a vacation house in Los Osos and decided they did not want to leave. Her art is unique in that her paintings include pieces of paper. Jade explains, “I often refer to my work as ‘painting with paper’ and utilize paper to enhance and often direct what I create.” The papers come from a wide variety of places, frequently she collects them while traveling around the world; and the texture of the paper on the canvas adds a satisfactory depth to the finished work. You can currently see Jade’s work at the Cayucos Art Association; as well as the Art Center of Morro Bay, where she was awarded second place for two dimensional work with another piece titled Circle of Life. In November thru December 2014 Jade will have a show of her artwork at the Sand’s Inn and Suites on Monterey Ave, SLO. Now where shall I hang this hungry guy?
The Cayucos pier was originally built in 1872 by Captain James Cass, who was also the founder of Cayucos. Soon after it was built, steamships from Los Angeles and San Francisco began docking several times a week. According to the Help Save the Cayucos Pier website: “The steamers carried passengers, took butter, milk, and other farm and ranch products to market and unloaded lumber and various goods. A steamer might load as much as 8-10 tons of butter and 90 passengers from the pier. All of that activity meant that as many as 120 teams of horses were tied to 700 feet of Cayucos hitching posts on Butter Day, the day before departure.” The Cayucos pier is scheduled to be re-built beginning in October. I remember my father-in-law used to love to fish from the pier; he really didn’t care whether he caught anything or not. He just enjoyed the view and fresh air. Help Save the Cayucos Pier website says it best: “For residents and visitors alike, the pier has become a place to walk and lose oneself in grand views of the sea running to the horizon, spectacular sunsets, uninterrupted coastline, surfers dropping into wind-swept waves and Cayucos nestled between the Pacific and coastal hills. For many of us it is a vehicle that takes us back to younger days: time spent with parents, grandparents and cousins, adventures in growing up, memories of weddings, July 4th fireworks and Thanksgiving day walks.” The photo above is provided by Central Coast photographer Dave Coronel, who celebrates our area with a camera and a good pair of walking shoes. See Dave at Art in the Park this Labor Day weekend in Morro Bay, and visit his website (link below) for more beautiful photos of the Central Coast.
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