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?

http://www.artcentermorrobay.com/

http://cayucosart.org/