Welcome to The Wild Rivers Coast Art Online Gallery for artists living and working in Crescent City, California. Each artist's portfolio or website can be viewed by clicking on the artist's name so you can view more of the art that interests you. We hope you enjoy perusing this wonderful collection of art
Muriel Northrip made a reputation for her art in Northern Idaho and East Washington and Oregon in the 1960-70's. She moved back to Northern California in the 1970s, then moved to Alaska for 13 years. In the mid-'90's she moved back to Crescent City and started to paint what she sees every day; redwoods, beautiful rivers, and ocean scenes.
Muriel works in oils, acrylics, pen, and charcoal, and someday hopes to even start doing watercolors. She works on large canvases, finding it difficult to scale down to smaller works on canvas. She loves the freedom she feels when she works on large canvas.
Muriel's works range from stormy seascapes and placid ocean scenes, to animals and mountain scenes, to giant Redwoods and babbling streams, and Fairies and Whimsy. Muriel is not shy about trying anything new or different.
Gale Steelman I am a nature and wildlife photographer who has been exploring the western United States with her camera, in pursuit of beauty, for 12 years. My favorite theme is wildlife. What I enjoy doing the most is capturing the beauty and intelligence of each animal as up close and personal as possible. I feel that their intelligence shines through their behavior, their interaction with each other and, of course, through their eyes. In fact, I never print a photo that doesn't show crisp, clear, sparkling eyes somewhere in the picture.
Though this is the digital age, I like to do photography the old fashioned way....and that is to carry out the process myself from start to finish. I shoot, image, print and frame each photo taking care that all of the steps of the creative process are done to the best of my ability. To me photography is about the emotional impact of the subject brought forth with a high degree of technical skill which brings the photos to life.
