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
Marcia Morgan has an art booth at Downtown First Fridays where she sells art prints of her pen and ink drawings and paintings. Please visit The Bard Owl's Art & Music Website for much more.
Marcia's bio: The Bard Owl is a character logo that I created especially for my art and music website. The “Bard” Owl is a take on the real Barred Owl. He’s a bard, a poet, like Shakespeare!
On this site, I'm combining two great interests in my life: art and music. I've spent a great portion of my life in illustration, for both personal reward and employment. I've illustrated books, and have worked as a graphic artist at screenprinting shops.
I'm currently doing illustration for my husband's guitar teaching business, which is great fun for me. He's an amazing music writer for guitar, and I'll have some of his guitar books and sheet music downloads on this site when they are available. I also play the banjo and hope to produce some illustrated banjo books designed to help beginners learn to play.
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.
