DEL MESA CARMEL
500 DEL MESA DRIVE, CARMEL CA 93923
August 2022
The Central Coast's Premier Active Adult Community
500 Del Mesa Drive, Carmel CA 93923
Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday
11AM - 8PM
Current Exhibit
March 4 - April 30
50 years of Fine Art Photography
"In 1976 he traveled to Europe for three years as a sports photographer for European and American publications. Boyer also compiled photographs of European landscapes, peoples, and architecture, and had numerous exhibitions in both American and European Galleries. During the 80’s he traveled the U.S. compiling photographs for a book, American Roads, and is now compiling photographs for a future book project. Winston Boyer lives in Carmel, California and works as a fine art and commercial photographer. He considers color photography his medium and uses the Cibachrome Printing Process and Giclee Pigmented Prints for the production of his fine art prints." Source: https://www.winstonboyer.com/biography
Upcoming Exhibits
MAY / JUNE
"Three Sisters"
ARTISTS SUSAN SWARD, CHARLENE SWARD MCNALLY, & CHERYL SWARD
Three Sisters, Three Visions This exhibition brings together the work of three sisters, each exploring the natural world through a distinct lens. Inspired by coastal landscapes, botanical forms, and every day objects, their work reflects a shared sense sensibility shaped by place, memory, and careful observations. While each artist approaches their subject differently - through detailed study, direct observation, or a more interpretive and process-driven practice - all are drawn to moments of quiet and stillness. Together, their work offers three perspectives on the same impulse: to look closely, to notices, and to translate those experiences into visual form.
About the Artists
Susan Sward: Susan is a Rhode Island- based painter whose work reflects the quiet beauty of coastal landscapes and the natural world. Inspired by marshes, open skies, and the shifting light of the Atlantic shoreline, she creates atmospheric paintings that invite stillness and contemplation. Alongside these landscapes, she produces detailed studies of birds, grounded in close and sustained observation. Sward studied biology at Marquette University before earning a BFA in Studio Art from Rhode Island College. Her background in natural science continues to inform her work, including field studies for the Audubon Society's Breeding Bird Atlas. She is a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Whether working in expansive, light-filled landscapes or more intimate studies of wildlife, her paintings are unified by a sensitivity to atmosphere, careful observation, and a deep attention to subtle shifts in color and light. She lives and works near the Rhode Island coast, where daily encounters birds, shoreline, and sky continue to shape her visual language.
Charlene Sward McNally Charlene Sward McNally's work emerges from a sustained studio practice shaped by years of study, teaching, and exhibition. Working in solitude and with careful attention, she creates intimate botanical and natural studies that reflect a deep reverence for detail, structure, and the quiet complexity of the natural world. Her work centers on stillness, perception, and the presences of natural forms. Focusing on close observations, she creates paintings that invite a slower, more attentive way of seeing. Rather than constructing narrative, she allows meaning to emerge through attention - through the act of looking itself. In addition to her studio practice, Charlene has taught watercolor panting in an intimate home studio setting in Benicia, California, sharing her approach to observation and process with small group of students.
Cheryl Sward Cheryl Sward is a mixed media artist working from Suite Nirvana studio at Del Mesa. Her paintings move between representation and abstraction, guided by shifting horizons, simplified forms, and a quiet sense of place. Through an intuitive use of color and spatial balance, her work invites stillness, offering space for reflection and quiet discovery. Her years of printmaking continue to inform her practice through a layered, process-driven approach. Working on sumi paper, she paints and created monotypes that are later incorporated into her paintings, where texture, transparency, and chance become part of the visual language. She is a member of the California Society of Printmakers and the Monterey Peninsula Print Club. Her work has been exhibited in juried and group shows throughout California, including the Pacific Grove Art Center and Felix Culpa Gallery.
JULY / AUGUST
"Excess Art"
VARIOUS
DEL MESA CARMEL RESIDENTS OPPORTUNITY TO SELL THEIR EXCESS ART
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER
TBA
TBA
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER
Annual A&C Members Exhibit
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