Oils, watercolors and collages. See colorful works by two talented local artists!

Artist Reception
Jan 23, 201, 6-9 p.m.

Wendy Winet

Wendy Winet, a New York City native, has drawn and painted since she was a young child. Her family valued art education, taking weekly trips to the museums. Winet vividly remembers the Museum of Modern Art. “There was a room covered with French Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s water lily paintings. Even at 10 years old I couldn't get enough of these pieces and would sit in the middle of the room inhaling their beauty!”

Winet graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, and worked in NYC as a clothing designer. She later moved west, settling in Ventura in 1977 in the very house she lives in today! She has planted a lush garden which serves as inspiration for many of her works. One can often find her painting with her painting partner of 20 years!

Winet is well known locally for her watercolor florals, but has recently enjoyed much success with her torn paper collages, either as abstracts or landscapes.

Lynn Fogel

Lynn Fogel has always been an artist, although she left the art world and worked in corporate jobs. But she was unhappy. Fortunately, it didn’t take Fogel long to return to her calling.

Fogel grew up in Santa Barbara, moving to New York City for her corporate career. Unfulfilled, she returned to art, training at The New England School of Art and Design, and at Montserrat College of Art. She was prolific in work, but not yet ready to show. When she finally had her first show in the 1980s she sold a painting, and it was with deep emotion that she signed her first painting and let it go to a new home.

Fogel returned to Santa Barbara in the early '90s. For the next 19 years she sold her art at the weekly Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts show on the boardwalk, along with other local galleries. Last year she moved to Ventura.

Fogel enjoys the thick buttery richness and textures of oils, often using her palette knife to scrape down to the lower layers, allowing vibrant colors to reveal themselves.