Photo Essay: 

 Featuring Artists and Art of Heartside Art Gallery and Studio 

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler- American actress

       Art Pieces by Jane

Pieces by Sharon Benson

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Birdhouse by Jane

Butterfly of Life by Sharon Benson

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams- Creator of Dilbert Cartoon Strip

Catching Dreams

Ceramic Cat by Jane

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher- American Clergyman

Chair by Mike Katerberg

Darwin with Dreamcatcher

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

Drummer Boy by Myrle Blunt

Fuzzies by Sharon Benson

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton- Costume designer, writer, film director 

Wall Pieces by Katalina Corona

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley- American sociologist

Artist Katalina Corona

                    Artist Mike Katerberg

Jason Buzzalini at work

Artist Sharon Benson

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini- Italian film director

Leather Wall Piece

Macrame by Jason Buzzalini

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Painting by Mark Wilson

Painting by Mike Katerberg

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster- English novelist

Wall Pieces by Mark Wilson and Katalina Corona

Mean Dog by Jane

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

NUN by Myrle Blunt

Flamingos

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

An Original by Selena

Beth and Selena

Katalina and Daughter

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong- American novelist

Portrait of the artist Myrle Blunt

Artists Sharon Benson and Mark Wilson with Ruth Swier

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

Mike Katerberg's Marionette in "progress."

Mike Katerberg's Marionette

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler- Actress

Walking Sticks by Mike Katerberg

Rod in Foot by Jane

I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Auguste Rodin

Myrle Blunt "sketching"

Portraits by Myrle Blunt

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw- Irish dramatist, literary critic

Samples from the Pottery Studio.

Totems

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

Wall Pieces by Katalina Corona

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