Colleen Gnos Art

It’s Here! Colleen Gnos’ Holiday Art Sale - I hope you are all healthy and ready to celebrate an intimate Holiday season. I'm running a holiday sale and I hope that some of you will consider paintings, prints, and commissioned art as gifts to be treasured for a lifetime. Enjoy a 20% Holiday Discount on Art Prints, Cards and Giclée Prints until December 31! December 14’s the Last Day to order and ship art in time for Christmas arrival in Continental U.S.... December 20’s the Last Day for studio pickup in San Luis Obispo, CA SALE ENDS December 31, 2020 Enter Code HOLIDAY20 at checkout for your 20% Discount! FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $200 in Continental U.S.! ENTER CODE FREESHIP at checkout https://www.gnosart.com/copy-of-ocean-music https://mailchi.mp//its-here-colleen-gnos-holiday-art-sale

I just completed this oil painting on aluminum, Freedive Point Estero. 24x48 My family used to own this tug 30 years ago- it was named after my brother. Hanging in the Whalebird Kombucha taproom until Oct. 30th, 2020. ................. #freedive #cayucos

I’m enhancing this fine art giclée Laguna Beach Kiss to hang at Whalebird Kombucha Thursday, Oct. 1-30,2020 My only show in 2020 . To order prints and cards, visit https://www.gnosart.com/prints- #mermaidkissingdiver

Work in progress.. I’m continually inspired by the wreck of the Point Estero which continues to atrophy on the rocks in cayucos. This tug used to be my family’s - named after my brother, the Craig G. I’m also recently obsessed with freediving #pointestero

New creations at Gnos Art studio...

Here is the video of the mural "Remember: Life's Seasons" in its entirety! Special thanks to Che Miller for videography and The Mother Corn Shuckers for featuring the unreleased song "Good Friend" as the soundtrack. This mural includes regional landmarks with historic Dixon icons include local sunflowers, lupine, honey bees, almond groves, and the town’s familiar Milk Farm road sign off Highway I-80. There’s a Dutch Brother’s Coffee cup, a favorite student hang-out spot. M...y landscape also shows CA’s Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Lake Berryessa, Dixon’s row crops and Putah Creek, which cycles through the mountains, hills, sand dunes sand eventually empties into the sea in Monterey Bay - a favorite fishing spot for Jacob Schneider. The students selected a passage written in the sand, and attributed to composer Franz Schubert: Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. The parents felt this quotation characterized how short life was for this foursome, and how they made a big impression on others. I hope this mural will also be a legacy for future Dixon students and staff. Special thanks to the generosity of Colleen Schneider and Jim Schneider for donating this healing work of art to Dixon High.Dixon 411Dixon Chamber #dixonmural https://www.youtube.com/watch

A few photos and timelapse during the install of Remember: Life’s Seasons. This mural is 60’ by 3.3’ This Tribute Mural Honors 4 from Dixon High School, CA I...nstalled July 2020 in my hometown’s Dixon High School, southwest of Sacramento, CA. This is the most important mural I’ve ever been commissioned to create. The 3.5’ x 60’ painting wraps around the outside quad area to honor the lives of three students and a teacher who died over the last 2 years. My narrative design features a gentle stream with meaningful symbols to reflect their adventures and interests. The public art is a remembrance of 17-year old friends, Jacob Hourmouzus and Jacob Schneider who died in April, 2019 while rescuing a dog in an irrigation canal; Samantha Bloom, who died in May 2019 following a 3-year struggle with cancer; and Shawn Tutt, a Dixon teacher who died in a car crash in March 2020. I painted four seasons and a calm waterway as a life cycle in the mural’s imagery. Panoramic scenes flow left to right, reflecting favorite seasonal activities and representations of the four Dixon HS individuals who died. The visual journey shows unique homages including snowboarding, camping, hiking, and fishing. Families described stories about the boys’ favorite animals: rainbow trout, ling cod, turtles, a seagull in a sleeping bag, a pet chipmunk, ‘Rocket, and a pesky raccoon. Samantha loved Harry Potter, so popular Hedwig the owl reigns over pristine snowbanks, along with her Advanced Placement textbook from her favorite subject in school, Biology. Math, social science, and technology teacher Shawn Tutt was an alumni of USC, remembered with a red mug, and the university’s famous logo.

I'm really proud of this article written by Nick Sestanovich of the Vacaville reporter. He and photographer Joel Rosenbaum showed up on installation day and did a beautiful job explaining the story behind the mural and the 4 it honors. https://www.thereporter.com//dixon-high-mural-pays-tribu/

Installation this week!

THANK YOU SLO County!

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Help support public radio station KCBX for 2020 Live Oak Music Festival on the Radio: A Benefit for KCBX. I donated this mixed media portrait of Lee Fields and you can start bidding on it now. Click this link: https://event.auctria.com//a780d600ec2e11e9ae081db830846aa

Thank you for letting me add art to this beautiful and special historic place.

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