Our Members
Lucy Arnold
Art Letters Music
Lucy is currently the branch President, National Publications Chair,
and National Art Editor of NLAPW.
"Nature is my primary source of inspiration and color my principal mode of expression. I love to combine art and science in natural history watercolors. I can’t imagine more beautiful and bizarre subjects than actual species found in nature. My abstract paintings are guided by internal intuition. I employ multiple color layers to suggest interacting energies, dimensions, and the cosmos. I create surreal fantasy scenes using bits of my photos and digital artwork. Creating these pieces feels like telling a story - but I leave that to the viewer’s imagination."
Linda Larsen
Art
Linda is currently the branch Recording Secretary.
"When I first begin a painting, I may choose a palette of colors that resonate with my emotional state at the time. Then, laying out an expanse of one of the colors, I add or subtract further colors intuitively, composing with the relationships of the color shapes. Lines invariably intrude, requiring focused attention to keep them in check."
Melissa Woodburn
Art
Melissa is co-editor of our newsletter, Creative Connections.
“I am inspired by using a variety of media to express statements about the rhythms and cycles of living. The creative nature of the universe excites me and I filter this through my lens of female experience.”
Debbie Patrick
Art
Debbie is currently Show Chair of GGMA.
Debbie alternates between soft pastels and oils, letting the subject, texture and quality of light dictate the medium. Her first love is portraiture, but animal studies are a close second.
Catherine Moreno
Art
Cathy is currently Treasurer and co-editor of our newsletter, Creative Connections.
Catherine Moreno
“I started oil painting in the mid-1990’s, taking art classes and attending workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have learned additionally from artist colleagues and joined groups such as the Marin Society of Artists. Oil painting remains my preferred medium. I am fascinated by three-dimensionality, motion, luminescence, color, shadows and reflection, abstract effects, so water in motion or in any state is my favorite subject. I am drawn to close-up details such as rocks, leaves, sand patterns. I am always experimenting, always learning.”
Rita Wienk
Art
Rita, photographer, uses her curiosity as her creative guide. “It remains wondrous and fascinating to me that a fleeting moment in actuality becomes a still life on film and in print.”
Jane Liston
Art
Jane works with acrylics, water-soluble oils and oil pastels to depict the landscapes of Marin and Oregon; waterscapes are predominant.
“Blessed be our Homeland.”
Judy Barnett
Art
Judy is currently Membership Chair and Student Award Chair.
Judy is a mixed media and jewelry artist with a focus on wire, metal, semi-precious stones and beads. Her jewelry is unique and put together in an unusual manner. She makes sculpture with a playful attitude toward folk art and hopes to bring a smile to the viewer.
Anita Nelson
Art
These award-winning creations consist of unique bold statement NECKLACES using semi-precious stones and beads. The TEXTILE WALL ART pieces use Japanese Obi
fabric embellished with beads, stones, wood or other artifacts. The DESIGNS come from mixing different cultures, fabrics, artifacts, colors, textures and patterns. Cultural experiences, from living/working in Europe, Asia, then settling in the American Southwest, show in the work. As faculty emeritus from Scottsdale Community College, Anita returned to her native Mill Valley to create and be inspired by the beauty of Marin.
(415)388-0524 ajn351@att.net
Joan Booséy
Art
A variety of expressions are created through Joan's many forms of "scapes" and other creations. Enjoy the interplay of light and surface enrichment in her acrylic paintings. These invite the viewer to take a "trip" into her contemporary works and form their own interpretations.
Joyce Andrade
Art
Lorraine Walker Williams
Letters
Lorraine Walker Williams: Poetry is her passion and her goal as an author is to promote poetry in the community. She is the founder of ArtPoems, a multi-media collaboration among artists and poets. Her weekly online poetry column brought poetry to both residents of SW Florida and visitors from all over the world.
Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, her poems have been published in literary magazines, anthologies and have received numerous awards. Her seventh book, Kaleidoscope Poems (2025) can be found on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
“My themes relate to nature, connection, and relationships which I develop through observation, imagery, metaphor and an emotional center.”
The Ache of Autumn
How do leaves know to leave,
don their best coat and go?
Falling to land, to rest at ease
among friends who have fallen, too.
How does light decide to dim
to let the darkness in,
saving gloom with a silver moon
winking at stars just so?
How does the scent of moldering
past, days devolving chill,
ignite a flame of hope in us,
lingering still?
Is beauty seen only in the crush
of time in lengthening shadows
of loss, a season of life falling, falling
amber, crimson and gold?
Healdsburg Tree
When the tree was trimmed in May,
I was there. One low-hanging limb
leaned too close to the pergola and
had to be cut back. In summers past,
its leaves stretched shade over the
dining table.
Here in glorious October, I see the tree
has not healed well from its spring surgery.
It leans a bit more and provides spotted
shade. Sucker branches fan into a spindly
bouquet above the scarred trunk. To save
the tree, these need to be cut, reopening
the wound.
Sometimes trees seem a lot like people:
set in their ways, trying to adapt to change,
but repeating what once worked, sending
new growth in the same space.
Perhaps the old tree does not have the
energy to push upward, to regrow in a
different place, to rise beyond the past.
Some days I feel a lot like the tree.
Sheri Langer
Art
Golden Gate Marin Artists (NLAPW) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
