Featured Artist - Corinne Wayshak
Corinne Wayshak has been navigating the world of high tech and arts for 20 years. A longtime friend of Hakone, she drove the design and implementation of both Hakone's main web site and the Online Gift Shop through her consultancy, Engenewity.
Corinne has a degree in film and has produced shorts and industrial films as well as published photography. She continues to build out an online site, GraceFull Arts, to make her art photography available. She is thrilled to have the chance to share some of her photography in the shop collection.
To learn more about Corinne and her work, please visit her biography page.
Past Artists
Kay Duffy
About the Artist
Kay Duffy is a "wet and loose" watercolor artist. Her paintings are bright and impressionistic. She uses bold colors, broad strokes, and strong shapes to depict the natural landscape, flowers and trees, interesting buildings, foreign lands and exotic places. Her abstract collaged (glued) paintings are created by arranging interesting patterns of papers textured in a unique way with watercolor pigments.
Currently Kay coordinates the art program at Hakone Gardens. Painting gives Kay an opportunity to creatively combine several of these active interests: art, outdoor recreation, gardening, travel and open space preservation. She teaches on-going watercolor classes and collage workshops at Hakone Gardens and is a past president of the Hakone Foundation. The City of Saratoga honored this local artist by presenting one of her paintings to their Sister City, Muko-shi, Japan. Kay's watercolors can be found in corporate and private collections in the U. S., Canada, Europe and Japan.
A resident of Saratoga for over thirty-five years, Kay has been active in community affairs with a special interest in parks and the preservation of open space.
Kay is currently featured at the Aegis Gallery in Saratoga.
If you would like to contact Kay Duffy Watercolors or just comment, please send mail to kduffy@kayduffy.com.
ETCHINGS by Mike Kimball + OILS by Miki Marvel
About the Artist
Mike Kimball is an artist in love with the city. He is best known for his paintings and prints of urban landscapes that seem to inhabit the worlds of both representation and abstraction simultaneously. The subject of his artwork includes the urban environments of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Osaka. His artwork focuses on the underlying geometric abstraction of the architecture and design found in the urban landscape, as well as the curious effect that time and chaos has on that geometric order as it moves towards disorder and entropy.
Kimball is a member of both the Northern California Society of Printmakers and the Los Angeles Society of Printmakers. He is also a two-time recipient of the Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship for printmaking excellence. Hamaguchi, who passed away in 2000 at the age of 81, was perhaps the leading contemporary exponent of the art of the mezzotint print and his virtuoso works have led to a renewed interest in this technique. Kimball lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Mike Kimball
illustration & design
P.O. Box 77492
San Francisco, CA 94107
