Bernard Trainor
Bernard Trainor was raised on the Mornington Peninsula near the city of Melbourne. It was here that he developed a lasting awareness and appreciation of the potent landscapes that inspired him to pursue a career in art and design.
Bernard is the founding principal of Ground Studio, which has evolved into the fifteen person landscape architecture studio based in Monterey and Napa.
The studio’s designed landscapes are featured in the 2014 Princeton Architectural Press published monograph ‘Landprints’ and the upcoming ‘Ground Studio Landscapes’ (in May 2019) and these can be seen on his website groundstudio.com.
Drawing on thirty-five years of passionate commitment to the study and practice of landscape design, Bernard approaches his art works through a personal lens of unique observations of both wild and built landscapes throughout the world. His art is focused on the lasting images he absorbed living on the edge of the Australian and Californian coastline; these experiences have formed a distinct point of view.
In practice, the geographical diversity of his education and career cultivated a deep appreciation for California, where he currently lives.
Currently, Bernard’s work consists of 6 series of abstract paintings in a diverse range of mediums including plastic, cement, acrylic and pastel painted on both canvas and wood panel.
Patricia Prescott Sueme
Patricia Prescott grew up drawing and painting, surrounded by a family lineage overflowing with artists and creative people. She graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in 1985. After years of a busy and fulfilling career as a graphic designer, Prescott still itched to create art from her heart and returned to oil painting in 2000.
Prescott’s first show at Lisa Coscino Gallery in Pacific Grove, California, sold out. Prescott continued painting in the style for which became noted: a combination of old world glazing techniques with a graphic eye and an obsession with subtleties of color. Her body of work is often comprised of pared down, idealized imagery with uncomplicated compositions. The subtle layering of color and further refinement of simple compositions and balance are what keep sending her back to the easel.
In 2014, Patricia opened a vintage box of pastels she inherited from her grandmother many years earlier. This was the beginning of a new obsession for her, soft pastels. Pastel brought a new freedom that allowed her to devote time almost every day to experimenting and growing, with the ultimate goal of bringing a freshness to this exquisite old-world medium while maintaining a nod to tradition - the very same approach she took as an oil painter. With this new exploration, her re-emergence as a pastel painter commenced.
Based on the land and seas of California, Prescott’s pastel paintings can be best described as interpretive jewels of experiences in nature.