New art exhibit comes to Z Cafe

BONSALL - Two new artists will be showing at the Z Café Feb. 4 through May 4. John Toma, owner of “The Z,” will be hosting a reception on Saturday, Feb. 21 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. All are invited to come, meet the artists, and have some refreshments.

Krista Timberlake is from Western Massachusetts, where she grew up in a family and community of artists and craftspeople, developing her love of nature. As a fitness enthusiast and former premed student, she has a great appreciation for the body as a machine, which is depicted in much of her work that blends the figure with machinery. As a general outdoorswoman, she has always been drawn to depict animals in addition to people, especially in a whimsical manner.

In creating both mechanical and more naturalistic pieces, she is intrigued by line, texture and color, and is most drawn to using watercolor as it is so unpredictable. She finds the most interesting things happen in her work when “mistakes” occur – unplanned reactions between paint and paper that will never be able to be duplicated. Timberlake currently lives in Vista, works as a graphic designer and freelances as a graphic and web designer and fine artist.

Kathleen Morgan is a full-time printmaker and combined-media artist working in Fallbrook. Her etchings, monotypes, collagraphs, and pigment prints are stand-alone work, but are also the basis of her combined media work.

In the combined pieces, she appropriates her own art for collage elements that are blended with paint, drawing, and calligraphic marks to produce a finished work. Her technique is to approach each new work from multiple points of view with an developing image, its colors, and mood.

Morgan exhibits throughout Southern California. She is a member of Brandon Gallery in Fallbrook where her work is shown full-time.

The Z Café is located in River Village, Bonsall, at (760) 940-1751, and http://www.zcafeinbonsall.com.