Christiane Tsouo-Harvey, Painter

Christiane Tsouo-Harvey was born in France of a French mother and a Chinese father who was a photographer. At sixteen she began to study art at Didier-Tourné’s studio in Paris. She continued her art studies at the Paris Duperré School of Applied Arts where she was directed toward commercial art. Later, on scholarship, she attended the Fine Art School of Paris with emphasis on drawing and printmaking and The Louvre Courses.

In San Francisco, Christiane painted at Samuel Provenzano SOMA studio and attended artists workshops at the San Francisco Art Institute and Fort Mason. She has shown in San Francisco, throughout the Bay area, Napa and France. She is represented by Artwork gallery in San Francisco. She paints and teaches art in Napa.

Christiane divides her time between Napa and Southern France.

For more information on this artist you can visit her website at http://www.crissart.net/.

Dave Huddleston, Painter

I have been doing art for as long as I can recall but I remember the specific time when I realized that art was my God-given talent and I needed to pursue it for a career. I was in the Marine Corps, at age 21, stationed in Okinawa. At the supply office where I worked the graveyard shift we would often finish with the day's workload before our shift was over so I would often spend time sketching. The civilian Okinawan workers in our office, as well as the other Marines would always come and look over my shoulder and give lots of compliments. For some reason, though I had always gotten encouragement for my art, being that far away from home also gave me lots of time to ponder my future when I got home and was no longer in the Corps and it just struck me that art was what I was meant to do.

For more information on this artist you can visit his website at http://www.davehuddleston.com/ or read his blog at http://www.davehudddleston.blogspot.com/ .