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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Installation - 4/20/25 - 7/20/25
Opening Reception - Sunday May 4th - 12:00 - 3:00pm
Pete Harames
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Pete Harames
“The Coach Paints”
Pete Harames grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended high school on the San Mateo peninsula and graduated from San Francisco State University. He taught middle school history and
coached varsity basketball, baseball, and football for forty years. He picked up painting as a hobby after he retired and began taking classes and working at local galleries in Half Moon Bay. Soon he realized that he had a true gift for creating art, and
started concentrating on a collection of hand painted watercolor sketches of historical landmarks mainly in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. The first painting in the series was a sketch of the Golden Gate Bridge taken from San Francisco’s Marina District, and it became the catalyst for the rest of the collection. His process consists of on sight sketches, which he eventually turns into watercolor and ink paintings. He was selected to participate in the 2024 50/50 Art Show at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, California where he created fifty 6” x 6” watercolor and ink paintings of iconic places from Land’s End to Davenport. He also completed a 36” x 60” oil and ink on canvas painting of Chartres Cathedral in France. Pete resides in Half Moon Bay with his wife Tammy. He has two children, a son Brett, and a daughter, Ty who is his manager.
Patt Sheldon
Patt Sheldon is local—born in San Francisco and raised on the Peninsula. She taught mostly middle school English and Health Ed in Belmont for 34 years, and never considered herself artistic, though her flair for color always showed.
Patt took up knitting and weaving as “indoor sports” after moving over the hill in 1999, and experiencing two summers of coastal fog. Weaving, knitting, and ice dyeing workshops inspired and delighted her artistic side. A class in knitting with wire brought beads and jewelry designing into her life. She loves working with
colorful beads—gemstones and Czech glass—to
create one of a kind pieces, preferring to be ahead of the crowd rather than part of it.
Besides selling through Colony of Coastside Artists’
Open Studios in November, a group she founded in 2010, her eclectic textiles and jewelry sells in stores, local in- person shows (ie, Make It Main Street), and online Etsy (Patt711) and her website—www.pattsheldon.com,
which highlights her vivid colors and textures.
The WALCOTT
When Rome under emperor Claudius expanded into Britain, they introduced advanced technologies.
Locals were recruited as slaves, laborers, soldiers, miners and such. Some talented prospects were
trained as skilled craftsmen and builders such as tile setters, smiths, masons, plumbers, etc..
When Romans abandoned Britain, these craftsmen were disdained as collaborators. In the western city
of Bath, they were expelled from the city by the locals. They built cottages outside the city walls. Thus
the “Walcot” district of Bath came to be and exists to this day. From there my direct ancestors, in name
as well as a propensity for skilled crafts and the arts, has descended.
I claim also to retain the genetic disposition of my paleolithic ancestors of the tool maker & clans from the dawn of human time. This may be a bit harder to prove.
BACKGROUND
Baby boomer and the Cold War; Vietnam war era military age male; the counter-culture movement;
college drop-out; first career as journeyman carpenter building housing; then handyman/independent
contractor working through college night classes; second career 1978 to retirement in 2012 doing
computer stuff; Several “House Sculpture” projects improving my own houses; Two ex-wives.
The ART
Wood carving became a hobby in the mid-1990's as stress relief. Carving remains the main focus of my
artistic output along with some oil painting, drawing, stone sculpture and joinery.
Early focus on NW Indian totem carving was based on an interest in anthropology. Carving has
diversified. Traditional totem motifs are often included, but need to exist within my own creations.
A wide variety of carvings include wildlife, fanciful creations get weird, portraits, paleontology, boat
models, knives, walking sticks, buildings and other subjects of interest; “all over the map” as they say.
Have done quite a lot of Scrimshaw, the carving of images on ivory, using old ivory such as salvaged piano
keys and legally collected ivory varieties from Alaska natives like walrus, seal teeth, whale, mammoth. Due
to legitimate restrictions and concerns for endangered species I no longer offer scrimshaw for sale.
Since locating to the San Mateo County coast in 1997, I have grown to appreciate and participate in the
local artistic community on “the Coastside”.
See my web site WWW.COASTSIDECARVING.COM
Maury Walcott
April 20th - July 20th
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
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