Joan Trost considers herself a budding artist. Grateful for the support and acknowledgement of her peers and the wonderful, inclusive art club environment, she is honored and humbled to be named the February 2023 Artist of the Month. Joan has always had an eye for design and color but, growing up on a rural farm,…
The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to announce that Richard Ebeltoft is the January Artist of the Month. Richard spent the first 10 years of his life in a small town in northern Minnesota on the Canadian border near Lake of the Woods. One night the temperature dropped to 50 degrees below zero and his…
The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to announce that Regena Bacon is the December Artist of the Month. Regena grew up in a very small town in West Tennessee. Retiring early from her passion and career as a salon owner/hairdresser after a diagnosis of fibromyalgia, she found herself dabbling in various art forms. She did…
The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to announce that Kathy Sork is the November Artist of the Month, the second time she has been honored with this award. An Army brat, Kathy was born in the Philippines and lived overseas in early childhood. When her father retired, the family moved to Bellevue, Wash., where she…
Born and raised in Westchester County, N.Y., from an early age while taking notes at school, Dennis Whitley would doodle in the margins of his notebook. He did not realize then that these doodles would be the beginning of his talent as an artist. After graduating from high school, he attended and graduated from St.…
The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to name Diana Ho the Artist of the month for May 2022. Diana Ho, born in Shanghai, has had an extreme passion for art since childhood. Under the guidance of renowned artists, she began her art career working as a designer at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. In 1987, Diana…
Shoray Wolfe The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to name Shoray Wolfe as our Artist of the Month for April. In the formal setting of my upbringing, school and education played a significant role in children’s lives. So, when I doodled birds, bees, and flowers, if it looked like my biology homework, it was encouraged.…
The Art Club is delighted to award Artist of the Month for March to Susan Gleason. Susan was born in New York and raised in Arlington, Va., where she met Brian Gleason, her husband of more than 50 years. She studied fashion design at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and spent several years coordinating…
The Art Club is delighted to award Artist of the Month for February to Duane Langston. Since childhood, Duane’s interests in life have been art and music. His answer to, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always, “An artist.” As a child, he constantly sketched with pencil and paper, drawing…
The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to announce the selection of Thula Edwards as Artist of the Month for January 2022. Thula’s autobiography follows: Born and raised in Oregon, my childhood was somewhat unusual, in that my father was a psychiatrist and worked for the state mental hospital. We lived in the doctors’ quarters on…