Peggi Kroll Roberts and Ray Roberts

Peggi Kroll Roberts, Sun and Sea, gouache, 7×7 in.

March 25 through May 22, 2016

Reception: Saturday, March 26, 5:00-7:00

Join us at 9 a.m. Saturday morning, March 26, for a gallery-hosted paintout on Butterfly Beach below Channel Drive in Montecito.
Find us set up below the western steps closest to the cliffs.

See you there!

Marcia Burtt Gallery presents Peggi Kroll Roberts and Ray Roberts, award-winning painters who tell the story of California through landscape.

Continuing in the tradition of California plein air painters, Ray Roberts shows rural California as we endeavor to preserve it. He depicts expansive mountain vistas and ocean views through energetic paint strokes, creating the texture of our landscape. His palette exploits the purples, blues, and golds we inhabit.

If Ray captures the big picture, Peggi Kroll Roberts cuts to the close-up. She’s a plein air artist who welcomes people into the mise en scène, telling the story of Californians enjoying their landscape. Impasto paint conveys the physical robustness of land, ocean, and figures. Using rainbow colors of beach umbrellas and still life subjects she celebrates daily pleasures and endless summer.

Ray Roberts, Arroyo Hondo, oil on linen, 24×30 in

Ray Roberts, Creekside Sycamore, oil on linen, 24×30 in.