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Westlake Village Art Guild

Founded in 1969

Westlake Village, California

Join the WVAG now, and your membership is good through June 30, 2026!!!!

Upcoming WVAG Events

March 15, 2025 - Entries open for the 2025 Open Juried Show

April 1, 2025 - Dinner and Demo with Alexey Steele (sign up by 3/28)

April 22, 2025 - Deadline to enter the 2025 Open Juried Show

May 6, 2025 - Dinner and Demo with Pamela Fong (sign up by 5/2)

May 30-June 1, 2025 - A fabulous 3 day workshop with Bill Perkins

June 3, 2025 - Dinner Demo - TBD

People Sketchers every Thursday from 10-1 PM at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts

The WVAG is excited to announce a fabulous 3 day painting workshop with Bill Perkins May 30-June 1!!!!

$365 for WVAG Members, $385 Non-Members

A great way to jump start your painting. Bill is a teacher at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Bill has over 35 years in the animation and film industry. He was an Art Director on films like Aladdin, Rescuers Down Under, and Shrek along with so many more. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!!!!!

Our judges for the WVAG 2025 Open Juried Show

Gary Saderup

What makes a face unique?

Everyone has a favorite celebrity. Millions of people fill their walls with pictures of their favorite star, athlete, or historical person, especially if it is presented as a work of art. If it is a master's rendition of that special personality, then the work itself commands attention.

A classic portrait of someone's cherished celebrity often fulfills the shopper's gift need. When they look for that special item, they can find it in the Gary Saderup Galleries, where California artist Gary Saderup offers his masterpieces in charcoal to the public.

Gary Saderup wants his audience to "see into the hearts" of his subjects. If you look into the eyes of his works, you can see just that. He has been blessed with a special talent. At age five, Gary began art lessons and continued his drawing throughout childhood. In high school, he embraced the theatre arts, which led to an early career as an actor and director. Building on his multi-faceted abilities, he majored in illustration and film while attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Gary's work has been in publication for twenty years. He began by drawing his personal Hollywood heroes and offering them for sale. As the appreciation for his artwork grew, admirers inundated him with requests. They wanted Gary's particular vision of their own heroes and loved ones.

Thousands of people purchase Gary's artwork each year as everyone finds their favorite faces on display. Art collectors purchase the limited editions, masses of buyers all over the world purchase the lithographs, and special works are commissioned for private individuals.

Charcoal drawing is one of the most difficult of arts to master, and Gary is often mistaken for an air-brush artist. Yet, his flawless style, when examined closely, reveals the delicate application of charcoal to the surface by his hand alone. Just study his collection to see the characterization, the textures of hair, the skin tones and, most importantly, the eyes. 
If eyes are the windows of the soul, then look deeply as you feel the persona of Marilyn Monroe flirtatiously staring back at you, the generous heart of Michael Landon looking off into the spiritual distance, or the compassionate strength exuded by John Wayne. Martin Luther King seems to reflect his life's divine purpose. The list of descriptions goes on, and the world receives artist Gary Saderup as a conservator of these souls.

Susan Nagy

Artist and curator for Coral Canyon Publishing

Fine Art Professional: I love art and beauty! Always living in the present moment, and I revel in the beauty and goodness that surround me.

I have been engaged in the Art World since the early 1980's, and worked at three stellar art galleries during my career. Currently, I represent and publish the Fine Art of Jane Seymour, and Sean M. Flynn Photography (2000 to Present).

My goal is to nurture and cherish personal and business relationships for the long term. I enjoy networking, and connecting people and projects in a creative way.

Thoroughly enjoy the challenges of problem solving, logistics and doing the impossible!

Nina Warner

Artist Biography

MFA - University of California, Santa Barbara

BA - College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

 Associate Professor, Art Department, Santa Barbara City College, 1987 – 2012. Teaching drawing, figure drawing, 2D design, oil painting, watercolor and artist books

 Nina has lived and worked as an artist in Santa Barbara since 1973. In 2012, she retired after 25 years of full-time teaching and has devoted much of her time to her own art work. She is primarily a Plein Air painter and prefers to work from life whenever possible.

 Over the years she has been involved in the arts community of Santa Barbara in many capacities including teaching classes at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, UCSB and Westmont College, jurying exhibitions and volunteering on various art organization Boards. 

She currently belongs to Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment and is an Artist Member of the California Art Club.

Her work has been exhibited widely – locally and throughout the U.S. In the past three years, she has shown work in the Atkinson Gallery, Faulkner Gallery, Elverhoj Museum, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Westmont/Ridley-Tree Museum, Channing-Peake Gallery, VITA Art Center, Casa Gallery, Palm Loft Gallery, Sullivan-Goss Gallery, the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, Santa Paula Art Museum, Marcia Burtt Gallery, the SCAPE group at various venues, Santa Barbara City Hall Gallery, and several CAC shows. 

She was represented at the Easton Gallery, Montecito, CA until it closed and is now represented by the Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara.

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The Artwork of some of WVAG’s Fabulous Volunteers