What Does This Transition Mean We want to welcome you to our new online art gallery experience at themulberrygallery.com We, the owners Del and Barbara Crawford, have decided to focus all of our artful energy away from the brick-and-mortar outlet in Aptos Village in favor of current stability with online communication. We are replacing the...Read More
Who was the first artist to create an abstract piece? Most folks would list either Kandinsky or Mondrian as the artist of record with both producing abstract art about 1911. In reality, the very first abstract artist was neither and was also not a man. The first artworks that could be called non representational art...Read More
Owen’s Favorite Quotes for the color red. MY MOTHER WARNED ME TO AVOID THINGS COLORED RED Claes Oldenberg I LOVE RED SO MUCH THAT I ALMOST WANT TO PAINT EVERYTHING RED Alexander Calder Owen says, Red! Red! Red! I love red. It is passion in pigment. Romance is a red heart. Tomatoes are...Read More
Ray Evans calls himself a Visionary Artist, and that he is. He sees life as a place where spirituality and nature merge into a surrealistic creation of beauty. He works with pens, pencils, inks, dyes and batik. With these materials he creates his vision of the moment. Once his art is set on fabric he...Read More
Collections, as opposed to an individual art piece, offer unique considerations when displayed in our homes. The individual items forming a collection will always share a common theme; sometimes emotional and sometimes physical. Physical themes might be subject matter, art medium, shapes or colors. An emotional theme would be the journey taken by the collector...Read More
A Special Event at Mulberry Gallery for Linda Pope Join us at Mulberry Gallery Saturday, February 23, from 1-4:30 p.m. for an art event celebrating Linda Pope Linda Pope wanted to make Santa Cruz an art destination. And so she did. Linda was brave enough to open the Pope Gallery shortly after the 1989...Read More
