Art Along the River

Introducing Art along the River at River Terrace Inn.

In collaboration with Julie Eppich and Eppich arts, join us on the riverwalk select saturdays and discover the work of talented local artists. Admire new installations every month as you sip local wine offerings and shop your favorite pieces to take home.

Curated by Eppich Arts

DATES & TIME

7/6
8/17
9/7
10/12
11/9

From 1:00pm – 7:00pm

Featured September Artists

Katrina Gocan

Born in Poland, Katrina is inspired by the individual’s inner journey, and how myths, stories and culture shape a person’s, and by extension, a society’s vision of themselves. A late bloomer, she started painting in her mid 40’s and works with acrylic, watercolor and collage. Much of her work incorporates the female form and seeks to find the confluence of the universal and the deeply personal in the many faceted search for identity.

Sunshine Moeschler

Sunshine Moeschler is a mixed media artist in Napa, California. She has displayed her work in Art Gallery Napa Valley continuously since 2007. Her evolving style is concerned with color, movement, and emotion. A painting contains the DNA of the artist, and yet is different each time it is seen through someone’s eyes. Sunshine is encouraged by knowing that every day her work brings joy and energy to her collectors. Her nature inspired paintings and assemblage dresses are housed in private collections throughout the world.

Dar Merle

Dar Merle is a talented newcomer to Napa who moved here from the Redondo Beach area to be near her son, Mike Merle, and his wife, Nicole, in November. Since moving here, Merle has exhibited her acrylic paintings at the Silverado Resort, the Westin Verasa Napa and at the Napa Valley Wine Train. She currently uses acrylic on canvas.

“My artistic passion is continually evolving, inspired by beautiful scenery, people, animals and vision paintings. I dream what I paint; I paint what I dream,” Merle tells visitors.
Merle has been honing her artistic skills for a long time. She started drawing at age 3 and never stopped. Among her favorite childhood projects was creating paper dolls and designing glamorous gowns for contestants of beauty pageants.

Born and raised in Walteria, a neighborhood in south Torrance in southern California, Merle enjoyed an ideal childhood, playing on the nearby beach with friends and relatives.

Though she never stopped painting, she seldom exhibited her work during the years she worked for the school district. But after retiring, she exhibited her paintings at the Hermosa Beach Fine Arts Festival and in Redondo Beach as well as other places.

She worked with oils and watercolors for 25 years and then switched to acrylics 15 years ago. Although she didn’t go to art school, she took some art classes and loved live drawing.

Shelly Hanan

At the age of five, Shelly Hanan discovered her heart’s desire when she received a Kodak Brownie Camera for her birthday. After capturing an astonishing number of portraits of her three-year-old sister, she turned her camera on the world around her.

Growing up in New York, in an area once considered the boondocks and now a bedroom community for NYC, she enjoyed both the benefits of country life—like catching frogs barehanded—and the vibrant experiences Manhattan had to offer. She later moved to Arcata, California, to attend Humboldt State University, where she specialized in fine art photography. Upon returning to New York, she continued her education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, earning her teaching certification in K-12 Art Education.
Her work has been exhibited across the United States, including at Select Fair during Frieze, New York, and at both Spectrum and Red Dot during Art Basel in Miami. Internationally, she showcased her art in London, England, and Budapest, Hungary. Notably, she received two public art installation commissions in Napa, California, and had the honor of having two photographs accepted into a show at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
One of the most beneficial experiences in her artistic practice has been serving as an Artist-in-Residence. The opportunity to have time and space dedicated solely to her art was extraordinary. During her residencies at Starry Night in New Mexico, she explored the West twice, and she had an eye-opening experience in Budapest at the Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC). Her work was featured in an international exhibit in Budapest and in a worldwide collaborative exhibit sponsored by the HMC and the state of Texas.

Michael Miller

Throughout a 50-year business career spent on pursuits that didn’t truly engage him, Michael Miller dabbled semi-seriously in painting, often without much success. He soon realized that painting like any other pastime that one may seek to turn into a serious venture, requires considerable craft and above all practice!
Now, in his sixties, and retired, he has time to practice and having gone through a fair amount of canvas, he says he feels he’s beginning to get the hang of it. The difference between painting something ‘like’ the subject and catching the unique aspects which makes your subject ‘live’ on the canvas is what he strives to bring to each work. He says a sense of humor and a touch whimsy are helpful too.

Monroe Katz

Monroe Katz is a rare blend of talents: a dentist by profession, and an award-winning author, painter and sculptor. His difficult emergence as an artist has been a primary subject of his writing. His debut novel, Sparring with Rembrandt, chronicled his struggles growing up in Brooklyn, caught between his love of art and the difficult post-war demands of earning a living. A chapter was awarded a coveted first prize in the Napa Valley’s Jessamyn West writing contest. Dr. Katz’s next book was a sophisticated “how to” guide for aspiring painters and sculptors, based on his own personal journey as an artist. Dare To Create, The Joys and Tortures of Learning to Paint was hailed by the Eric Hoffer Awards as one of the best art books of 2018. His poetry and artwork have won awards as well. His Rembrandt-like portrait of a young woman named Daphne was named “Best of Show” in the annual Napa Exposition. With his new book, Light and Shadow, An Artist’s Awakening, Dr. Katz plunges his sensitive hero, Norman, into the decisive phase of his artistic journey: a rigorous, and often painful apprenticeship under the wing of a bullying, troubled, but brilliant mentor named Kelly. Despite his brutal ways, Kelly brings Norman exactly what he needs: a creative liberation. Now retired from dentistry, Dr. Katz continues his creative life with his wife Joan and their extended families close by.

Ricky Lee

Ricky Lee is a 56-year-old Napa native who discovered his artistic talents in 2006, when he began taking art classes. Ricky’s artwork can suggest abstracts, colorful dreams, even apocalyptic chaos. Faces and words may appear amid the flourishes; the more you gaze, the more Lee reveals.

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