An Evening With Ryan Adams At The Haven

Up and coming Atascadero artist Ryan Adams (whom I introduced to you HERE a month ago) held his art debut at The Haven Wine Bistro in Atascadero on Tuesday evening, April 13, 2010.

The event lived up to and exceeded expectations with a great turnout and plenty of positive feedback from the guests.

The setting was the perfect place in which to conduct this event as it is relatively new to the scene just like Ryan and like Ryan, is hip and cool and aesthetically sophisticated and thus an ideal setting for an art debut.

The Haven Wine Bistro is owned by the same folks who own The Spa next door and I highly recommend it and will be oft returning.

Ryan's brother Sean Adams was also in attendance. He is a wood sculpture artist specializing in Tiki themes and some of his work was on display in the outside patio area.

Professional photographer Joe Ramirez has taken some images of Ryan's work and created a beautiful slide show you can view HERE.

On a sidenote it is worth mentioning that Ryan was featured in the New Times' Spring Arts 2010 annual publication which features one of his Big Sur paintings entitled "The Birth of Spring" which is found on the upper right hand side of page 40

"Good Morning in Atascadero" (2010)

"Cody the Cat" (2002) and below it
"California Condor Over the Central Coast" (2010)

"Founders Fall 3000" (2008) showing an imagined
devastated Founders Hall at Humboldt State University
following the demise of civilization.

Ryan's parents and step-parents in a rare get-together
along with his wood sculpture artist brother Sean Adams.

"California Red Tail Hawk" (2005) and below it
"Camp Atascadero 1904" (unfinished).

Richard Ferguson's party enjoying themselves.

A Sean Adam's wood Tiki statue on display next to two
of his brother Ryan's paintings in the patio.

Micah Mumford and Joe Lucas joined the discussion.

This event broke in the new fire pit in The Haven's new patio area.
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved). 

Spring Has Sprung on the Central Coast

Today I drove down to Atascadero from my home in Paso Robles and I took the country route in lieu of the 101 Freeway.

To my delight I found that the explosion of flowers that was inevitable due to all the El Nino rains we got around here this year had finally shifted far enough west to now be in the Salinas River Valley.

Tyically is starts further inland in Eastern San Luis Obispo County and over time works its way to the coast.

The following photos I took today along Lupine Lane in rural Templeton.

Photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved)

Welcome To The Art of Ryan Adams

Way back in the days of yore (the mid-1980's) when I was attending Atascadero Junior High School I had the privilege of meeting a nice kid named Ryan Adams who was in my Class of 1985. We also attended high school together. I had seen nor heard hide nor hair of him since we graduated from Atascadero High School in 1989.

Recently, I had the privilege of reconnecting with him via Facebook and discovered that not only is he an artist but he is something much rarer than being an artist: he's a damned good one! Ryan is a wonderful painter whose chief influence is Vincent Van Gogh which is a good thing because Van Gogh was an amazing artist. In fact, Van Gogh is Ryan and mine favorite artist.

I am sharing with you below my favorite painting by him ("Good Morning in Atascadero"; 2010) which I also believe is his most recent work and I do so with his permission.

"Good Morning in Atascadero" (2010)

Ryan's paintings are currently showing at The Haven in Atascadero at 6155 El Camino Real near the Carlton Hotel and next door to The Spa Central Coast.

Ryan is starting an artist's co-op in Atascadero and seeks talented artists interested in displaying their work. For $50 plus a $50 deposit each member artist will have a spot to display their work.
To contact him just email him at gtsadams@yahoo.com.

Random Musings of a Ramblin' Fool XXIII

Long Time No See

I beg your pardon for yet another long delay in posting here (nearly three months) but I've had more important fish to fry. It is also true to say that blogging is a habit either in doing or not doing. Once the habit is set either way it is hard to break out of it. However, I'm going to reverse that trend in the coming days and weeks. Once back in the blogging groove expect regular postings here. Facebook has absorbed all my free time of late as well as managing my Yahoo Groups and reading the news online. Of those three Facebook is the least important and thus the one that when I cut back my time spent on it will provide me with the excess time for blogging I so desperately need.

Fish I've Been Frying

It appears I have a new job and a great one it is: part-time but lucrative enough to keep me going for now and help me dig out of my financial hole instead of digging deeper into it. David Richter of Rocks & Relics has taken me on as an assistant in his shows and so far the results have been amazing for both of us. Given the part-time nature of this I have time to do other part-time work for family and friends as well as tend to my K&K Earthwerks eBay Store. Ebay activity has been decent considering how little time and effort I have put into it but that is about to change. I haven't done much work for Steve Shears of late but that is about to change as the rainy season is about to significantly slow down for the year.

The aftershocks of my move last November and helping somebody else move a bunch of their stuff in storage in Adelaida up to Washington State are now almost finished. Both endeavors left me with a lot of excess stuff which I've been selling on Craigslist or giving away on Freecycle which has occupied not a little of my time and energy.

I've also been busy with the three local rockhounding clubs thus far this year (Santa Lucia Rockhounds, SLO Gem & Mineral Club, and the Orcutt Mineral Society). of which I'm a member of each and a vice president in the former two.

Central Coast Rockhounding

My Central Coast Rockhounds Yahoo Group is thriving of late with lots of great content provided by a core group of contributors including your's truly. This activity seems to be a reflection of the renewed interest in the rockhounding hobby in Central California this year. I have not made it out to rockhound this year which amazes and distresses me given this has been an El Nino rainy season with lots of runoff and wave action to promote erosion, a rockhound's greatest friend. I hope next week to get out and get after it so we'll see. There are many options: Ant Hill in Bakersfield, Templeton biconoids, Highway 46 West Summit biconoids, San Simeon State Beach, Villa Creek, Shell Creek fossils, Toro Creek/Hole-in-the Fence Beach, Montano de Oro State Beach, Cuesta Ridge, Salinas River, Adelaida-area mercury mines, Gaviota Coast, etcetera.

Pimpin' My Wheels
My pickup has had beaucoup problems for a long while; most distressingly my two cracked exhaust manifolds. A good buddy of mine is helping me get them fixed in my own carport for a nominal fee and teaching me the hidden wisdom of auto repair in the process which has been cool. We found that one or two of my six spark plugs were not even working and that some of my spark plug wires were a bit burned. Add to that the fact that both manifolds were cracked all the way through and had secondary cracks as well. This all explains the potent odor of gasoline coming from my exhaust fumes as well as my piss-poor gas mileage (sorta like an M1-A1 Abrams tank ~ gallons to the mile!). Thinking of what this might have done to my catalytic converter makes my butt pucker. We hope to be done by the end of this weekend. I've been stranded here at the house for three days thus far.

Feeding My Soul

When not doing shows with Dave Richter I am attending church on weekends. Although my search for a church home has probably not ended I am settled on a church home for Saturday nights, to wit, Harvest Bible Church here in Paso Robles (actually just a few blocks away so I walk there). They have an excellent young pastor in Chris Swanson whom I first met before every going there when I sold my Paykel & Fischer washer & dryer and he picked up it.

As for Sunday mornings while not settled yet as far as I know I feel a lot of promise at North County Christian Fellowship also here in Paso Robles and pastored by Steve Calagna. I've only attended one Sunday service and one Wednesday night service there but both were excellent and I will go there again tomorrow morning. Pastor Steve is good at preaching the word even if he appears to not utilize the expository method which I prefer. Although a charismatic church and I am definitely not charismatic I am out of the business of finding reasons why I don't like churches and should not attend them and am simply allowing God to direct my steps in this matter.

Whichever church I find will be imperfect just like me and that's okay. We're in an evil time and the apostasy is running full-tilt and I accept that the pickings are slim when it comes to decent churches so whatever I find will be better than not attending church at all as I did for nearly two decades to my own detriment.I like what Pastor Swanson told me when I first met him and discussed with him some of this: "If you find the perfect church be certain to stay away." I got the point and laughed heartily.

Daily Kim

I will soon be starting a society and politics blog I've named Daily Kim and I guarantee it will be better than Daily Kos. I promise to warn everybody here of when it premieres so you either check it out or avoid it like the plague.

On A Final Note About Facebook

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