07/23/2026
Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Colleen Clifford and Rachel Robinson from July 23rd through August 27th. Please join us at their reception on Saturday July 25 from 5-8 pm, as part of the town-wide Trinidad Art Night. Enjoy snacks, a wine pour benefitting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, live music with Ryan Roberts and Friends, and an opportunity to meet many of our gallery's 25 local artists.
Colleen Clifford learned the art of stained glass in high school and is a 2002 graduate of HSU with a major in Studio Art. The natural wonders of the North Coast often find their way into her work. One new piece features an egret surrounded by swirling ocean waves. Other new works include windows that capture the sunset (including the post-sunset green flash), as well as smaller jellyfish suncatchers. About the medium, Clifford says, “Glass allows me to play with light, texture and color in a unique way. Taking a design from a sketch to a completed window requires aesthetic and technical experience, as well as artistic imagination. I love the creative force of art bonding with the traditional craft.”
Rachel Robinson works primarily in large format oil painting. She is a 2014 graduate of HSU, with a major in Studio Art. She often finds inspiration for her subjects while pedaling her bicycle through the redwoods and alongside the ocean. Robinson reflects on her recent work, "I am daring myself to find a new direction by defying my usual grip on control. After having spent hours refining a subject, I find great pleasure in 'wrecking' the painting and allowing the element of chance to magically guide the way. Often, the reward for this leap into the unknown is an unleashing of a crescendo of bold color and swaths of light that depart from reality and transport the artwork into the realm of the surreal."
