The Kolliner Long Gallery was established in 2007 by artists Nancy Kolliner and Ned Long in Cambria's East Village, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on California's Central Coast. A study in contrasts, the gallery is a contemporary space within a two story yellow Victorian where Nancy’s large-scale landscape drawings and Ned’s more figurative paintings hang side by side. Their distinct perspectives merge in this gallery that is as unique as their vision.

Kolliner, working from photographs she takes, creates massive and meticulously detailed drawings of trees—Monterey pines, eucalyptus, or Cypress—using a fine point technical pen and black ink on Arches 500-pound cold-press watercolor paper. Beginning with a single stroke, she works in a cumulative process that yields a remarkably realistic, yet deeply personal, textured image composed of thousands of lines.

Easy, lively brushwork and rampant color flow through Long’s acrylics. The small, intimate still lifes, the portraits, and the larger, semi-abstract characters-in-landscapes all start with a simple palette of about ten colors. Drawing with the brush is key to the technique in these visual narratives.