Fred Fago

Fred, whose first camera was a Brownie point and shoot, began photographing seriously when he became the school photographer during high school.   He has shown at the Alameda Library and at Frank Bette Center for the arts as well as during open studios.  He has had his photo's published in two local sailing magazines, Latitude 38 and on the cover of Bay and Delta Yachtsman, and has numerous sailing photos on the Encinal Yacht Club's website.  Although his favorite subject is sailing boats he takes a wide variety of subjects from portraits to landscapes.  An especially interesting series is of the bay bridge construction over several years as seen from the water under the bridge. Visit Encinal Yacht club to see Fred’s photos here encinal.org

                                New Bay Bridge by Fred Fago

Wood Duck by Margaret Fago

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Margaret Fago

After twenty years of being around boats, marinas, the bay and ocean as a Sailmaker and Boat Canvas Designer and Watercolor Painter, Margaret now devotes her time, to capturing images of those water scenes and moods she loves in paintings using both watercolor and oil.  Visit her studio and exhibits to see the quiet reflections, the sailing, the boats, the people, the birds and the animals that hang out around our water places in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She paints in a realistic style where light and design are primary movers in her compositions These two elements enhance the mood which is being portrayed.

She has been a practicing artist since childhood when she began painting and drawing with her mother, an accomplished artist. Her skills were developed with art classes in high school, continued with classes every semester at UC Davis where she was a Biology major, and then after graduation with night school and weeklong workshops with artists including Helmut Schmitt, Charlotte Britton, Miles Batt, Irving Shapiro, Frank Webb, Arne Westerman, Linda Doll, John Salminen and Karen Frey. Margaret is a signature member of the California Watercolor Association.  She has paintings in collections both here in the USA and abroad, and is teaching watercolor and drawing classes at the Frank Bette center in Alameda, CA, and workshops at Feather River Art Camp for Adults.