9th Anniversary of "The Masters Program" in the Santa Monica Mountains

Mountains Resoration Trust and Stunt Ranch Reserve co-sponsor the 9th anniversary edition of "The Masters Program" in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Tom Gamache Large Format Photography and Prints Featured In New Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center

The National Park Service recently opened the newest state of the art Visitor Center in the national park system – the Santa Monica Mountains Gillette Ranch Visitor Center. The larger displays feature the work of photographer and ‘Wandering Around Outdoors’ Landscape Workshops director - Tom Gamache.

Among his contributions to the new visitor center are many detailed medium sized interpretive views, multiple 10 foot wide single image displays and an especially large 32 foot wide layered mountain view which fills the base of the rotunda / tower of the new visitor center.

Gamache has worked in over 100 national parks throughout the west.

His ‘Wandering Around Outdoors’ Landscape Art workshops are renowned for their fun, art, value and professionalism. He has resided and worked in the Santa Monica’s for more than 40 years. Among his many noteworthy efforts has been “Range on the Edge – The Santa Monica Mountains”, with acclaimed western writer Mathew Jaffe. The monograph has become the definitive resource for both the visual “art” of the mountains as well as an introduction to their cultural history.

Sunset Magazine Cover Feature, "The Gods Walk Here" - Monument Valley

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Tom Gamache Landscape Art To Be Focus Of National Park Art Show January 16 through March 15, 2011

Photo Expressionist Success at Thousand Oaks Art Association Membership Show

“Photo Expressionism” is the way Tom Gamache describes his latest juried art show winner in the November Thousand Oaks Art Association  Show. The image entitled “Rothko County” is a Southwestern Colorado roadscape made after chasing … “one of the largest and darkest storms I had ever witnessed” Gamache said.

“The sky was a vast blue black to the horizon and the earth was a deep tan and brown beneath the storm’s threatening shadow. If an Abstract Expressionist the likes of a Mark Rothko had ever been inclined to work in the landscape idiom …an image such as this might well have been in his playbook …” continued Gamache.

“I am always intrigued by how landscape (nature) photography, from its earliest days, has been used by artists of all styles as a point of learning and knowledge for their later work. After years of study and field work I have come to understand that many of the artists of what we call “modern art” were tutored by landscape photography”.

Sactown Magazine, Sacramento’s leading magazine Goes Coastal

This month's cover feature “Escape to the Coast” is a 14 page adventure featuring the “cool” California Coast as brought to light by well known western journalist Mathew Jaffe and outdoor photographer Tom Gamache at their together best – On the Road!   In a story that stretches from Big Sur to Mendocino via fabled CA Routes 1 and 128, Jaffe and Gamache treat readers to the adventure and sights of an unforgettable summer road trip.

Gamache Images Complement CA Science Center's Latest Permanent Display

“ECOSYSTEMS” – The California Science Museum’s LA newest permanent display incorporates numerous Tom Gamache nature images into the “LA – Urban Ecosystems” interactive gallery displays. Selected from the Gamache authored book ‘RANGE ON THE EDGE – THE SANTA MONICA MOUNATINS’ from Angel City Press - the large format enlarged images help tell the story of LA’s urban nature experience.

“I’d like to thank the California Science Museums curator of ecology - Chuck Kopczak for the opportunity to both display many of my favorite images and assist the museum in explaining nature’s many mysteries and surprises”, Gamache commented. “It is a privilege to be associated with such a dedicated group of professionals and such an exciting and beautiful presentation”.

California State Senate – Contemporary Art Collection

Senator Fran Pavley (D- Agoura Hills) has selected the photographic art of Tom Gamache for inclusion in the California Senate’s ninth annual California Contemporary Art Collection exhibit.

The 9 year old program recognizes the best of California Contemporary artists. Each senator is asked to select an artist from his/her district to exhibit their artwork in the State Capitol for 18 months. Especially for this showing, Tom has produced a one of a kind, mammoth sized, six-foot wide archival exhibition print of one of his better known images – “the High Road”. Gamache said … “I can’t thank Fran enough for her continuing confidence and support. Her selection has afforded me a unique exhibition opportunity to create a special, very large version of one of my more popular ‘Once in a lifetime’ images. Because of the botanical and other environmental changes that have taken place at many sites that I have photographed this photographic image and many others, in all likelihood, can never be made again. But … isn’t that what ‘everyday’ is supposed to be … once in a lifetime?”

Tom Gamache mammoth panoramas added to IDS Real Estate corporate collection

A series of large archival panoramas including images from the central coast California,  Death Valley, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada  Ranges have recently been added to the IDS Group California Corporate Collection in their offices in downtown Los Angeles, CA.

“It is always an amazing process to create such large archival pieces” said Gamache, when asked how they were done. “The scans were monumental followed by quite a few hours of color matching and many more of printing, mounting and framing. Things flowed smoothly right through the installation. Our team has done it often enough now that I have no reservations when accepting such scaled-up commissions. No matter how many times we do it … it is always a joy and a surprise to see such large views of softly rounded “nature” relieve the horizontal/right angle/vertical space of offices. It has a wonderfully relaxing and comforting effect.”

Gamache and Jaffe at The Los Angeles Times / USC Book Festival

Tom Gamache and Matthew Jaffe, co –authors of the popular book ‘Range on the Edge – The Santa Monica Mountains’, were again invited to join fellow authors to meet their supporters and fans at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. Sales of the book have increased steadily since its release almost four years ago. The book is now in its second printing and will soon be scheduled for its third.

Laura Bush displays Gamache/Jaffe Santa Monica Mountains book “Range on the Edge” during visit to Los Angeles magnet school.

NORTHRIDGE -- First lady Laura Bush dropped in on Balboa magnet school Wednesday, where fourth-graders showed her objects used by Chumash Indians and early settlers of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Bush spoke of the benefits of the national parks system, telling students the parks are good ways to learn about both science and history.

"I like to hike in the national parks all over, and California has some of the very best national parks anywhere” … “California is like no other place in the world!" she said.

Joshua Tree National Park creates new park brochure

The National Park Service recently announced the release of the newest Joshua Tree National Park interpretive brochure. The featured frontispiece image of the Dead Horse Valley Joshua Tree forest backed by the parks signature jumble of stacked rocks which are world famous as a mecca for climbers, was created by well known landscape photographer Tom Gamache. The brochure is free to all visitors. They are available at all entrance stations and visitor centers in the park.