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Iridescent labradorite from Madagascar shines in the light at the Nature Gallery in Los Altos. “I always loved nature, and I still do,� Olson said. One of her favorite locales is Portola Pastures. “I love the light that comes early in the morning,� she said recently, pointing to one of her works in which a horse grazes quietly by a eucalyptus tree. Other artists featured at the cooperative gallery include Steve Curl, whose vivid watercolors depict finely detailed birch trees at Lundy Lake and the pinkish glow of the setting sun on the sand bars of San Gregorio beach. For those whose tastes run more toward fauna rather than flora, artist Teresa Silvestri uses watercolor to bring to life rabbits, sheep and pigs. Larry Calof has turned his camera’s lens to animals as well, capturing in one metal print several wild, galloping chestnut-brown horses, the snow flying from under their hooves. In another, a trio of squinting polar bears, their eyes like slits, pad hulkily side by side. Titled “Los Tres Hombres,� it was shot in Canada. Calof has also photographed wolves, mountain lions, elephants and technicolor birds. Often, though, nature’s beauty speaks for itself, said Carol Garsten, owner of Nature Gallery in Los Altos, which offers fossils and minerals. “I bought these because they are works of art by themselves,� Garsten said on a recent walk through her store. “About everything here, I ask: ‘Is it sculptural?’� She pointed to some druzy quartz, a knobby gray rock with white veins, that sparkles due to a coating of fine crystals formed on the rock’s surface. Next to it, a hefty round stone is actually a fossilized sand dollar from the Jurassic period. In a display case, a piece of green Chinese fluorite, which grows in cubes, is so smooth and clear, it looks like jelly. Some minerals and fossils stand alone, but others have been carved into sculptures, boxes and vases or formed into artful jewelry. Guy Michaels, an El Granada artist, turns Utah alabaster into delicate, translucent orange vases with neat walnut-and-ebony inlaid trim. He uses a lathe and his years
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