Artist Profile

Lark Calderon-Gomez

Larkspur, CA

Lark Calderon-Gomez was born and raised in California where she fell in love with oil painting. She is considered mixed race, her father being from Guatemala and her mother from the U.S midwest, and of mostly English decent. Her mother, a gifted artist, started teaching her to paint at eight years old. She was twenty years old when she landed her first professional work as an illustrator for a book published by Pearson/Simmel Press. She went on to work in animation for award-winning MetroLight Studios in LA. She worked under award-winning digital effects artist, Mark A. Lasoff. They worked in the 2D division called, MetroCel, where Lark painted cels on Ren & Stimpy and Beavis & Butthead, respectively.
In 1994 Lark and her husband decided to move back to Northern California for a peaceful life in the mountains.
In Lake Tahoe, she studied for four years with talented painter, Phyllis Shafer.
Lark and her husband have been residents of Marin for almost twenty years.

Being kind of a news junkie, news would sometimes come to her for subject matter. From Afghani orphans of war, the genocide of the Ethnic Albanians under Milosevic, (The Refuge painting), to the tsunami orphans...the stories were so heartbreaking she had to paint them, to interpret and deal with them. She feels this will continue through out her life.