"Libby Tolley's work harks back to the California plein air tradition. She has the ability to endow our favorite landscapes with heightened meaning: richly romantic, sumptuously painted, drenched with golden light"
-- Bill Beeson, Art Critic, Focus Magazine

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Libby Tolley's Mozart Festival poster hangs over the desk of Congresswoman Lois Capps in her Washington, D.C., office.

Libby Tolley's Mozart Festival poster is prominently displayed in the capitol building in Sacramento, California.

In addition to her own paintings, for the past 12 years Libby Tolley has created paintings on commission. Often these are works to be used for book covers and illustrations, or for art posters. At other times, Libby is asked by private collectors to paint a special location—such as a ranch, a mountain range, or a scene along the coast. Working with the collector, Libby predetermines the size, the format, and the medium, as well as discussing with the collector what the mood of the painting will be.

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Libby Tolley's Corporate Commissions and Collections:

• Benvenuti Restaurante
• California Bank and Trust
• County of San Luis Obispo
• Mozart Festival/San Luis Obispo
• Pacific Gas and Electric
• Scripps-Howard Newspapers
• Seaside Motel, Cayucos
• The Nature Conservancy

Quotes from a few commissions:

"Thanks for your beautiful work and even better disposition. Anybody who can consistently make me smile as well as wield a mean paintbrush is OK in my book."
--Mrs. James Maino, Commission Paintings of Maino Ranch

"We're especially enamored of the view of Mission Plaza you created just for us. We may go our separate ways, but through your poster, we'll always be able to 'take a walk with Libby.'"
--Pat Martin, Executive Director, Mozart Festival 1995

Quotes from a few collectors:

Your work is the only I've experienced that brings tears. Exquisite is the only word.
--Barbara McCleary

"She's got a gift for capturing the beauty of the California landscape in a way I've never seen. A photograher couldn't capture what she does. There's an alpenglow in the evenings here that she's able to reproduce. She gets all the colors and shadows."
--Roger Lyon, Cottontail Creek Ranch, Cayucos ,CA
 Quoted in an article "On the Road Home" by Joe Brekke, The Tribune. 11/4/2001

"It is our pleasure to know and work with Libby, and to collect her work. Her work brings life to our clients' projects, and I watch in awe as her art becomes more and more profound. She is the true chronicler of the disappearing landscape."
--Pandora Nash-Karner, Graphic Artist and Collector

"We are finding great enjoyment in your 'Through Green Pastures.' It's a rush of pleasure every time I look at it above the fireplace."
--Brenda Price, Collector

"We want you to know how much we are enjoying our painting. In fact, we like it more and more with each passing day! It's wonderful!"
--Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Saunders, Collectors

"I have loved your work and looked for it since I saw the first Mozart Festival poster of the Mission Plaza eucalyptus trees many years ago. Your paintings have brightened our home and made me look at our landscapes with even more fondness."
--Meg Evans, Collector