Harker Bluff Preserve

Friday, March 26 · 8:15am – 12:00pm

Last painted here April 10, 2026 — 3 painted

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Demo

Marguerite Alden

works alla prima in oils

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Demo at 10:00am · stay and paint after

Marguerite Alden is a Central Coast painter working outdoors in all weather. Her canvases favour the hour after sunrise, when the fog is still burning off the ridgelines.

She has led demos for regional plein air groups since 2016 and teaches a spring workshop on colour temperature.

Are you coming?

Waiver required for this property

Coast Ridge Land Trust · Nadia Boone needs it signed before you reach the gate. Bring the signed paper form — open your RSVP link from email to acknowledge it here.

Where to meet

Unmarked — look for the cattle guard

Private — the group enters together, escorted

Directions

Coast Highway south through Fenwick to Ridge Road, then east on Bluff Canyon Road.

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What the site is like

Still water, dunes and live oaks

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Parking

Roadside — Room for about 8 cars

Restrooms

None on site

Food & water

Bring your own

Walk from the cars

gentle grade

Cell service

Little to none — save this page before you go

Watch out for

ticks, poison oak

Limited to 12 painters.

Critique

Group critique at 1:00pm — at the cars.

Guest critic: Marguerite Alden

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Marguerite Alden is a Central Coast painter working outdoors in all weather. Her canvases favour the hour after sunrise, when the fog is still burning off the ridgelines.

She has led demos for regional plein air groups since 2016 and teaches a spring workshop on colour temperature.

Ridgeline Plein Air