Leave the land better than you found it, as the ranchers’ saying goes.
For four decades, the Oak Group has used art as a vehicle for environmental preservation. This fall, the group of plein air painters will celebrate their 40th anniversary with Abiding Legacy, an exhibition and sale for the California Rangeland Trust.
The exhibition will be open for the month of October at the Santa Barbara Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery. Visitors can expect to see landscape paintings depicting protected ranchlands throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties…