Judy Nachazel

Our speakers, Judy Nachazel and Jolinda Marshall, will tell us about their artistic talents. Judy, a California native and resident of Ramona for 32 years, studied art at Grossmont College and San Diego State University. She extended her studies through workshops with many noted artists. Working in pastels and acrylics, Judy paints what interests her. Her goal is to capture and convey that interest to the viewer. She has taught pastel and given pastel demos and workshops throughout San Diego and Imperial Counties and in Oregon. She is now spending more time traveling with Joe, her husband of 46 years, and with family. They have 4 grown children and nine grandchildren.

Jolinda’s background and education in glass comes from life itself, (and shows in the beautiful Cobalt Blue Platter photo) rather than through any specific artistic training. Says Jolinda, “I grew up in a house where there was original art on the walls and fresh flowers in the vases. Art was an offered and important elective. However, my formal education is mostly focused around psychology and parapsychology, rather than art. I have a M.A. degree in Psychology and have worked in the area of counseling during the majority of my adult life.

Jolinda’s Art Glass

I would like to think that I bring the depth of that perspective to my art – a wordless expression of the human condition. I owned a stained glass gallery many years ago in Northern California, where I learned and taught all the basics in stained and sandblasted glasswork.  After raising our three children, I came back to glass… this time focusing the majority of my artistic expression in the area of glass fusion.  I have a wonderfully accommodating and beautiful studio, here in Ramona, provided through the genius of my creative husband.  I enjoy greatly translating the visions of my clients into the beauty of glass!”

Our April speaker, Teri Zaffarano has been the Equestrian Manager since 2008 and a homeowner in the Estates since 1998 (17 years). Says Teri, ” I started out with horses when we moved here from Hawaii with my daughter Katy at the age of 9. Katy started taking riding lessons with one of the trainers here at the IEC. She then joined the United States Pony Club which was a group of girls and boys all learning how to ride their horse. They worked on Dressage and jumping and horsemanship with the knowledge of how to take care of your horse. I become involved with the Pony Club; helping out a Rally’s and horse shows. I eventually became the District Commissioner on the San Vicente Pony Club (which is now called the Ramona Vicente Pony Club) as Ramona Pony Club merged with San Vicente. My daughter (who I could talk about all day) went onto Eventing at different venues including Cooper Meadows. Then found boys at age 16. I took over her horse and started taking lessons on Dressage and jumping and felt like I had started my life over. It is a great form of exercise and therapy for anyone who loves horses. And you have to love them because they are costly and are work but so worth it. When the position became available for the equestrian manager, I put my application in and here I am. Myself, my assist Angie Lancaster along with our crew of hard working men, Gerardo Collazo, Tomas Abazan and Pedro Rodriquez have been working very hard throughout these past years to keep all the common and arena areas in good and safe condition. I have hosting Combined Training and Dressage shows over the past 6 years. We are now in the process of revamping and adding new cross country jumps in the infield of the IEC on either side of the pond. Then we will be having a cowboy challenge obstacle course inside of the dried pond that we will have challenge shows, all will generate income for the equestrian center. We have a lot of plans for different disciplines at both centers in the future.”