Gold Country Artists Gallery, an award-winning artists’ cooperative in Placerville is featuring the work of Kirk Neiberger and Nataly Tikhomirov in February.

Neiberger calls himself the “Inkist,” a pseudonym that reflects his love for creating his original pen, ink, and sometimes watercolor, illustrations. As a young man, he became intrigued with etchings, but unable to afford the necessary supplies to create that kind of work, he replicated the technique with materials at hand, finding pen and ink approximated the look and “feel” of etching. He explains that although actual etchings are smaller in size, the amount of detail he discovered in these images is remarkable.