Truckee's Premier Fine Art Gallery features the works of local Truckee artists Elizabeth and Olof Carmel. The newly opened Carmel Gallery is located near the Truckee Hotel at 10035 Church Street. The Carmel's purchased the historic Schaffer house, built in 1895 by one of Truckee's founders, and are renovating the building to restore it's historic appearance. The Carmel Gallery is on the ground floor of this historic building. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from 11 to 5, Sundays from 11-3,  and on  Tuesdays and Wednesdays it is open by appointment only.

Elizabeth and Olof Carmel are Sierra-based photographers specializing in unique and expressive landscapes of the natural world. Their prints combine dramatic photography, vivid colors, and artistic touches to create new, captivating visions of the natural world. All of their work is printed as museum quality  pigment prints using archival inks and printing materials.

Elizabeth is the author of the recently released best selling  book "Brilliant Waters, Portraits of Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, and the High Sierra". Signed copies of her book are available for purchase at the gallery.  Using a 39 megapixel Hasselblad camera, her work emphasizes incredible detail,  extraordinary composition and unparalleled color and toonal range. Prints are  available in small, exclusive limited editions of 50.

With a background in drawing and watercolor, Olof Carmel's fine art prints are more impressionistic in appearance and merge the reality of a photograph with the artistic expression of a painting. His popular and colorful images are printed on watercolor paper and canvas and emphasize local Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Yosemite, and Alaska  scenery.   Olof is also actively involved on a daily basis in all of the Carmel's matting and framing production and the construction of their new gallery building.