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The
Copper Pot, After Greg Kreutz. Oil on
canvas. Marilyn Turner
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Mini Show:
Diane Reincke’s Student Artists
February 5 –28, 2016
Featuring Local Artists:
Stella Carosso ~ Meloni Courtway ~ Stephanie Hammermann ~ Marilyn
Turner
Opening Reception:
First Friday, February 5th, 6-8 pm
In concert:
Ranger and the Re-Arrangers
Bainbridge Island’s Own Gypsy Jazz Band
About the Artists:
Meloni Courtway: New
to Bainbridge Island, Melani is from O'ahu, Hawaii. She has always
felt creative but never brave enough to create art in a finished form.
Diane Reincke's class has been a wonderful opportunity for Meloni to
harness her creative voice. When she's not learning to paint, Meloni is a
freelance food writer and chef and mom to two wonderful children.
Marilyn Turner: For five years Marilyn has been the
Manager of the Sotheby’s International Real Estate office on Bainbridge Island. Always drawn to art, with a strong love of
Art History, she enjoys her connection to beautiful pieces of art through the
ancient Sotheby’s Auction House; but when local artist and art teacher, Diane
Reincke, advertised a beginner class in oil painting Marilyn saw an opportunity
to follow her dream and take an oil painting class. With no expectations other than
being in the company of likeminded beginners, she was amazed with the results. In Marilyn’s words:
My painting, The
Copper Pot, is an interpretation of an original work by noted New York
artist Gregg Kreutz. It was done in the Old Master style painting using
the traditional glazing technique of putting down a white grisaille on a dark
base, followed by layers of glazing and impasto on top. Though I had
never painted in oils before, learning this traditional technique, as well as
other oil painting techniques in my first oil painting class, has given me the
sound foundation I needed to move on ... to express myself confidently as
an artist, and produce work that moves me aesthetically and hopefully brings
pleasure to my audience.
Diane Reincke:
Working Artist….Working Teacher
Diane Reincke has
been a working artist for 40 years. For
20 of those years she combined landscape and still life commissions with
creating and publishing magazines, working as an illustrator and designing as
an art director. While oils have always
been her preferred medium, Diane has also exhibited and sold work in pastel,
oil pastel, monoprints, sumi ink, gouache, and the Japanese medium Nihon-ga,
here in the U.S. and in Japan.
For the past 15
years in Washington State, while maintaining her own working studio, she has
offered private and group classes in oil, acrylics and monoprinting. Group classes have been offered at the
Experimental College, University of Washington and at Microsoft, Redmond main
campus.
Currently residing
on Bainbridge Island, Diane offers private and group classes for beginners and
experienced painters, teenagers to adult.
Classes are available for local residents of the island as well as
visitors coming to our special place to enjoy a one day art workshop
experience.
What students find
most unique about Diane’s painting classes is her one-on-one style of
personalized instruction and extensive knowledge of specific painting
techniques. Diane customizes her classes
to the needs of each student.
Since 2000, all of
Diane’s oil painting classes are taught entirely Fume Free, making oil painting
accessible to those with small work spaces or limited ventilation.
Stella Carosso (information TBA)
Stephanie Hammermann (information TBA)
About the Band: Bainbridge Island’s Ranger and the Re-Arrangers play gypsy jazz or “hot jazz,” an upbeat
style created in the 1930s by Django Reinhardt and other European stringplayers
who embraced American jazz. The band’s
repertoire appeals to everyone who enjoys swing standards, traditional Gypsy
jazz songs, and world music originals. The band features young violin phenom
Ranger, whose creative, syncopated leads complement the band’s steady, swinging
rhythms.
Ranger
Sciacca’s performances and compositions reflect his extensive studies in
classical, jazz, and folk music. His Suzuki teacher, Alice Kanack, publishes
books and CDs on improvising classical music. Ranger also studied folk and
dance music for seven years with renowned Seattle fiddler Stuart Williams.
Ranger’s main influences include guitarist Django Reinhardt and jazz violin
greats Stuff Smith, Claude Williams and Stephane Grappelli. Ranger studied jazz
theory and history at Whitman College.
Michael
Sciacca, Ranger’s dad, has been his rhythm guitarist for many years; they
have performed as a swing jazz duo since 2001.
Percussionist
Jeffrey Moose has a 30-year career in both music and fine art. His
collaborations and band projects include work with Joined at the Head,
Heliotroupe, Dog Superior, Stiff Kitty, Atoke, Zayah Emmanuel, and Sam Andrews,
founder of Big Brother and the Holding Company. He is currently director of
Jeffrey Moose Gallery in Seattle.
Mandolin player Dave Stewart
is a classically-trained pianist.
Event Location:
The Island Gallery, 400 Winslow Way E., #120,
Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Underground parking is available at The Winslow off Ericksen
Avenue.
Come on downtown to see the artists' offerings, enjoy the lively strains of gypsy jazz, and do your Valentine's Day shopping all while sipping a bit of wine with friends. All the downtown galleries will be open, and several other venues as well. We'll keep our fingers crossed for good strolling weather!
See you on the 5th!
