(This post is currently in progress. Please enjoy it as we construct it in advance of the show's opening, and feel free to contact the gallery in the meantime with any questions.)
Summer is here, and another Artwalk awaits you on beautiful
Bainbridge Island! Do come downtown to visit us and the other terrific
galleries, shops, and restaurants. We'll be offering snacks, a sip of
wine, chats with friends old and new and, as always, fabulous art.
Here's what is not to be missed in July:
New Work from Gallery Artists
July 6 - 31,
2018
Paintings & Prints:
Jan Branham,
Karen Chaussabel, Pam Galvani, Sandy Haight
Meg Hartwell,
Renee Jameson, Kathryn Lesh
Studio Furniture & Sculpture:
Sean Carleton,
Marceil DeLacy, L. Wendy Dunder, Bill Galvani
Jeff Harmes, Peter Nawrot
Wearable Art:
David, NEO, Begona
Rentero
Introducing
Jewelry Artist
Beverly Sokol
First Friday
Artwalk, July 6th, 6-8 pm
In Concert on the Plaza:
The
Tracie Marsh Band
IMAGES SHOWN IN MONTAGE ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT:
Jan Branham, Tulips,
Monoprint/Collage
Marceil
DeLacy, En Pointe, Maple
Beverly Sokol,
Wood and Silver Earrings
About the Show:
Symbolically, July is the month
of change and transformation, inevitably bringing with it a certain whimsy that
naturally overtakes creative minds during the warmer months. This can lead us down many interesting pathways,
as will be on display in this Gallery artists’ show of work inspired by the ease and light of summer, in the genres of Paintings and Prints, Studio Furniture and Sculpture, and
Wearable Art.
Introducing jewelry artist Beverly Sokol, who
works with simple tools and raw materials such as gold, silver and wood to
create unique contemporary jewelry designs.
About the Artists:
(Please click on the images to view more of their work.)
Paintings & Prints:
Jan Branham:
After retiring from a 35-year career as a
public school art teacher, Jan has become a
full time printmaker and is now an
active member of the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN), Southern Graphics
Print Council, American Craft Council and Seattle Print Arts. She is currently
involved in creating a body of work that she calls “ansisters,” using small snapshots
of interesting individuals taken in the 1920s-‘50s as inspiration to create her
own printed and collaged images that have developed a new life of their own on paper.
Karen Chaussabel describes
herself as "a mixed media artist in the making."
Currently living on Bainbridge Island, Karen
originally hails from France. She infuses her work with the nature and
countryside of her youth, allowing her life experiences to impact her work. Karen
works primarily in encaustic, pen and pencil, with mixed media. Along with her abstract
and landscape work Karen presents a series of fruit- and vegetable-like forms,
that give suggestions of the harvest, the heart's attachment to it, light, and
summer. (No show image available at this time; please click to visit her
Artist Pages.)
Pam Galvani
: For many years, Pam taught history,
calligraphy and English. Primarily a printmaker today, Pam has also been a calligrapher
for 40 years, incorporating gestural marks in her work. She is inspired by
reading or hearing words, phrases or stories that resonate with her and by
abstracting the original text, she hopes to discover and reveal ideas that go
beyond what legible words may communicate. She travels widely and her art has
been shown nationally and locally, including Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
Sandy Haight:
Watercolor was first introduced to Sandy in a life drawing class. She loved
the luminosity of the medium and continued to grow more familiar with the planning, strategy and execution of a painting. Thus watercolor and ink brush line became the basis for her illustration career for nearly twenty years. She has always loved the sensuality of the medium, the glow of the colors
and the fact that the paint moves and flows on its own, intermingling
with other colors. Her artwork appears on book jackets, ads, posters, logos and packaging
all over the United States, in Canada, and Europe.
Meg Hartwell: I was an operating room
scrub nurse for fifteen years, passing scissor, clamp, even saws to help fix
the human body. I was privileged to see and hold body organs, and x-ray images.
Music was always playing in the background. The atmosphere in the room had a
calm control in the midst of chaos. Tools or surgical instruments had a specific
purpose and fascinated me. This experience influenced my art and shaped my
life. The monoprinting process allows me to embrace happy accidents and mark
making with an array of tools. I am creating a visual language inspired by
vibrant colors, pop art, and abstract expressionism to evoke a sense of
controlled calmness. I tear and cut, and approximate the printed tissue paper
pieces into a final composition.
Renee
Jameson: Renee is a monotype artist
and currently the printmaker liaison for the BARN (Bainbridge Artisan ResourceNetwork). Her
work is represented in private collections in California and Bainbridge Island.
She is inspired by the landscapes of Bainbridge and California, and tries to
create a world that viewers can interpret and respond to in their own way. She
considers herself an abstract artist and hopes to create a mood and atmosphere
that will evoke an emotion or memory in the viewer.
Kathryn Lesh
is a printmaker who is obsessed with the drama of light and the construction of
space, which are starting points from which she explores the line between the
abstract and the figurative. Her images capture people and moments that are
abbreviated and abstracted enough to invite broad interpretation.
Wood & Steel Sculpture:
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| Sean Carleton, Shelf no. 23 |
Sean Carleton
is a multi-disciplinary artist creating work in Bothell, Washington. A
Washington native who has a lifelong passion for creating with his hands, his
work ranges from unobtrusive yet sophisticated metalwork which supports
beautiful Northwest hardwoods, to sculpturally artistic, dramatic metalwork as
the emphasis of the piece. Carleton has been recognized for furniture design
and quality by the Bellevue Art Museum and Northwest Woodworkers Gallery.
Marceil DeLacy’s love of carving
began as a child living on the outskirts of Seattle. With a pocketknife, she
created images from Ivory soap, then letter openers from kindling wood and
arrows from tree suckers before graduating to the use of chisel and mallet. She
learned her craft from the wood itself, letting it guide her eye and hand. In
the early 1980s she began serious fine art sculpting, winning awards in juried
shows and having her work shown in the Bellevue Art Museum. As human encroachment
and climate change displace flora and fauna, her art serves as a way of giving
voice to nature. To this end, she strives for simplicity of form and uses only
a clear finish or no finish at all in order to let the natural color and beauty
of the wood speak for itself. It’s a process she calls “listening to the
forest.”
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| L. Wendy Dunder, Untitled |
L. Wendy Dunder is a
professional watercolor and acrylic painter, known for depicting
landscapes, still life, animals, and people. Recently, however, her
focus has shifted to creating sculptural lamps of bent wood and
laminated paper. Created
from multiple layers of tissue paper glued in place over frameworks of
materials such as thin-cut and bent wood, reed, bamboo, and welding rod,
these illuminated sculptures spring to life as glowing wall sconces,
table lamps and hanging lamps. Delicate and graceful in appearance, they
are amazingly strong and functional.
Bill Galvani,
whose professional background is as a museum director, carves using the
traditional tools of drawknife, spokeshave, wood rasp, and knife. He prefers
basswood, a hardwood that holds detail and takes a blade well. Carving
shorebirds and ducks has encouraged him to study them, which has led him to
participate in conservation activities that preserve birds and their habitats. (No show image available at this time; please click to visit his
Artist Pages.)
Jeff Harmes (Biographical information and image available shortly.)
Peter Nawrot: Originally from eastern Washington, near
Spokane, Peter has been working as a high-end cabinet maker in the Seattle
area. He is a passionate wood expert and real enthusiast on all wood types and
specializes in figured woods from the Northwest.
He is now working on contemporary sculptures
as well as functional pieces like food-related cutting boards, charcuterie
boards, chopsticks and jewelry boxes.
His
style may best be described as minimalism, featuring sleek, uncluttered lines
and understated elegance.
Wearable Art:
David.Bali (Biographical information available shortly.)
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| NEO, Coll 13 |
NEO (Biographical information available shortly.)
Begoña Rentero: A Spanish designer, originally from Granada, Begoña grew up in a
family that had a profound respect for nature and the environment. These
early influences developed into a passion for organic forms, color and
movement inspired by nature. Begoña later translated this passion into a
jewelry collection featuring a series of unique pieces. The colors and
organic shapes of winter flowers, flora and sea fauna have inspired her
latest collection of hand-made, exquisitely crafted jewelry. The pieces
are made of special paper, fibers of silk, cotton, et cetera, that she
prepares with a method she has developed to toughen them up for daily
use, without compromising their delicate, organic aesthetic. Using only
natural dyes her pieces both reflect and respect the environment and, as
she says, "are so light you have to touch them to know that you're
wearing them."
Beverly
Sokol holds a BS in Textiles
and Metals from Portland State University and further study in
metals at the
Oregon College of Arts and Craft. An owner of a company which designed and
produced fabric props for storytelling at schools and libraries throughout the
United States for some 35 years, she now makes jewelry full-time at her studio near
Portland. Her work has been exhibited at galleries in Oregon and California and
she is a member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
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