Time to put on those strolling shoes and come to downtown Winslow for another fabulous summer Artwalk! Yes, August 7th is Bainbridge Island's First Friday, and we will be presenting some wondrous Pets for everyone to enjoy and, perhaps, adopt (they would love to have new homes, they've told us so...). And if you'd like to lend a hand to our local real-life critters the
West Sound Wildlife Shelter will have a donation box right here in the Gallery.
Besides our charming Beasties we'll have wine to sip, goodies to nibble, artists to meet and music to groove to. But remember, this one's all about the animals!
Here's the info:
Multimedia
Exhibit
August 7 –
30, 2015
Painters, Illustrators:
Andrea Lawson,
Don Hazeltine, Woodleigh Hubbard, Sandy Haight
Gerardo
Aguayo, Lionel Parra
Sculptors:
Wendy Dunder,
JulieAnne Lach, Diane Turner, Ashley Licht, Taryn Kiko Takara
Artists’ Reception
Friday, August 7th, 6-8 pm
In concert:
Anne Pell Jazz Trio
Images shown above, from Left (cropped images):
River Changer. Don Hazeltine (Bainbridge Island).
Ooh la la Octopus 2. Sandy Haight (Seattle).
Pets on Parade. Andrea Lawson (Port Townsend).
Sunflower
the Giraffe. Diane Turner (Coatesville, Pennsylvania).
Pip the Bird, red. Ashley Licht (Stanford, Montana).
Two is for Dancing –
Study. Woodleigh Hubbard (Bainbridge Island).
About
the Artists:
Don Hazeltine (Bainbridge
Island)
Born in Portland, Oregon, Don attended the Burnley
School of Professional Art in Seattle Washington, as well as the Portland Art
Museum School. The Burnley School later became the Art Institute of Seattle.
The Museum School is now the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Don lives and works on Bainbridge Island.
- Our thanks
to Roby King Gallery for granting permission to Mr. Hazeltine to participate in this event.
Woodleigh
Hubbard (Bainbridge Island)
Woodleigh Marx Hubbard is an award-winning author and
illustrator of picture books for children.
Praised as a talented artist, her paintings have been compared to the
works of modern artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Joan
Miro. Woodleigh was born in Sharon,
Connecticut. One of five children, she grew up surrounded by wild natural
beauty in a town whose claim to fame was a rumored Abominable Snowman sighting.
Needing more stimulation than this, Hubbard’s career as an artist began.
Most of her creative instructors echoed the same refrain,
“You have no talent. Give up.” This was like waving a red flag in front of a
bull. Twenty published author-illustrated children’s books later, with one
novel for adults in the works and another two children’s books in the brain
pan, Woodleigh has proved them wrong.
Her works have been translated into several languages, including French,
Japanese, and Korean.
Gerardo Aguayo
(Bainbridge Island)
Gerardo Aguayo’s work is notable for its vivid color and
deep symbolism. He works in oil and oil pastels on paper, but has also
explored ink and other mediums, including mosaics. Gerardo was born in Mexico City. He
graduated from the School of Architecture, University of Guadalajara, Mexico,
in 1979, and went on to a career in architecture that spans from then until the
present. During his early studies he also attended drawing and
painting courses at El Jardin del Arte in Guadalajara, Mexico, training that
has carried him to numerous solo and group exhibits in Mexico, Washington and
Wisconsin.
Andrea Lawson (Port Townsend)
Andrea was born in Hollywood, California and received her BA
from University of California Santa Cruz and her MFA from Parsons The New
School of Design, New York City. Her
prize winning paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited across the
United States and Europe. A select
list of Andrea’s solo and juried exhibits include: The Painting Center, New York, The Cape Museum of Fine Art, Massachussetts,
Gallery K, Los Angeles, Ronnebaekshholm Arts & Culture Centre,
Denmark, and Ecole Nationale Superieur
des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. In Seattle and the Northwest: Washington State Convention Center, The
Corridor Gallery, Port Angeles
Fine Art Center, Max Grover
Gallery, Artisans On
Taylor and Northwind Arts Center.
Sandy Haight (Seattle)
Sandy majored in visual art at the University of Colorado, earning a BFA in
drawing and painting.
After moving to
Seattle she studied illustration at the School of Visual Concepts, and started
to freelance as an illustrator.
Her recent focus has been on painting
the inner landscape of flowers. She
calls these works Floralscapes.
Sandy Haight has also taken on the study of sumi painting with its
challenges of simplicity, controlled tones, brush loading and expressing qi
energy on traditional subjects in nature.
Sumi has been her latest challenge in figure painting as there’s no
Asian tradition of that subject to guide her.
Sandy was
chosen as the poster artist both for the Bainbridge in Bloom garden tour on Bainbridge Island, Washington, in July 2015,
and in 2016 for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Sandy has roots on Bainbridge Island going back four
generations: Gazzam Lake was named for her great grandfather Warren Gazzam, who
built a large house in Crystal Springs in 1905.
He started a Mosquito Fleet line, among other accomplishments. Sandy’s father, Gilbert Haight, grew up on
Bainbridge; he and his wife Shirley lived on Manitou Park Boulevard overlooking
Puget Sound. Sandy’s brother Chad Haight
settled on the island after college.
Lionel Parra
L. Wendy Dunder (Portland, Oregon)
Wendy 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. As a certified teacher
and Artist in Residence in schools in her area she is also deeply involved in
creating curriculum-based murals. A
hallmark of her work is the involvement of her students in the process, and together
they have created permanent outdoor municipal murals of concrete, stone, tile,
glass, and paint.
JulieAnne Lach
JulieAnne is an artist who has tried almost every medium before finding and
falling in love with needle felting. She says: "Because there are never enough
hours in the day, I am currently trying my hand at making my art my full
time job. My son is glad about this! My greatest joy comes when my
needle felting brings others joy!"
Ashley Licht (Stanford,
Montana)
Ashley is a textile artist whose current artistic passion is screen printing.
Her felted birds are delightful as a single
little buddy or congregated in flocks to offer assistance to we hapless humans.
Ashley comments:
“My life is well described as up in
flight, the only consistency being art. I love to create a design and then see
it come to life on a fabric surface... A big inspiration for me is my pet
sparrow, Pip, who can frequently be found perched on my shoulder while I
work. In the future I hope to see myself
expanding my skills, products, and continuing to work as an artist full time.”
Diane Turner (Coatesville,
Pennsylvania)
With a farming background and as an animal lover, Diane
has always loved art as passionately. In 1997 she and her husband began their
own farm journey, with a variety of animals; but a year ago they discovered angora goats. With their comical
antics, sweet, affectionate personalities and gorgeous fleeces, Diane was
hooked and began felting with their wool and fleece. For Diane, combining animals and art could not
be a more perfect fit!
Diane’s lovable creatures are made from wool and fleece which are chemically
the same as human hair and dirt resistant. The process begins with cleaning the
wool to remove "field particles" and the lanolin. She designs a
pattern for each character which is cut from wool felt, felted, sewn together,
sculpted and then felted again. The result is nothing short of charming.
Taryn Kiko
Takara
I am a recent
graduate from Linfield College, a young artist who loves to experiment in the
realms between mixed media and painting. I love to push the boundaries of what
a media entails, while simultaneously exploring the content of life which makes
us human. Impacted by the death of a friend, I seek to communicate the delicacy
of our mortality against the depth and beauty of our emotions. In the near
future I hope to attain my MFA and teach others about how to communicate their
own passions to the rest of the world.
Diane Turner (Coatesville,
Pennsylvania)
With a farming background and as an animal lover, Diane
has always loved art as passionately. In 1997 she and her husband began their
own farm journey, with a variety of animals; but a year ago they discovered angora goats. With their comical
antics, sweet, affectionate personalities and gorgeous fleeces, Diane was
hooked and began felting with their wool and fleece. For Diane, combining animals and art could not
be a more perfect fit!
Diane’s lovable creatures are made from wool and fleece which are chemically
the same as human hair and dirt resistant. The process begins with cleaning the
wool to remove "field particles" and the lanolin. She designs a
pattern for each character which is cut from wool felt, felted, sewn together,
sculpted and then felted again. The result is nothing short of charming.
In
Concert: Anne Pell Jazz Trio (Bainbridge
Island)
A Bainbridge Island resident since 1994, Ms. Pell
received her BFA in jazz piano from Cornish College of the Arts in 2005,
graduating summa cum laude. She previously studied piano, voice and
music theory at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2010 Ms. Pell became the music director and
conductor of Schola Nova. Schola Nova is a group of about
20 women who sing Evensong at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. In 2012 Ms.
Pell became the director of the Compline Choir, an a capella choir of about 15
men who also sing at Saint Barnabas. In the summer of 2013 she founded Amabile,
a larger mixed choir group dedicated to expressing love through choral music.
Ms. Pell has worked as a full-time private piano
instructor on Bainbridge Island for almost 20 years, specializing in jazz,
blues, and classical music, composition/arranging classes, theory, and jazz
ensembles. She performs in myriad gig settings including jazz clubs,
private parties, local fundraisers, concerts, and private recitals, playing
solo piano or with a jazz trio or quartet. Ms. Pell has worked as a
professional accompanist for over 30 years. She was the accompanist for
The Bainbridge Chorale for 14 years.
Ms. Pell has been composing, arranging and
interpreting music for many years: her original works include choral compositions,
liturgical chants and hymns, piano duets, Christmas songs, a flute and piano
suite, and various jazz tunes. Her new arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite
in G, for jazz quartet with viola, debuted in 2009.
In November 2009 Ms. Pell instituted the annual
“For Our Children” benefit concerts. All proceeds go to Helpline
House’s Children’s Enrichment Fund, a fund created by Ms. Pell
specifically for arts and music education for children and teens in our
community.
Event Location: The Island
Gallery, 400 Winslow Way E, #120, Bainbridge Island, Washington.
