Featured Artists for August

Acrylic and mixed media artists Judith Burns will be Artworks Gallery's featured artist for August.  Her exhibit, "Flights of Fancy" will be featured at the Frist Friday reception, August 3 from 5-8.  Live music will be provided by violinist Bev Heising. Wine tasting is available and light snacks will be served.

While living on Whidbey I have been fascinated by it's variety of birds.  From the small hummingbirds that flock to my back porch, to the large herons I see on the edge of the road, I try to capture in color and collage the beauty of these feathered inhabitants who share Whidbey with us.

Yellow swallowtail

Another swallowtail comes to the garden, but this time it's a pale yellow.


Yellow Swallowtail
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 8

Swallowtail

A beautiful tiger swallowtail landed in my garden, an invitation to catch him in paint and add it the the "Small Wonders" collection.  Acrylic on 5 x 7 canvas.

Spending the weekend supporting the Artist in Residence program in the South Whidbey Schools at the Festival of the Arts. 

My Heart takes Flight

I painted this in February for Valentine's Day and it just never felt finished.  So today I reworked it. 


Acrylic on Canvas 
16 x 20
May be done?

In a Golden Wood

A Friend gave me a beautiful wooden textile stamp and I had to play with it.  Look carefully and you'll find it worked into the background.




Acrylic Collage on Canvas

36 x 18

Reverence &: Doubt

Thinning Veils
Collage 14 x 11
A Triscelle superimposed over
a Celtic Cross symbolizing
the melding of the Old and New
religions

Art Show Kicks Off WICA Theater Series Performance

Art Reception ~ Friday, April 6th at 6:00 p.m.

In the Lobby at WICA • Free & Open to the Public

WICA will host “Reverence,” an exhibit of works by local artists (listed below), with an art reception Friday evening in the lobby. This fabulous art show serves as a prelude on the opening night of Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley,

“Reverence” will remain in the WICA lobby until the end of April.

“Reverence” curator Cary Jurriaans says this about the art show:

“In our society, where movement is constant, the visual arts are revered as it gives us time for some pure and serene stillness that cannot be found elsewhere. In my opinion, the goal of the artist is to create beauty.”

Featured Artists:

Judith Burns • Faye Castle • Cary Jurriaans • Barbara Kelly

Earl Lasher • Pamela Mathues • Claudia Pettis • David Price

Phyllis Ray • Sandy Rubini • Deborah Short • Pat McVay

Lois Mathew • Gaylen Whiteman • Hamid Zavereei

Sunrise at Clonmacnoise
Acrylic on Canvas 11 x 14

Mystical Ireland Series to be shown are:
Thinning Veils
Sunrise at Clonmacnoise 
Carraig Phadraig

Clonmacnoise  was founded in Co. Offaly on the Shannon River by St. Ciaran in the 540’s A.D.. 

One of the monasteries most famous products of its scriptorium was the book of Dun Cow (Lebor na hUidre), the earliest known example of literature written in the Irish language.

The year we visited there had been a lot of rain causing the Shannon to flood. 

                

Carraig Phadraig
Acrylic on Canvas 11 x 14

Carraig Phadraig or Rock of Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.  One of Ireland’s early kings, Brian Boru, reigned from Cashel, where he was a noted patron of the arts. 

It is an amazing site.  As we drove North on a very flat road all of a sudden a huge hill appears in front of us with it's incredible buildings.