Participating Artists
Liz Bishop lizbishop1@hotmail.com
website: www.lizbishoparts.com
Liz Bishop has a vision. Day after day, this Spokane, Washington-based ceramic artist
turns her intuitive creativity into reality. And the fruit of her handiwork can be seen throughout the Inland Northwest - and beyond.
Denise Bowles DeniseBowles1@yahoo.com
In my work I use texture, color, and images real or imagined in my attempt to portray the many sensations of man: power, weakness, chaos, and peace, the push and pull of life.
Linda Christine LindaChristine@LindaChristineStudios.com
website: www,LindaChristineStudios.com
An award winning expressionist in both watercolor and oil, Linda Christine uses music and visual imagery for inspiration. Her Another Dimension™ paintings, created with acrylic products and building materials on gallery wrapped canvas, are sculpted and textured to create an idea and stimulate the imagination. Capturing the mood and emotion of Another Dimension™ allows a glimpse into an abstract yet figurative world of intrigue and mystery.
Nan Drye nan@dryegoods.com
website: www.dryegoods.com
My abstract paintings are inspired by the landscape and my feelings toward it. I try to tell the emotion that I felt when I experience it.
Ocean sunset was what I experienced once in Mexico when a storm well on the other side of the world caused the most incredible waves on the Baja Peninsula
Mary & Nathan Eberle info@handmadepaperflowers.com
website: www.handmadepaperflowers.com
Nathan and Mary Eberle create flowers using all different types of papers, beads, stones, and coloring media. We specialize in weddings, home and office decor, and flowering trees. The majority of the papers used are made from recycled or renewable resources. Over 250 different types of flowers have been created, and new species are developed constantly!
Trish Elser patriciaelser@hotmail.com
I’ve never lost my passion for photography, but now that my children are
grown I’m following a quiet love for watercolors and their delicate
translation of the beauty I see.
Lezlie Finet lezlie@lezliefinetpottery.com
website: www.lezliefinetpottery.com
I’m an admitted and unrepentant dilettante where clay work is concerned. I just want to try it ALL. My latest endeavors range from the primitive methods of pit-firing, saggar-firing and ‘naked raku’ to the new and radical fuming process known as ‘Kosai” …….unless my short attention span has since wandered…..
Linda Garratt jmgarratt@netzero.net
website: www.potteryplaceplus.com/lindagarratt.html
My work is mostly high fire functional stoneware. Images of running horses and NW wildlife are airbrushed onto the pottery in layers that create depth and feeling, capturing a moment in time.
Natalie Gauvin gauvindesign@ccser.com
Although beauty can be many things and have many sources, I see the pure definition of beauty as a virtue. It can be ethereal and come from the spiritual or tangible in the form of a woman or a man. It can be abstract like the beauty of an idea or design, or realized and real like that of a building. Beauty in art history has always been a widely respected criterion when making and scrutinizing a piece of art, until it began its unmerited descent during the modern, and postmodern era. There is beauty in every aspect of life, death and beyond. I like to find it and apotheosize it where I can and have the skill level to do so.
Janet Hess janhess@comcast.net
I have always loved birds, having had one as a pet when young. Besides painting them and adding them to other pieces of art, I practice my drawing skills sketching them. I then scan these sketches into my computer, add scans of my watercolors or drawings and make original digital art from them that can be made into prints.
Dianne Lemley Anchorart1@comcast.net
Painting in watercolor is challenging and captivating for me. It is my desire to engage the observer in the colors, shapes and intertwining of faces and objects of nature in some of my paintings, as well as focusing on the beauty of a single object in others.
Linda Lowry bandllowry@earthlink.net
website: www.lowryphotos.com
European travel photography capturing Old World architecture, pastoral countryside, cityscapes and vignettes of everyday life, expressed in vivid saturated color.
Maxien Marcy maxienfaqs@hotmail.com
website: www fineartbymax.com
I believe that everything a person touches should create joy and fond memories of a special time. I like to create art in three different types of mediums to observe how people perceive an image or object. The way people react to color, medium substrates, texture and dimension is what drives me to create art. If I make an oil painting then I will usually make something in clay and or a print to follow up with perception ides. Most of the ceramic items are functional ware. The marks on the clay vessels are often made with my hand made brushes for an original look.
I offer beginning art lessons in many mediums.I happily accept commissions.
Lisa Moss LisaMoss@inspiredreflections.net
website: www.inspiredreflections.net
“I love the process of putting things together, building one idea on top of another and seeing what emerges—engaging in the flow that can happen. Color, texture, and shape often bring surprise combinations that sometimes jump together.
Each piece speaks to me in some way, and I want it to make a difference to the person who wears it. I strive to have my work reflect quality craftsmanship,balance, and materials. It’s critical for me to continue evolving my technique and style to givemy pieces “life”— and keep it interesting for me.”
Fabian Napolsky Zoo@cet.com
website: ArtByFabian.NET
Fabian Napolsky creates watercolors from the inspiration in nature around him, focusing on scenes in the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys plein air painting as well as studio work, and is a member of the Spokane Watercolor Society.
Sami Perry sami@samiperry.com
website: www.samiperry.com
The thing is about my art: I’m just a material girl and some what of a mad scientist.
I love exploring the materials to see how far I can push the mediums. Sometimes late at night in the art lab, I create a happy accident.
Tobe Robbins tobelee_us@yahoo.com
My photographs are produced the “old” way. I expose large format black and white film with a view camera, and develop the film in a pyro developer. I then use an enlarger to print the film on black and white fiber-based paper. After that, the paper is developed in chemistry, washed, and toned to get the finished print. I do not do any digital enhancing to my photos!
Nadine Kay Sherman nadinekaysplace@aol.com
Nadine is inspired by the vivid colors and the beauty of the gracefully swaying palms and exotic flowers that dance to the rhythm of the gentle breezes of the Yucatan peninsula. She never tires of trying to capture the essence of their movement and their striking colors in her watercolors and glass paintings.
Darrell Sullens dksullens@comcast.net
website: www.darrellsullens.com
"It is my objective to portray the emotions of the subject at a moment in time with shape, value and color, whether that subject be figurative, landscape or abstract."
Richard Warrington warrington-r@msn.com
My work is impressionistic and is emotionly driven with at times it angelic or oriental feel. I create both freestanding and wall releaf work . the work has been collected by major corporation, schools, banks , resorts , pubic art groups and individuals locally and internatinally.
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