Jean is a native Oregonian who has enjoyed living on both side of the Cascades. A resident of Lake Oswego, she found her love of painting later in life when a friend suggested she take a one day class. Jean is left-handed and musically inclined … read more.
I’ve been painting for 30 years and teaching for 22. My work has evolved in many directions over the years.
I love the process of making art. It brings out a feeling that is calming and centering. After all these years, I’ve gotten past the self … read more.
Janet Lindell is a Portland watercolorist. She has studied and shown her work in Portland galleries and shows. This show features her enthusiasm for watercolor batik.
These paintings have been done with a watercolor batik process on rice paper. Working with watercolor on rice paper it is … read more.
In my first efforts at painting, I worked from photographs of my family that I had taken myself. Eventually I moved to more abstract work, using swirling shapes and bright colors in an attempt to suggest a universe of joy and energy. More recently I … read more.
This year our show features something special: Chalice is a collaborative collage, made during an auction party event at the Portland Child Art Studio (PCAS). Devon Mitchell from the Art Wall Committee and Azure Attoe worked along with eight fellow UU members to create this … read more.
I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah where I experimented with oil, acrylic and encaustic painting. After my second child was born in 2011, I began to work in collage and was juried into the Utah Arts Festival with this medium in … read more.
Playful Art & Nature
This exhibit has come together in two parts. One incorporates what I have found in nature that has inspired me. It might be the way the light is hitting a flower petal, or the way I interpret an expression of a … read more.
I paint from life paint hoping to pull out a universal element that speaks to all. I try to bring something that rings true to Oregon. I don’t want to copy a landscape, I do try to tell an atmospheric story, to offer a portrait of what I see.
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In his paintings, John Vance uses his own photographs, collaged together with movie stills and other found images as inspiration for the finished pieces. In his work, his aim is to try and capture some of the fleeting visual moments of his daily life as … read more.
Collage is the art of surprise. Surprise occurs by free associating unusual shapes, colors, designs and materials to produce something unexpected and hopefully joyous.
My subject matter is nature or abstract art, using organic and geometric shapes. I frequently use bits of nature in my … read more.
