ART   IS   ALL  AROUND    US

Studio:
21940 Port  Gamble Rd. NE Poulsbo WA       

Website   http://www.catherine-foster.com
Phone:  360-598-4540

Born in Seattle, Catherine grew up in California and returned to the NW 28 years ago. She studied at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. With over 36 years of experience as a career artist her artwork and designs are in collections around the world. The kimono series are her signature artworks purchased by hospitals, corporations and in private collections.

Catherine has been focusing on her Peace Prevails Project, which is creating symbols of wrapping ourselves in peace. “ I know within my heart and soul that peace prevails and is spoken in many languages”. The Peace Prevails Project consists of copper and aluminum metals embossed with world words of peace, then woven into kimonos, shawls, ponchos etc. Her artwork can be found at Earthenworks galleries in La Conner and Port Townsend, For Arts Sake in Gig Harbor, and Childhoods End in Olympia WA. In Oregon she is represented by The Real Mother Goose, and all the Lawrence Gallleries in Portland, Sheridan and Shalishan. For more gallery representation across the US and artwork, please go to: http://www.catherine-foster.com. 

 Art Studio Sale  June 20^th 2009 10am to 5pm One day only.

Catherine Foster, Alex Holland and Heather Biermann are having a one day open studio sale of artwork at reduced prices. Embossed copper and metal, painted and woven metal, mixed media, acrylic, watercolor and even special pricing on Catherine's woven metal Kimono's.

Heather recently finished an artist in residence program with the North Cascades National Park Complex. Alex has work in catalogs and design firms on both the East and West coast. Come enjoy and see the development in their artwork over their careers. Free parking, music, and also artwork by select students of Northwest College of Art.

http://www.beverlyhooks.com/

Home Studio – by apt. only   360-779-5336

Email   beverly@beverlyhooks.com

Classified as a Romantic Impressionist and a former oil painter, I now paint in the acrylic medium, as I would paint with oil. I have painted for fifteen years and have the privilege of listening and rendering the moods and wishes of my clients through commission works. I bring my love of nature and the world as seen through the eye of an observer.

 I have been represented by several galleries in the Northwest and juried by the US Department of Interior, National Park Services. I was awarded the prestigious Artist-in-Residence position for the month of September 2005 at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.  A trip to Austria realized a commission of Schloss (Castle) Mittersill, seen on my website.

I was fortunate to indulge in an eight-month stay and study of the English Countryside. Greatly influenced by my instructor Stanley Warburton, I obtained a new understanding of a free flowing style between expressive and impressionism and the use of value and composition to enhance the richness of movement.

Link To Her Gallery

http://www.beverlyhooks.com/Gallery.html

http://www.joanwells.com/

               Email   joan@joanwells.com

Joan Wells is a Western Washington "GREEN" artist who loves using different found mediums to create handbags and costume jewelry.   Her original design handbags are one of a kind and made using upholstery fabric ends and samples with handmade embellishments using glass, feathers, metal, tassels and fabric sculptures.  All handbags are lined with inner pockets and signed.  Her designs of Weathered Glass Jewelry are created using wine bottles and antique collectible glass.  She cuts the glass, weathers it and wraps it with hammered copper and brass.  Twisted cords are created  to match each glass piece.   Peacock and pheasant feathers were her first jewelry creations and are still used for her current feather jewelry. 

Plexiglas mirror was her design choice for disco jewelry that was featured in Vogue Magazine in the 1970's and sold in 26 countries.

As a scuba diver logging 834 dives in the Pacific Northwest, she finds inspiration above and below the water observing nature as the ultimate designer. 

studio: 20301 Bond Road, NE, Poulsbo              Email   cynthia@hctc.com
Phone:  360 710-0545 or 360 394-5227

Formally taught and disciplined to practice, Cynthia Tyrrell has studied fine art for over 25 years.  Her studies include the mediums of oil, pastel, pencil, compressed charcoal, conte’, and watercolor.  She completed the course of art training offered by the New Renaissance Academy of Whidbey Island in 1983.  Since, she has consistently practiced and continued to study the techniques learned, which were those used by the great Renaissance painters and Dutch masters. 

In 1995, Tyrrell established Avellana Fine Art, Inc. working on commission, selling prints, and showing her work in art shows and galleries in the local and Seattle areas.  It was at one of these shows that she was asked to teach art in a gallery.  She founded Liberty Bay Art School in February 2000, and now teaches her courses of Masterpiece Drawing and Color Theory and Practice at her school in Poulsbo.  Tyrrell continues to produce masterful oil paintings and pencil drawings for sale and at the commission of her public, who appreciate the realistic and timeless quality of her work. 

Studio: 18788 Viking Way NW Poulsbo, WA Email   whalebonestudio@embarqmail.com
Phone:  360 394-3560

"Nature and Art have become synonymous in my vocabulary. I believe Nature and her creatures speak through me."

Pam was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, to an American mother and a Canadian father. Pam’s first trip into the wilderness was as an infant on the back of her dad, (a wildlife officer), and by the time she was ten she was more comfortable in the great outdoors than in civilization.  It was here in the wilds that she learned the art of stillness, which is what she considers the source of her creativity.

 Pam is also a professional writer, and has been penning a syndicated garden column for going on thirteen years. Her work is enjoyed by thousands of readers each week.

 A trip to the Atlantic Coast, where lobster were being harvested by the millions (everywhere the cod had been fished to near extinction), inspired a combination of these two talents.  The result is a unique Fish and Whale series; within different fish and whales are woven historical and environmental tales.

A long time resident of the Pacific Northwest, Pam located to Poulsbo, Washington in the year 2000.  She was a regular participant in The Pacific Rim Art Exposition at the Seattle Exhibition Center, a contributor to the Bainbridge Arts Walk and is now a regular participant in Art in the Woods Studio Tour (since 2005).  She is now honored to be on The City of Poulsbo’s Artists’ Roster and runs Whalebone Gallery on her property there.