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“Remembrances of Childhood”
I create worlds; safe and tranquil places where Beings can come and rest for awhile. My ideas can manifest as paintings, sculptures, or stories. The medium or style is not as important to me as the experience that my pieces evoke.
In 2012, I started writing and illustrating children’s picture books. I like being able to share my art with the stories that accompany them. I am currently working on a young adult novel.
Join me at Vashon Intuitive Arts on June 3rd from 6-9.

Welcome the New Year in with Mandala Meditation.

Mandalas, or circles, are made as a mindfulness exercise with roots in many spiritual practices. For our purposes we will be working with 2-d materials and creating our own contained images within circles on paper. Paper, mandala coloring pages, and some 2-d supplies will be provided but please bring any non-toxic and quick-drying 2-d materials you’d like to use.

Each year during the first two weekends of December, the Maury Island home and workspace of artists Christine and Darsie Beck makes a phantasmagorical transformation into the hottest holiday happening on the Vashon Island Artist Studio Tour. This year 22 artists share their fine arts and crafts in a vast array of media, creating a magical, pop-up gallery for just two weekends. Catch it while you can!

Born in Seattle, 85-year-old Art Hansen remembers riding 
the Vashon ferry to visit his grandparents’ beach house as a boy. His grandfather founded the Island’s first bank.

Over the decades, Hansen has honed his signature style. Iconic depictions of landscapes, flowers, forests, fishermen—and some rare humorous subjects—have become emblems of Northwest beauty and representative of Vashon’s artistic community.

Join us for a one-day sale of Hansen’s etchings, including a wide variety in both black and white and color.

For February, VALISE Artist Collective and Gallery presents our annual show of art by affiliate members, Unframed and Unhinged: The Affiliates of VALISE.

“Affiliates” of the collective pay less dues but they also don’t get to show as often. For that reason, their artistic potential backs up until it explodes onto the Vashon art scene in a wild frenzy of artistic license. Affiliates include:

This one-day sale features unique jewelry and leatherwork collections by two skilled artisans: Tia Kramer and Martha Kirk.

Seattle-based Tia Kramer designs elegant, modern jewelry crafted from sterling silver and handmade Philippine plant fiber paper. Her earrings, necklaces, pins and other accessories are found in galleries, museums and museum stores, including Seattle Art Museum and the Netherlands’ CODA museum.

This weekend, December 7 - 8, and the next, December 14 – 15, Tlingit artist Odin Lonning is at Vashon Woodworkers on Bank Road, Stop #6 on Vashon Island Holiday Art Studio Tour. He will be demonstrating Coastal carving techniques. Odin’s Northwest Coast Native pieces include carved panels, boxes, and sculptural items as well as painted drums. Other talented artists in this group will have turned bowls, handmade wood spoons, colorful rolling pins, and delightful wood earrings. Studio Tour hours are 10 AM to 4 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

Catalina Quinn is coming to the alley, bringing with her works of wonder, that have never been seen on Vashon Island before.
 
The vibrant colors that trapeze across her canvases are a joy to behold. Her "Barrio Dogs" inspired by ancestors from the remote canyons of Northern Mexico are so delightful and to be experienced by all ages, they will titillate the child within.
 

"In my paintings I usually choose whimsy over seriousness, color over dread." Anna Witte
 

My love and appreciation for the beauty of nature is relatively new to me. I spent most of my life unaware of how fortunate each and every one of us is to live in such a beautiful world. Like so many others, I was too focused on attaining my next goal or too lost in my own thoughts to appreciate the stunning dance of light and colors that was happening all around me. When I started walking the path of self-discovery and introspection I discovered the quieter I became inside, the more I experienced beauty in the world outside.

A pair of artists serves up a bounty of abstract color and texture in February’s VAA Gallery exhibition. Photographer Karen Frank focuses on nature’s transformation of human detritus found on the beach. Painter Ken Susynski’s landscapes are influenced by European land and cityscapes.
 

This weekend, December 8 - 9, award-winning Tlingit artist Odin Lonning is at Vashon Woodworks on Bank Road, Stop #6 on Vashon Island Art Studio Tour. Other talented artists in this group were profiled in the November 21 issue of The Loop. Odin’s Northwest Coast Native pieces include painted drums as well as carved panels, boxes, and sculptural items.