The Arts On Guemes
I am a fine art black and white photographer. Much of my past work was taken on the streets and alleys of New York City. However, I'm moving away from photography of the moment to more considered and thoughtful compositions. I've only recently moved to digital capture, although I have been printing digitally for the last decade.
Recent exhibits at the Soho Photo Gallery and the Watson Studio Gallery. Upcoming exhibits at Anderson's Store Gallery and the Gallery Hall at United General Hospital.
5530 Homestead Lane
917-573-6488
www.jonwitsell.com
jon.witsell@gmail.com
Stella Spring/Flying Tower Studio
I create prints with intaglio-type photo etching, monoprinting, and drypoint on an Ettan press. Currently I am drawn to plants and their seasonal transformations. I love cast-off treasures, such as the papery sheaths that encase the spears of an allium flower, the skeletal basket of a poppy pod, or the web of fibers still in the form of a squash left behind in the garden.
www.flyingtower.org • email Stella Spring
Northwind Gallery
Dear Guemes Friends and Family,
With a very heavy heart, and with careful thought, I am closing the Northwind Gallery this coming season 2010. However, I still would like Nortwind Gallery to remain as an art center. I hope to continue with special events: Artist Receptions, Music Concerts, an occasional trunk show, art sale, holiday sale. I plan to visit Universities, Community Colleges, Art Schools, in and around the Northwest, looking for young art students, who would like a venue to show their work. The gift that Northwind Gallery has given to me, was the opportunity to meet so many wonderfully interesting people, many of whom I've developed close friendships. I THANK YOU ALL for your continued support. I now look forward to spending more time enjoying my family, and my MAGICAL GRANDCHILDREN...also working on my own art and in my "needy, weedy" garden.
Fondly, Sally Ross Riordan
If you would like to be added to Northwind Gallery e-mail list, please e-mail me, northwindgal@gmail.com
Northwind Gallery, 5362 Guemes Island Road (North Beach), Guemes Island.
To let it all flow through me - the mind and spirit goes and the tool walks alone, I become the simple vehicle within which the creative source conveys its sacred, inner being. To be in the constant flow and rhythm of the dance is my true ambition and desire. The artist is the instrument for release. The mind moves and the tool walks on its own.
Become one with the tool, one with the medium, blend, move together, feel the music and feel life. I remain open for all possibilities to become present in my life and work. In doing so, I keep the dream alive, allowing for the mystery to unfold, creating mystology and striving for excellence.
Studio open by appointment only.
www.leoosborne.com • email Leo Osborne
Madrona Center
Madrona Center is a non profit organization dedicated to the arts and advocating sustainable ways of living. Visit our website to take a visual tour of our facility, events and learn about our interests.
www. madronacenter.org •email Madrona Center
Outdoor Sculpture On the Edge
Guemes Island artist Kit Marcinko creates a large selection of imaginative conceptual pieces, inspired by masks and totemic forms, and combines a wide range of media from glass to wood, iron and bronze.
6571 West Shore Drive • 360.293.6745 • comboverranch@yahoo.com
Long inspired by the human form, I have sculpted the figure in a variety of materials, including wax, wood, copper sheet metal, and most recently, clay and encaustic.
Recent showings at Lucia Douglas Gallery in Bellingham and at Waterworks Gallery in Friday Harbor.
Studio open by appointment only.
5424 South Shore Drive • 360.293.8878
www.suerobertssculpture.com •email Sue Roberts
I have lived on Fidalgo Island half my life, and have been visiting friends and family on Guemes so often that I feel equally at home on both islands. I recently moved my stone carving studio onto the Madrona Art Center property, just up the hill north of Anderson’s Store. This is where I built my second stone circle, which we dedicated on the summer solstice, 2006. This circle is open to everybody who would like to worship, or celebrate, or meditate, in a sacred space. It has been blessed by Samish feet, and filled by their songs, and endorsed by a local druid. It is dedicated to the spirits of threatened and endangered plants and animals.
I am honored to be able to work on Guemes Island, and collaborate with the other artists at Madrona.
I continue to carve in wood and stone, and invite you to visit my website to see some of my work, including the Maiden of Deception Pass, Jasper Gates Memorial in Mt Vernon, The Dove Project, and stump carvings on Guemes. Feel free to drop by my worksite out by the Madrona barn. Its usually best to call to make sure I am there. My cell phone is 360-840-3826.
Peace and Love, Tracy
www.powellstudios.com • email Tracy Powell
Working with inspiration and matierials provided by nature, Russell Moline designs and crafts furniture of such exquisite form that one can only think of each piece as a work of sculpture. From his home on Guemes Island Russell runs a commission-based furniture business.
"I prefer to find an owner for each piece before construction starts," Moline says, "This allows me to better understand the task at hand."
Additional works can be seen by appointment (360-588-9002), or on the web site below.
RoundRiverstudio .com •email Russell Moline
Marilee Fosbre/Frog Pond Studio
Recently, I decided to answer a call that first came to me when I moved to Guemes Island but that has been put on hold for the last three years. This call is to use art as a means of reflection and personal exploration and to invite others to join me in this quest. The answer to this call has been born as Moving Toward Meaning, a collection of new workshops inviting self-exploration through art and writing. [More ]
Studio open by appointment only.
7264 West Shore Drive • 360.293.3095
www.FrogPondPaperArts.com • email Frog Pond Studio
The figure has always been included in my paintings of color,
pattern, and abstract energy. But, as in life, I am zeroing in on my priorities and for art the figure has moved to the fore front.
Currently represented at Waterworks Gallery in Friday Harbor. Paintings exhibited ongoing at Rhody II in Bow, and Cottons in La Conner.
Coming exhibits include ARTS ALIVE in La Conner this fall, and the Skagit City Studio on Fir Island in November.
Studio open by appointment only.
7731 Holiday Blvd. • 360-299-1293 email Cathy Schoenberg
Born on Fidalgo Island, I moved to Guemes 23 years ago, and
have never lived farther than 10 miles from the house where I was born at Lake Campbell. I am deeply rooted in the Pacific Northwest.
I have traveled widely, however, squiring students around Europe and Asia for the government sponsored Student Ambassador Program. My new husband and I are currently researching ancestors in Norway and Italy. Recently spending winters in Puerto Rico, I am discovering a whole new perspective on island living.
5869 Section Avenue • 360.293.5398
" Thelma Palmer's new volume of poems should confirm her as one of the essential poets of the Pacific Northwest."
Bob Anderson/Earthspirit Studio
My interest in art was triggered, I think, by youthful trips to see the dioramas at the New York Museum of Natural History. A high school art teacher lovingly let me do what I wanted and I was allowed in the art room anytime my other work was finished. In college my painting professor wisely looked at my work and said, "Don't quit your day job.' But a sculpting professor's work entranced me and I and friends introduced a sculpture class with him into the Wesleyan curriculum. I was hooked on 3-D., and work with form, space and texture.
earthspiritcircle@earthlink.net • 293-3770