Gallery Clean-Up!
The gallery owners of Port Townsend Gallery closed the doors for three days in mid-January to clean, paint and reorganize. If you have not seen the results you should stop by to check it out. Walls and furniture were painted, carpets cleaned, and artwork re-installed. Gallery owners agreed to use new display guidelines for less clutter and more similarities in gallery displays. The results are impressive.
Valentine’s Day Promotion
Make a $50 purchase in the gallery on or before Valentine’s Day and choose a FREE Valentine card made by one of our artists. Each card is a unique work of art. Complimentary gift wrap, as always, is available with a festive flair.
February Featured Artists
Gallery displays change monthly in time for Port Townsend Gallery Walk, held the first Saturday of every month from 5:30 PM until 8 PM. For February, the art of bone carver Victor Judd and mixed media painter Laurie Perrett are featured.
Yin Yang bone carving
by Victor Judd
Victor Judd
Victor studied the ancient Maori art of bone carving while traveling in New Zealand in the late 1990’s. His carvings mainly take the form of necklaces that are worn as talismans. Each carving’s design combines traditional Maori symbols meant to bring the wearer some particular benefit, such as protection, courage, good luck or bounty. In New Zealand, Maori carvers use whale bone. The whale is a sacred creature given to them by the sea spirits. The Maori do not hunt the whale; however, when it is offered up on the shore, they use every bit of it for some purpose.
Victor feels there is a strong similarity between this total use of the whale by Maoris and the total use of the buffalo by the American Plains Indians. Based on this Judd chooses to carve buffalo (bison) bone. One some carvings, Judd inlays paua shell, abalone, mammoth tusk, amber, wood or whatever seems appropriate at the time. He strings his necklaces with waxed cotton, and will often embellish with various small bone beads.
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"Orchids" - acrylic and collage painting by Laurie Perrett
Laurie Perrett
Art was a big part of Laurie’s life growing up in Eugene, Oregon. She earned a degree in art education from the University of Oregon in the 1978. After college Laurie entered the field of natural resource management and spent 29 years with the U. S. Forest Service, finishing her career as the Director of Fire and Aviation for the 19 national forests in the Pacific Northwest.
Now retired, Laurie concentrates on her art, and forest landscapes are often a theme in her paintings. She works in a variety of mediums because she loves all of the choices they offer. Watercolor, Sumi ink, acrylics and pastel all excite her, and blending offers exponential effects. Port Townsend Gallery has highlighted Laurie’s monotype (single print) watercolor and Sumi ink images on absorbent rice paper. She mounts these prints on heavier rice paper and often uses collage to finish her paintings. Laurie has been juried into art exhibits and has taught watercolor and collage classes locally.
Where Else Can you Find P. T. Gallery Artists?
- Mixed media and acrylic fusion artist Rae Belkin is part of a two person show at Gallery Madera in historic downtown Tacoma through March; Rae will also be displaying her continuing bird series at Pegasus Coffee on Bainbridge Island.
- Watercolor, batik, and mixed media artist Margery Brown won the NW Collage Society Award for her collage “Les Papillons,” part of the Cancer Lifeline Collaboration Exhibit in Seattle.
- Oil painter and sculptor Pat Sandmann is featured at the Tyler Street Coffee House in Port Townsend this month.
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