August Featured Artists: Brian Iverson & Phillip Carrico
Brian Iverson
In 1997, Brian Iverson bought his first torch and began melting glass, quickly falling in love with the medium. He met and collaborated with furnace workers in Palouse, Seattle, and Whidbey Island in the early 2000s and quickly expanded his interests to hot glass. Brian works with a team that includes his wife, Rebecca, and his daughter, Iris. He leads the team in designing and creating colorful art pieces and functional glassware for everyday use. The light is changing, once again, and Brian has created a cornucopia of pumpkins, gourds and fall leaves to herald the arrival of autumn. Port Townsend Gallery features his work, including large decorative bowls, paperweights, gazing balls and lampworked sculpture inspired by Washington landscapes. The gallery also features Brian’s art in the outdoor space.
Brian is a weekly vendor at the Jefferson County Farmers Market. Brian creates the work in the New Commercial Building at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. He’s offering blow your own glass experiences and beginning glassblowing classes. Brian also offers an introduction to flameworking for those interested in working on the torch. The studio is open for demos on Sundays from 12pm-5pm, visitors are welcome.
Meet our artists during Art Walk. October 3rd, 5 to 8 pm.
Light refreshments are served.
Phil Carrico
Philip Carrico is a printmaker using an old Chinese form of creating incredible woodblock prints and wood engravings. He became intrigued with printmaking by his first college professor who was a printmaker and showed Phil this technique that captured his interest. The process is complicated, involving multiple layers of color, carving the woodblock to maintain where the colors need to remain. He carves and prints until the work is completed and thus the block is destroyed, and no further prints can be pulled. He always limits the number of original prints to entice the buyer to know he has purchased a treasure. Philip has his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and taught art for over 20 years in middle school there. To understand the process, he has a portfolio available to show step by step the intricacies of this art form. “A Room with a View” at the gallery, is one of his more complex prints involving 14 colors, inspired by a trip to the Inn At Langley and a sunrise view from his window. Phil is inspired by his personal outings to etch his experiences in wood.