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Featured Artists

Our Featured Artists for the month of September are Marjorie Kinch and Dick Powell. Their work will be showcased up front and in our featured artist window from August 29 to September 23, with a reception on Friday, Sept 1 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

More about Marjorie –

Marjorie began using oil paints before she was 8, (her fifth grade teacher let her use her oils in the back of the classroom). Marjorie used oils until she became sensitive to the turpentines and harsh paints that were rather unlike the oil paints of today. Unable to tolerate even newer versions of oils, she then tried various mediums, pottery, fabric, and others, including watercolor. She then took workshops from Judy Morris and another from Jan Kunz, and by then Marjorie had fallen head over heels in love with the fluidity and sparkle of watercolors. She started layering the colors and building colors up (possibly a leftover from painting in oils) when most area watercolor artists at the time were painting in high key (very light application of color). It took some time to figure out the best way to get the boldest, yet subtle colors with a strong light source. Marjorie still layers her paints, and feels it really is helpful in tying colors in her images together. The most layers she had in one painting was eleven in one area. When finished it wasn’t muddy, but glowed and had depth. That is what she hopes to always achieve.

The beauty of trees, plants, flowers and history of the Willamette Valley inspire the artist whether creating floral paintings, valley farms or paintings subjects reflecting historical things or ideas describing the past, such as older buildings, Steam Tractors or old bridges.

This exhibit will include realistic and whimsical rendering of different subjects ranging from wildlife of the forest such as birds, to flowers in lovely vases.

More about Dick’s work:

I’ve been a woodturner for years which, by definition, means working with wood. However, I’m discovering other things can be incorporated to broaden the use of wood. In the past, I’ve done a few things with reed and basketry.

I’ve recently been looking at resin to see how it can be used with wood. Resins can be bright and colorful. They can be used to salvage wood (i.e., rotten, cracked, or riddled with insects) that would otherwise be wasted. Projects can have turkey feathers, stalks of wheat, copper “trees”, pine cones, or dandelions incorporated in the resin. In short, blending resin with wood is limited only by one’s imagination.

Bill Origer will have a selection of his vast photography portfolio on display for the month of September. 
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Galleries from Salem to Eugene

Take a look at the Art Map of galleries in the Mid-Willamette Valley along the I-5 corridor. You can get a great new paper version of the map at Gallery Calapooia.

Gallery Calapooia Inc. receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission,
a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.