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Spring in full color at Artists' Gallery Sunriver
By Barb Gonzalez
"Like a work of art, wine is born of
passion and pleasure." – Shakespeare
The pairing of passion and pleasure
can be found this May at Artists' Gallery
Sunriver, where four artists are sharing
their work that is deeply personal, joyfully made and created to delight.
A fused glass artist whose delicate
work plays off vintage metals, a printmaker who carves stories one layer at
a time, a ceramicist who believes art
should be used and loved every day,
and a mixed media artist whose vivid,
textured pieces practically reach out and
grab you, together they make a compelling case that art, like a good wine, is best
when savored.
Fused glass
Heidi Brown has been creating fused
glass for eight years, and her work is
impossible to miss. Shaped by her German immigrant mother's European
sensibility and more than 30 years in
scenic Central Oregon, Brown brings a
whimsical and Western spirit to her glass.
“One of my favorite artistic methods
involves incorporating rustic and repurposed mediums such as metal with fused
glass,” she said.
Vintage horseshoes fitted with brilliantly colored glass become garden art
and wall pieces. A popular horseshoe
garden stake is one with a dog or cat
paw on it, used as a loved pet memorial.
"For the Love of Scott" is a fused glass
Scottie dog in a field of flowers, framed
by a metal weathervane topped with a
matching dog.
"My unique glass pieces are what I
envisioned, designed, and then created,"
Brown said. "They are all one of a kind!"
Brown also teaches fused glass
classes monthly at the gallery.
Heidi Brown
Wade Womack
Visit artistsgallerysunriver.com for class
information and registration.
Woodblock prints
Wade Womack works in reduction
woodblock print, one of the oldest printmaking traditions. Trained at Boise State
University and the Faculté des Lettres in
Avignon, France, Womack builds color
and story layer-by-layer, a process that,
by design, can never be undone.
"I want the art to express an idea, a
story," Womack said. "I want to affect
the viewer in every way
possible, intellectually,
emotionally, physically,
subconsciously."
Sylvia Avenius-Ford
Diane Miyauchi
with a glaze that is spontaneous and are when viewers tell me my creations
never the same," Miyauchi said. "Yet make them happy," Avenius-Ford said.
Attend Second Saturday to meet the
somehow everything matches and
featured artists and visit many others as
works together."
artists celebrate spring Saturday, May 9
from 4 to 6 p.m.
Mixed media
Wine and nibbles will be served. We
Sylvia Avenius-Ford grew up in Africa
and South America, and that sensory hope to see you there!
Artists Gallery Sunriver is in buildrichness never left her work. Her mixed
media pieces are layered with texture and ing 19 in The Village at Sunriver.
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pottery shards and rope over the years. www.artistsgallerysunriver.com for
"The highest compliments I receive additional information.
Pottery
Retired art teacher
Diane Miyauchi believes functional art
should be used and
loved daily. Her striking blue-green and red
glazed bowls, mugs,
platters and yarn bowls
are microwave and
dishwasher safe to be
used and appreciated
every single day.
She also works in
Raku and creates sculptural wall pieces.
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