December 2023
Penn Cove Gallery – On the Wall, Marianne Borozny
Marianne’s love for photography began with her dad’s Kodak Instamatic, family photos, and slideshows. A post-college IRS windfall enabled her to purchase her first camera, a Pentax K1000, with which she explored black and white candid images and cityscapes. Eventually she became enamored with creating the “close-up” naturescape with which she tries to capture a moment while distilling and crystallizing a scene’s shapes, textures, and mood. Marianne will be working on December 1st and 16th so stop by for a visit and…
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Marianne’s love for photography began with her dad’s Kodak Instamatic, family photos, and slideshows. A post-college IRS windfall enabled her to purchase her first camera, a Pentax K1000, with which she explored black and white candid images and cityscapes. Eventually she became enamored with creating the “close-up” naturescape with which she tries to capture a moment while distilling and crystallizing a scene’s shapes, textures, and mood. Marianne will be working on December 1st and 16th so stop by for a visit and…
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Penn Cove Gallery September Featured Guest Artist: Gayle Minjarez
New to Whidbey Island, Gayle has found a very creative and active art culture. She is a guest artist at Penn Cove Gallery showing her contemporary jewelry collection. Her current designs focus on a combination of textures, various metals, and colorful semi-precious stones such as boulder opals from Australia, ammonite from British Columbia, tourmaline from Brazil. She begins her designs with texture plates that she creates by fusing gold and sterling silver geometric shapes to a base of sterling. Using a…
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Penn Cove Gallery October Featured Artist: Richard Nash
Richard Nash is a Pacific NW abstract painter and sculptor. His art is described as “thoughtful and well composed”. Recently, Nash had a solo 3-1/2 month exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) titled “Consonance” with 40 paintings and 9 sculptures up to 12.5 feet tall. Nash is often inspired by the play of light and shadow on architectural and organic forms and he embraces the unexpected opportunities that support the art. Influential to this framework are a one…
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Penn Cove Gallery November Featured Artist: Janis Saunders
In 2021 Janis began hand painting textile dye onto the warp threads that run the length of her scarves. A shuttle carries a single color weft thread interlacing the dyed threads to create the cloth. Sometimes the pattern is a plain weave with the weft thread alternating over one and under one to feature the color on the scarf. Other times a more complex weft interlacement is woven over the changing colors of the warp creating a pattern. Janis says…
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