Penn Cove Gallery

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…

I credit my grandfather for nurturing what has become a keen appreciation for all things wooden. My antique woodworking tools and skills were inherited from this wonderfully patient master cabinet maker. Because of him, I use many different varieties of wood: cherry, maple, walnut, cocobolo, and others with “character”, meaning figured, tigered, spalted, etc. to inspire a finely engineered and ultimately beautiful piece of furniture.  Please come into the gallery this month to touch and feel the warmth of the wood so…

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…

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…