Juli Adams

  Michelle Anderst

  Carole Barrer

  James Caudle

  Daniel Cautrell

  Sara Everett

  Cristin Ford

  Mattie Iverson

  Lisa Jacoby

  Weston Jandacka

  Kathy Liao

  Doug Mandt

  Liz Maxfield

  Janet Nechama Miller

  Teresa Morani

  Aimee Mori

  Erik Owen

  Jim Pirie

  Kate Protage

  Grego Rachko

  Stan Raucher

  Lee Richmond

  Lanae Rivers-Woods

  Angela Scott

  Chris Sheridan

  Rick Simpson

  Jason Stauffer

  Leslie Stoner

  Brad Strain

  Ken Van der Does

  Misha Van de Veire

  Chris White

  Harry Woods

  Rebeqa Rivers

  James "Shoes"

  Walker

Images:

Artist Statement:

I create art because I seek fulfillment in life, and I have a need to express my ideas and tell my visual story.  When I am working I am energized by the opportunity to set my sense of site on a page for others to view.  I love the smell of oil and the feel of buttery paint gliding over the canvas.   I love the unexplained challenge of expressing my ideas simply and bold.  I do what is an illusion of mastery to seek the truth about life.

I prepare my own materials.  I like to be involved in the entire process.  I build stretcher bars and I stretch and prime my own canvas.  When the piece is completed I select and build the frame.  I mix special mediums to make my oil paints buttery and free.  I work wet into wet paint.  I use photographs; I have taken, for reference and I draw on the canvas using a large brush so I can sculpt the shape and line.  I work to produce a series of painting like chapters in a book to complete an idea.

Recently I traveled to the Jersey coast and walked along the beach and the board walks.  I was overwhelmed by the masses of people and the uninhibited behavior they expressed during their leisure time.  The bizarre costumes they wore and their self-indulgent activities deeply resonated with the fiber of my work.  Inspired and invigorated by a renewed sense of curiosity and awed by a community at play, I am now painting richly expressive people and their holiday places.  I am exploring many new human expressions, shapes and colors.  Once completed the images will combine to form a new look at the human experience.

Biography:

Education

1985    Juliann Campbell Oil Painting, Poulsbo, WA

1969    Weber College, Ogden, UT

Selected Exhibitions

2009   CVG Show, A juried exhibition, Gary Fagin, Juror, Bremerton WA

2008   CVG Show, A juried exhibition, Susan Parke, Juror, Bremerton WA

2007   Boats and Boating Places, Collective Visions Gallery Solo Show, Bremerton WA

2006   Ode to a Most Wonderful Day, Collective Visions Gallery Solo Show, Bremerton WA

2005   Magnificent Sunflower, Collective Visions Gallery Solo Show, Bremerton WA

2004   The Gamblers, Collective Visions Gallery Solo Show, Bremerton WA

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