Watercolors & Oils

website: www.johnadamsdesign.com
email: 2john@earthlink.net
phone: 206-842-3099

John Adams is a painter who uses nature as inspiration to explore vivid color harmonies. He works from a home studio along the shores of Hood Canal and his mountain cabin in the North Cascades.

His award-winning paintings have been exhibited widely in the Seattle area since 1985. John currently teaches weekly watercolor classes in Port Townsend and on Bainbridge Island, exhibits his work in Northwest and National juried shows and is a full member of the artist cooperative Front Street Gallery in Poulsbo, WA.

A signature member of both the National and Northwest Watercolor Societies, John received an AAS in Graphic Design and Illustration from Seattle Central College and a BA in Fine Art from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

Fiber

website: www.woolynoggin.com
email: anitaalbala@gmail.com 
phone: 360-394-1745

I am inspired by the beauty of the written word and poetry.  
Also, I find urban and ancient rituals of costume fascinating. In constructing a hat, I embellish the surface with elements taken from these ideas. I like to mix them with scientific and spiritual symbolism. The hats are cryptic, yet functional – practicality tiptoeing into the realm of art. 
Right Brain Hats for a Left Brain World.

Photography

website: www.richardbadgerphotography.com
email: rbadger88@gmail.com
phone: 206-842-5296

I have always felt the most at peace when out in the natural world. I find comfort and solace being surrounded by sights and sounds more permanent and less subject to whim than that which can be found in civilization. No one has put this sentiment into words better than John Muir:

 “In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off and wounds heal ere we are aware.” 

- John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938), page 317.

I began my life as a photographer primarily photographing wildlife, a natural extension of my career as a veterinarian and of my passion for animals. Over time, I expanded into landscape as well as the smaller, more intimate features of Mother Nature. I do occasionally point my camera around in the world of man, when inspired by the beauty of man’s creations or especially, when presented by the poignant interaction between humans.
In all of my photography I wish to capture the emotion and the “soul” of my subject. If I can’t experience that personally, I usually choose not to fire the shutter.

My photography has appeared in calendars, books and magazines both domestic and international. I am perhaps the most proud of donations of my images to a variety of organizations dedicated to the preservation of wildlife and the environment.
I live on Bainbridge Island with my wife Bridget. In our retirement we travel as much as practical, camera in hand.

Mixed Media Idioms and Tales

website: www.LoriHBarrett.com
website: www.IdiomArtAndGifts.com
email: IdiomArt@gmail.com 
phone: 360-930-0111

Please contact me if you have a retail business and are interested in wholesale.

I love literature and my mixed media art is based on beloved stories such as fairytales, myths and bible stories and also humorous idioms from my grandfather, Papa Joe.  My idiom collages focus on whimsical expressions and images, and include familiar sayings like "Raining Cats and Dogs" as well as expressions that are most common in the South such as "Eating High on the Hog." My story collages are large pieces based on some of my favorite stories that I read to my children, and include a small book of the story embedded within each collage.  I also offer art quality prints and cards of my original artwork. 

Oils

website: vchesterley.artspan.com
email: vchesterley@gmail.com
phone: 206-406-0392

Vivian Chesterley is a contemporary Pacific Northwest waterscape painter. Her deep regard for the natural world shines through in her oil paintings. “I grew up watching the sun’s light dance over the waters of Puget Sound, seeing incredible sunsets, and checking every morning to see whether the mountains were out! I am continually drawn into the drama of waterscapes in all its many moods.”

She paints these moods somewhere between abstraction and realism, giving the viewer space to feel as well as see. She usually begins with a photo she’s taken as starting point, then looks at what is happening on the canvas to provide inspiration for how to proceed.

Vivian uses oil paint because of the rich colors that blend so easily. Using a palette knife, as well as a brushes, enables her to layer many colors on top of each other, creating texture and complex visual depth.

To see more of Vivian’s work, please visit her website: vchesterley.artspan.com.

Jewelry

website: www.creojewelry.com

ig: instagram.com/creo.jewelry

email: creo.jewelry@gmail.com

Over the years, I have developed an extensive metal arts background. I received my Bachelor of Arts studying primarily metal casting and fabrication on a sculptural scale. After working for several years in the Seattle arts industry as a public art fabricator, I continued my education at the University of Washington and received a Master of Architecture. In 2010, I took my first jewelry class at Pratt Fine Arts in Seattle. It was immediately clear that jewelry fabrication was the perfect marriage of my interests in metal, making and design. I have recently transitioned away from working in architecture and now work full time as a jewelry artist.

Creo Studio Jewelry offers handmade jewelry that celebrates metal and design. CREO means both ‘to make’ and ‘to believe’ and captures the essence of my lifelong love of art and passion to create it. My work is fueled by my background in architecture, large scale metal fabrication and sculpture. Creo is bold, simple and unique. My work focuses on form, shape, positive and negative space, line, contrast and texture. I use modern and minimal shape making and compositions combined with embossed textures, patterns and patinas to create work that has a rich and layered depth.

I recently moved to North Kitsap from Seattle but am originally from Charleston, SC. Outside of making jewelry, you will find me hiking, skiing and swimming my way through the PNW with my husband and 6 year old daughter.

Fractal Art

website: https://www.fractalcreations.store http://sequimarts.org/news/artist-a-l/pam-dick-1/
email: fractalcreations@outlook.com

One year, I received a calendar for Christmas that had a year in Fractals. I was hooked after February and sought out the method to create these images. Once I saw the complicated program I thought I was too old to be revisiting my math education, but I pushed on. Eighteen years later I am traveling the universe, visiting the ocean depths, and exploring places totally unknown to me. I love the adventures and hope others will also.

Pam began her digital art career 18 years ago with 3D rendering of fantasy characters. Fractal generation was a respite from the intensive digital art creation. Something about the fractals soon took over and fractals became her focus. Her fractals won numerous awards and have been accepted in juried art shows in Washington State and in California.

She lives in Sequim with her husband, Labrador Retriever, and 4 cats. She enjoys gardening and walking on the beach.

Basketweaving & Beadwork

email: afourbears@gmail.com

I am of mixed Lenni Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, Cherokee and European heritage.  I studied art at Ventura College, Moorpark College and Golden Gate University and have continued to study various media throughout my life.  I began weaving about 20 years ago with a group of California Native weavers in Ventura California.  When I retired and moved to the Northwest in 2004, I began lessons with Kathy Ervin of Sequim, Washington and learned much about the local materials for weaving and how to use them.  I also wove with Northwest Native weavers who were very generous and patient in teaching me.

While at a weaving event on the Lummi Reservation I met Jacque Rickard, a Walker River Paiute. We quickly became friends.  She taught me the Paiute style of weaving a pine needle basket and covering it with peyote beadwork.  Jacque makes traditional Paiute baskets so the beadwork is almost exclusively beautiful and colorful geometric shapes.  I wanted to put my own cultural stamp on the beaded baskets and that’s how the story baskets were born.  

Aside from basketry, I am best known for my 17-foot sculpture, Wheel Totem Pole, which was commissioned by the City of Ventura, California.  It stands at the entrance to Foster Park in that city.

I have shown paintings and basketry in many galleries and shows including the Meisel Gallery in Santa Barbara California, the Simi Valley Cultural Center in Simi, California, the Art Center in Ojai, California, Ancestral Spirits in Port Townsend, Washington and the Randolph Fredrick Gallery in Port Angeles, Washington, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and Olympic College Gallery. In 2004 I was one of the featured artists at the University of California’s Native Artists Exhibit. I have also done commissions for the National Park Service, a mythologist and collectors across the United States and Canada.

I have been a member of Front Street Gallery for nine years.  I am also a member of North West Basket Weavers Guild and Northwest Native American Basketweavers.

Ceramic Jewelry & Block Prints

website: www.redstep.com
email: paula@redstep.com

Paula Gill has a background in ceramics, watercolor painting, and printmaking, as well as graphic design, illustration, and calligraphy.

At the gallery you’ll find "tiny TILES” jewelry: black and white linoleum block printed ceramic earrings and pendants. The tools and methods used to make this ceramic jewelry are the same as for functional tiles–except these tiles are much smaller, thinner, and surprisingly lightweight.

You’ll also find linoleum block prints on paper, and occasionally, some of her framed hand carved artisan ceramic tiles.

Glass

website: www.kuyglass.com
email: kuyglass@gmail.com
phone: 206-780-0700

​Kuy teaches glassblowing at his studio on Bainbridge Is.
Contact him for a class schedule.

I think you could categorize my relationship with glass as a love affair... or perhaps as a marriage at this point in time. From this perspective you could say that it was love at first sight – or more accurately, “love at first feel”. The feel of hot glass is incredible! It is so hot & gooey; so sticky and alive and moving, not to mention glowing intensely, that it is impossible to put the feeling into words. Red hot glowing, molten, flowing, glass is dancing through the air... Try as I might words just don't cut it, they're too cold and inflexible.

You have to experience it.
I was about ten years old when my older brother Mundy brought hot glass into our home. He had gotten enamored at a crafts fair my Mom took us all to. (She was a textile artist participating in the fair: my brother watched the "glassblower" all day and “got the bug”) When Mundy was about fourteen the artist from the fair, Paul Geyer, gave him some glass rods to try melting at home - and thus I was exposed, and experienced my first crush!

In the beginning we worked on torches that were made of glass... we would take little propane plumber's torches and make a “T” out of neon tubing. One side of the “T” would be turned into the pilot flame, the other to the main jet. These torches were hotter than the plumber's torches but they were very fragile and on occasion would shoot off of the propane tank and destroy themselves. All very exciting for a group of young boys! (Just like my first kiss!) I made a lot of animals and jewelry on those torches. I especially remember wrestling with snakes! It is hard to get the curves right...
Eventually we graduated to forced air/propane crossfire torches similar to ones used in the neon industry. These torches were hot! They melt a tube in less than a minute. Looking back I can now say that it took years to get good on them. (Our dating period?) Luckily at the time I was in love and thought I was doing well! My crossfire is still the maintorch I use today for my lampwork; earrings, flowers, beads and ornaments.

(Lampwork is the technical word used in the glass industry for work done on a torch)

Wood

email: eherrling@msn.com
phone: 360.928.9771
website: www.mistyhollowwoods.com

I turn to honor and celebrate the wood.  

My passion is creating one-of-a kind bowls and platters that showcase the beauty, uniqueness, and history of that particular piece of wood and the life it had as a tree.  I embrace what others may call “defects” and use them to highlight the wood’s life story.  Like wrinkles on a person’s face, they show the character of the wood.

Wood turning, for me, is always a two-way conversation.  I listen to what the wood is both telling and showing me that it wants to be as I shape each piece on the lathe.  Each characteristic that appears… a bark inclusion, a knot, insect marks, the sometimes varying patterns in the grain, spalting…tells a story of where that wood has been, and I use these characteristics to shape what it is becoming now.

Some of my pieces are functional, some are art, most are both.  I use a variety of mostly local woods.  Each piece is polished and buffed with a locally made food safe beeswax finish and will last for many years.  Some people purchase these bowls and platters to enjoy now and to pass down later.

I also create custom pieces from client’s own wood if desired.

 John and Eileen live in Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula with their 3 rescued dogs and many trees.

Printmaking

website: www.knowlesstudio.com

email: leigh@knowlesstudio.com

phone: 360-440-1399

Leigh Knowles Metteer

Printmaking has been my professional focus for 40+ years, actively competing and showing work both nationally and internationally. Lithography, Etching, Drypoint, Monotype, Linocut, Serigraph: Printmaking is diverse, challenging and enchanting. Through the years, I have enjoyed teaching Drawing and Printmaking to College and University students. Currently, I am teaching various art forms in my studio here in Poulsbo. Information and Resume available on my website.

Mixed Media

website: www.melissamccanna.com
email: melissamccanna@gmail.com
phone: 360.536.1725

I am a Washington State based artist, specializing in acrylic painting and mixed media.  The images I create reflect my Mexican American heritage.  I often paint scenes from my travels, fruit from the open air markets, brilliant flowers and birds.  I also create mixed-media paintings with imagery from the Pacific Northwest, using maps, objects and collage.

I have extensive experience overseas, which has both shaped who I am and influenced my art. This travel was done through educational programs, vacation, and living abroad while serving in the United States Navy.  Having the dichotomy of strict military life and the exotic surroundings of foreign countries provided a wealth of rich imagery and emotion to be expressed through my art.  My training in Russian language and culture has also added to my artistic sense.

There are universal themes, especially in pattern, that resonate in my perception of these experiences translated through my work. I teach art classes and painting events called Art Flights at my studio in Kingston, Washington, "Kingston Artist Tree".

Silk Scarves

website:www.rebeccalynnparker.com
email:rebecca.silkandclay@gmail.com
phone:360-286-1093

Rebecca Lynn Parker

My artwork explores color, texture and the physical movement of the medium - whether it is painting, clay or printmaking. My work is predominantly process oriented; fluid brushstrokes, line work, and intentional placement of abstract shapes are used to express my thoughts. I am continually inspired by the natural world and it’s colors and patterns. Many of my 2D and wearable art pieces contain multiple, hidden abstractions of family and social structure woven throughout. I have found the use of colorful, water-based mediums to be most fulfilling in my creative process.

Jewelry

email: gmartydesigns@gmail.com
phone: 360-662-0388

My handcrafted jewelry can be described as traditional with a contemporary twist . I specialize in pearls but use all sorts of materials such as amber, glass beads, sterling silver pendants, colorful corals and copper to  create a unique and distinctive piece of art. 

Though trained in fashion design my career took me instead to the travel industry. My travels give me the opportunity to explore the world, and to observe many cultures. It fascinates me to see what others find beautiful and inspirational in everything from architecture to jewelry. 

Assemblage Art

website: www.SteveParmelee.com
phone: 360-301-5587

Steve Parmelee is an award-winning assemblage artist and an obsessive collector and creator who expresses narrative concepts through found-object wall sculptures. It’s a powerful way to comment on current conditions using only antiquated artifacts, everyday objects that have withstood the test of time and bridges generations. His artwork is part of the permanent collection at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, where he also had a recent solo exhibition.  His work has been exhibited at venues including BIMA, Linda Hodges Gallery, Bemis Arts, Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Washington State History Museum, and his work has been supported through awards from the Edmonds Art Festival, Collective Visions, and Northwind Arts. He was a juror for the 2017 Kingston Arts Festival, and was Artist in Residence at the 2017 Bainbridge RAGS. He is a found-object assemblage artist exploring the timeless while utilizing the time-worn. 

Woven Cedar and Old Buttons New Again

email: suemskelly@yahoo.com
phone: 360-598-5447

Sue works with our native Western Red Cedar and vintage buttons. She even manages to combine the two in some of her pieces.

Cedar is her soul work and let’s her get out in the woods to collaborate and harvest sustainably what the tree generously offers.Her work is a contemporary approach on cedar with garden structures and interior 3D sculptures and wall hangings. She has spent 30 years preparing the roots,branches, bark and even old cedar rails for her work. Much of her work is commissioned.

Old buttons are by far a big part of her life long collecting bug. It was hard for her to part with them when she first began to create pieces to sell. Seeing other people connect to her button necklaces changed that. Each of these are made entirely from a beautiful collection of materials from a by-gone era; mother of pearl, horn, porcelain, bone,and vegetable ivory to name a few. Most are double sided.

Her work has been published in many garden books and and magazines nationally. She sells her work at her studio in Poulsbo by appointment and during Art in the Woods. Her work is also available at Front Street Gallery in Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island Studio Tour, Indianola Holiday Sale and the RAGS show in Tacoma.

Functional Pottery

website: www.sherriunderwood.com
email: underwoodsherri@rocketmail.com
phone: 360-297-8510

Sherri Underwood is a Studio Artist living in Kingston, WA. She graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1989 with her BFA in ceramics and moved to Kitsap County in 1992. At her home studio she creates functional and decorative pottery.

Wearable Fiber

website: https://www.ravensravine.com
email: eulogia1@msn.com

 What started out with intention of reducing a stash of textiles, turned into more that a dozen styles of functional bags. These bags are primarily created out of reclaimed hospitality textiles, paired with Cordura or ballistic nylon for extended wear. The simplicity of the design encourages downsizing and organizing with easy mobility.

Enjoy!

Oil Paintings

website: www.robinweissfineart.com

email: robinweiss@earthlink.net

phone: 360-779-3940

Robin Weiss Fine Art

23771 Bond Rd. Poulsbo, WA 98370

I had a love for art throughout my childhood but began to mature creatively under the mentor-ship of high school art teacher Lou Penfield . Painting has since been a lifelong passion . Currently oil is my medium of choice. I love the buttery feel and the intense color of oil paint. It especially holds up well when painting outside in nature, my favorite place to be with easel and brush. I am often stopped in my tracks when the light at certain times of day hits an object or landscape and makes it come alive with color. I'm inspired by all of creation in all it's many forms but it's all about the light.

Jewelry & Photography

email: cowboy@sarahwatsondesign.com
phone: 206-545-8682

Handmade jewelry for the unique individual is my aim. My work reflects my outlook on life... Light! Color! Water! Fun!  Life dishes out enough funky business: I try to use every moment I have control over to have and make fun. My art is happy and intended to make the purchaser feel this as well.

A native of Seattle my line of black and white photography cards and prints reflect daily life in Seattle from riding the ferries to downtown scenes. Life dishes out enough funky business; I try to use every moment I have control over to have and make fun! My art is happy and intended to make the purchaser feel this as well.​

Jewelry

website: www.wildjeweler.com
email: designsbywild@hotmail.com
phone: 253-225-1243 

Claudia Ann Wild

I’m a Northwest girl born in Seattle. I earned a B.F.A from the University of Idaho, Art and Architecture school of which I use many of the the skills I use to this day. The basics of design, the critical thinking, and love of creating are all a part of my jewelry work.

Both of my parents were creative people. My dad as an engineer and my mom was a GIA Jeweler. All the genes were there, it was time to get to work learning a new craft. It wasn’t planned, it just happened. With a lot of time and practice I became a silversmith, a Jeweler and an Artist.

Passion is part of my drive. For finding the most beautiful natural stones world wide to designing my next piece and collection. Creating is a must for me, from noon till night I’m in my studio with all my tools and my torch working on my next pieces.

A big Hug and thank you to my customers who have supported me throughout my journey. You are truly loved. And to my new customers, I can’t wait to meet you!