Weaving, Watercolor, and Wonder - Three Artists, Three Mediums

Susan Riley creates masterful woven pieces that are representative of places and cultures from all around the world!

Paul Dickson's preferred medium is watercolor.  However, he also has many oil paintings and numerous sketches. 

Bev Patchin's photographs capture the wonder of nature and landscapes across the country!

Although Jen works with watercolor and acrylic mediums, pastel remains her passion.

Yvonne is known for experimenting with her art - exploring different mediums and the malleable pigments each offers.  Oil is her preferred medium.

Anna's watercolor paintings are rendered so realistically with their natural settings and weathered textures of structures, trees and mountains, that they have a photographic quality. 

Nancy's artistic genre is wool, and her passion is her garden.  She has combined those interests into wool felted paintings, mostly of flowers and occasional land or waterscapes.

Tina became "hooked" on silversmithing after taking private lessons from a silver artist in Florida, and has been creating exquisite pieces of jewelry since. 

Anna  has managed to be meticulously convincing about the simplest of appearances and persuasive about the unforeseen forces animating nature.  Her paintings are an homage to the changing landscape around us and a concern for its preservation.  So meticulous in fact that her watercolors often have a photographic quality. 

Steven works with many mediums such as pencil, acrylic, watercolor, and oil.  His predominate medium is oil, and he seems to favor wood panels as his canvas of choice.   His landscapes and other works often document scenes from the rivers, lakes, and countryside he frequents, and portray the isolation and solitude of nature, while at the same time welcoming the viewer into it.  

Bonnie's work is an evolution from decorative painting to the freedom of flow of "play" with form and color.

Bonnie also creates jewelry, both beaded and metal work.

Tanya's artistic genre is bead-weaving, brought about by the acquisition of a single strand of beads.  She creates earrings and bracelets as the focus of her work, but is acquiring an interest in sculptural shapes, and abstract pieces.  Tanya also works with metals, paper, and leather.