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Penn Cove Gallery Welcomes Penny Turvill

11/1/2023

We welcome Penny to Penn Cove Gallery. She is a multimedia artist residing in Oak Harbor, Washington. After decades working as an architect (which included designing the building that the gallery is housed in, as well as many other buildings on Whidbey island), Penny now spends her retirement making accessible art that people are proud to display in their homes. Her main area of interest is fused glass as she is fascinated by the transient nature of glass as both a liquid and solid material. She also creates leaded glass portraits and windows.

Diane Thompkinson is our Featured Artist for October

10/1/2023

Adventure has been Diane’s passion. She has lived in a log cabin on Orcas Island, sailed across the Pacific, had a farm in Tenino, and currently lives an artist’s life on Whidbey Island. Her drive to create throughout the years has reflected this sense of adventure. Diane’s favorite mode has been painting--in oils , watercolor, and acrylics as well as carving and printing linocuts. It was when she discovered monotypes, the bridge between painting and printmaking, that she found her niche. She still creates linocuts and paintings, but her first love is working on monotypes and the myriad possibilities.

Pat Collins is our Featured Artist for September

8/23/2023

Stylized sculpture is what Pat prefers to call his art and through it he has two goals. The first is to showcase the beauty and natural figure of fine hardwoods without being tied to the restrictions of realism. The second goal is to draw viewers into what he has created and allow them the opportunity to interpret and think about what they’re seeing rather than having all the details provided. In the words of Vincent Van Gogh: “Leave the obvious vague and exaggerate the essential…” To Pat, “the essential” is the wood itself.

Penn Cove Gallery Welcomes Potter Charles LaFond

8/14/2023

Charles sources half of his clay from Whidbey Island for its iron content which colors the clay body a rich auburn, the iron flecks of which stain the glazes creating occasional black teardrops. He uses a palette of eight to ten glazes, which he then double-dips to create intentional secondary glaze flows. The shapes, the secondary glaze-flows, and occasional broad brush strokes of iron or cobalt are the extent of his decoration, leaving the contours of his pots to show his more than 40 years of throwing expertise. Like 10,000 years of potters before him, he relies on “the lines in the air” produced by his pots to express their ultimate beauty.

On the Wall - Randy Emmons

7/31/2023

Color and composition are the strongest elements in Randy’s paintings. They are carried by the whimsical, fantasy, and cartoony characterization of the Pacific Northwest. He says, “To me, capturing reality is a job for a camera. To paint an emotion, that’s the job of an artist with a paintbrush. My medium has always been watercolor. It’s a fun, free medium that fits my personality. Hopefully I have made something that fits yours. You get the final word. It’s all about what makes you happy.”

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