Colored pencil artist Janis Collins' work is featured in Knead & Feed during September and October.  Knead & Feed is one of four off-site exhibit locations showing the work exclusively of Penn Cove Gallery artists.

For Janis, Whidbey Island is the perfect place for inspiring her work thanks to water views, beaches, forests, birds, shells, plants and wildlife all around us.  It is the drawing process that Janis says she really enjoys.  "Colored pencil is my current medium of choice.  My process is to sketch a preliminary drawing deciding on lighting, form, color, and composition.  Sometimes it takes four or five drawings to get the results I like, but the process is worth it."

We hope you enjoy Janis' work at Knead & Feed for the next couple of months, and of course at Penn Cove Gallery year round.

Acrylic works by Penn Cove Gallery artist, Rich Nash (at left), will be featured at Christopher's Restaurant in Coupeville during May and June. Christopher's is one of four off-site exhibit locations that exclusively feature work by Penn Cove Gallery artists.  

Richard is a Northwest native and is both a painter and a sculptor.  He is a former secondary art teacher in the Oak Harbor School District, but says he has "been a student of the fine arts his entire adult life."

Richard's primary medium is acrylics on either museum board or on stretched canvas with a gesso-prepared surface.  He says that although his "work is abstract, the 'inspiration' for much of it comes from the play of light - often from multiple sources - and shadows and architectural forms on natural forms." The Northwest coastal environment provides much of his palette.

You'll find Richard's original paintings, plus a wide selection of his prints and art cards at Penn Cove Gallery.

Knead & Feed Bakery Restaurant will feature oil paintings by Penn Cove Gallery artist Rainy Lindell during May and June.  

As a self-taught artist, Rainy says that the beauty of nature always inspires her.  "The glow of a sunrise or sunset, the warm colors of autumn and the ever changing skies, are the subjects I love to paint," according to Rainy.  She says that oil paints give her the rich warm dark colors that make her paintings glow as well as the vibrant bright colors that give her paintings zing.

Stop in Knead & Feed in the next couple of months (Knead & Feed is one of four off-site exhibit locations in Coupeville exclusively featuring work by Penn Cove Gallery artists) and the gallery to see Rainy's beautiful work.  

​Penn Cove Gallery artist Lucinda Abrams' paintings will brighten Christopher's Restaurant in March and April. Lucinda is equally at home in oils, acrylics, ink, pencil, pastel and Sumi.  But it's her love of color and the fluid challenge that makes watercolor her favorite medium.

Past shows include a two-woman show in Japan, and awards for her work range from Honorable Mention and Juror’s Choice to Best-in-Show. A member of four art groups plus the Northwest Watercolor Society, her paintings hang in collections in the US, Europe and Asia. 

Christopher's is one of four off-site exhibit locations exclusively featuring Penn Cove Gallery artists. Exhibited works are immediately available for purchase through the gallery.

During March, oil painter Rainy Lindall will exhibit works at Coupeville's Blue Goose Inn (Pink House).

Rainy's 7th grade art teacher stirred her creative abilities and she says, "I took every art course I could." Being a self-taught artist and loving the landscape, she finds subjects for her paintings every day in this area of water and mountains.

Rainy says, "I enjoy painting with oils. I find that they give me the rich warm dark colors that make a painting glow as well as the vibrant bright colors that add the zing. The flowers in a breeze, the warmth of the sunset or the yellow trees in autumn all move me to capture this moment in time. Some times it works—some times it doesn’t, but I learn from every painting."
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The Blue Goose Inn is one of four off-site exhibit locations exclusively featuring work by Penn Cove Gallery artists.  Exhibited works can be purchased through the gallery.