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Featured September Artist - Mary Ellen O’Connor

8/28/2022

 
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Bunny Bedtime Story by Mary Ellen O’Conner
​I am passionate about nature, wildlife, metalwork and color. My work as a fine art metalsmith combines all of these, and keeps me creatively engaged on a daily basis. Whether I am making a pair of earrings, a sterling box or a 24k gold and copper wall piece, I see variations of the shapes and designs that I have been exploring for decades.  The wall pieces are allowing me to work larger than ever before, and are bringing challenges and rewards in equal measure. I am enjoying applying 24k gold leaf to copper panels to bring a new dimension to the wildlife I use in my designs. The flame patinas add incredible colors in a process that takes me to the knife's edge of disaster or success. That level of challenge at this point of my career is truly a wonderful place to be as an artist.

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Penn Cove Gallery is located on the Coupeville Historic Waterfront.  Coupeville, the second-oldest town in Washington,
is the heart of Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, the nation's first, on scenic Whidbey Island.
If you are coming from the south take the Mukilteo/Clinton ferry; 
from the west the Port Townsend/Coupeville ferry; from the north drive over the Deception Pass Bridge.

9 NW Front Street 
PO Box 1662, Coupeville, WA 98239-1662
360.678.1176
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