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February Featured Artist: Archana Bhat

1/25/2022

 
Penn Cove Gallery is pleased to welcome Archana Bhat as a new member of our gallery. She is a landscape photographer with over 16 years of photography experience. Archana has earned recognition for her photography in winning photo competitions, her writing has been shared in the hiking communities and photos have been published internationally in National Geographic as well as many media outlets in the USA.
 
Archana likes to find subjects and viewpoints in our natural world that draw the eye to stillness and serenity. To reflect on scale in our environment she makes use of close-up images of the sun, ocean, or man-made such as bridges, to give perspective on how small we are. Her Whidbey Collection embraces an exploration of finding peace and serenity in the natural beauty of the Salish Sea as expressed in mirrored reflections or long exposures of tidal movement. Some others highlight the wild side with stormy skies or waves breaking against rocky shorelines.
 
 
Visit Penn Cove Gallery at 9 Front Street in Coupeville WA
Open daily 10:00am to 5:00pm.
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Whidbey Bridge by Archana Bhat

Featured Artist for January is Randy Emmons

1/1/2022

 
​An art student in the 50s and 60s, Randy grew up in Monterey, CA, around artists, mostly local oil painters. When he got to college there were two wonderful watercolorists whose work hooked him on the wonderful wet watercolors they made. After a break for a career in the Navy, Randy returned to watercolor on Whidbey Island.
Color and Design are the strongest elements in Randy’s pieces. To paint reality is a job for the camera. To paint an emotion, that’s the job of an artist.  Whimsy, fantasy, cartoony, all have described his work. You judge and describe it your way.
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"Coupeville Wharf"

Our December Featured Artist is Diane Tompkinson, Printmaker

11/30/2021

 
Diane has been printmaking and painting since college days at the University of Oregon.  Currently, she is exploring some new techniques, one of which is an abstract layering of color, texture, and line. This technique involves hand transfer of ink using pieces of plastic sheeting and a variety of tools for mark making. The results are rich and colorful. Her favorite is a piece called “Crows.” Another technique involves negative space and collage. She is using some wonderful handmade organic papers for this to emphasize texture. She is also continuing The Dreamer Series which are large prints done on floor press combining print, collage, paint and ink.  The Dreamer was followed by Maria de la Man͂ana, then by The Fisherman. Diane is waiting to see who will show up next.​
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Best Art Gallery for 2021!

11/30/2021

 
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November Featured Artist is Jim Short

10/24/2021

 
In 1971 Jim came across a falling down pig shed made out of walnut. He has been salvaging pieces of tree ever since. He works with Whidbey Island trees that are at the end of their carbon sequestering life. Currently, the stages of death and new life are lying in a heap in his driveway with the ends sealed. Next, they will be cut into lengths, split down the pith and roughed into rounds with an electric chainsaw. They will be turned on a lathe to a finished thickness, cleaned up with cabinet scrapers by hand and allowed to dry to a shape and texture of the piece's own choosing. Swirling grain knots checks and stains are a bonus.
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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.



Our ADA compliant gallery offers street-level access via the Grace Street entrance
and one public handicapped parking space on Front Street .
All artwork on this site is subject to prior sale. The creators of all content and images hold copyright to their respective work. All rights reserved 2022