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January 2025 Featured Artist - Randy Emmons

1/1/2025

Watercolor is the only medium Randy Emmons paints in. He says it fits his personality. “I enjoy putting the whimsy, some distortion, and often, some exaggeration in my paintings of the Pacific Northwest,” Randy points out about his work. “They are carried by color and composition, which are the strongest elements in my paintings.” He considers himself to have been lucky enough to get into many juried shows, local, National and International over the years, and he has picked up a few awards along the way. If you ask him which painting is his favorite, he says it hasn’t been painted yet.

December Featured Artist - Marcy Johnson

12/1/2024

Marcy is a multi-talented artist who creates beautiful hand-made jewelry and hand-woven wearable items. Her unique jewelry is made from different metals incorporating a variety of patinas and textures. You will find jewelry accentuated with fabrics and beads, as well as quirky pieces such as her button necklaces. Marcy uses multiple looms to create colorful and elegant shawls, scarves, and rugs that will delight your senses. Both practical, colorful, and lovely, her scarves are very soft to your touch. Her knitted open-finger hand warmers are perfect for a cold winter’s day. Marcy is also a teacher of master weaving techniques and origami. Come visit Marcy's work this month at Penn Cove Gallery.

November Featured Artist - Janis Saunders

11/1/2024

In 2021 Janis began hand painting textile dye onto the warp threads that run the length of her scarves. A shuttle carries a single color weft thread interlacing the dyed threads to create the cloth. Sometimes the pattern is a plain weave with the weft thread alternating over one and under one to feature the color on the scarf. Other times a more complex weft interlacement is woven over the changing colors of the warp creating a pattern. Janis says that watching the changes as the color and pattern interact with every throw of the shuttle is enthralling.

Visit our gallery to see for yourself!

Summer Garden scarf

Featured Artist: Richard Nash

10/1/2024

Richard Nash is a Pacific NW abstract painter and sculptor. His art is described as “thoughtful and well composed”. Recently, Nash had a solo 3-1/2 month exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) titled “Consonance” with 40 paintings. Nine sculptures were shown, some up to 12.5 feet in height. Nash is often inspired by the play of light and shadow on architectural and organic forms and he embraces the unexpected opportunities that support the art. Influential to this framework are a one year art scholarship at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan; a 30-year career as an art educator; exposure to the artists of the Bauhaus and New York Schools during his MFA studies at WSU; and a one year sabbatical to study art and architecture in Europe, Russia, Israel, Turkey and New York City for teaching art history.

Gayle Minjarez - Featured Guest Artist for September

9/1/2024

New to Whidbey Island, Gayle has found a very creative and active art culture. She is a guest artist at Penn Cove Gallery showing her contemporary jewelry collection. Her current designs focus on a combination of textures, various metals, and colorful semi-precious stones such as boulder opals from Australia, ammonite from British Columbia, tourmaline from Brazil. She begins her designs with texture plates that she creates by fusing gold and sterling silver geometric shapes to a base of sterling. Using a torch she creates reticulated silver to form a mountainous landscape pattern. She combines 24K gold and silver which has been oxidized which turns it black, for a dynamic black and gold pattern known as Keum Boo. With these textures and patterns she begins her design process.

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