Michael Hopko
An avid outdoorsman, Michael’s interest in nature is manifested in his inspired glass works. His sculptures include a variety of Octopi, Trout, Bass, and Salmon as well as colorful Mahi-Mahi, Yellow Fin Tuna, and many others to suit your style.
Jeffry Mann creates art for the home. These pieces, however, are not for the walls. Instead, his pieces become part of the living, inhabitable space. His medium is wood, and his designs experiment with the grains, light refraction, dimensionality, and the reaction of the wood to his careful hand-tooling.
A furniture artist for 23 years, his furniture has been featured in art galleries from coast to coast. While still occasionally creating cabinets, doors, and other specialty items, Mann is best known for his sleekly organic sculptured tables, chairs, barstools, and desks.
She sculpts horses and other animals from clay, bronze and crystal, incorporating silver and stone as well.
Jiao's paintings in lovely counterpoint to the themes and traditional Chinese styling that Jiao studied in China. She now runs a school located at Portland State.
Painting landscape creates space. Looking at a natural landscape which is void of human presence and thus a space that is cleared of our everyday clutter. Maybe a place where our experiences have been re-set and now can be re-built. Or, maybe a space where we re-invent and fantasize a new place based on our experiences.
I was brought up surrounded by and immersed in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. In nature I find healing, wisdom, love, inspiration and passion.
Marianne Post works exclusively in hard and soft pastels, capturing the vibrancy of color and light. She is drawn to the atmospheric light of large vistas as well as the endless color variations in intimate landscape subjects. Her paintings capture the beauty and generosity of nature.
He was born in Norway, lives in Seattle, and teaches in Sitka, Alaska.
Gradually, he discovered, for him, each painting was becoming a kind of journey.
Opaque mediums, such as oil and acrylic gave him the freedom he needed to re- evaluate and explore his ideas along the way. Never really abandoning the demanding constraints of watercolor entirely, he now works predominantly in oil on canvas. The dramatic play of light and dark has become a persistent theme in his work along with bold, emotion-based color schemes.
Layering wet paint on wet paint, she achieves a rich texture that dissolves the boundaries between the two-dimensional and the sculptural, engaging all the senses, including touch.
“In many mythologies horses were thought to be MESSENGERS from other realms. My pieces use the form of the horse allegorically.
I combine many other elements with the clay horse, each with their own symbolism. But in combination a new meaning is created. I use my jewelry skills and tools to make unique elements to add. I draw sometimes on my Celtic heritage. Like that of Native Americans, Celtic culture and spiritual life was nature-based.”
Rishel began his photography career in 1980; interested in black and white film he began shooting abstracts in nature. With the onset of digital photography he began an interest in High Dynamic Range (HDR) using this Digital program to enhance abstract images such as topics like Florals, Art , City of Tacoma, Architecture, nature, etc. Using medium and large scale Museum quality art prints (up to 4'x6') Terry also offers many photographic services that have taken years to learn.
Bill is a realistic sculptor in wood with major emthasis on Western, Native American and Wildlife subject matter. His primary goal is to produce sculpture which honors the natural beauty of wood; a beauty that nature has taken many years to develop.
My clay medium is luster stoneware, an area rarely pursued by potters. My artistic intent is to frame on clay vessels and sculpture the myriad gem- like surfaces found in rocks and minerals. Sculpture has become more important in my recent work, but clay vessels still play a part in my artistic efforts.
"Whether I paint or sing or play a tuba, I’m expressing my personal reaction to my world at a given moment, so I want my paintings to reveal something of my emotion and my personality to those who see them."