Trees in Art Exhibits
Saturday, May 5 – Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
33663 Weyerhaeuser Way S
Federal Way. WA 98422
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 4pm
800-525-5440 ext. 5206
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July 5 -28, 2013
Northwind Arts Center Gallery
2409 Jefferson Street
Port Townsend, WA
Hours: 12:00 to 5:00 Thursday to Monday
Opening Reception: Saturday July 5, 5:30 – 8:00 pm
Gallery talk Sunday July 7 at 1:00 pm
Elizabeth Smith’s painting, “Ancient Light”
Elizabeth Smith
‘Ancient Light’
pen ink and metal leaf on layered paper.
22” x 30″
“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”
George Orwell
Jacqui Beck’s painting, “Mother Tree”
Mother Tree acrylic & mixed media 30"x24"
This painting is about how trees are the mothers of us all, how they stand rooted in the earth and support us if we lean on them with care.
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Donna Leavitt’s painting, “The Guardian”
The Guardian
Donna Leavitt
graphite
46″h x 63″w
“Trees have been imprinted upon my psyche. . . I am enthralled.”
DL
While serving in the Peace Corps (2006 to 2008) I wanted to continue making art by drawing the wonderful trees I was photographing.
In order to be able to bring my work home with me at the end of service I had to devise a way to make large drawings portable! Thus the multiple sheets of paper which could be easily disassembled and packed up.
The Guardian is the first of the drawings done while in Struga, Macedonia, and it is of a poplar tree that resides on the north shore of one of the world’s oldest lakes, Ochrid. I like the presence that the large drawings bring to the viewer, the close-up view, causing the eye to examine texture and form and to feel an intimacy with the subject. I continue working in this format with trees seen here and in different parts of the world.
Cheryl A. Richey’s painting, “Crackling Arbutus”
“Crackling Arbutus”
Cheryl A. Richey
Mixed media on panel
36” x 24”
Water reflections
On crackling arbutus bark.
Bird cries on the wind.
© Cheryl A. Richey
My painting and haiku were inspired by a week’s holiday in a small cottage overlooking Ganges harbor on Saltspring Island off Vancouver Island, British Columbia. While my husband and I were enjoying the view and solitude we suddenly became aware of crackling, popping sounds that seemed to be coming from the nearby woods. After carefully listening, observing, and sleuthing, we discovered that the sounds were coming from thick stands of Madrona trees (Arbutus in Canada). The reddish bark or “skin” of Arbutus trees grows and stretches and finally tears, cracks, and curls uncovering smooth light green wood beneath. I had never heard this process before. I was awestruck by the active and audible movement of the trees’ growth and came to change my perception of these beautiful trees as “passive” forest dwellers. All of my abstract paintings of “tree spirits,” including Cracking Arbutus, attempt to capture or create my sense of the aliveness, mystery, and enduring vitality of trees.
“Some Enchanted Evening”
Elizabeth Reed Smith
Mixed Media on Paper 12″ x 14”
This work is inspired by the effect of moonlight through madrona trees on the shores of Puget Sound. Because both the moon and its reflection are applied gold leaf they appear and disappear as the light of day progresses.
“In each of my drawings I endeavor to celebrate nature within a time and space beyond the mere place of inspiration. Like artists throughout time, I invite the viewer to enter my world and, by so doing. make it their own.”
‘The gift of trees is the gift of books, oxygen, poetry and hope.’ Anonymous
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