On the Docent Wall from June 22 - July 12, 2010
Janet Bland: A Sense of Place

These paintings are part of a series called "Sense of Place," painted within a few miles of where I live on the North Coast. This is a dynamic area, bold and beautiful, a changing environment, dominated by water - rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, wetlands, and the Pacific Ocean.

My paintings are a conversation - between the paint, the place and the day. I work in paint - and I want the viewer to know that. The painting is in the canvas. My task is to pull it out. It can resist and hide. Work it and it starts to reveal itself. Some paintings uncover easily; others, it takes time. The image is not placed on the canvas from elsewhere, but comes out of the canvas as I work and look. The paintings encourage looking - at ourselves, at our surroundings.

There is an importance in what you see each day - here, the moist coastal light, the ocean, the beach, the tide and clouds - such regular occurrences, so dependable, so different, always a surprise.

--Janet Bland

Random Scraps of Fabric: A Green-Inspired Fashion Show - June 3rd

The Bonny Gorsuch Fashion Show was held at the Coaster Theater at 7PM on Thursday, June 3, 2010 displaying garments and accessories all created from 100% recycled textiles and fabrics. Oregon current events used as subject matter and basis for the garments. All garments were on display at the Cannon Beach Gallery from June 5-20.

Birds of a Feather: April 29-May 31

Susan Keizer and Cornelia Schulz from April 1-26

Susan Keizer's work, shown over the last 30 years in California and Oregon, can be described as expressive narrative using line as a structural device while addressing the drawing/painting dichotomy. This melding of drawing and painting goes hand in hand within the context of containment and expansion that characterizes her work. In recent years, there has been a greater focus on works on paper, as either paintings or monotypes.

Cornelia Schulz is a painter who has lived and worked in the Bay Area for over thirty years. She has exhibited both regionally and nationally since 1962 with an occasional hiatus where other involvements took precedence in her life. Her work addresses issues of abstraction, light, space, pattern, surface tension and relationship. The bold perimeters of Schulz's paintings matched with the intricate and refined surfaces, result in an engaging dialogue between grand modernist ideals and reflective, personal reverie.

Resurfacing -- Susan Keizer


Carryon, Cornelia Shulz

Water:  A Group Show at the Cannon Beach - March 4 - March 29, 2010

The Cannon Beach Gallery hosted a group show with the theme of Water from March 4 - March 29.  Six Oregon artists interpreted the theme of Water in their chosen media.  Cannon Beach artists Cory Burnett and Richard Gorsuch had photographs and paintings on display; Manzanita area artists Paul Miller and Susan Walsh exhibited prints, while Tori Williams had his concrete sculptural fountains on display; Portland area artist Jerry Hise had mixed media work in the exhibit.

Cory Burnett, photograph, Water, 2010


Susan Walsh, Dark Waters, reduction color woodcut

Richard Gorsuch, Oil Painting, Needles, 2009

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