Focus on art

Photographer Sylvia A. Hosie and painter Luella Hartwell are the subjects of the Yaquina Art Association Show, opening this Saturday, July 8, and running through July 21.

Hosie is a fine art photographer whose work ranges from travel to nature to equine. This show includes a number of new images of favorite subjects: birds and horses. Hosie uses computer and photo editing software to give a looser, more stylized look to some of her images.

Also included will be intentional camera movement, or ICM, images. This is a genre of photography where the photographer purposely moves the camera using a slow shutter speed. The results are a softer, more fluid image. Some are slightly impressionistic while others can be wildly abstract. Hosie describes it as “a lot of fun and the results often surprise you but it takes practice. Photography is my way to express myself creatively and to play. I am painting with a camera and having a blast.”

Hosie has been a member of the Yaquina Art Association since 1984. Her photographs can also be seen at The Crow’s Nest in Toledo, at the Yaquina Art Center and the Shilo Resort and Convention Center. 

For Hartwell , capturing a wave, a flower’s beauty, rustic barns from Oregon’s back roads, the many colors of tide pools, the peacefulness of forest roads, has been a quest and passion.  She uses pastel, acrylic, ink and watercolor to depict and preserve the beauty she encounters and enjoys. Living in Seal Rock for the past 26 years and being a member of Yaquina Art Association have provided both education, wonderful friendships and an unending source of inspiration.

The Yaquina Art Association Gallery is located in Nye Beach at 789 NW Beach Drive and is open daily from 11 am to 5 pm. For more information, go to yaquinaart.org.