Three’s company in Manzanita
Bold colors and the changing face of nature will be on display during the December Show at Manzanita’s Hoffman Gallery, opening Friday, Dec. 3, and featuring the works of Mike Scrivens, Karen Small and Jude Welter.
Scrivens creates ceramic dishes and tiles covered with intricate and colorful images.
“Perhaps I’m a frustrated painter, because even my newest work insists on hanging on the wall,” he said. “Wheel throwing is limiting in terms of size, which is why I’m applying the same glazes and techniques of glaze application to tiles. I’ve designed a line of high-relief tiles, which I surround with a cut-and-glazed tile frame and equip to hang on the wall. These tiles are designed with the high-relief image connecting to itself through the grout line to provide a continuous running accent which can be used as a backsplash or a feature strip among field tiles.”
Small presents eight paintings in the “For the Love of Nature” series.
“These [first four] paintings began by looking for what called to me. It was the edge where the water meets the land. It changes. I love to be outside and stare, it’s called the long look. I paint what moves me. I painted the edge many times. Four paintings survived.”
The second set in the series are the more recent.
“This year I had the joy of painting outside near where I live,” Small said. “I had the intention of making lovely paintings which had a quirky or serious meaning. I mourn for the trees that were removed during the time I painted them. I’m happy to become friends with a peak, which has a name I can’t remember.”
Welter presents original water media paintings on different surfaces. Yupo, mineral papers and varnished papers; all used to obtain fluid effects.
"I felt that capturing the moving water of the sea was the main objective,” she said. “It was a joyous process to watch paint ebb and flow to hopefully capture a feeling of the Pacific Ocean.”
The Hoffman Center for the Arts is located at 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita and is open Friday through Sunday from 1 to 4 pm. For more information, go to hoffmanarts.org or call 503-368-3846.