This Penn State University graduate, Michelle Ramin works daytime at a little locally run art supply store and makes art as often as possible in Portland, Oregon.
She plays drums with a band called The Black Globes. Music and art and people and traveling and amazing foods and the ocean all have formed her and [...]
A commercial fisherman who turned to art in later life, Doug Kinney’s views on Port Orford, Oregon, has changed since moving here 17 years ago.
“It rains here, but we get a lot of the rain at night, and there’s wind, but you do things in the morning before it comes up,” Says he, “I [...]
Paul C. LaMarre Jr takes center stage today, honored for his strong watercolor paintings of the working boats of the Great Lakes.
LaMarre’s own father sowed the seeds of his artistic passion at the age of ten, by taking him to the docks to view the construction of the Arthur B. Homer, which fascinated him. [...]
An experienced soldier with two tours in Iraq, Derek McCrea has found that art is a wonderful healer. This artist employs ink and watercolor together to express his passion for coastal scenes and small boats. I think ‘Beachhouses’ one of his most fully realized efforts.
McCrea paints from life (that is plein [...]
