Elton Bennett (1910-1974) saw the creative potential in silkscreen or serigraph printing because it offered so many possibilities for changing and developing his compositions over time. He used a great number of screens and color combinations with any particular image, so that each individual print was truly unique. The look he created is [...]
Also tagged Elton Bennett, Grays Harbor, Hoquiam, serigraph, silk screen print, Washington Carol Thompson excels at conveying light, depth, and movement in oil on canvas. Her high-key color choices are very popular too!
Thompson’s art was included in the book Contemporary Western Artists –and honored with feature articles in Southwest Art and Stepping Out.
Numerous venues in the West give you opportunities to see [...]
A rambler and a ‘gambler’ is maritime artist Janne Matter, now living in Phoenix but with both Atlantic and Pacific roots as well. She especially is well known for her paintings of classic and wooden boats in oil and acrylic.
You can read a lot about Matter’s personal journey into art on her website, concerning [...]
Stephen Kaimmer comes from the Puget Sound area, graduating from McGill University, Montreal. Since 1985 he has worked as a fishery biologist for the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC).
In the past Kaimmer also worked as a deckhand on the Virginia V, an Alaskan halibut boat. He has held other Seattle-area fishing-research positions, including [...]
Pietro Parravano is owner and captain of the fishing vessel Anne B; home port, Pillar Point Harbor, El Grenada, CA. He regularly sells fresh catch at farmers’ markets in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, CA.
This now-famous west coast fisherman did not start out as one. He studied biology at Eastern Michigan University. After graduate [...]
The hardworking craft crafted by this Seattle-area watercolorist have a unique look: very bright with a colorful, very painterly touch. Her picture information suggests she achieves this by applying watercolor over gessoed paper, an unusual technical choice. Left is “Triton Tug”.
No surprise to learn that Woolf has won many honors for her work and [...]
David Thimgan, California maritime artist, 1955-2003, especially known for his painstakingly researched oil paintings of 19th & 20th century lumber schooners of the Pacific Northwest. He was like many other maritime artists, a stickler for historical and geographical accuracy. But most of his antiquarian-like works go far beyond their often wooden technique and repetitious [...]
Also tagged California, David Thimgan, June Carey, lumber schooner, maritime artist