| Celia Boland Art has always been an important part of my life. I want to be surrounded by it, whether I am collecting, making, or just enjoying it. My mother was inspirational to me. She paints and does pen and ink. I grew up watching and dabbling. I chose fiber as my medium. What started as a hobby to provide baby quilts to my cousins has turned into a passion and a lifes work. I use fabric as others use paint. Color is an important aspect of all my work. I began creating landscapes out of fabric to mimic photographs real or imagined.
Circles II Illogical progression |
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| Valerie Boydo I bounce between mediums, enamel, silversmithing, and ceramics. In all my pieces I try to tell a story. My newest ceramic series is a herd of Night Mares, tails swishing, manes flying as they inhale the night.
Gone West, copper enamel, drift wood, wood and stone; 18”x12” |
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| Jennifer Rod I grew up a middle child in the Midwest in the mid-sixties, so its no wonder that I am sensitive to balance and harmony. Whether I am drawing, painting or creating something in steel ("dogs that will never go away"), I am constantly playing with these - juggling the basics of line, shape and color.
Red Rocks become Hearts in a layered Wyoming Landscape |
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| Anna Brewer is a cartoonist and printmaker. She has also worked as a muralist, freelance animation assistant and illustrator.
Red Rooster, Monoprint, 8" x 10", 2007 |
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| Melissa Rockwood I am a graphic designer and illustrator with an office full of paper, pens, pencils, markers, cameras and computer equipment — a perfect art playground! |  |
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| Sally Graves Machlis Exploration of family biography and memory has been the genesis of my recent mixed media collages. Many of the images are family photographs and the text is a combination of memory and imagination--family fables, traditions, words of wisdom, and whispered rumor.
I teach art and art education at the University of Idaho and am currently on sabbatical spending time painting in Italy and as a guest resident artist in Taiwan. www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sallymac/Two Heads are Better than One, mixed media |
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| Gerri Sayler is a sculptor and installation artist, who uses a variety of fibrous materials as sculptural media. Her exhibit history includes solo installations for the Boise Art Museum (2008), Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (2009) and Eastern Washington University Gallery (2009). In September 2010, she will create a solo installation for Suyama Space in Seattle. She has also exhibited at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, the University of Idaho Prichard Gallery and the Center for Arts and History at Lewis and Clark State College. Gerri was awarded first prize in the 2007 Idaho Triennial.
Undula (2009), Eastern Washington University Gallery Between Silences (2009), Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture |
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| Judith Marvin lives in a log house, on a ridge in Clearwater County, Idaho with her husband, Gary. They retired from the Foreign Service and returned to Idaho in 1997. The wide vistas of the area, the magnificent sunsets, and changing weather all influence her work. |  |
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| Laurel Macdonald works in oils, watercolor and linocuts. Her imagery is taken from the people who have crossed her path and the land that surrounds her. |  |
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| Debi Robinson-Smith has been living and working on the Palouse for 20+ years. Her art encompasses re-use, re-cycle, down-cycle, and make do, which is a philosophy women have always embraced through difficult times when survival of family and community is the keystone. She uses found materials, leftovers, mis-mixed paint, and yard sale junque to create something both new and having the psychic patina of previous owners.
Transitory Personal Strata III Acrylic on recycled canvas, wall putty, used cotton fabric, copper scraps Palouse Winter Acrylic and wall putty on recycled wooden "art frame" from the 1960s |
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| Lolly Owens Lolly’s art can be odd, annoying or beautiful. Her work is influenced by nature; based in reality yet expressed in abstraction and symbolism. In it you will find love and loss, paradox and mystery. She works in mixed water media on canvas and paper and often focuses on the feminine and spiritual. www.lollyart.com Cat Nap, watermedia and paper |
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| Patricia Gray is a graphic designer seeking to create lovely out of the ugly. She loves to draw and experiment in all mediums and finds play a vital part of her design process. She is also an avid crafter and is more often than not distracted with projects involving bookmaking, sewing, knitting, & rosettes! She is a collector of quotes & inspiration. www.peachydesigns.com
Poster for Special Olympics Nutrition |
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| Mel Siebe, an Idaho native, moved to Moscow in 1976 to get her master's degree. Once completed, she was hired by Moscow High School to teach art, which she refers to as "the perfect job". Now retired after thirty years, she is able to put her main focus working on her paintings and mixed medium/found art pieces. She Went Under the Water Just to Look Around |
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| Louise Colson has been fusing glass since 1980. The interplay of light and color, transmitted and reflected, manipulated into shapes and forms is a passion she continues to pursue. Each sculpture is an evolution of the prior piece, with a conscious layering of the glass that is similar to painting. She has shown her work in galleries nationally, and had a Retrospective and Collaborative (with artist Gina Murray) Exhibition at the Washington State Museum of Art in 2008. Her work is in the archives of both The Corning Museum of Glass, and The National Museum of Women.
Purple Furrowed Zipper Bowl, kiln-formed glass Red Zipper Bowl, kiln-formed glass |
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| Katherine Clancy I began painting watercolors because I love the loose, flowing, impressionistic style they so often present. I continue to strive to achieve that style. My goal is to have fun painting, always challenge myself, and hopefully produce work that touches the viewer. Since joining Palouse Women Artists I have challenged myself to work in other mediums.
Katherine (Kat) Clancy has dabbled in art for most of her life. She is a member of the Palouse Watercolor Socius, Idaho Watercolor Society and Palouse Women Artists. Kat currently shares a studio at the Artisan Barn in Uniontown, WA. Her work is showcased in the studio and she and all of the artists at the Barn welcome visitors to observe the creative process. www.artisanbarn.org |
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| Ryan Law My work is a reflection of the world around me. I try to relate my understanding and the relationship I have with the natural world through art work. I hope to convey a sense of vulnerability and sensitivity in my work.
I work primarily in clay, oil and watercolor. Clay has a visceral immediate quality for me allowing me a vehicle for expressing both human and animal personality. Painting adds the dimension of color and snapshot focus to capture a likeness. My work is about exploring the intimate share experience of all living beings. Mother Love, clay |
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| Linda Scott I design and paint folding screens and I work with mixed media. The path to this point in my career has paralleled my educational background. Illustrator/graphic artist, mural painter, teacher, watercolorist, folding screen and mixed media artist followed AA, BA, Secondary Education, and MFA. I am now enjoying the process of integrating it all.
Vernazza, acrylic on wood, 60" x 80" Lifecycle, acrylic on wood, 88" x 72 |
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| Sue Benier Retired from a ‘world of numbers’, I am now a committed Moscow volunteer and enjoy photography, creative writing and Xeriscape gardening. Coffee, thrift shops and winter pump my adrenalin, and family dogs keep me short-leashed to home. The gracious community of Palouse Women Artists has invited and inspired me to compose works in which I favor humor, color and recycled treasures
Shrine to Julia Child Chair for The Cure |
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| Susan Seaman – learner and explorer, enjoying the journey and the marvel of existence. This fascination is artistically expressed through gathering collections that inspire creative endeavors using words, fibers, beads, acrylics, encaustics, pastels, pencils, oils, watercolors, and mixed media.Beauty and joy are essential aspects of each day, whether in her roles as student, educator, homemaker, parent, or traveler. The nature of her self-expression has varied with the time and circumstance of her journey. She is inspired by the synergy of process and media, whereby the products emerge from what was envisioned. Through the artistic cycle of possibility, each result is unique.
Grace |
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| Becker J. Gutsch works with fused glass and found objects, creating intimate pieces that explore the connection between mind and body. She developed her interest in fused glass when she enrolled in an art therapy program after suffering a head injury in 2007. I could not express myself... so frustrating when you have a traumatic brain injury. I began looking at my brain as if I had eyes in the back of my head. I could, and still can, see the parts that work well and the parts that have been damaged. Each piece of art has a red dot which signifies my brain injury and the beginning of a new life. This started unconsciously and set the message of my creations. From this came the name of Becker J. Gutsch’s Red Dot Glass Art. |
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| Carol Bradford Minnesota native Carol Bradford moved to the Palouse in 1981 and earned her MFA in sculpture and drawing from the University of Idaho. Idaho's great emptiness and beauty inspire her life and work.
White Stone Woman, high fire clay, 33" x 17" |
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| Carolyn G. Guy My introduction to pottery began in 1973 on the UC Davis, California campus and I have been creating pottery ever since. In 1976-1977, I lived in Paris, traveled in Europe and worked in the pottery studio of Albert Diato (former protégé of Picasso) and the studio of Diana Berier, Le Cheval L’Envers.
I make my own stoneware and porcelain and mix my own glazes so I can create the effects I desire. Most of my work is functional, tending to be abstracted in shape at times. I prefer very clean, delicate, finished lines and forms and want to explore in greater depth the variations in form and colour that I am continuing to find in nature.
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