Newport Visual Arts Center

Bio: Dee Vadnais works with landscape imagery, primarily onsite, using acrylic, watercolor and drawing mediums.

Bio: Liz Walker’s work conveys a sense of story. She transforms acrylic marbled papers into figurative work that focuses on the strength of human relationships.

Note: The title is inspired by a poem called “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Lameris: “We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire.”

Bio: Kathy Whitson has been painting professionally for 30 years and has taught painting for 20 years. Her mediums include watercolor, acrylic and oil.

Note: Seeing these at the Oregon Gardens, I was inspired and painted them.

Bio: Eve Margo Withrow is an award-winning professional artist creating one-of-a kind pieces in a variety of media.

Note: Work features layered tissue paper and matt
medium–painted, formed and glued to a wrapped backing.

Bio: Dennis Worrel is a painter and printmaker with a MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. He is a founding member of Arts Accelerated in Tillamook.

Bio: Val Zaba has worked as a commercial artist and photographer, as well as an artist-in-residence in many states out east. Currently she works at OSU and produces several art series.

Note: On a rainy and windy day, when we had been self-quarantined for ten and a half weeks, we decided to throw caution to the wind and sneak off to see the ocean! We were looking for a boat selling crab in Newport. As my assistant stood at the rail, a gust of wind blew her long hair to the wind.