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Artist Bios

Current and Former CBAA Artists

Sharon Abbott-Furze – Sharon paints because she has to. it’s right up there with food and water for her – a prayer, a meditation and always an adventure! Capturing moments in her life that touch her is a joy and she hopes that reaches her viewers in a memorable way. Sharon’s fascination with the many moods, power, sounds and mystery of the sea is evident in her work. Several of her paintings inspired Author Sarel Venter to write stories about them and can be enjoyed on her website. Her deepest loves though are her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and people in general, and her desire to share their stories with oils on canvas is her goal. In the past, paintings of her grandchildren were used in Portland Oregon Street of Dreams and West Linn Parade of Homes. “The Price of Freedom”, a tribute to her son’s military service, was published in the 2015 Art Edition of Rain. This is her fourth year participating in Plein Air and More, Stormy Weather Art Festival and Spring Unveiling in Cannon Beach OR, and she has been featured in the local newspaper regarding these events. Her award-winning paintings are in collections throughout the United States, Switzerland and Italy. Check out more of Sharon’s work at: www.sfago.com

Christopher Belluschi - Christopher Belluschi (b. 1996) is a sculptor based in Portland, Oregon. He sculpts reductively from both wood and stone. His preferred woods are Western Red Cedar, Redwood, and Black Walnut. His favorite stones to work with are Italian Travertine, Nero Portoro Marble, and Nero Marquiña Marble.

He seeks to create sculptures that are as captivating for the soul as they are for the eyes. https://belluschisculpture.com/pagecv

Sidonie Caron – Sidonies art school training was at the Central St Martins School of Arts in London, England. Since her arrival in Portland from London in the late 60’s she has been a professional artist and is happy to share her experience with attendees at workshops. In addition to private collections her paintings are part of many public collections in both Oregon and Washington. Check out more of Sidonie’s work at: www.sidoniekcaron.com

Linda Christensen – Linda Christensen is an artist with a background in watercolor, woodcarving, fiber arts, and mixed media. She brings her varied skills and explorative art techniques now to the world of polymer clay. Artist Linda Christensen has been honored in past years with acceptance into several international shows. Linda’s artwork has been featured in “100 Sacred Visions” in Payerbach, Austria. In 2003, her painting “Crops of People” was included in “Brave Destiny”, the largest showing of living surrealist artists in Brooklyn, NY. In fall of 2004, Linda’s painting “I Am Water” was sent to London, England for a “Water” exhibition. Linda’s painting “Taking Flight” was accepted into “The Inner Eye” European Touring exhibition. This art was exhibited in Italy, Germany and Spain in 2005. Linda’s acrylic painting “The Healing” was exhibited in the Magical Lakes and Enchanted Forests 2006 exhibition tour in Europe. Linda has studied art in many workshops in the US and in Europe. Most recently, fully swept up in the energy of the solar eclipse, Linda delved into making polymer mosaic tiles while making eclipse themed art. “Watercolor is my main art medium, but this work required me to venture out into a mixed media world. The path of an artist is never uninteresting.” Check out more of Linda’s work at: http://www.angelfire.com/art/mindspirit/watercolor/

Martin Conley - Martin Conley has been working with wood for over 40 years, both as a sculptor and a carpenter. The artist spoke about his love of working with wood.

"I like to find misshaped and unusual pieces to work with, letting the wood guide me through the process to a finished product. Every piece of wood has its own personality. Finding and developing that is very satisfying, and can be a long process."

Gretchen Douglas – A resident of Astoria, Oregon, Gretchen Douglas has been an artist since 1962. Currently she is designing clothing using repurposed fabric including, antique lace, doilies, napkins, tablecloths, dresses and drapes. Her background in costume design has inspired the variety of sewing techniques used to make one- of-a-kind creations. After obtaining a BFA in Fibers from the University of Oregon, 1985, she worked at the San Francisco Opera as a costume dyer and painter. Later working with local theater groups, she started her own business. In the 1990’s she taught art in the elementary schools throughout Oregon for the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1994, one of her costumes was selected to be on display at the Victorian and Albert Museum in London. Painting large backdrops for rock concerts and speaking tours kept her busy until 2000. In 2016 she created a wall hanging for the Friends of Timberline 40th Anniversary art show at Timberline Lodge. As part of a team, she has worked for 20 years to recreate the historic interior of Timberline Lodge, weaving, sewing and hooking rugs. Summer of 2017, one of her costumes was on display at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, and another in New York City at the Museum of Art and Design.

Drenda Duff – Drenda Duff regards figurative art, composed and arranged in natural surroundings, as a favorite subject for her drawings and paintings. She is interested in still life and landscape as well. She enjoys working in oil, pastel, and watercolor. In all subjects there is significant deliberation on the use of light, which communicates mood or presence in her work. In addition, Drenda considers studying artists and their work, both contemporary and from the past, as pivotal to her own growth and learning process. Her study of art history is employed not only as an instructive tool but also to stimulate her own ideas and creative process.
Drenda and her husband David have lived in Cannon Beach for 25 years. In 2005 Drenda took a hiatus from her artwork to study at Portland State University, receiving her BA in Art/Art History. Currently she paints full time in her home art studio. In Cannon Beach, her work has shown at Windridge Gallery, Bronze Coast Gallery, Cannon Beach Gallery, and at the Chamber Stormy Weather Arts Festivals. She currently sells her artwork at “Drenda Duff Fine Art.” Check out more of Drenda’s work at: http://www.drendadufffineart.com

Drea Rose Frost - Drea Rose Frost creates paintings that reflect a life near the dynamic waters of the Pacific Northwest. She is interested in our human relationship to the sea and the vivid natural beauty of the rugged coastline inspires her work. When she is not painting she can be found exploring the forests and coastal headlands. She is an avid surfer and ambassador of a clean ocean through environmental awareness.

https://drearosefrost.com/

Linda Gebhart – Linda, a former math teacher, retired to Cannon Beach in 2014 with a fervent desire to artistically represent the beauty she discovered during her world travels. She quickly discovered her biggest passion was in painting the seascapes and landscapes surrounding her on the coast. Linda is a member of Cannon Beach Art Association, Palette Puddlers paint group and Trail’s End Art Gallery in Gearhart. She is grateful for the many artists who continue to inspire her. Additionally, she volunteers at Cannon Beach Library, has been a board member of Trail’s End and is currently serving as board vice-president at Cannon Beach Arts Association.

Pam Greene - Pam Greene was working in San Francisco and spending weekends painting in the foothills when she got a call to join Nike as a product designer in Portland, Oregon. It was her dream job, but painting in the Northwest was a possible drawback. Could she adapt her landscape style to such different scenery? She found her answer on Oregon's dramatic coast. Today, she's built a strong artistic reputation and a stunning studio overlooking Manzanita Beach and the plunging headland of Neahkahnie Mountain.

Peter Greaver - Peter Greaver was born into a family of artists, a son of Hanne and Harry Greaver, and made his first drawing at one year old. As a boy Greaver loved picture books with magical stories and illustrations. Fairies were a favorite and an inspiration for early drawings and paintings. Other early inspirations were exploring woods and forests, trips to museums to see treasures of the past and adventures in his mother's native country, Denmark. Greaver studied at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon. Also studying traditional Chinese painting with Wing K. Leong at the Chinese Art Studio in Portland, Oregon.

https://petergreaver.blogspot.com/

Mary Lyn Gough: I am an enthusiastic gardener and Mother Nature is full of amazing textures, colors, shapes and patterns. I have always been drawn especially to the complexities, beauty,
and specificity of flowers. No two are alike, even from the same variety. They are my subject and inspiration.
I aim to capture an immersive experience in each painting that envelops the viewer in my work, my vision of the blooms, the secrets they have to share. So real, they’re unreal, the work compels you to reach for a touch, or lean in for the scent of the bloom.
I work in watercolors to gain the transparency of oils and vibrancy of acrylics and the beguiling nature of water; an attempt to control the uncontrollable. The combination is a
viewing intimacy; my pieces are luscious, inviting and vibrant.

Dorota Haber-Lehigh – Dorota is an artist, educator, a forager. She loves gardening, hiking, field sketching, mushroom hunting and botanical drawing. Her passion is drawing native plants and discovering their edibility, medicinal use and ecological connection. She is drawn into sculptural and architectural wonder of plants as well as ephemeral beauty of plants throughout all season. She authored two ethnobotanical coloring books: “ABC of Native Plants of the Coastal PNW” and “Native Berries of the Coastal PNW.” She enjoys teaching ESL and Art of Ethnobotany at Seaside High School and Botanical Drawing at various community centers. Check out more of Dorota’s work at: www.dorotahaberlehigh.com

Jani Hoberg – Jani first took printmaking classes in the 1970’s at Lewis and Clark College and The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts-both in Portland Oregon. She received her BA from Lewis and Clark College and her MFA from the University of Oregon. At both institutions she studied drawing, intaglio and lithography. Laverne Krause, Jack Portland, Ron Graef and Liza Jones gave her a top notch education. She is represented by the Imprint Gallery at Cannon Beach and teach printmaking in their newly remodeled studio. The connection of exhibiting and creating art in the same location brings together the educational component and the collector. Her work is included in the Collections of the Gilkey Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum, the Anchorage Museum and the Multnomah County Library. Under Jan Rimerman’s leadership she is one of the artists involved with the Art for the Wetlands for the Wetlands Conservancy.

Jen Hoff - I grew up in various places around the world, exposed to cultures and ideas that made me realize that there is no “one right view” to anything. Probably because of my travels, I am drawn to people and find that they morph as you get more familiar with them, which truly fascinates and inspires me. The transition from first impression…to casual acquaintance…to the point that person is forever embedded in your heart is a wonderful journey. I’m always intrigued by the layers & perspectives you get to explore over time, and how what you see changes without you realizing it. With my art, I try to present that opportunity to the viewer/collector – my hope is that a piece will catch you eye, intrigue you with its details and back story, and simply become unforgettable. My work is both digital and mixed-media. With my original digital work, I sell limited editions. I often use my digital work as elements in my mixed media original pieces.

Ashley Jennings – Ashley was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado where she began learning photography at the age of 16 with a 35mm SLR. In 2006 she moved to Denver to study photography with Carol Golemboski and Bill Adams at the University of Colorado, Denver, where she earned her BFA in photography in 2009. During her time in college, Ashley discovered her love of alternative photographic processes and large format film Photograpy. After ten years of shooting commercial digital photography and weddings, Ashley reconnected with her love for wetplate collodion with the help and guidance of Ray Bidegain. She has been helping to educate other photographers on and share her love of these processes ever since! Check out more of Ashley’s work at: http://www.ashleyjenningsphotography.com

Scott C. Johnson - Although Scott C. Johnson’s landscape studies are rooted in plein air painting, early-on he began to add the little touches that rouse the imagination—the faint treetops that indicate a valley beyond the hill, or the tiny glint of water that tantalizes over a grassy dune. These hints at an unseen landscape beyond the one we see, were an introduction to his dream world.

Scott developed the soft washes of the Japanese tradition, as well as the refined linework of the Persian miniature. As he grew more confident with the brush, he also became more involved in meditational techniques, and the painting became more concerned with recording a process, a trance state, a finding of the happy accident, and less with a specific reality.

He is a developed sensual being, with an appreciation for music, dance and garden design. Scott’s love of nature, refreshed by frequent trips and hikes, is evident in his work, but its mood, often portrayed by impending weather, dominates the objects in the landscape. There are subtle references to change in the clouds and stronger references to death and loneliness in the leafless trees of his latest work, yet the mood is never hopeless, but lets us know that the next season, bringing the tiny leaves of Spring, is just beyond and approaching.

Nancy Smith Klos - Nancy Smith Klos earned her Fine Art degree from Connecticut College with additional study at the Parsons School of Design in Paris. She also studied in the Fiber Arts Program at The Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon. She shows often at the Oregon Coast and has been the Artist-In-Residence At the Hawk Creek Gallery in Neskowin three different years. From 2014-16 she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Lan Su Chinese Garden. Nancy has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1985 where she teaches and produces original artwork for a national clientele.

Bob Kroll - I create stunning photographic images that will display beautifully on the wall of your home or office and that will take you to where you dream of visiting or of returning. Some favorite images are available as greeting cards so they can be shared with friends and loved ones. The foundation of my work is travel photography, which provides the opportunity to explore and enjoy many other photographic genres including landscape, people, animals, and architecture. My wife Nancy and I spend a majority of our time on the North Oregon coast in Cannon Beach. Please enjoy my work. Contact me (link above) if you want any pieces for display in your home or office, if you would like to purchase a set of greeting cards, or if you want to schedule a portrait session.

Tammy Litwinchuk - https://www.instagram.com/turtlestreesandmoons/?hl=en

Mel McRobert - Mel has lived in the Portland, Oregon area all his life. He began to show an interest in painting at an early age. He first started painting in 1964 in Mrs. Dodge’s Art Class. Throughout his life he has always painted for the enjoyment of expressing what he saw through his painting. Over the years he has developed a love of the scenic Pacific Northwest. He hopes to draw you into the scene, instill a sense of serenity, and an appreciation for the beauty of the world he sees.

Mel has lived in the Portland, Oregon area all his life. He began to show an interest in painting at an early age. He first started painting in 1964 in Mrs. Dodge’s Art Class. Throughout his life he has always painted for the enjoyment of expressing what he saw through his painting. Over the years he has developed a love of the scenic Pacific Northwest. He hopes to draw you into the scene, instill a sense of serenity, and an appreciation for the beauty of the world he sees.

Michael Muldoon - Artist Michael Muldoon has a love for color. Whether its muted shadow hues, a vibrant sunrise or sunset, or a garden palette in full bloom, the artist attempts to capture that simple beauty and magical color with impressionist oils; ever learning with each new canvas. Every painting is a bold and new experience. Using both brush and palette knife extensively to convey the scene with aggressive strokes, yet relate the details with ample visual impression to “see” the impression of a landscape, field of poppies, beach scene, or maybe a plain doorway adorned with beautiful bougainvillea. You may not recognize the flowers, but you will love the color.

Greg Neitzel- Greg learned how to weave mats from repurposed commercial fishing line when he started commercial fishing aboard the FV BARRACUDA in the era of wooden boats and iron men. After crab season, Captain Al took some old crab line and wove what he called a “chafing mat”. The mat was tacked down on the wooden deck in a high traffic area to prevent wear and tear on the wooden deck. After a hard season the mat was discarded to be replaced. It was regarded as a wooden boar “accessory” and many fishermen who had pride in their craft learned how to weave them. Greg spent his career in the United States Marine Corps where he had Intensive Vietnamese Language Training. He holds his Bachelor of Arts from University of Oregon and his Master of Arts in Teaching from Willamette University. He has taught in several capacities including Japanese at Westview High School between 2006-2009. He currently spends his time creating in his Ilwaco studio and sharing his love of Karma mat making at Astoria Sunday markets where he believes using the fisherman’s rope in new creative ways brings good karmic energy to the local fishing industry he has spent so much of his life supporting.

Brianna Ortega – Brianna is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and surfer. She holds an honors B.A. in Art Practices from Portland State University, and has shown her work at art spaces and museums in Portland, San Diego, and Italy. Her work focuses on connecting ideas of belonging, discomfort, and the ocean. She is passionate about bringing people of varying disciplines together to think and create art in new ways. You can also find her working at Haystack Rock Awareness Program in Cannon Beach, both educating others about the ocean and learning new things every day.

Elizabeth Pattison - Local artist Elizabeth Pattison began creating jewelry as a way to heal, describing her process as patient and joyful, she's been exhibiting in local galleries and stores on the Oregon coast for nearly twenty years - check out her collection below.

Summer Peterson – Art has been the focus of Summer’s life for as far back as she can remember. Interested in old masterworks she earned her Art History degree from Portland State University, moving on to become a credentialed Fine Art Appraiser with the International Society of Appraisers. Primarily she works in oils, finding their vibrant colors to have a unique ability to capture light.

Jan Rimerman – Jan is an award-winning artist known for her mixed media of stone & water. Her fine art appears in galleries & shows throughout the Northwest & the United States. Her work has been published in books, magazines, posters, & greeting cards worldwide. She is the director of the Holiday Gallery for the Arts Council of Lake Oswego, a guest curator for the ACLO, the Visual Arts Director of the Lakewood Center & gives talks to the community of her international adventures entitled: Through an Artist’s Eyes. She is a fundraiser for the World Wildlife Fund, the Di Ji Orphanage in Llasa, Tibet & The Wetlands Conservancy. Jan is the Arts Exhibition Director for Lake Oswego Reads. As an arts educator, Jan pioneered the Art After Hours program for high school students & community members. Rimerman created the art cultural exchange, The Common Connection between two schools in Poland & Tigard High School. Jan is a popular motivational speaker, technique instructor, curator & juror of shows. She is the 2002 Secondary Art Educator of the Year in the State of Oregon. She has been included in the Who’s Who Teachers Edition for 2004-2010 & in the Who’s Who of American Women 2008 & 2009. For 25 years, she was the Open Show Director at the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. Jan taught drawing, painting & 3-D design for 33 years in public school & private settings. Altruistic projects include the International Land Fill Project. Kows for Kids, Children First, Audubon, Susan G, Koman Foundations, Turtle Head Start Program at the Oregon Zoo, & painting doors for the Lake Oswego Art Foundation. Check out more of Jan’s work at: http://janrimerman.com

Lisa Sofia Robinson - Lisa Sofia Robinson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her mother was a distant cousin of Maxfield Parrish and Lisa grew up with the smell of mineral spirits and oil paint. Lisa pursued a degree in education with a minor in music and art. After moving to the Pacific Northwest, Lisa specialized in photography and graphic design. After 20 years as a professional photographer, Lisa chose to change course and pursue a career with her other love, painting. She moved to the coast of Oregon and being so close to the water, her soul longed for something new. She worked exclusively with oil paint and figurative painting until a change in her health brought her to Open acrylic paint. She has been displaying and selling her current work throughout the country has been widely collected by a diverse group of patrons. Lisa explains her art as “a complex puzzle which I can't truly comprehend. I am realizing that I may never find the final answer, for it is in the searching, where I learn. The world around me uses continued movement, not stationary, never satisfied. It distracts me from delving into the depths of what I want, what I have to say; I have not the skill to express myself. Often, in the world's crowded streets, a desire to unbury my life, a fire for tracking my own heart, so wild so deep within me, wells to the surface. The goal of my art is not to make sense. My eyes move through the piece, never stagnant, always exploring. The movement, the flourish, the lines, the color and shapes which develop when completing the finished artwork, only come together when viewed as a whole.”

Janelle Schneider - I'm a Portland-based visual artist (and native Oregonian) with a BFA in Graphic Design from Pacific Northwest College of Art. My paintings are figurative expressions in acrylic exploring the intersection of emotion, memory, and connection. It is through working with the paint, balancing color and light that I both explore and share the subtleties of relationship. I paint ordinary moments as a window for the viewer’s curiosity, imagination, and empathy to find connection.

Themes of connection, its counterpoint disconnection, and duality are usually present in my work. Image and the tactility of the paint and surface express my thoughts and feelings much more completely than my words can. My choice of color palettes and treatment of light express my feelings about the work as I paint, my interest is in the expression of emotion and relation of forms, either to each other, the relationship between subject and environment and the viewer with the work.

My work is held in private collections across the United States and abroad.

website: www.paintbetty.com

Insta: @janelleschneiderart.design

Nancy Smith Klos –Nancy earned her Fine Art degree from Connecticut College. She studied additional years at The College of Art and Craft in Portland, Or. She shows often at the Oregon Coast and has been the Artist-In-Residence At the Hawk Creek Gallery in Neskowin and The Lan Su Chinese Garden. She has lived in Portland, Or. since 1985 where she has taught and produced original art and commissions for many years for a national clientele.

Margaret Terrall – Margaret received a degree in Art Education and continued on at Lewis & Clark to receive a Masters in Art Ed. She taught middle school and high school art, illustration at Portland Community College, drawing at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and painting at the Multnomah Art Center. She holds private and group classes in her home studio. She is represented by the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery and is a member of a women’s art guild known as LOCAL 14, in which we put on an annual show at the World Forestry Center in Portland. She participates in Portland Open Studios, The Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, The Sitka Invitational Art Show and is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon. She has prints available of on her gallery website:margaretterrall.com

Christine Trexel – Books have been an integral part of Christine Trexel’s life since early childhood. She grew up on a farm in southeastern Colorado and spent many happy hours lost inside the pages of a book. She firmly believes a day without time set aside for reading is an incomplete day. As an adult she began her journey into creating her own books, which led to boxes, and then to making paper while living in Portland, Oregon. She has been fortunate to have taken a wide variety of classes at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts as well as with internationally known local artists in book binding and paper making. Christine lived in Panama for seven years where she grew, harvested and processed plants from her garden to make paper for the books and boxes she creates. The wealth of vegetation fostered experimentation and a great deal of learning. Since returning to the PNW and settling in the vibrant arts community of Astoria, Oregon Christine has had the opportunity to show her work at Imogen Gallery in Astoria, Fairweather Gallery in Seaside, Imprint Gallery in Cannon Beach, Cannon Beach Art Gallery and in juried shows in Cannon Beach Art Gallery in Cannon Beach, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, and 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland.

Susan C. Walsh - Susan has been a practicing artist all of her life, working in a variety of mediums, so she can appreciate the process of other artists. Her work has been exhibited regionally in several galleries and at the Portland Art Museum. Her current focus is printmaking, and her signs are found all over the North Coast.

Lisa Wiser – Lisa Wiser is a visual artist living and working in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She draws inspiration from the scenic northwest, travel adventures and reading novels to create watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media paintings. Also an avid photographer, she chronicles her visual inspirations as she captures obscure landscapes, architectural details, and other intriguing painting subjects. Lisa earned a BS Degree in Art Education from the University of Oregon in 1978 including a year of study in Perugia, Italy and has completed graduate coursework in graphic design, art education and painting. Photographic travels to Europe, Turkey, SW USA, and Mexico have inspired her work for the past three decades. Lisa has been invited to serve in both curatorial and juror positions for various arts organizations in the area. She has taught art from pre-school to adult students and has recently retired as a substitute art teacher for her local school district to devote more time to her painting. Check out more of Lisa’s work at: http://www.lisawiser.com