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Artist from Eugene, Oregon

Juried Exhibits and Awards…

• 2008, Watercolor USA, National Competition Springfield, MO
• 2008 & 2006 Emerald National Exhibitions, Springfield, OR
• 2007 Art About Oregon – Statewide exhibit- Corvallis
• 2006 Milford Zornes Award – National Watercolor Society, Membership Show, Sherman Oaks, CA
• 2006, Finalist, Arts for the Parks National Competition, Selected among the Top 200 paintings
• One Woman Show – Opus Six Gallery-Eugene August 2006
• 2004 Alice Leonard Memorial Award- National Watercolor Society, Painting part of National Tour 2005, also in NWS exhibits in 1997 and 1999
• 2002 High Winds Award – American Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Club, New York City, Painting part of National Tour 2003
• 2004 Mirror Pond Gallery National Exhibition, Bend, Or. Juror and workshop instructor
• 2000 Dual Exhibition – Jacob’s Gallery, Eugene
• Watercolor Society of Oregon Exhibits -1992 through 2008, Winner of ten awards including two for first place and the 2003 People’s Choice Award
• 2000 Best Artist , as selected by the readers poll for The Eugene Weekly
• Eugene Celebration Mayor’s Show 2004, 03, 01, 00, 97, 95, 92, 91

Art is my passion, its creation my journey. I began, as most, with crayon or pencil in hand. Developing, honing those skills as my childhood years passed. I enrolled at what was then Boise State Collage as a Liberal Arts Major. The reality of becoming a starving artist surfaced, thus I went to work in the corporate world. There, as management in the computer semiconductor industry, I met and married my husband, and began raising our family. Years passed with little time for self expression as an artist. The early nineties found me wanting this reawakened my pursuit of art. I am now a full time artist and art instructor with Linn-Benton Community College, among other locations around the state. This gives me the distinct pleasure of sharing the journey with fellow artists and friends.

I am honored to be a member in the Corvallis Art Guild, Vistas and Vineyards Artist Group, Colored Pencil Society of America, and awarded Linn-Benton Community College Outstanding Part Time Faculty Member for 2008.

The outdoors has been a part of my art journey since 1956, at age 13. My mother gave me her oil painting box with hand-made brushes to entertain me during a camping trip. Ever since then I have been practicing on camping, hiking, back packing, boating and white water rafting trips. Living in the outdoors gives me time to visualize my place in nature’s mystery. So rather than reproducing the scenery, I am more interested in painting my feelings and connection to whimsy.

My latest adventure was camping out on location in our Winnebago in March, 2008. My painting adventure is posted on my blogs WilderWenzelArizona, Umbrella Painting, and Paul Veil’s Art for the Soul.

Iowa native Hope Carter Meado(w)s and family landed in Eugene, OR, 1971. With a business degree, she and three others formed an energy consulting corporation focusing on commercial and light-industrial energy audits in Eugene-Springfield.

For nine years, Hope was an insurance agent with her office located in Springfield.

Art education began at Central Oregon Community College, Bend, with Pat Porter and Judy Hoiness, 2004, followed by “Art in the Mountains” with Lian Zhen, an internationally-known artist specializing in
Chinese and American-style watercolors; additional 2 years with Mark Allison, Linn-Benton CC, and workshops with Mark, Bill Shumway and Annette Orrock, Corvallis, and LaVonne Tarbox-Crone, Eugene.

Hope is juried member of Corvallis Art Guild and Watercolor Society of Oregon, and exhibits extensively throughout mid-Willamette Valley.

I’ve always been attracted to nature. For years I attempted to capture the environment using photography, though the photographs often left me unsatisfied. I turned to painting; I’ve found that this medium gives me greater freedom to express the emotions generated by what I see and sense around me. My subjects are usually from nature: landscapes, flowers, animals, and portraits – whatever moves me. Examples of my work in oil and acrylic can be found at my website.

My art pays tribute to my mother, who was an amazing artist and inspiration. I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoy creating it.

M. Ambrose (Molly) Perry

Born Mary (Molly) Ambrose in Linthicum, Maryland, the artist grew up in the Tidewater area of eastern Virginia, but spent many summers visiting her grandmother in Albany. So she felt right at home when she moved permanently to the Willamette Valley in 2000. Ms. Perry graduated with a Master’s Degree from Old Dominion University and taught biology in Virginia and on the Florida Space Coast before moving to Albany, where she continues to work as an online instructor for Keiser University in Florida and to paint at every opportunity.

Ms. Perry works primarily in watercolor and acrylic media on a variety of surfaces, including paper, masonite, canvas, and matboard, although she has also produced works in oil and combinations of oil pastel and watercolor.

The subject matter of Ms. Perry’s paintings is varied, from imaginative non-objective abstracts influenced by her background as a biologist, to light-filled landscapes of Oregon. In all of her work she has attempted to capture the energy of and the moods inspired by the interaction of light with surfaces, both real and imagined, and her landscapes glow with the unique quality of light one finds through the seasons in the Willamette Valley.

Ms. Perry has studied with a variety of artists who have influenced her style, including Nancy Baur Dillen in Melbourne, Florida and Mark Allison, Bill Shumway, Annette Orrock, and Lavonne Tarbox-Crone in Oregon. She is an active member of the Corvallis Art Guild and Vistas & Vineyards, and is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon..

Ms. Perry has exhibited since 2004 in most of the Corvallis Art Guild locations around the area, and she has participated in several juried shows, including Vistas and Vineyards’ 2005, 2006, and 2007 exhibits and Guistina Gallery’s Mary’s Peak 2007 exhibit.

Chapel Fine Art

Summer Celebration, acrylic, 30 x 40″

Cherrill works mainly in pastels and acrylics. She especially enjoys the spontaneity of working on-site and combines travels with painting.

She has formal training in art from the University of Hawaii.

Associations with the Corvallis Art Guild, Vistas and Vineyards and Oregan Crafted and an ongoing art critic group further her education.

Despite having made a few oil paintings about 30 years ago, the camera has been been my primary means of creative expression since I was 8. Now that I am retired I am again pursuing some of the traditional art forms including oil, watercolor, graphite, ink and even some wood craving at the Albany Carousel Project. In addition to taking classes, I have learned much this past year from the Vistas and Vineyards painting sessions as well as figure drawing at OSU. I have exhibited my photography for the past few years at various galleries in the area and am now also starting to show my paintings. My biggest challenge has been jump starting the right side of my brain. I maintain a web site for my work at http://www.creativedialog.com .

Painting by Janet Ekholm