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Glacier Gap, Landmark Gap, wax pastel on paper
First Friday July 5, 5:00 – 7:00
John Jodwalis
Carol Crump Bryner
New Paintings
Artist Statement
Sunlight from a window or door brightens the day and lifts my spirits. In these moments, when the shapes, colors, and patterns of familiar objects are transformed by light, I find a picture to paint.
I love the process of drawing the lines, mixing the paint, and brushing color onto the surface. To see the image come to life is rewarding. When the last mark is made, I forget any difficulties I had along the way, and I’m ready to share the picture I found to paint.
Being able to focus on making these paintings added joy to some hard days these last few years. I’m grateful to Georgia for the opportunity to show my paintings alongside new work by my longtime friend, Linda Brady Farr.
Linda Brady Farr
In the fifty-six years I’ve lived in West Anchorage, I’ve rarely looked at a sky I wasn’t drawn to. Skies filled with cloud patterns never seen before or again. Puffy cumulus clouds, dramatic storm clouds, and clouds glowing from colorful sunsets. Cook Inlet, Fish Creek, and Westchester Lagoon, the bodies of water that border the Coastal Trail where I walk are fine foregrounds for those skies forming ready-made compositions begging to be painted.
At Snow City Cafe
Sophie Green
Sophie Green is a lifelong Alaskan artist with a passion for painting, based in Anchorage. Having spent her formative years exploring the rugged landscapes of the Kenai Peninsula, she found solace and inspiration in Alaska’s untamed wilderness. When inspiration strikes, she gathers whatever materials are necessary to create, which often results in mixed media paintings. Her work spans acrylics, oils, pen and ink, and digital design, as she feels sticking to one medium is limiting. Sophie’s work is a fusion of reality and imagination, often imbued with vibrant metallic and iridescent pigments. Alongside her partner, Adam Shea, Sophie established Secret Door Studio, offering unique artworks and fine art printing services. When she is not covered in paint, you can find her at a local festival or spending time in the garden with her cat.
Brenda Jaeger
Jens’ Bistro
Alaska-born, I find my heart responds to all that Alaska’s landscapes offer. One of the many techniques I use is one I call “Traceries.” I paint an image, often in layers. When a layer is dry, I see small open spaces I call interstices, which are tiny negative spaces or openings. I fill these tiny negative spaces with hues that relate in several ways—complementary hue, adjacent hue, hues used for light, direction, for shimmer, for luminosity.
I like to start en plein air, and often finish each painting in my studio in Anchorage. Everything I do recognizes process as the way of painting.
I drew and painted Alaska landscapes while growing up. In college I took classes from Bob Gilmore, Krielsheimer Professor of Art at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, who taught me everything I know about art. Subsequently I obtained two Master’s degrees, the first in Drawing and Painting and the second, to teach in preschool through 12th grade. I also hold an Online Teaching Certificate from the Online Learning Consortium. I have traveled to Japan three times to study hand papermaking, and to Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico, to observe the clay process there.
I have been teaching art since 1975. I currently teach on Zoom, one-on-one drawing and painting online art lessons. I teach all ages, starting where you are in your work, and helping you to develop where you would like to go. If you are interested, contact me at (907) 350-4539. I can also be reached at brendajaegerartstudio@startmail.com.
The Georgia Blue Gallery continues to encourage and to provide advice and help to all her artists.
Susan Lindsey
At South Restaurant + Coffeehouse
Touch of Summer
I began painting at age 12 when I was gifted a paint box for Christmas. I have loved the smell, feel, and rich pigment of oils ever since. I am attracted to simple everyday objects as well as botanical subjects, and I hope to draw the viewer in to their serene beauty. I like to use repetition, enjoy pushing color and I often focus on edges to create feeling and atmosphere. I also paint portraits and the figure, working from life when possible. When working en plein air, I love the challenge of capturing a scene before the light and color escape.
I studied at Nazareth College of Rochester and earned a degree in art and design from Rochester Institute of Technology. My work has been exhibited in galleries, included in numerous national and regional juried exhibitions, and can be found in private and corporate collections across the United States and abroad. I am a signature member of Oil Painters of America, one of the original nine signature members of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and an associate member of the Portrait Society of America. Studies include workshops with Sherrie McGraw, Stephan Assael, and Robert Liberace, and a mentorship with Thomas Kitts. My paintings have received awards from the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, the Oil Painters of America Western Regional Juried Exhibition, and the National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Best of America.
Douglas Girard
at Crush Bistro
An Alaska Journey
For years I have been exploring and painting the mountains near my home in Palmer. I have been seeking those moments of ecstatic drama, mystery, and the sublime that nature provides for the inquisitive. My landscape paintings try to capture those moments.
Feeling the cool wind on my face while standing on the shores of hidden mountain lakes surrounded by jagged mountain peaks, a great sense of awe overcomes me. Here at last my soul is in harmony with nature. My landscapes are created from a great love of nature’s many changing moods, and the sense of mystery and expectation that is created from ever varying colors and shapes.
Shifting clouds that create spots of light that dance over the mountains is what catches my eye. The interplay between massive rock walls, water, and low hanging clouds are also endlessly intriguing to me. A magical moment is when clouds move over and envelope the mountains, dissolving rocky peaks and shimmering water into a mysterious apparition. The swirling of mist and cloud seem to be excellent expressions of the eternal life force.
On my many walks I have rejoiced in the decorative quality of nature which inspires my illustrations. My goal is to make each illustration a poem of color, light and form that captures the essence of my inspiration. Birds are as fleeting and mysterious as mist and cloud that can quickly appear and just as suddenly disappear. Our feathered friends are also symbols of the mysterious, eternal life force and a connection with the spiritual path. The act of creating the Celtic/Norse inspired knot work that you see in some of my work is my way of connecting with this spiritual path. Now, thanks to my wife, I view birds as highly symbolic and life enriching. The experience of being in their presence is an almost religious event. I hope I can share some of this delight with others that may feel the same way.
