(Painting by Rebecca Baldwin) Rebecca Baldwin takes vacations in places that lend themselves to the landscape painting she is known for. This fall that was biking the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes in Idaho, a 73-mile long paved trail (a former railroad route) that passes through forests and marshlands and skirts Lake Coeur d’Alene and…
(Photo courtesy of Museum at Warm Springs) A Quarter Century of Culture, History & Community Museum Description and History On March 14, 1993, The Museum at Warm Springs opened its doors as a living repository and center to perpetuate the culture and heritage of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Its mission is to preserve,…
(Photo above courtesy of Bend Art Center) Bend Art Center explored the end of an era with an exhibit by Dawn Emerson. Last fall, Bend Art Center opened a special exhibit, Cirque d’ Art, a memory-infused series of mixed-media prints by local artist Dawn Emerson. Utilizing both its exhibition area and print studio, Bend Art…
This month’s cover art was chosen from the work of painter Dorothy Holmes of Tall Girl Studio, who experienced two influential events that altered the course of her lifeand her art: a move to Bend,and more significantly, a life-threatening brain injury that was responsible for the surprising emergence of her inner artist. Holmes arrived in…
(Above: Searching for Strays, oil by Tom Browning) Recent paintings by Tom Browning will be featured at Mockingbird Gallery in Bend through the month of December. Browning’s paintings will offer a variety of subjects, all handled in the consistently brushy style for which Browning is known. Perhaps he is best known for his series of…
Each August since 2008 the welcoming banks of the Deschutes River in the Old Mill District in Bend come alive for one of the premier fine art shows in the country: Art in the High Desert (AHD). In its short ten years Art in the High Desert has been nationally recognized year after year accumulating…
(Artwork above: Orphic Oxford by Kelly Thiel) Kelly Thiel’s passion for creativity starts on a small farm in Georgia for the first few years of her life. With nothing much to do, she says she learned how to entertain herself by making mud pies in the dirt. Her mother taught her about plants and gardening…
She is an adventurer. Not of the outdoor sort of bungee jumping, paragliding, backcountry skiing, et cetera, but artist Kim Goldfarb makes her own adventure on a blank board coated with gesso and then taps into the unknown where she creates her discerning and creative mark.“It’s been a very long process to get to where I…
In a quaint sunny studio situated on two acres of expansive high desert land southeast of Bend, an artist’s pastel walls are complimented with discerning evolution from work inspired by the West to the organic freedom of the abstract, all oil and acrylic, all created by artist Dee McBrien-Lee. Though an East Coast native, the…
Local Visual Artist MaryLea Harris Combines Life & Nature by Canvas She is a Jill of all trades. An educator and author, a wife, a mother of two daughters, a greyhound rescue dog owner of two, a rescue cat owner of two, a hiker and nature lover, and a caretaker for fish, tadpoles, and even…
