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 Alfred Currier
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I’ve had an intrinsic interest in art for as far back as I can remember. The world could be crumbling around me and my art would still be there. It is my friend…it is my safe haven.
My work takes on two basic faces. The first and oldest is my plein air painting. It is simply a response to nature and it’s environs with all it’s complexities. For me it is a time of great enjoyment probably equal to a fly fisherman in peak season or sailing on a broad reach with waters of glass. The most challenging part of plein air painting is the weather, but for a seasoned painter, you learn to adjust and cope. This would be my most comfortable or safest work.
The second and most demanding part of my work is my studio painting. These are impasto paintings and generally large in format. I start them with pencil sketches and try to make the subject matter take a rear seat to color and texture. With these paintings, I’m constantly drawing from within, which pushes the anxiety level to great heights. Trying to be creative, archival, and establishing my own identity would be my goals in this work. The key to this work is getting yourself in that certain mental zone where you lose all concepts of time and space. This would be the most rewarding part of my work with also the greatest risks of failure.
In the end, for me, art is about the process of doing, and not the end product expected.
-Alfred Currier
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 Anne Martin McCool
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Anne Martin McCool traces her painting roots to the landscape, a theme prevalent throughout most of her work. Her constant inspiration has been the Northwest, with its abundant water, its gray skies, its tall reeds portray the landscape through her use of recognizable symbols and themes. The earth, the seasons and our relationship to them, all play an important role in her subject matter. Her expressive works have both mystery and spontaneity, and are often compelling narratives that invite the viewer to become part of the visual process.
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 Art by Thais
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Thaïs Armstrong began painting as a child while growing up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. During her college years, she was accepted into the Associated Colleges of the Midwest India program and spent a year learning the language (Marathi), living, studying, and traveling in India. It was her first trip out of the United States and it changed her life forever. She graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa with a degree in Comparative Religious Studies with an emphasis in Eastern Religions. Grinnell College hosted her first solo art exhibit in 1984. Opportunities to pursue a business career led Thaïs to weave her way through the world of finance and attempt to create art in her spare time. As her career became more technical, however, the energy she could allocate toward painting faded proportionately. Her pre-eminent dream has been to pursue her art full time.
Thaïs decided to take a year off from her financial planning career and travel around the world bird watching in 1995. That year evolved into six years of birding, painting, writing poetry, and overall soul searching. Thaïs has just returned to Skagit County with massive amounts of enthusiasm for rendering her experience, her travels, and insight through art. Her internationally influenced watercolors evoke the essence of a situation, whether it be a landscape, a portrait, or an abstract.
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