Welcome to The Wild Rivers Coast Art Online Gallery for artists living and working in Brookings, Oregon. Each artist's portfolio or website can be viewed by clicking on the artist's name so you can view more of the art that interests you. We hope you enjoy perusing this wonderful collection of art.
Brookings/Harbor Artists
Audi Stanton took a first place in the Professional Division of the 2009 Brookings Azalea Festival.
Audi also took the coveted "People's Choice" Award at the 2009 Goldrush Festival in Gold Beach with her watercolor "The Vagabond".
Audi was a graphic designer for over thirty years. She now teaches drawing, acrylics, and watercolor in Brookings in addition to painting and showing her own beautiful work. See Audi's recent florals and seascapes.
Jean Beebe has been creating porcelain art for the past twenty years. She paints porcelain plates, vases, bells, ornaments, and framed art pieces, in addition to the freeform creations she has developed. Jean has a large gallery in her home and invites you to visit. E-mail her at jeanbeebe@charter.net. Items on Jean's website are available for purchase using PayPay or a mail-in order form.
Sandy Bonney works mostly in pastels. She has received regional and national awards for her work, including two in the prestigious Pastel 100 Competition. Sandy's subjects include people, animals, and landscapes. You can see more of Sandy's stunning pastels on her website or at Signatures Gallery on Chetco Avenue in Brookings.
Sara Dee Broderick is an artist and an art instructor. She loves watercolor and pastel for many paintings and especially for the figure, oil for seascapes, and has fun creating whimsical clay sculptures. Sara teaches drawing and painting at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Brookings and drawing and painting at College of the Redwoods in Crescent City, California.
Len and Violet Burton. Len paints in oil, Violet is a photographer. Both enjoy capturing the local sights. They accept commissions for both photos and paintings of you on location in your favorite local spot. Gallery of Len's oils and Violet's photographs coming soon!
Pete Chasar uses a minimum of detail to paint large, realistic landscapes and seascapes often described as "serene." He also creates bold geometric sculptures and abstract expressionist paintings. Pete's artwork can be seen at Words and Pictures in Brookings, as well as at the Rush Gallery in Gold Beach.
Michelle Curtis creates "one of a kind" pottery at her studio in Brookings. "My pieces are all inspired by the natural wonder God created all around me in the beautiful little costal town of Brookings, Oregon where I live.
The pieces of art [I create are] all made from various leaves and flowers, pressed into midfire stoneware clay, and then glazed with a special technique I developed which utilizes the color theory behind how a water color painting is developed. By using water color theory I can achieve incredible depth, variety, and brilliance of color. However, by applying my glazes like this, I am not able to exactly replicate the glazed appearance of any two pieces of pottery, which makes each piece truly "one of a kind."
I strive to make pieces of art which are high in quality, very unique and yet affordable. I have always been attracted to gallery quality art when enjoying the work of other artists, and have driven myself to only present pottery which is comparable in quality, yet still affordable for the average person.
My artwork is only available at the few, selected shows I attend each year, online, and at only a select few local outlets along the southern Oregon and northern California coast. See more of Michelle's art on her website.
Deborah Dudley's WILD BEAUTY Dried Floral Design. Deborah Dudley moved her dried floral design business, WILD BEAUTY, from Michigan to Brookings in 2005. Her designs, including Christmas wreaths, centerpieces and candle rings, will be included in Manley Art Center's Christmas Bazaar and Open House on December 5, 2009. Custom orders are welcome for home decor, gifts and seasonal arrangements.
Billie Ruth Furuichi, art activist and poet for over thirty years, is a fabric and digital artist, as well as a workshop facilitator. Her work interweaves movement meditation, sacred dance, silk painting, haiku, original music and reframing techniques. Billie Ruth is currently working on an innovative dream-fiction project, "Beating Back the Darkness - Anchoring the Light".
Kathleen recently completed a historical mural of Mary Adams Peacock, who delivered the U.S. Mail with her string of mules between Grants Pass and Crescent City.
She now lives in Smith River, California, with her husband, three dogs and two horses.
Manuel V Lopez knows the sea intimately. He spent 30 years as a commercial fisherman. His love of the sea and its diverse creatures is reflected in his expressive sculptures of stone, bronze, and wood.
James McCarten Inspired by the varied texture and light in nature, James uses oil and canvas to portray his "journey of imagery and color".
Michaeline McDonald is a jack of all trades artist. Her art mediums include painting, sculpting, and jewelry making. Michaeline also enjoys painting large murals. The subjects she paints vary widely as well. Michaeline considers herself an artist that is here to portray as many of life's loves as she can including animals, fantasy icons, fairy cats, and portraits! You can commission a portrait of a loved one or a child, a pet, a totem animal, or a favorite place or event. Michaeline enjoys recycling jewelry boxes and other items into pieces of art.
You can purchase her work locally at the Winchuck Gardens Nursery in Brookings or visit her website to commission or buy one of a kind pieces of art.
Christina Olsen In addition to her whimsical originals in every size and shape, Christina has a wonderful line of Greeting Cards and framed and unframed Prints, as well as Plates, Bowls, Trivets, Platters, and Mugs.
Destiny Schwartz is "inspired primarily by nature, including politics and American culture in relation to it," and she has "devoted the past couple of years to making shrines and reliquaries to insects, lichens, twigs, seaweed, birds, etc..." You can meet Destiny and see more of her work at Eye for Art Gallery.
Bette Sherbourne creates collages, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and mixed media artwork. Her work is so purely creative that she usually does not know where the piece is going until she feels it is time to stop. Bette has been juried into many shows and her work can be seen in Brookings and Gold Beach art galleries.
Eva Marie Tanner-Klaas offers original paintings and prints, garden art, bookmarks, and earrings. She also accepts commissions for cat portraits done in watercolor, acrylic, or pastel.
Valerie Tucker works primarily in oils and water media. Her award-winning paintings have been shown on both coasts. In 2009 Valerie moved from the
Dale Wells Cars, boats, flowers, trees, landscapes, city scapes, whatever is in front of him - Dale has fun painting and creates watercolors that bring a smile to the viewer also.
Jam Session - recent mixed media painting by Horst Wolf
Horst Wolf has won many awards for his watercolors, and participates in juried regional, state, and national art shows. He moved to Brookings in April 2001 and is very active in the local art community. His work can be seen at Words and Pictures Gallery in Brookings and in a number of other Oregon galleries.
