Join us for our First Thursday Reception at the Broadway Gallery on April 4, 5:30-7:00 pm.
Come explore some new mediums by artists Beth Bailey, metal and Julia Martin, non-traditional painting. You’ll be amazed at the unusual means these two artists take to create their art.
Enjoy speaking with the artists, visiting with friends, and having great refreshments while listening to the music by Brad Matthews.
Beth Bailey – Metal Art
Beth Bailey
Many people know me for my pen & ink illustrations and watercolors at the Broadway Gallery. Over the past 4+ years, I have been working with repurposing metal. This started by taking a Metal Art class at Lower Columbia College. It was an enlightening and challenging medium that sparked new visions of creating something more permanent. Many thanks to my instructor, David Pittsley, who encouraged and nurtured my desire to create in this medium.
Thanks to my husband, I had the equipment and his technical help to keep me going outside the college facility. Since then, I have had to purchase some new devices to replace the aging ones. My husband continues to be supportive and advises me when I am welding different metals together.
This display shows some new ideas of repurposing and designs that I have never seen anywhere else. One is whimsical with dragons and a castle while another is a uniquely repurposed shovel design of a wall hanging planter. I love plasma cutting my own designs that are totally freehand. You can see that every piece has its own appeal. Welding is still a challenge due to the different metals I combine. They also can be heavily rusted or thin. It means you have to experiment a little more with the welder settings.
I hope you enjoy the display and will find something that you can take home with you. I also do commission work should you want something special.
Plasma Cut Bamboo Tile
Nature Scenes on Trowels
Orca Whale Outing
Salmon Run
Julia Martin- Non-Traditional Painting
Julia ‘Joules’ Martin
Along Our Walks
Things seen along a walk in the Pacific Northwest
Julia Martin is a Pacific Northwest artist from Longview, Washington. She is a graduate of WWU with a BS in Visual Communications. Showing this April at the Broadway Gallery are a variety of her paintings called “Along Our Walks; Things that can be seen along a walk in the Pacific Northwest”.
Ten years ago she began painting professionally. She started with images of memories from her family’s cabin near Spirit Lake on Mount St. Helens before the 1980 eruption. Their cabin was destroyed that May 18th. Like those of us living in this region during 1980, she too has a great appreciation for the beauty of our forest covered mountains and a healthy respect of nature’s power to transform. You can find her along hiking trails taking photos to bring back to her studio to paint.
The tools she uses to apply paint to surfaces include hair picks, chopsticks and other non-traditional objects. She creates layers upon layers of paint strokes to slowly build the natural textures of mountains, trees, water and clouds.
She is an artist at Smith and Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA. Her paintings are part of many private collections and four are now included in Washington State Arts Commission’s permanent collection.
She signs her paintings with her nickname ‘Joules’. This particular spelling (newtons of energy) is from spending many years riding electric power assisted mountain bikes and producing an e-zine about electric powered bikes and cars in the early 2000s before they became popular.
You can view more of her paintings at JoulesPaints.com.
Blue Moon Mountain
Park Sun Hike #1
Park Sun Hike #2
Ship Set #2