Art in the Garden Bash

 Featured Artists

ALFRED CURRIER

Alfred Currier spent his formative years in southern Ohio. He taught figure painting at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago, the Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS, and conducted several plein air painting workshops throughout the United States and Europe.

The University of Washington Press, in association with Marquand Books, published Alfred Currier: Impasto, a book written by Ted Lindberg, former Curator for the Vancouver Art Museum. Currier was the cover artist for American Artist Magazine as well as the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles over the years.

Residing in the Northwest region of the United States, Washington State artist, Alfred Currier, paints vibrant landscapes in oil impasto from the studio he maintains in Anacortes. Plein air painting provides most of his inspiration. He often uses the migrant workers in the tulip fields of the Skagit Valley as part of his motif. Currier has traveled widely, painting on location in Greece, France, Italy, Holland, Argentina, Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, as well as the continental United States.

Currier received his formal education at Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio and the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where he earned his degree in Fine Art. His works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He maintains his studio and residence in Anacortes, Washington.

ANNE SCHREIVOGL

Anne Schreivogl is a spontaneous, creative and intuitive artist, and seeks to capture the delights in life onto canvas, in an upbeat colorful style in acrylic. She also paints oil landscapes.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Schreivogl received her formal education at Western Washington University and the Seattle Academy of Fine Art (now GAGE) where she attended as an arts grant recipient of the Anacortes Arts Foundation. She has always carried a pen and sketchpad – whether she has studied in France, taught English in Japan, or during her travels by bicycle across the U.S.

Most recent museum shows include a solo show, “Meditative Exuberance” at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (2018), and art in the “Barn Show” at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner.

She was selected “Best of the West” by Southwest Art Magazine and her work can be found in the collections of the Seattle Aquarium, Island Hospital, Anacortes Public Library, among others.

She has been a featured poster artist for numerous area festivals. She actively juries and judges Northwest art shows, including most recently the Northwest Pastel Society’s Signature Show (2021) and Women Painters of Washington summer show (2015).

She maintains her studio and residence in Anacortes, Washington.

“With my art I seek to transmit the joy I see and feel in everyday moments onto canvas. Birds perched on wires, flowers dancing in gardens, culinary creations, and book scenes are common motifs. My last name ‘Schreivogl’ means ‘screeching bird’ and birds often find their way into my art along with cats who harmonize with them”.

Website: www.schreivogl.com

CHRIS TUOHY

A true renaissance man Chris Tuohy has lived the life of a visual and performing artist. He studied at Cornish in Seattle, La Centre De Dance International in France and received a scholarship to Juilliard in New York City. As a musician and dancer he has performed around the world with different ensembles, big bands and dance companies. He has directed, choreographed, danced, sang, acted and played woodwinds in the orchestras for numerous musicals. His art work has been seen in art shows throughout the Northwest and has been represented on the Camano Island Studio Tour for the last 12 years at his Art Gallery on Camano Island. He is the owner and Artistic Director of Forte Music Dance Art where he is teaching ballet, tap, ballroom dancing, sax, flute, clarinet, voice & piano. Chris is the Director and manager of the Camano Junction Big Band, he has been playing tenor sax, clarinet and flute for Camano Junction for 13 years. He was the Music Director for Old Time Radio Showsthe Summer Arts Jam and the Art by The Bay festivals where his art work was also on display.

JENNIFER BOWMAN

Jennifer Bowman is an award-winning Puget Sound artist who has been exhibiting professionally for 30 years. You can find her work in private, public, and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally. She has been published in various publications including North-light and Quarto Art books, Washington’s Heirloom Birth Certificate and 48 Degrees North. She has been the festival poster artist for Edmonds, Anacortes, Skagit Tulip Festival, Whidbey Island Races and Windermere Regattas.

During her career, she has moved from watercolors to acrylics and is occasionally experimenting in oils. Most of her work can be described as bright, bold, and exciting to experience. As a teacher, she has inspired hundreds of students with her enthusiasm and kinetic energy.

She came to appreciate the quality of light and how different latitudes could affect the way she sees a subject after two years of sailing from Seattle to Mexico and back. This investigation of how light interacts with a subject is what galvanizes her into painting, whether it’s a ferryboat or flowers. She believes everyone is an artist in some way, whether it is the presentation of a fine meal or the construction of a beautiful home, the wording of a contract or the way a mother raises a child. Each of us has the ability to make art. Hers just happens to be in paint and growing Dahlias. She currently has 500 dahlias spread over her and her neighbors’ yards.

KEVIN PAUL

Kevin "Wah lee hub" Paul (born 1960), enrolled tribal member, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Kevin is a master carver of contemporary and traditional Native American carvings. Kevin taught his artistic craft in the La Conner School District from 1994 to 2019. His artist-in-residencies includes: Whitney Elementary, Shoreline School District (for Northwest Folklife Festival), Bayview Middle School. He has taught at the Museum of Northwest Art. Kevin and his art have been featured on KCTS 9/Seattle as a documentary, funded by a Japanese news entity and shown throughout Japan. A second documentary on Lynette Jennings Design/Discovery Channel, airing in 27 countries for nine years. His local art is prominently collected and viewable at the Town of La Conner, the La Conner School District and the La Conner Boys and Girls Club. Kevin's art is available via private commission, which requires interested parties to contact Kevin directly. Art shows are numerous, including a retrospective show in 2013 at the Skagit County Historical Museum. His work is included in locally published books: “The Barn Shows” and the “In the Valley of Mystic Light”. Recent works include an 18 foot, old-growth, red cedar story pole for the La Conner Swinomish Community Library, completed with his son-in-law, Camas Logue, master carver. He lives with his wife, Patricia (an attorney and tribal judge), in the Swinomish Tribal Community.

MARGARET CARPENTER ARNETT

Margaret Carpenter Arnett BSN, ATR was born and educated in England and has lived most of her adult life in the western United States. Artist, art therapist, teacher, writer, mother, and grandmother, she is an accomplished and talented painter. Primarily a watercolorist, Margaret also works with pastel, mixed media, and collage. She is a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society and has participated in juried and invitational shows in the northwest.

Margaret led an art therapy support group at the University of Washington Cancer Center for sixteen years. She has worked as an art therapist in the community at large for the past thirty years, and currently leads a group in Visual Journaling at La Conner Senior Center.

Believing that art facilitates healing both through self-expression, and as a key to the door of the unconscious mind, she published “The Art of the Inner Journey” in 2011, and her memoirs “Invisible Threads” in 2022.

MARGARET HORAK

Margaret finds inspiration daily in the natural beauty of Skagit County. She also frequently creates commissioned works basedon a client’s idea or image. She has created numerous posters and flyers for local events and has donated art works to many worthy local non-profit organizations and causes.

You can find Margaret teaching watercolor painting at Ristretto twice a month on Wednesdays. She also teaches at Mystic Art Supply in La Conner, WA. Contact her for dates and times.

Margaret also offers watercolor painting trips to Morocco (April 2024) and Santa Fe, NM (October 2024).

You’ll notice that her work is generally not under glass. She usesa cold wax technique that protects the art as well as making it easier to see without the glare. Margaret is a member of the Urban Sketchers, Anacortes Sketchers group, Skagit Artists, and The Painted Ladies (a watercolor group). She plans to continue her lifelong passion of artistic discovery through painting and music. Look for Margaret on Facebook (@marghhorak), Instagram (@marghorak) and online at www.margarethorak.com

ROGER SMALL

I make art because I believe my work can make a difference in the lives of people, which ultimately makes the world a better place. As a young art student, my college art professor had a profound impact on my interest in art. It was in his class that I learned to use texture as a means of expression in my painting. This became my favorite tool that I use in everything I do artistically.

While raising my family of four children, I worked as a Union Ironworker. Throughout my 35 year career I worked in every facet of the trade including supervision, welding, and teaching in the apprenticeship program. After retiring in 2007, I was able to fulfill a lifelong dream of working as a fulltime artist. Having the time and resources, I was then able to devote myself to painting daily. This led to the development of my signature palette knife style of painting as well as mixed media techniques.

In 2013 I began designing and building metal sculptures. This progression for me was a naturalone, having had an extensive background in welding and fabrication.

I was born and raised in Skagit Valley, and it’s diverse beauty continually serves as an inspiration for my creativity.