Stephen Isley welcomes Shelle Lindholm as his featured artist for the September 6^th Gallery Night. 

 

Meet the artist and view her work at 241 Central Avenue, Thursday, September 6^th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

 

Shelle paints animals with attitude.  Her primitive painting style has developed through years of exploring the versatile medium of acrylics and is strongly influenced by textiles and folk art from around the world.

 

“ I paint the spirit and spunk I see in animals as they root, romp and rest just outside my studio door.”

 

This painting, entitled, “Flower Girls”, portrays “the lovely ladies of Big Sky Country casually bouncing their way to the next grazing ground”.

 

 

Kathy Martin - September - The Purple Pomegranate

The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring work by Columbia Falls artist, Kathy Martin during the month of September. Kathy uses watercolors and a variety of mixed media to express her art. The arts and making things have been part of her life for as long as she can remember. From her first blue ribbon for a dress that Kathy made on an old treadle sewing machine at age 8 to her present day work with watercolor and mixed media—she has always experimented in art. Her first experience with watercolor was in the mid 1990s. After trial and error and a couple of community college classes Kathy fell in love with watercolor. Her all-consuming career as a 6^th grade science teacher eventually took over and she put her paints away for a time. Painting, drawing and sculpting remained part of her life during her homeroom class and Kathy looked forward to art day every week. She taught basic art skills and let her students have fun with what they had learned. She developed an interest in mixed media from many of the lessons she presented to her students. A health collapse in 2008 ended her teaching career.  With encouragement from a friend Kathy picked up her brush and paints and began to paint. Painting has been a large part of her healing journey. After months of healing Kathy started to share her love of watercolor by teaching classes. Kathy's wish is that her students find the freedom of watercolor as joyful and healing as she does.

Kathy speaks about her work, "Watercolor allows me to express the joy and peace I find in my Montana home. Using vibrant colors and the freedom of watercolor helps me share my interpretation of my natural surroundings and the hope I find in the ancient and contemporary messages that are scattered throughout the state and continents. I am fascinated by the effect of paint, scratches and layers on a rough rock wall. Mixed Media textures allow me to build an expression of these same ancient and contemporary messages."

Meet Kathy during Whitefish Gallery Night, Thursday, September 6, 2012 from 6-9 PM. Kathy's work will be displayed during the opening and throughout the month of September.

Thomas G Lewis - August Featured Artist

Come on in to The Gallerie at Piney Creek tonight and see the newly painted featured artist wall that will showcase the works of Tom Lewis, a resident of Bigfork.

Tom's childhood experiences led him to become very familiar with the American West's landscapes and heritage.  He draws on this background extensively as he paints in both oil and watercolor to create lively pieces featuring everything to the iconic cowboy to beautiful landscape scenes.

We hope to see you tonight for this month's Gallery Night!

Going To The Sun Gallery Is Proud to present Artist/Sculpter/ Jeweler, Rochelle Lombardi for Gallery Nights, Thursday August 2, 2012. 
Rochelle is a local Artist whose bronze sculptures are collected Nationwide.  She enjoys sculpting the horse as well as the animals of Glacier Park.

  She is also a Jeweler, of fine quality 14K gold and Sterling silver one of a kind pieces.