Janelle McMahon: Gemini sensibilities lend intrigue

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Featured in The Springfield Beacon (October 24, 2007)


Janelle McMahon: Gemini sensibilities lend intrigue

By Austin Berger
For the Beacon

“Faces are interesting,” says Janelle McMahon (pronounced Mack-Mahan). “You can tell a lot from them. Good or bad vibes…and they come in all shapes.”

Her love of faces is evident right past the threshold of the door; masks from all over the world adorn their walls. It may be due in fact that she has two faces herself, in the astrological sense. She’s a Gemini.

The astrological sign of the twins, Janelle's Gemini sensibilities may also contribute to her love of the number two, for many things come in pairs at the McMahon house. Two Hemingway Estate cats (as distinguished by their number of toes), two Porsches, two spindles, two magazine articles of her work in the magazine for the National Knitters guild (you heard right, knitters have a guild.); as well as a two-step stairway that leads to her studio. “Two steps up. Two steps down,” she jokes when talking about her commute from her studio to her kiln, which is in the garage.

Her Gemini sensibilities may also lend intrigue towards the dichotomous characteristics of her favorite medium -- glass: a medium to which the 55-year-old Springfield native has been able to fashion into something so straightforward as beads and plates, or to the intricacy of knitted fabric.

Inspiration to begin: “It was a slow grow,” says McMahon when asked about her immersion into the art world. She’s tried her hand at many things, working in health institutions and running her own bookkeeping secretarial service, teaching, and being a mother. She picked up art again when her friend enticed her to come to a knitting class. “We were redoing the house, I had no job…it immediately clicked.” Although she can paint, knit, as well as sculpt, she found her true love in glass -- first in beads, saying that it has “ a warmth, yet a coldness” to it, not to mention it’s ability to catch energy reflected off of it’s surface.

Mentors: Some people would credit Picasso or Da Vinci, or some type of artists in their respective field. McMahon credits her troop leader. Before working with glass, Janelle was a knitter, something she attributes to her long stay in the Girl Scouts, and rightly attributes her longtime troop leader Dottie Venchura as an inspiration. Also, the lion to her twins, she also credits her husband and best friend Michael. And Leone Hanson, who Janelle ranked as a second mother in her life, was a person who would pull no punches about her opinion of what she did. “She was one of those people who’d tell me if I was screwing up…she was the kind of people you could call on.”

Art and the quality of life: Any random horoscope will describe a Gemini as a flighty type, whose dual personality leaves them prone to wandering, lacking a center. Whether this is true or not for people born in late May or early June is anyone’s guess. What is known is that Janelle became a moon of sorts to the art world, in that she found that it could be her center to revolve around. “I learned all different types of art. All different types of people, their reactions to art…it opened that world I didn’t have.”

Art serves as Janelle’s anchor, her center; something she acquired when her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. “I was always running to the coast…I needed to feel and create. I needed to be able to have something work.” In this trying time she found her soul being fed through her glass work. After winning a blue ribbon for one of her earliest glass works, “it was something where I could say: “Okay, this works.”

Her legacy as an artist: If there is one thing that Janelle loves most, it would be her family. Most of her family still remains in around the Eugene-Springfield area. Sooner or later, she plans on giving everyone of her family members a piece of her work. “I want them to have something of mine. It’s part of who I am.” As for the rest of her work, which ranges from jewelry to sushi sets to vases, whoever they go to, she expects some wear and tear. “I make functional art. It’s usable. I want it used.”

You can find her glass works and jewelry for sale at the Emerald Art Center and at the New Zone Gallery in Eugene.

"The Flower" by Janelle McMahon

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About The Artist

Hometown: Springfield, Oregon

Media of choice: Glass

Favorite place to do art: Her downstairs studio (a.k.a. “the eclectic dive”)

Awards: Several prizes -- Mayor's Art Shows in Springfield and Eugene

Favorite subjects: None (penchant for masks however)

Hobbies: Porsche Club

Art Organizations: Emerald Art Center, Springfield Arts Commission, New Zone Artists Collective
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Scott Wylie: Of two minds

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Featured in The Springfield Beacon (October 17, 2007)


Scott Wylie: Of two minds

By Austin Berger
For the Beacon

Some call it symbiosis, or yin and yang, or balance. Anyway you cut it, it’s the making of distinct elements working together. It’s a task that gets added to someone working in the field of designing architecture. It’s doubly daunting to not only pull something out of the creative mists and put it to paper or canvas, but to also make it work in the real world, and give it function. Furthermore, one must balance the function to meet the individual’s needs. It requires a very humanistic touch.

From the Science Walk at the University of Oregon, to the brick work of the corner of Broadway and Willamette, to a house on High Street in Eugene, to parts of Bruce Berg’s photography studio on D Street, Scott Wylie, 61, of Springfield, pulls off the balancing act between form and function with great diligence.

Inspiration to begin:

“I always loved to draw,” says Wylie. A skill given to him by his parents; a father who found an artistic outlet through special effects lighting as a lighting engineer, and his aesthete mother who saw to it that he visited all the museums that the Boston area had to offer.

Growing up in an area which blended architecture from the modern times to the 1700’s, New England proved a great place to be inspired by architecture, prompting Scott to go to Rhode Island, and later to Rome to study. “It really had a powerful influence on my outlook on art and design from that point on…I had ideas awakening.”

With ideas still awakened after his year in Rome, he followed an old professor to the University of Oregon, a part of the country he often romanticized. Scott remembers riding in the back of a pickup truck around the Fall Creek area and how the air suddenly changed from dry firs that surrounded the outside of the Willamette wilderness. “The air went moist and sweet. Palpable as going into a curtain,” he said. After that, he became “very Oregonian.”

Up until 1998, he did all of his sketches by hand, until he was “liberated” by an Auto CAD class given to him by his wife as a gift. “It did everything I expected it to do.” Now the seemingly impossibly long designs, every individual brick and rock can be laid by a digital representation.

Mentors: Scoot Wylie's mentors in crafting his skill are also masters at the balancing act of different concepts. He cites Leonardo da Vinci, a man of science as well as a man of art, along with Pablo Picasso, who traversed between the figurative and the abstract. As for designers, he credits Frank Lloyd Wright, whose organic approach balanced the needs of the client and the natural environment surrounding the home. He also credits the Greene Brothers, whose bungalow style blended, along with architecture and landscape, the Arts and Crafts Movement with Asian design.

Art and quality of life: The contribution of the arts to quality of life has been great to Wylie. He says that he found his center in the art world, but there’s something more to it. It is within art itself that one can take multiple contradicting objects, theories, concepts, and make them work together. It is the art that is, as Wylie puts it, “the great unifier.” He feels a connection to other artists. “I like to think of them as my kin.” Oddly enough, art also turned him into a bit of a football fan. “It’s like an art … I love watching it being done really well. I love watching athletes enjoying it.”

His Legacy as an artist: Scott's legacy has been left in stone and brick for many of his works. While he wishes his legacy to be specific and clear, “something that somebody can take with them,” he wants his legacy to be something, in a word -- mathematical. Wylie knows a bit about math: graphical expressions of 4th and 5th and 6th dimensions, algorithms, the Fibonacci sequence, all sorts of things. Most importantly, he wishes that the next generation will see it in a “fractal” kind of way, that even at the very farthest and the very closest points, there’s something happening. “There's always something new to see.”

"Science Walk" by Scott Wylie

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About The Artist

Hometown: Danvers, Mass.

Favorite place to do art: Anywhere, for one can find seeds of inspiration “in the most Spartan of places.”

Favorite medium: “Anything I can draw with.”

Favorite Subjects: No job too big, no job too small.

Arts Organizations: Emerald Art Center; Springfield Arts Commission.

Awards: Six public commissions.
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DeVon Tanton: Nourishing the Inner Child

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Featured in the Springfield Beacon (October 10, 2007)


DeVon Tanton
Nourishing the Inner Child

By Austin Berger
For the Beacon

Her work makes one think what would happen if Norman Rockwell moved out to Eastern Oregon during his prime; a plethora of cowboys, snuck kisses, curious kids, animals, and images of the Old West. Showcasing a Bull Elk at this years Mayor’s Art Show at the Emerald Art Center, DeVon Tanton of Jasper has honed her portraiture skills to precision with a near lackadaisical drive in the best way possible.

Inspiration to Begin

DeVon is the first to admit that her mind is the farthest thing from a business mindset. She’s won awards, but can’t really name any. She has mentors but has trouble remembering their names. Her answer to her art is simply this: “I love to draw.”

It’s reasonable to argue that DeVon's inclinations to art are encoded somewhere in her DNA; lying somewhere in the autonomous nervous system somewhere near the areas which tell her to breathe, and to keep a heartbeat, and all the things that our brain handles for us and never really give thought to.

DeVon's art skills came naturally as a child. No defining moment, no turning point; it simply was, and still simply is. Ever the conservationist, many of her earlier drawings as a child were done on ripped up brown paper bags from the grocery store. Many resulted from her anger because whenever she would do something good in her eyes she would later wish she had done it on appropriate drawing paper. For the Nevada native, it appears her art doesn’t require much conscious thought -- a practice that becomes so natural and constant to her as brushing teeth comes to others.

Important Mentors

The similarities between the nostalgia showcased in her work and Rockwell is no coincidence. Coming out of the era that he depicted, DeVon always had an affinity for Norman. “He made stories out of his pictures and he depicted humans when things were simple.” She also notes his love of painting children, a favorite of hers as well.

Value of Art in life

DeVon's art is her therapy, a muse born out of dream world imagery that sometimes borders on the macabre. It is her core, her release, her treat and her pastime.

“I used to have these dreams…where I hid a tiny baby in a cigar box.” These dreams went on for years, where she would come back to the box to find the baby dead and shriveled. One day she told a doctor about this dream. “He told me that the child was my talent and that I was hiding my talent.” She then went “off the deep end” as she put it, into the realm of portraiture, and in doing so fully exposed her “child” and kept the dreams at bay, so long as she was doing art.

Her artist’s legacy

Even at 69 she still finds herself the student, seeking to perfect her skills as a portrait artist, wishing to leave her mark with them. “I want to learn to do portraits (of people) so well that people are waiting for them to come alive. I want to put their soul into them.” Everything from life’s joys to its hardships, are written on a face, according to DeVon. She intends to capture it all.

"Bull Elk" By DeVon Tanton

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About The Artist

Birthplace: Elko, Nevada

Arts Education: Fashion Design, Modeling, various classes at Emerald Art Center

Media of choice: Oils, China Paints, Pastels, Acrylics

Favorite place to do art: Her work station in her living room, which has a view of the Willamette River and the Pleasant Hill area.

Favorite subjects to paint: Portraits, especially children

Arts organizations: Emerald Art Center

Currently Showing: Mayors Art Show (October, 2007) at Emerald Art Center

Nada Zawodny: Caricature artist turns hobby into retirement career

Featured in the Springfield Beacon (October 3, 2007)

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Nada Zawodny

Caricature artist turns hobby into retirement career

By Austin Berger
Springfield Beacon

If you were at the Lane County Fair this summer, you probably saw Zada Zawodny's one dollar portraits under the arm of some kid -- probably one of the best deals found at a fair. Or you may have seen her full-scale portraits of other authors and painters. With a dollar and a few minutes, she can paint your portrait without hesitation. Even Lane County commissioner Peter Sorensen got one. What began as a small gig at a fair has now generated some buzz for the 81-year-old Springfield native.

Inspiration to begin: Her caricature drawings began in her words as, “one of those goofy things.” After graduating from the oldest accredited art college in the country, her quick draw caricatures became something of a hobby for her over the past 40-50 years, doing them whenever she was asked. Zawodny retired in the late ‘80s after a very respectable career in advertising design in the Eugene/Springfield area; working along the entire spectrum, from freelancer to art director.

After retirement, she became a director at the Emerald Art Center. After awhile, she decided she was much happier simply being a member and enjoying the classes. Last summer she was approached to set up shop at the Lane County Fair. It was her first time ever doing something like that. A local newspaper article generated a buzz for her, and now she’s taking her pencils and paper to golf courses, retirement homes, and to anyone who has got a buck or two and a few minutes of time.

Important mentor: Her mentor and inspiration to become an artist came to her at a very early age -- three to be exact. Visiting family on vacation in Louisiana, young Nada met her great aunt Norada Bond, a professional artist who would sketch her family while sitting down at the table. While Norada would watch the family, Nada would be watching her. “And I knew…I said ‘when I grow up’ I want to be an artist.” Much to her enjoyment, she made good on it.

Value of art in life: After making that agreement at age three, and following through on that promise for the better part of 78 years, it comes as no shock that Nada finds life without art as something existing in the realm of impossibility. “It’s our history. It is color, it is line, it is shadow. Without it, there wouldn’t be anything really.”

Her Legacy: As far as leaving a legacy, Zawodny hasn’t given much thought to it. She has two children who’ve done remarkably well. While her daughter has three degrees and works as a controller for a large non-profit, her son carries the artistic torch, making a name for himself as an architect. Her own drawings may go to her family and friends, but her drawings are like photographs -- capturing moments in time and pinned down onto paper -- awaiting the next generation of viewers.
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About The Artist

Birthplace: Rose Point, Montana

Arts education: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising Design: Art Institute of Maryland; numerous classes from local art schools

Media of choice: Pen and Ink or Pastel

Favorite place to do art: A studio her son built for her at home.

Favorite subjects to paint: “If there are no people in it, the picture’s not a finished painting to me.”

Arts organizations: EEAA, Springfield Arts Commission
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Gloria Tinker: Native American Spirituality Captured on Canvas

Note: In early September, Todd Peterson had to move on to other work responsibilities but will contribute to "50 Artists" from time to time. He extends his appreciation to all the artists he has interviewed and to the staff of the Emerald Art Center.

As time permits, Todd will update this blog with the articles written by other contributing writers for The Springfield Beacon.


Featured in the Springfield Beacon (September 26, 2007)

50 Artists: 50 Years of Art in Springfield
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By Brian McClellan
For the Beacon

Gloria Tinker
Native American spirituality captured on canvas

Each watercolor or oil painting of Gloria Tinker will traverse you through the world of Native American spirituality with it’s images of flowers, animals and people. Her detailed strokes and choice of color not only captures the life of her idea but also infuses it with the ideas of spiritually and healing. “Art has to have a melody,” Tinker says.

Tinker, a native Oregonian, was born part Native American and an artist. Being an artist since childhood, her first award was won in sixth grade for a rendering in chalk and crayon of cave men hunting a mammoth.

She started down her path to spiritually in her forties. Questions like “Who am I?” “Where Am I going?” “What difference does it make?” plagued her mind and affected her art. She found her answers in Native American healing and spirituality. It was then she started to attend their ceremonies.

With this new spiritual paradigm, Tinker learned to see the bigger picture, the bigger light. “The more you know the more you don’t know,” she says.

These new ideas translated themselves into her art. Medicine art, she explained is different from her other works by its use of narrative. Now her art ability has transgressed beyond the simple mechanics of a paint brush. The ability to see is important. “It’s not just green,” she said. “There also might be yellow. It’s the skill of seeing by closing your eyes.”

Today, after attending to University of Oregon, Lane Community College, and Eugene’s school of Commercial art, she teaches water color and oils at Williamalane Parks and Recreation. Her class’s pictures can be seen at Terese’s place on Sixth and Main, next to the Wildish Theater. She’s been in numerous galleries, at one point she even owned her own gallery and ran her own exhibitions.

What or who inspired you to begin your work as an artist? – Without a T.V or siblings she was left to her own musings and so she turned to painting.

Did you have mentors to guide you? – She was guided by her spirit, painting whatever she found interesting. For example, she explained that six months she would only paint horses with water colors. This led her to try various different subjects.

What difference does creating art make to the quality of your life? – Art is every where Tinker said, “It’s in nature. It could be butterflies at play, or a beautiful person. Art is the imitation of what we see in nature everyday.”

"Imagine" by Gloria Tinker

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About The Artist

Birthplace: Seattle, Wash.

Arts education: Lane Community College, University of Oregon, and Eugene’s School of Commercial Art.

Media preferred: Watercolor and oils.

Web site: www.ArtistGloriaTinker.com
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All art images and photos of the art are copyright of the artist.

"Blue Frog" by Gloria Tinker

"Pansies on Parade" by Gloria Tinker

"The Smile" by Gloria Tinker

Mary Henley: Paintings stand as a reminder for her life

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Featured in the Springfield Beacon (September 19, 2007)


Mary Henley
Paintings stand as a reminder for her life

By Brian McClellan
For the Beacon

For Mary Henley, old barns are like artifacts. In her life-like watercolor paintings of old barns she captures the broken windows, the decayed wood, and the chipped paint which capture the story of an earlier time.

Henley and her husband Gordon moved to Springfield in 2000 from Springfield California. They had moved to be closer to their two sons, but upon moving discovered she needed spinal surgery.

“She wouldn’t have made it to the hospital, only forty- five minutes away.” Mr. Henley said. That’s when they really became thankful for the move. Their other house had stairs which had the potential to do more harm. There was also more advanced medical help in the Springfield and Eugene area then there was in their California town.

Henley’s skills in art range farther then just watercolors. She’s played with pastels, paint and sculpting. Without any formal training her sculptures retain beautiful life like traits, confirming her amazing wide ranged artistic ability. An art gallery of Las Vegas once commissioned her to sculpt an entire series but unfortunately due to arthritis she was unable to finish it.

Originally she went to college in Bakersfield, California for a nursing degree, but instead she fell in love. She was married in Lindale, California and has been married for fifty-eight years. They have two sons and one daughter. Art seems to flow throughout this family. They have a grandchild who is currently enrolled in Portland Art Institute. Henley’s husband helps with building the frames for his wife’s paintings.

Since the move to Oregon, Henley has taken it slow -- only painting small things like invitation cards. But her paintings stand as reminders, not only of places in her life, but as monuments of her amazing talent.

In her own words:

What or who inspired you to begin by our work as an artist?

Nature and old buildings inspire her life-like water colored paintings. Each nature setting is inspired by a story and every old barn was an actual location. Henley has been painting for sixty years, but even before that she was an artist. As a child in elementary school she won her first paint set in an acting contest.

What difference does creating art make to the quality of your life?

“It makes my life very enriched.” Her old barns stand as relics of another time she explained. “Artists are special people. They’re Historians. Throughout the history of mankind artists have left artifacts for future generations to find."

What legacy as an artist would you like to leave for future generations?

“I do old barns, old buildings so the young don’t forget what happened and so we have a record.”

"Morning Gossip" by Mary Henley

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About The Artist:

Birthplace: Sterling, Oklahoma

Arts education: Self-taught

Media of choice: All forms of media, but prefers watercolors

Other hobbies: Gardening
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Deborah Weese: Painting the world the way she wishes it would be

Writer's Notes: Walking into Deborah and Guy Weese's home offers a visual feast of Disney characters of many shapes and sizes. Shelves on three walls are covered with her favorite characters from Disney cartoons. I've never seen such a large collection in one place -- outside of Disneyland, of course (and this collection may even top that!).

Deborah and I went out to the backyard for our conversation about her art. We sat in chairs in her garden of bamboo (a small forest), a large palm tree (largest I've seen in Oregon), a small pond with a curving bridge passing over it, stone statues amidst lots of ornamental grasses, and an abundant pear tree (plus a very friendly cat!). Some photos of the garden are featured in my story in June about Guy Weese.

In our interview, Deborah noted that she had designed the new poster for the Springfield Mayor's Art Show coming up in October. As a cat lover with many cats in the family, two of her furry ones provided the reflected image featured on the poster.

When I asked Deborah my "artist's legacy" question in our interview, she told me a touching story that made it clear why she thought she'd be remembered more for her photography than for her paintings.

Several years ago when she and Guy were photographing a wedding at Heceta Head, she had taken a photo of one of the attending grandmother's walking the path up to the lighthouse. Just moments after she had taken the photo of the grandmother smiling radiantly as she held a colorful "rainbow" umbrella, the elderly women dropped to the ground. She had died instantly. Somehow, after attempts were made to revive her, the wedding party decided that grandmother would have wanted the wedding to go on. So in the midst of their shock over her death, the couple had their wedding ceremony.

Deborah didn't immediately tell the family about the photo she had taken and was concerned about showing it to them when she was presenting the wedding photos for their review. Thankfully, the family expressed their gratitude to Deborah for the joyful photo of their grandmother in the last moments of her life.

Fast-forward to a weekend last month (August 2007) when Deborah and Guy were at Heceta Head and decided to take a walk up the path up to the lighthouse. On the way, they noticed a bench for people to rest on during their walk. When they sat down on the bench, they noticed a plaque on the backrest. The plaque noted that the bench had been dedicated to the memory of the grandmother Deborah had photographed at that spot on a wedding day so many years ago.

Quite a story. We never truly know what life will bring in the next moment (except whatever comes in the next moment and the next .....). And a photographer captures just one moment of a person's life . . . a brilliant sunset at the beach . . . a cat looking at itself reflected on a window glass . . . or a smiling grandmother on a granddaughter's wedding day.

When we finished the interview and returned inside to Deborah's studio, she showed me the painting she was currently working on. The forest surrounding a lake and waterfall was nearly completed and she was planning to place a big brown bear into the scene. As you'll see in the newspaper story below, Deborah has a deep affection for animals and a sentimental heart. Her oil paintings and pastels of nature scenes always have a place for an animal whose home is the sacred ground she is capturing on her canvas.

I look forward to seeing more of Deborah's work at the Emerald Art Center in the future and to spending more time delighting in the beautiful world she envisions in her paintings.

More photos of Deborah Weese's paintings follow the newspaper story.

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Featured in the Springfield Beacon (September 5, 2007)

50 Artists: 50 Years of Art in Springfield
Celebrating arts and culture in our community

By Todd Peterson
For The Beacon

Deborah Weese
Painting the world the way she wishes it would be

Deborah Weese, an accomplished professional photographer, loves to paint the gentle side of life -- an idealized world like Disneyland. She enjoys being an "over-the top" sentimentalist who paints warm, fuzzy animals in a Disneyesk style.

In her home, Deborah has an amazing collection of Disney characters in many sizes and types. Several shelves are covered with Mickey's and Minnies, Pluto's, and the other Disney favorites of her childhood (and adulthood).

Among the animals Deborah paints with oils and pastels are many cats -- cats with names like "Simba" and "Shadow". Most of the cats have been a part of her life at home. Most recently, Deborah designed a poster for the Springfield Mayor's Art Show that featured two of her cats.

An active member of the Emerald Art Center since the downtown gallery opened in the Fall of 2004, Deborah created the initial website for the organization. Now her husband, Guy, does most of the on-going maintenance of the site which has been viewed by thousands of people living in countries throughout the world.

Deborah and Guy have done wedding photography together for over 16 years -- enjoying the process of capturing the precious moments of celebration for many newlyweds. In her work as a photography professional in a hospital setting for several years, Deborah has photographed a wide variety subjects -- from technical medical photos to very heart-wrenching photos of babies with their parents for the last time.

Deborah Weese has seen the beautiful and the tragic through the lens of her camera. Her joy is seen in her paintings of a kinder, gentler world filled with delight (and lots of warm fuzzies!).

In her own words:

Inspiration To Begin: "I was influenced most by Disney films (we went to Disneyland at least once a year). I can't recall not drawing and painting as a child. Now I work as a professional photographer and paint for the sure joy of doing it."

Important Mentors: "Of course, Walt Disney (who I never met). And the Old Masters -- Van Gogh and several other Impressionists. In photography I've had lots of influences -- Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Annie Leibovitz among others."

Value of Art in Life: "My art connects me spiritually with the Creator. It causes me to see -- to really appreciate what I see -- and not take things for granted. And it connects me with people who I never would have met."

Her Artist's Legacy: "I expect I'll be remembered more for my photography than my paintings. I've had some amazing moments of connection with people that will live on in the photos I've taken of them. As for my paintings, I haven't mastered oils yet but I'm having fun trying!"

For more information about Deborah Weese and to see additional images of her art, visit the blog: www.emeraldartcenter.blogspot.com and the art center's website: www.emeraldartcenter.org.

"Hidden Mickey" by Deborah Weese

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About The Artist

Birthplace: Pasadena, California

Arts Education: Lane Community College (graphic design); art and photography classes at Maude Kerns Art Center

Media of Choice: Oil and pastels

Favorite Place to Do Art: At home in her studio (anytime night or day)

Favorite Subjects To Paint: Animals (warm and fuzzy); nature (tall trees)

Arts Organizations: Emerald Empire Arts Association


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All art images and photos of the art are copyright of the artist.

"Panda" by Deborah Weese

"Sheep After Jerry Dame" by Deborah Weese

"Cougar Falls" by Deborah Weese