Gallery Artists Our Gallery features Modern Realism and work with Craftsman, Art Nouveau & Pre-Raphealite influences by outstanding local artists. Please stop in to refresh your senses... You will find the perfect greeting card for any occasion, lovely artwork to grace your walls, or something sparkly to complement your neckline. Remember to drop in every Third Thursday to meet our featured artist during Edmond's Art Walk. We hope to see you soon! The images on this page are hot-linked to the artist's website - if they have developed one. Please click on individual images to explore a particular artist's work further! Fox Dream - Watercolor - 2005 Autumn Kegley's work draws from nature, as she has always loved biology and botany as well as artistic creation. She would like her art to provide a reminder of the essential physical and spiritual human connection to the natural world. Within our homes we can sometimes cut ourselves off from the magic and majesty of the outdoor world, uncreated by human hands. In many of Autumn's pieces, she has equalized the scale of human and plant forms to emphasize their connection as organic structures. Autumn is also a romantic, and loves the Pre-Raphaelite painter's literary visions. Her work leans towards the illustrative tradition they sought to resurrect from the Renaissance. Autumn hopes to provide a Jungian continuance of mythology in her art, connecting the viewer with nature using current and ancient symbology. Creating a loving and dedicated representation of some detail in nature, whether it is a piece of driftwood, a flower, or a landscape view gives it importance to other people. Autumn wants to help others anchor a spiritual connection with nature through intimate images that draw them in to appreciate the immortal beauty of life around us. Anax Walsinghami (Great Darner) - Watercolor, Pen & Ink - 2006 Salomé Murray is an emerging Northwest artist quickly becoming well known for her detailed drawings and paintings of natural subjects. Her most recent collections have focused on bringing to light the intricate anatomy and spectacular color of beetles and butterflies. Her art reflects a lifelong love of nature, scientific mind and eye for detail. Salomé studied art at the Seattle Academy of Fine Art and Pratt Fine Art Center, then went on to receive her Certificate in Scientific Illustration at the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited at the Burke Museum of Natural History, the Woodland Park Zoo, and other venues supporting natural science illustration. Salomé is an active member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and Northwest Illustrators. Distressed Window in Murano, Italy - 35mm Photograph Claudia Walker was born and raised in Germany, and moved to Seattle in 1982. Over the last 25 years she has taken photographs as a self-taught artist, capturing impressions of a variety of local and more distant places in the world. Her photos include landscapes, architectural scenes, plants, people, and objects of everyday life that have a still life effect. Through photography and Polaroid Emulsion Transfers, Claudia shares beautiful and often peaceful images of our world that give the viewer a sense of tranquility. Serene Trail Tree - Oil - 2003 Roy E. Hughes lives in Snohomish where he creates artwork in watercolors, oils, and digital media. After receiving a degree in art education from the University of Washington, Roy pursued a career in public education for 20 years. In 1998, Roy took a refresher course in watercolors and renewed his interest in painting. As an ardent hiker, Roy combined this love with painting and began painting scenes of the North Cascade Mountains in oils. From here, he gravitated to creating such scenes on the computer in the form of digital block prints. Roy has been influenced by Japanese wood block printers such as Hiroshige and Hosukai. He also loves the travel posters done by Maurice Logan and Norman Fraser in the 1920s and ‘30s for railroads in the US and Canada. Roy's North Cascade digital block prints proved instrumental in earning his selection as artist-in-residence at Glacier National Park during July and August of 2005. Roy continues to work in watercolors, oils, and digital block prints. Azalea Way - Hand-tinted Photograph Barbara Kalhor has been handcoloring  photographs for over twenty five years. In the tradition of the turn of the century photographers who tinted their black and white images, she applies oil paint to the surface of the prints. A muted palette and a sense of distant space characterize her work. The paints allow for a manipulation of color and depth that bring out the solemn tranquility of the rural landscape. She is interested in creating an awareness of time passing-  focuing on ordinary scenes that change with the seasons and evoke the past. Driving or walking in the county provides a respite and allows her to collect beauty. Born in Philadelphia and educated at the Museum School in Boston, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest where the fog and overcast sky lend a sense of place to her current work. War of the Poppies - Watercolor - 2004 Peggy Goldsmith was born in Canada, raised in Hawaii... and has been a long-time resident of Edmonds since moving here in 1950. She began selling her paintings at the age of twelve and has been doing so off and on ever since. Watercolor was a media readily available to her as a child, and she has continued to enjoy its versatility and challenge ever since. Following her first show in Edmonds in 1953, Peggy has displayed her work in many venues throughout the Puget Sound area, Oregon, and Hawaii. Many of her watercolors feature flowers readily available from her lovingly tended personal garden. She teaches to a select few students out of her Edmonds home, and says she "keeps at it" at eighty-plus because painting and teaching focus her life. Summer Sun - Pastel on La Carte Paper - 2008 Cheryl A. Hufnagel considers painting one of the greatest joys of her life. As a life-long resident of the Seattle area, she is awed and inspired by the beauty that surrounds her in the Pacific Northwest. Each day brings a uniqueness that compels her to paint. She hopes to convey a sense of peace and joy to viewers, and a desire to experience in actuality what they are looking at: the sunlit landscape, silky cat, or spring bouquet. With the medium of pastel, Cheryl finds the freedom and immediacy to capture a motif without needing to mix paint. Each artwork takes on a life all it's own and turn out differently than imagined, surprising her! The process is ever-changing, and keeps her intrigued, growing and motivated to continually exceed her grasp. The Quiet - Colored Pencil/Graphite - 2003 Donna Leavitt finds that making art is having a contract with an idea. Drawing, to Donna, is a meditative experience where she enters a world of calm reflection and interpretation. Sometimes (often) the result is a surprise! Like many people in the Puget Sound, Donna has a great affinity for trees and the out-of-doors. She likes to take a non-traditional look by bringing the viewer's focus up close to examine shadows and textures for an intimate visual experience. Her choice of introduced negative space is a deliberate visual interuption to keep the drawing from becoming too photographic. With the insertion of leaf forms the graphite is contrasted by the use of colored pencil... Donna is currently at work on a series of colored pencil drawings of stones. These silent witnesses of the earth's doings intrgue her and she enjoys exploring their shapes and wonderful colors. As with most of her work, she takes a close up view in order to bring focus to the immediate - a segment of landscape, if you will. Lampworked Bead Necklace Jane Cucchiara's passion, even at an early age, was art. Her photographic pursuits developed into the production of greeting cards. From there her interests branched out  into Calligraphy, Sumi Brush art, Papermaking, and Transfer Collage. Jane is an artist who enjoys working in a variety of media.  Except for a few night school classes, she is self taught. After moving to Washington in 1997, Jane started to design jewelry. She seeks to create distinctive designs - hoping each one will be timeless, something passed down from mother to daughter. This search for the unique has inspired Jane to create her own glass beads. She will soon will be creating every component of her jewelry as she's recently learned how to fabricate metal. Jane admits - she's addicted to art! Chairs - Cut Paper & Calligraphy Sharyn Sowell loves her scissors and uses them to cut out scampering children, rambling wildfowers, and dancing fairies. Each design is cut freehand from a single sheet of paper, often using the scissors her mother kept in the kitchen drawer when Sharyn was a child. She loves simple things... paper, scissors, glue. Sharyn's work celebrates the everyday miracles we often ignore. Surround Yourself With That Which You Wish To Attract - Oil on Canvas Roxanne Jaross was born and grew up in Pacific County, WA; a sparsely populated region of colorful people, surrounded by ocean beaches, rivers, and forests nestled in the Willapa Hills. It’s known as “The End of the World”, a place where people love life and treasure the natural beauty of their environment. She went on to study fine art at Oregon State majoring in painting and drawing and in 1983, moved to Everett, WA where she lives and works. Her compositions range from detailed studies in graphite & colored pencil to large oil painting impressions of animals, people, colorful plant shapes and giant floating seashells, and a series on dark chocolates. Roxanne exhibits her work in several local galleries, annual festivals, and private and public offices. The Restorative River - Medium Format Photograph Thomas A. Sawtell's photography of Pacific Northwest rivers and streams began in 1971 as a student at The Evergreen State College in its first year of classes. By 1980 Tom had managed fish hatcheries and fish health programs in Washington and Oregon and moved on to become a fish biologist for the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. There, after the 1980 eruption, he surveyed the fisheries habitat of the Green River, Kalama River, Pine Creek and tributaries of the North Fork Lewis River. Tom’s intimate daily work in the watersheds of Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams left him forever enchanted by the sublime beauty and restorative capacity of river, forest, and fish life to resurrect life in the shadow of volcanic devastation. Tom’s work demonstrates that he has come to know nature and the spirit of natural places with the camera before his subject at that special moment when the photograph becomes more story, more interpretive tale, more of a visual poem, than printed image. The stories revealed in his work go to the very heart of the forest wilderness and its place in the American mind. Foggy Walk on Ruby Beach - watercolor on rag paper Eugene Erickson was born in Everett, Washington and graduated from the Burnley School of Art & Design in Seattle. During his career as an illustrator he created retail advertising and worked as an artist for the Boeing Company. Eugene has been a longstanding member of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, and participates in member shows, as well as showing at a number of Northwest galleries. His current interest is in Northwest marine and landscape scenes. Dock at Leschi - Oil on Canvas - 2004 Michael Friel has shown extensively in the Northwest and has been included in shows at the Frye Art Museum and Whatcom Museum of History and Art. He received a BFA from the University of Washington, and has taught oil painting at the Gage Academy of Art since 1995. Sandhill Crane Pair in Flight (Platte River, Nebraska) - Digital Photograph - 2004 Ray White is a biologist specializing in stream habitat restoration for trout and salmon. He earned BA, MS and PhD degrees in zoology from the University of Wisconsin, worked as a State of Wisconsin biologist, and taught at several universities. Retired from Montana State University, he and his wife live in Edmonds. He now serves as a consultant on fishery issues in North America and Europe. Long an avid birder, hunter, and angler, he recently concentrated on bird photography, and travels worldwide to pursue it. His photos are sold in the Seattle area and have been featured in several publications. "3640" - Watercolor on Rag Paper Patricia Taynton graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a realist whose primary subjects are equines and wildlife depicted in watercolor, tempura, gouache and acrylic. While creating life-like animals, she enhances her subjects with the extra dimension of spirit. Taynton has exhibited in the U.S.A., Europe and the Middle East. Her work has been commissioned by the Franklin Mint, Defenders of Wildlife and the World Wildlife Fund, as well as being selected by the National Wildlife Federation for use in their stamp series. Pat moved to the Olympic Peninsula in 2000, and is a juried member of Women Painters of Washington. She hopes her paintings will encourage people to take a closer look at the natural world surrounding them. Cat Nap - Colored Pencil on LaCarte Paper Beth Wright's love of painting as a young child gave her a strong sense that she would grow up to be an artist. Over the last 35 years she has fulfilled this vision, from illustrating several children’s books, designing a fortune-telling playing card deck and now drawing portraits of people's pets. Originally a painter in acrylics she has transferred over to color pencil. She uses the pencils the same way she painted, layering color upon color to get the desired effect. Beth has always been comfortable with viewing her world in a whimsical way. The feeling of seeing a blossoming daisy against a clear blue sky or a contented sleeping cat on its favorite blanket is like magic to her. She wishes to create this feeling in her artwork and to pass it on to the viewer.                                              Autumn's Framing & Gallery seeks to promote and develop local artistic talent. If you feel your artwork might be a good fit for our gallery concept, please email us at: gallery@autumnsframing.com  Include a biography and/or artist's statement and attach one to three jpeg sample images of your work indicating the media, size, and retail price. Your biography/artist's statement helps viewers to connect with your work, and is an important tool in it's promotion... so take the time to develop these if you have not yet done so.