Ceramic

STUDIO 24: 2933 Westview Circle, Lake Oswego

Andy Vessely is a long-time Lake Oswego resident who has been making pottery for over 40 years. He attended school in Lake Oswego and was fortunate to enjoy the outstanding ceramics programs run by Jim Wylder and the late John Lortz. He continued studying ceramics at OSU and the University of Oregon, where he graduated with a degree in Geology. His high-fire porcelain and stoneware pieces are strongly influenced by classical Asian pottery. Strong flowing forms, textured surfaces, and multilayered glazes resonate throughout. Favorite glazes include traditional temmoku, celadon, crystal mattes and Oribe.

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Mixed Media

STUDIO 19: 5870 Lakeview Ct, Lake Oswego

Anita Reuther is a lifelong Oregonian. She has lived in Lake Oswego for many years. Art has always been important to her. Anita had a high school art teacher who was very supportive and greatly expanded her passion for art. Watercolors, printmaking and drawing held her attention for a long time. Currently her work is mostly mixed media. In these pieces there could be citra solv papers, hand stained papers, hand decorated papers and whatever else may add to the piece. She uses Citra Solv and National Geographic Magazine pages to create these stained papers.

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Printmaking, Drawing, Painting

STUDIO 29: 3260 Winkel Way West Linn

Beate Scheller moved from Germany with her family and now resides in West Linn. While in Germany, she received a degree in advertising and design. She completed her BA degree in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking at PSU. Since then, she has worked in different printmaking techniques, mainly with Lithography stones, but also with copper and zinc plates. Her drawings are done with ink pen and pencil, colored here and there with pencil or watercolor. Along with the black and white printmaking, she always painted. Her paintings are more colorful, creating landscapes and nature inspired images with a twist.

Beate is sharing Studio 29 with Carrie Clegg Gilbert

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Mixed Media

STUDIO 12: 2 Independence Ave. Lake Oswego

Mixed media painter Beth Yazhari collects delicate fragments of antique lace and embroidery from different cultures and combines them into intricate compositions that reference both East and West. By rescuing discarded doilies and pieces of folk embroidery and recycling them into her beaded paintings, she intentionally collaborates with the creative spirit of women of the past. Her globally inspired pieces, with their rich detail and intricate symmetry, are sometimes compared to Persian carpets. Yazhari is drawn to themes of spirituality and social justice, and she often incorporates symbols and designs from various faith traditions in her paintings.

Beth is sharing Studio 12 with Keri Bloom.

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Pen, Abstract Acrylic, Art Studio

STUDIO 17: 5000 Lakeview Blvd. Lake Oswego

It was always Betsey Reid’s dream to open an art studio and in 2006, that dream became LakeStar Art Studio. She is currently working with pen drawings, abstract acrylics and teaching. She has always always enjoyed exploring new ways to grow her craft and refine her artistic abilities. Sharing what she knows and building a sense of community through art is what she loves most. Over the years, She had the opportunity to teach hundreds of students - young and old. LakeStar Art Studio is truly a magical place. Once you experience it, you understand. She invites you to come, join her, and find your inspiration at LakeStar.

Betsey is sharing Studio 17 with Dennis Portz.

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Pastel

STUDIO 33: 12812 Alto Park Rd. Lake Oswego

Bithia Bjurman is an Oregon artist working with the medium of soft pastels. Her growing body of work shows the distinction of her interests--painting food, wine, books and whatever else strikes her appreciation for the Pacific Northwest. Bithia is a signature member of the Pastel Society of American and the Northwest Pastel Society. She is also a member of the International Guild of Realism, the Pastel Society of the West Coast and the Pastel Artists of Oregon. “My goal is to share that twinkle in time that makes us pause, reflect, and enjoy the simple pleasures.”

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Watercolor

STUDIO 7: 2900 Wembley Park Rd. Lake Oswego

Bonnie Moore was raised in a rural logging and ranching community in Eastern Oregon. She developed a love and appreciation for the incredible gifts creation has to offer. Bonnie likes to capture and share what she discovers in nature that excites her, be it the colors, texture or subject matter. She enjoys the transparency of watercolors. She likes the challenges it presents along with the different papers, and mediums to create texture and special effects. Her way of using line and color are to evoke a sense of mood and movement in her work.

Bonnie is sharing Studio 7 with Ha Austin, Becky Clark and Denise Hershey.

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Mixed media, Printmaking

STUDIO 29: 3260 Winkel Way, West Linn

West Linn artist Carrie Clegg Gilbert creates layers of texture, meaning, and color through a combination of painting, printmaking, and collage techniques. With each layer she hopes to introduce the viewer to new ways of thinking about the image's subject matter or even subvert their initial assumptions. She keeps a constant eye out for ways to give new life to cast-off materials through her art to offset the environmentally-unfriendly effects of many traditional art media.

Carrie is sharing Studio 29 with Beate Scheller.

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Waxed Powder Painting

STUDIO 3: 783 Eight St. Lake Oswego

Corey S. Pressman is an artist, author, and university professor living in the Pacific Northwest. He is a member/owner of Portland’s Blackfish Gallery and shows at various galleries and public collections around the country. Corey has pioneered a method of mark-making he calls "waxed powder painting" and facilitates workshops on this method at PNCA and elsewhere. He has published academic works, stories, and poetry. Corey teaches in the Integrative Health and Wellness program at University of Portland.

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Watercolor

STUDIO 21: 5226 SW Dawn St. Lake Oswego

Deborah Marble is a watercolor painter. She particularly enjoys drawing and painting the human figure, some still life and a little landscape. She loves watercolor for its unique ability to swirl and blend. Her interest in drawing goes back a very long way. She became a physical therapist. Working with patients was helpful in her ability to draw the figure. She has also worked as a courtroom sketch artist since the late 1980’s. She and her husband have lived in the same house for 47 years. They have two grown daughters, one of whom illustrates books for children.

Deborah is sharing Studio 21 with Abigail, her daughter.

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Jewelry

STUDIO 7: 2900 Wembley Park Rd. Lake Oswego

Denise Hershey is the creative force behind Gaia’s Song Jewelry. Denise’s passion is making one-of-a-kind nature-inspired jewelry that looks and feels harmonious. She makes fine silver and sterling silver pendants, earrings, and toggles for necklaces, all made with unique and interesting semi precious beads that she finds in her wanderings.

Denise is sharing Studio 7 with Ha Austin, Becky Clark and Bonnie Moore.

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Ceramic

STUDIO 17: 5000 Lakeview Blvd. Lake Oswego

Dennis Portz is originally from a small town in eastern Iowa near the Mississippi River. He has been a member of community studios since 2006 and selling at markets since 2007. Pottery is his side business, he works full time in horticulture at a plant nursery and fruit and vegetable farm. His main focus of pottery is on function ware such as mugs, cups, bowls, and planters. Those designs explore lines, dots, and color. Texture has always fascinated Dennis, much of his work is either matte or unglazed on the outside. Underglazes and color have also been major components in his work.

Dennis is sharing Studio 17 with Betsey Reid.

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Pastel, Oil

STUDIO 28: 6787 Maple Ct. West Linn

Elaine Daggett Aye connects her love of the environment and nature through her artistic approach to landscapes, nature scenes and birds. Often her paintings provide the viewer an insight to a location that they may not have experienced themselves. Color, light and movement play an important role in her pieces. She hopes that her artwork demonstrates her love and passion for the natural world. Many of the images that you see have been inspired by birding, cycling and hiking experiences around the Pacific Northwest and abroad.

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Printmaking; Painting

STUDIO 11: 104 Kingsgate Rd. Lake Oswego

Fran Victor is a professional artist who has traveled around the world, painting, studying art, languages and people. Living in Europe and attending art school in Florence, Italy has given her a strong background in classical style painting and portraiture - working with charcoal, pastel oil paint and printmaking. She has an ability to move from the real to the surreal to the symbolic and is now working on large scale contemporary oil paintings. More recent work is derived from “stream of consciousness” techniques, utilizing color and subject matter to invoke subconscious images

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Ceramic

STUDIO 23: 2766 Greentree Rd. Lake Oswego

Karen Haugan Tomlinson is the artist behind Greentree Art Studio. She has been working with clay for 17 years, creating forms that have a modern sculptural shape and understated glazing. Her full line of ceramics can be seen at naturestudyhome.com. She has been fortunate to share her love of ceramics with the many students that have attended Greentree Art Studio. Students participating with Karen: Mindy Dyk, Malorie Hall, Lindsay Huish, Dora Suhrer, Nicole Weirman, Denise Tritcak, Rimma Gurevich, John and Chloe Goalby.

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Ceramic

STUDIO 7: 2900 Wembley Park Rd. Lake Oswego

For a long time, Ha Austin put off using the artistic side of her brain and pursued a path in science and healthcare. She wandered into a ceramics classroom one fine day and was immediately overtaken by the endless possibilities and freedom to explore and express her artistic side. Since relocating to Oregon in June of 2009, she has focused on crystalline glazes and Sgraffito techniques in high-fire kilns. The more she learned, the more she realized that working in clay combined science and art and she found herself right where she wanted to be.

Ha is sharing Studio 7 with Becky Clark, Bonnie Moore and Denise Hershey.

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Acrylic

STUDIO 30: 461 SW Alderwood DR. West Linn

Harold Oxley’s interest in art began around the age of four when he made a drawing of an airplane in the dirt with a stick. He doodled and drew his way through grade school and saw an original oil painting for the first time at university. He subsequently changed his major from industrial design to fine arts. Harold’s work is based on specific subject matter such as; a stack of laundry, a bird’s head, as well as more random and spontaneous thoughts, feelings and ideas. He also believes that whether his work is representational or abstract, it is in some way a self-portrait.

Harold is sharing Studio 30 with Sara Swink, Jim Wylder and Susana Sandmann.

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Calligraphy

STUDIO 14: 4368 Snowbrush Ct. Lake Oswego

Holly Monroe ‘s mission is to feed the soul by making meaningful words beautiful. As a lettering artist, aka calligrapher for the last 43 years, she’s in the business of making well-loved words come alive in a visually expressive way. They may dance across the page in delight on a greeting card, convey dignity or gratitude on an award, inspire heartfelt emotions on a broadside or bring an old world look to a family tree. Throughout the years, she has incorporated detailed decoration and illustration into her designs, which help to bring greater interest to the words.

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Stone Sculpture

STUDIO 1 : 941 Cumberland Rd. Lake Oswego

For his stone sculpture, Ian Madin looks for pieces that have been naturally quarried by water, gravity and time, and that have unique shapes and patinas. He shapes and polishes the stone in order to open a window into the fresh interior, and to develop tension with the ancient natural surfaces. Much of his current work uses basalt from the Columbia River Gorge, which combines elegant curves with smooth planes and crisp edges. The natural surfaces are painted with earth tones and patterns in iron oxide, which contrast with the dark polished surfaces. Ian also works with colorful rhyolite and welded tuff from Eastern Oregon.

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Acrylic, Watercolor

STUDIO 4: 460 2nd St, Suite 459A, Lake Oswego

Ingrid Dohm’s paintings capture the intensity and the very essence of her relationship to art. Floral images, from her earliest childhood, have always remained the linchpin that would lead her to further explorations for her artistic expressions. Ingrid has seriously attempted other avenues of expression, such as portraits and abstract painting, but personal satisfaction has always eluded her. Even in painting landscapes, a floral image may crop up here or there and often overtake it to become a floral landscape or a floral garden landscape. Still life suffers the same fate.

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Watercolor, Mixed Media

STUDIO 27: 3151 Cottonwood Ct. West Linn

Jan Rimerman is inspired by the evolution of changing forms of light and shadow in nature. Her botanical work presents organic shapes and the rhythm of plants in gardens of the Pacific Northwest. Painting in layers allows the watercolors to glow and appear three-dimensional. Rimerman studied at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and City University in London, England. Graduate studies were done at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Jan is involved in the Rain Spark Gallery, Lake Oswego Reads, the Visual Art, and is serving as Coordinator/Curator of the Dee Denton Gallery of the Lakewood Center of the Arts in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

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Printmaking

STUDIO 13: 5836 Suncreek Dr. Lake Oswego

Jani Hoberg is a printmaker influenced by the natural beauty of the Northwest and Hawaii. Combining flora and female forms has driven her work for several years. Her first printmaking classes were at Lewis and Clark College and The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. Jani was interested in direct observation drawing and etching was a natural addition for her. Using intaglio techniques, images from her sketchbooks are drawn into copper plates. She inks up the plates, and the image is printed into cotton paper via pressure from being run through an etching press.

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Mixed Media, Acrylic and Oil

STUDIO 25: 17802 Hillside Way, Lake Oswego

Janis Jennings Snyder is an artist and designer living in Lake Oswego. As a mural artist in the 1990s to 2008, Janis’ work could be seen in homes and businesses throughout California, Tennessee and New Jersey. Today, Janis specializes in mixed media, acrylic and oil painting. She is inspired by the beauty of the Pacific northwest, as well as so many beautiful places she has seen in her travels. It’s no surprise that landscapes and floral beauty inspire her work, although she loves the freedom of painting abstracts as well. Janis is always fond of sharing her experience with budding artists.

Janis is sharing Studio 25 with Rose Walsh.

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Jewelry, Instructor

STUDIO 22: 1625 Meadows Dr. Lake Oswego

Lake Oswego silversmith and instructor, Jeri Bee is a lifelong creative human that until 2017 chose a career in healthcare over pursuing her creative voice full-time. She is happiest when creating with others. She believes everyone has a creative voice, and fostering that voice is vital to navigating the journey of life. Jeri’s practical approach is reflected in her minimalistic, nature-inspired jewelry and her welcoming down-to-earth instruction style. She’s a busy bee, and on most days can be found sharing creativity time with others, and designing hand-crafted jewelry from new, reclaimed and up-cycled materials, that is both stunning, and affordable for all.

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Woodworking

STUDIO 34: 1081 Forest Meadows Way, Lake Oswego

Jim Diamond is a wood artist. All of Jim’s work originates on a wood lathe. He works exclusively with salvaged lumber which comes from trees which have ceased to live for natural or unnatural reasons. Jim looks at his work as extending the spirit of those trees, into another form, which can last for years to come. Jim has exhibited work in local galleries and at the Coast, as well as many private and joint shows.

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Ceramic

STUDIO 30: 461 SW Alderwood Dr. West Linn

Jim Wylder has been sifting materials and ideas to find his voice. For Jim, materials and processes are always at the service of ideas. The storage jar is thrown on the pottery wheel in a three-hour session. Slowly the form is developed in a throw/fan dry cycle to completion. Paper is added to the clay in a ratio of 25 grams of paper to 25 pounds of clay. This mix is similar to adobe and is very strong. Handling of the pottery will reveal a pleasantly light form with a tactile surface.

Jim is sharing Studio 30 with Sara Swink, Harold Oxley and Susana Sandmann.

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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Digital

STUDIO 26: 18483 Ray Ridge Dr. Lake Oswego

Kasey Wanford looks at her abstract paintings like she’s reading tea leaves. She makes intuitive marks without much mental focus. If she sees something there, she’ll enhance it to bring it forward. Kasey uses highly fluid paint, like acrylics and inks on paper or canvas, to form an organic structure and then layer in more angular elements with collage or linework. The primary goal is to uncover a hidden world or a feeling. Later, thoughtful refinement brings everything together to make something finished. The same process happens for her digital abstract art, although it comes together much more quickly and spontaneously.

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Watercolor, Pen, Pencil, Charcoal, Block Printing

STUDIO 20: 18610 Benfield Ave. Lake Oswego

Katie Ross loves to capture images she sees in nature that inspire and captivate her . She approaches her art with emotive and high contrast colors, striving to capture expressions of light, revealing the mysteries within the interstitial spaces. She began drawing portraits of her favorite musicians and authors many years ago. After years of working in architecture and design she returned to art full time which has currently evolved into pen with watercolor and block printing. Katie explored, lived and worked in Hawaii for many years and spent many hours swimming with sea creatures. Much of her art reflects memories from these moments.

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Jewelry, Mixed Media

STUDIO 12: 2 Independence Ave. Lake Oswego

Keri is a mixed media artist living in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She is an avid up-cycler who loves giving new life to vintage items, whether it be creating statement necklaces from fabulous vintage costume jewelry or adding hand-painted designs to leather purses and vintage suitcases. She also paints colorful murals and landscapes, and her richly detailed creations feature everything from beautiful nature scenes to tributes to Van Gogh.

Keri is sharing Studio 12 with Beth Yazhari.

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Textile, Assemblage Sculpture

STUDIO 15: 15868 SW Kimball St. Lake Oswego

Kris’ passion is beautiful objects. Art and craft has been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. Kris is a wanderer at heart and cannot pass by what catches her eye; a bit of shell in the sand, a polished stone in the water, a textile with vibrant color and texture. Her philosophy is to design with passion and joy and to let her creativity shine. Kris looks for what speaks to her and what the piece wants to become.

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Painting, Printmaking, Collage

STUDIO 18: 5373 Lakeview Blvd. Lake Oswego

Leslie Peterson Sapp explores the interplay between our present and past without sentimentality. Drawing inspiration from the subjects of found vintage snapshots, classic film noir, and our ancient heritage, her aim is to evoke a sense of wonder and contemplation. Born and raised in Oregon, she moved to New York City and attended Parsons School of Design and The Art Students League before graduating with honors from The City University of New York at Queens College. She returned to Oregon and has lived in Lake Oswego for 10 years. She has exhibited extensively on the west coast and beyond. She has volunteered for the Arts Council of Lake Oswego on the Public Art and Gallery Without Walls Selection Committees.

Leslie is sharing Studio 18 with Randall David Tipton.

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Acrylic, Oil, Encaustic, Cold Wax

STUDIO 31: 520 SW Colony Dr. Portland

Lynn Hennagin is a non-objective, abstract artist. Art has always been the vehicle through which she has found it easiest to express herself. She creates it because she has to; it brings much joy to her life. Lynn enjoys acrylic painting as well as oil and cold wax and she has recently added encaustic painting to her repertoire. Each of these mediums possesses a unique character of its own that helps to enhance her vision. Her work is still evolving and she looks forward to years of new ideas and techniques with paint.

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Watercolor

STUDIO 2: 1232 Andrews Rd. Lake Oswego

Drawing upon her experiences of travel and interest in nature, Mary Burgess expresses herself through painting, watercolor in particular. She is especially interested in the effect of light and shadow on her subjects. Each painting is begun with a colorful wash which acts to provide unity, and masterful color shifts reflect the subtleties found in nature. The paint is glazed, one layer over another to achieve a rich and complex color palette. Mary Burgess studied art at the University of Oregon and the Ohio State University where she received a degree in Art Education. Burgess is a resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and a flock of four chickens.

Mary is sharing Studio 2 with Tom Willing.

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Oil Painting

STUDIO 6: 930 Westpoint Rd. Lake Oswego

Nancy Tongue expresses her passion for color and light through bright impressionistic oil paintings, featuring florals and landscapes. Her work is at The Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery and The FREED Gallery. She has been the subject of a television documentary and her work has been featured in other media such as the book “Lake Oswego, A Great Place to Live”, the television show “Grimm”, and the Harrison Ford movie “Extraordinary Measures”. A native Oregonian, Nancy taught Art Literacy in the Lake Oswego School District for 10 years. She is a member of Oil Painters of America & American Impressionist Society.

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Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

STUDIO 18: 5373 Lakeview Blvd. Lake Oswego

Randall David Tipton’s work derives from direct observation of the locations he frequents; the forests, creeks and wetlands near his home. He tries to understand what is most compelling and whether he can make an image of it. With minimal use of drawing and photo references, he will construct a framework upon which to improvise. During the pandemic, a more conscious attempt at pure abstraction has been his focus. These too have a feeling of landscape, even though his intentions are more formal. They involve a classic question of balancing form and substance with atmosphere.

Randall is sharing Studio 18 with Leslie Peterson Sapp.

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STUDIO 5: 778 Cabana Ln. Lake Oswego

Regina Atwood is a native Oregonian. She is grateful to be able to take advantage of painting en plein air (on site outdoors) six months of the year in our beautiful state. She mainly paints in oil but also enjoys watercolor and acrylic. She also paints in Maui as much as possible. Upcountry vistas looking down on the ocean and the many wonderful beaches get Regina excited for a day of painting. Painting is an expression of subjects she loves and various experiences she has had. It is her passion to create, and a challenge every time she picks up her brush.

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Painter

STUDIO 16: 16636 Lake Forest Blvd. Lake Oswego

Rosalyn Kliot art making has been an integral part of her life since a very young age. According to her mother, she began making scribbling motions on the floor as a toddler and she began a lifelong endeavor. Making art has been her joy, therapy, and meditation. Extensive travel throughout eastern and western Europe, the U.S, Canada, Mexico, the Middle East and Southeast Asia have influenced her use of color and exploration of subject matter, which includes but is not limited to nature and urban settings. As an immigrant she combines influences from my Eastern European background with contemporary western processes.

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Mixed Media, Oil, Bronze

STUDIO 25: 17802 Hillside Way, Lake Oswego

Rose Walsh’s current body of work deals with a delicate process of remembering something of value. Process is paramount, and these pieces are created in layers, just as memories are layered one over the other. This journey began for her with the experience of not being able to recall her mother’s face. She has spent considerable time contemplating the phenomena of memory, the unseen, and sometimes the unknowable, and how that is expressed in art. such as house, paint, gold, and She uses materials such as metal leaf and reflective mylar in her paintings in bronze, and the loss wax techniques in her bust and face sculptures, have symbolic meaning relating to her childhood home, of church, she attended, as well as, people of some of whom I can’t quite remember.

Rose is sharing Studio 25 with Janis Snyder.

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Ceramic Sculpture

STUDIO 30: 461 SW Alderwood Dr. West Linn

Sara Swink makes clay human and animal figures with a psychological stance. Her hand-built sculptural work imparts ideas through fragments of narrative, often with a humorous edge. She often uses collage to gather inspiration, recombining and developing ideas through sketching on paper and in clay. Sara likes to riff and doodle, one idea leading to another, in an endless progression of a personal narrative that reflects and feeds her inner life. She uses a gritty sculpture clay, incises into the clay, bisque fires, finishes with oxides, underglazes and glazes, then fires to cone 5.

Sara is sharing Studio 30 with Harold Oxley, Jim Wylder and Susana Sandmann.

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Woodworking, Furniture Design

STUDIO 9: 6040 Lakeview Blvd. Lake Oswego

NOTE: Shea’s studio will BE OPEN ON SUNDAY 10/15 ONLY.

Shea Vollstedt is a custom furniture maker located in Lake Oswego, OR. He sets out to create each piece with the utmost care for the design and details that define his work. His clean, contemporary style is founded on the traditional techniques of fine woodworking. Having apprenticed under master craftsman, Gary Rogowski, Shea ventured out to start his own business in 2018. It is now the one-man shop that is Vollstedt Furniture and Design. In addition to building, he enjoys teaching and collaborating with other artists in the area. He runs a woodworking program for local high school students, as well as teaching private classes from his studio. Shea has been recognized locally and internationally for his work, and continues to hone his craft.

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Mixed Media, Encaustic, Oil, Acrylic

STUDIO 8: 15110 Boones Ferry Rd. #221, Lake Oswego

Susan Greenbaum was born in Ohio and reared in the then-small town of Naples, Florida. Currently, she paints daily working with mixed media and cold wax, as well as encaustic painting. She loves being surprised by what happens to the paint, and then enjoys the challenge of trying to make it work with artistic harmony while keeping the liveliness from which it began. Susan’s work is intuitive and comes out of a “conversation” she has with the surface. “Each stroke is in response to the whole as created by the previous stroke.”

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Encaustic, Acrylic

STUDIO 10: 12926 Rogers Rd. Lake Oswego

Susan Jensen has been painting for 36 years and teaching for 30. Her work has evolved in many directions and she loves the process of making art. It brings out a feeling that is calming and centering. Susan works with encaustic painting, using beeswax and damar resin, heated on a palette. Each layer of wax applied, whether clear or colored, must be fused to the layer below. This method is older than oils, so has been tested well. She just loves the surface work and the feel and smell of the beeswax.

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Ceramic Sculpture

STUDIO 30: 461 SW Alderwood Dr. West Linn

As an intimate self-portrait, Susana’s work aims to narrate emotions, memories, dreams, cultural impressions and experiences. Those narratives are rooted in the merging of two worlds at a personal level: her life growing up in Argentina and the life she built in this country. Figures of women are the dominant images in her work. They offer a rich canvas on which to express her narratives, since it’s through our bodies that we communicate different aspects of our identities. Susana finishes her ceramic pieces in diverse media, ranging from underglazes and overglazes, to artist’s oil paints, acrylics and encaustic.

Susana is sharing Studio 30 with Harold Oxley, Jim Wylder and Sara Swink.

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Woodworking

STUDIO 2: 1232 Andrews Rd. Lake Oswego

It has been over 50 years since Oregon artist Tom Willing created his first woodturning in his father’s wood shop. Since then, he has come to focus on pieces that are sensitive to the interplay between light, form, and material. “Working with both native and exotic species of woods, I seek to find the visual magic within the form of each piece of timber that is waiting to be revealed.” In addition to his sculptural display work, he designs pieces that combine the aesthetic and functional, such as bowls, pepper grinders, and platters. Willing’s work is elegantly finished on the lathe with walnut oil and beeswax, then buffed to bring out the natural luster of the wood.

Tom is sharing Studio 2 with Mary Burgess.

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