Art

I am a self-taught neo-surrealist artist with contemporary tendencies based in the beautiful Tri-Cities. I find inspiration in the greater Pacific Northwest. I work with a variety of mediums that include watercolor, oils, ink and acrylics, clay and other forms of media that I find interesting and challenging. My artwork is inspired by the human condition, science and religion, metaphysics, war, peace, music, evil and the divine, poetry, freedom and redemption. I am a professional artist from Ephrata, WA who began painting at eight years old. I am also the founder of the growing brand-project New Art Order. My murals and artwork have been exhibited around the region in places such as RAW Artists network (rawartists.org/davidv35), Roasters, Numerica Credit Union, DrewBoy Creative, El Aguila Pasco, and El Fat Cat Grill. You can learn more about my artwork by visiting davidv35.com.

Humaniscapes

Sena Clara Creston

We are not just passive observers of our world, but active participants. Just as we are shaping our environment with our actions, the landscape influences our perspective and hope for the future. Humaniscapes is a series black and white photographs exploring unintentional collaborations between humans and their environment. Sena Clara Creston is a professor of Fine Arts and Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University, Tri-Cities, where she collaborates with engineers and considers the complexity of culture in the modern, mediated world.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

By combining her passions for paper, natural fibers and repurposing, Malaura Bricker

creates “visually tactile experiences;” unexpected textured collages which can be gently

touched while viewing. Malaura creates layers using sourced and artisan crafted papers

with gathered flora and fiber elements which are then repurposed into a new texture.

Grasses, bark, leaves and flowers are added to upcycled threads and strands to create

works which are both aesthetically and tactically pleasing. The geography surrounding

her roots in Eastern Washington inspires many of her works.

The triptych “Three Sisters” is available for purchase by contacting the artist directly at

malaurabrickerart.com.

I have been creating professionally since 1997.

My mixed media works can be found throughout the country in several private collections. I explore with texture, line and color in an attempt to understand myself and my universe; where I fit into it, how I affect it, and how it affects me.

I paint and draw, but I am primarily an urban sketcher. Founder of the ‘Urban Sketchers: Tri-Cities’ group, and the ‘Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers' Sketch Crawls’ which, to date, have been held in San Francisco, Portland, and San Diego. Pen, ink and watercolors.

I create art to rediscover myself. To me, art is a communication tool, a bridge between idea and real life.

I paint mostly watercolor on paper, but also enjoy drawing and sketching. I find inspiration from everyday life and show my appreciation through painting.

I spend a great deal of time studying nature and painting local scenery out of doors--striving to capture the essence of the scene and portray the nuances of sunlight on the form. With a primary medium of oils, I paint in a loose painterly impressionistic fashion. I am both teacher and student and have been making art in multiple forms for most of my life.

I am a native of Pasco, Washington who finds countless sources of inspiration in the country life I lead. I am passionate about using a variety of media: watercolor and pen & ink drawing are among my favorites, although oils, torn paper collage and fiber arts are also high on my list. My work has been shown in combined and solo exhibits and can be found in many private collections around the country.

I focus on painting the landscape and flowers in oil and watercolors. I prefer to work ‘plein air’. My recent works include a series of ‘portraits’ of sagebrush that explore the many colors and shapes of this common regional shrub.

I am a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Washington Native Plant Society. I have recently illustrated the scientific papers describing two newly discovered wildflowers of Washington State, both rare plants: Lomatium Knokei and Phlox solivagus. My preferred medium is watercolor, although pen and ink is the method in which I create technical drawings for botanical illustrations.

My work explores the magnificent play of light and shadow on an outcrop of columnar basalt. I am inspired by nature. Found objects, such as stone, feathers, twigs, and leaves, are celebrated when they come together in a mixed-media collage.

Waste is often the subject of my work, both the everyday kind we all generate and the scarier nuclear kind that we live with here in the Mid-Columbia. I depict Hanford, especially B Reactor, with acrylic, pencil, watercolor and rubber stamp ink marks. For this project, I used ink and markers to show Rattlesnake Mountain behind a Hanford fence and departed from that theme to show new vineyards as they first spring up from the dirt.

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, I attended Wayne State University and graduated with a Masters Degree in Art Education. While I taught, I pursued my passion for drawing and painting in pastels, watercolor and oils. I came out to the Tri-Cities for the wine business and became active in its vital art community.

I am mostly a local sketch artist. I enjoy sketching places that are well-known around town and where people meet and share time with friends. My media of choice is pen and colored pencil but I also work in watercolor and acrylic.

I have had a passion for art all my life. In high school, I studied privately with a teacher from The Arts Student League of New York who taught a Rembrandtic style of painting. Recently I have been pursuing ‘loose watercolors’ and ‘plein air’ painting with oils trying to capture our local terra.”Rembrandtic style of painting. Recently I have been pursuing ‘loose watercolors’ and ‘plein air’ painting with oils trying to capture our local terra.

I love to paint and draw things that stir me emotionally and that can be people, places or things. At this time, 2015, I am painting primarily in watercolor but I appreciate oils as well. These drawings are also something I love to do - pen and ink and sometimes adding a watercolor wash.