Photo of Artist at Play Sandra Stowell
www.firstraven.com

 

Artist's Statement: I work with a variety of media with a particular interest in print making and sculpture, and I don't go far without colored pencils. I save and use my own images in an assembly and collage process, and enjoy the layering and combining intrinsic to print making. I appreciate the element of surprise, and rarely make a detailed plan. I try to balance the need for control, which requires technical skill and practice, with a sense of play and joy when I work.

I make art to satisfy myself, but my art is certainly a form of expression. I want to communicate the sense of mystery and delight I feel when I look at the world. I hope to capture your eye and mind, and to take you to a different place for a moment.

Background: I have always been immersed in art; my grandfather was a painter by profession and I liked to draw as a child. However I did not enjoy art classes, came to dislike drawing for a time, and abandoned a college art major for computer science. "Making things" still happened, but as a weekend hobby until I moved to Port Townsend in 1998, when making art became a pleasurable daily activity.

I have benefited from many regional art classes as well as two months of painting and sculpture in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I am a member of Corvidae Press, a fine arts printmaking guild, and I enter my work in regional juried art shows.

Since 1998 I have somewhat overcome my dislike for art instruction, and benefited from many regional art classes and workshops as well as two months of painting and sculpture in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I am a member of Corvidae Press, a fine arts printmaking guild, and I am a board member and regular volunteer at Northwind Arts Center.

 

Selected Exhibitions
2010 Alchemy of the Abstract V , Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2010 Shape of Water, Northwest Maritime Center, Port Townsend, WA Cream & Turquoise monoprint on black
2010 Linear Thinking: Expanding the Limits of Drawing, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2010 Close to Home, Tyler Street Cafe, Port Townsend, WA
2009 Printmaker's Hand, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2009 Tashiro Kaplan All-Arts Building 5th Anniversary Open House, Seattle, WA
2008 The CVG Show '08, Collective Visions, a Gallery of Art, Bremerton, WA
2007 . Art Port Townsend 9th Annual Juried Show, Port Townsend, WA
2006 Vessels, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2006 Figures, solo exhibition at Belltower Art, Port Townsend, WA
2005 Contemporary Collage, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA

Photo of Artist at Play
Sandra's Personal Page
Here I draw away the hours as an official "artist in the garden" during the Port Townsend 2010 Secret Garden Tour.

Photo by Patricia Weedman