Stephen Wolfe

Acrylic

 © Stephen Wolfe

I spent my working years in the medical field. Communication is the mortar that holds the bricks of good medical care intact. Likewise, communication is the glue of leading to success or failure between us all. Motivating my abstract paintings is communicating those ideas, feelings, and reactions that I cannot put into words.

The language of abstract art is foreign to many. Yet much can be communicated. When I paint, reason surrenders to feeling. Although the language is abstract, the expression, like music or dance, is universal, connecting people everywhere—a journey seeking paths that are friends to all of us—sensuousness, hope, curiosity, and comfort.

In this way I hope to use motion, shape and color to connect with people from the corners of the bayous of Louisiana to the metropolitan areas of Seattle. Each painting is a journey, an adventure. I try to arrive at a place of grace—acceptance and hope residing side by side. When people see my work, hopefully they are provoked to feel or follow their thoughts to a new place—have their own adventures.

Keith Kerner

Jewelry 

Earrings © Keith Kerner

Keith is an artist by birth. Holding a BFA degree in illustration from Cornish College of the Arts, he has drawn since he could hold a pencil and taken many additional classes and workshops in graphic design, painting and art history. He has a natural ability to turn anything into art and when he fell in love with the sea glass he was finding on the beaches, he quite naturally began to design it into jewelry. Keith loves the idea of repurposing what once was litter into something beautiful and useful today.

“I try to approach each piece like a little design problem; what texture, color and shape combination best shows the beauty of the sea glass gem. Each piece has such a unique history in the glass; a wine bottle passed around a beach bonfire, decades tumbling in the sand and surf... rich material for repurposing into something aesthetic that recognizes that history.”

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