Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - An exquisite scene hangs outside of the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery for the 2022 Annual member’s Show. A hummingbird is depicted flying upward to sample the nectar from a cluster of flowers. Izabelle Perry’s piece is actually a gateway, which some members hope will become a permanent exhibit. The price is $2,500,
Kristen Schofield Sweet agreed the gate is remarkable, but the membership would have to agree for the gallery to make an investment like that.
“I'm pretty sure the gallery itself is not the only ones who are going, 'well, I wonder if we could afford to put that somewhere.' Certainly that gate is probably going somewhere,” she explained.
“I was visiting at the gallery with some friends yesterday and we were sitting out on the picnic table. Several people came to the show and without exception, each one stopped in front of that gate and said, ‘wow!’”
Gerri Davis spoke about the Member’s show, which opened on Friday, August 12.
“I was at the opening last night of the Cortes Island Art Gallery in the Old Schoolhouse. And it was well attended the variety of paintings and the quality is amazing. I was here from about six to seven. There was about 30 people here and there was snacks and stuff outside. It was lovely.”
Two of Davis’ pieces are in the show.
She believes all the members present, when Cortes Currents visited the gallery, are displaying their art.
Iyame Stryck was one of the four women who set up the show, “It's nice to have the praise that are people comfortable to bring your peace to open to the community.”
Schofield-Sweet said 23 artists exhibited.
“There's a number of new artists this year, and that of itself is wonderful and remarkable. It is like the whole show gets an uplift of energy when you see work that you haven’t seen before.”
She proceeded to list some of them: Brooke Anderson,Tanya Krahn, Filipe Figueira, Leona Jensen, Izobel Perry, and Madhurima Braaten.
There were also a number of artists who had been exhibiting with the gallery for a decade or more: Brigid Weyler, Donna Naven, Kathleen Pemberton, and Lisa Gibbons, etc.
