PORT TOWNSEND — Gallery 9 will serve cake in celebration of its 14th birthday during the Port Townsend Gallery Walk on Saturday.
The gallery at 1012 Water St., will feature paintings by Ann Arscott and turned wood by Jim Conway for the month of April.
Arscott and Conway will discuss their art from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Arscott is presenting paintings inspired by her travels to Asia throughout the past 15 years. She believes there is something old and something new in the countries she visits.
“I am intrigued by how traveling takes me back centuries, and yet the scenes and the art there are still crisp and pertinent,” she said.
Arscott’s featured works for April include scenes from Cambodia, China and Burma, as well as some Asian-influenced rice paper paintings.
Arscott paints mostly in oils, with influences from impressionists such as J.M.W. Turner. Locally, Arscott studied with Diane Ainsworth.
Conway hails from a family of practicing artists in El Paso, Texas.
His work today carries unmistakable west Texas flair, with the underside of his turned wood art pieces signed and branded with his signature Stetson hat.
All of Conway’s creations begin with the careful selection of a piece of raw wood; he then turns the piece on a lathe to highlight the wood’s individual character and form.
Conway’s wooden repertoire includes bowls, platters, goblets, bottle stoppers, garlic keepers and one-of-a-kind pens.
Gallery 9 is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. For more information, see http://gallery-9.com/ or call 360-379-8881.
Also slated for Saturday’s Gallery Walk are:
• Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., will host an opening reception for its Showcase Artist of the Month, Patrick Slattery, at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Slattery, an artist and arts educator, lived, taught and exhibited in Los Angeles until 2010 when he moved to the Olympic Peninsula.
He has always been interested in abstraction and has used motifs from nature to explore issues of color, texture and line in every type of drawing and painting media, organizers said.
Recently, he has been exploring printmaking through Corvidae Press. He uses photographic images of iconic subjects — old houses, smokestacks, the ocean, etc. — and combines them as etchings with watercolor and pencil in a chine colle technique.
The show will be on exhibit at the center through April 29. The center is open from 11:30 a.m. through 5 p.m., Wednesdays through Mondays (closed Tuesdays).
For more information visit www.northwindarts.org/exhibits/artist-show case.
• Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will show the watercolors of native Californian Diane Holmes from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday during Gallery Walk.
Holmes, who moved to the Pacific Northwest 12 years ago, is a self-taught watercolorist featuring fish, birds, animals and nature subjects.
She has been at the Port Townsend Gallery since 2011 and the Liberty Bay Gallery in Poulsbo since 2012.
Holmes has exhibited in the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Edmonds Art Festival.
The Port Townsend Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays through Thursdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
For more information, call 360-379-8110 or go to www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• Taps at the Guardhouse, 300 Eisenhower Ave. at Fort Worden, will have a reception for artist Counsel Langley and a no-host bar from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
“Further On Into the Evening” by Counsel Langley is on display at Taps at the Guardhouse at Fort Worden.
Outer space, computer chips, dramatic weather, electric circuits, decay, rock ’n’ roll glamour, b-rate sci-fi, fluid turbulence, engineering schematics and increasingly the stunning good looks of the Pacific Northwest — these are all muses in Langley’s wheelhouse.
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest among shipwrights and foundry workers — people with strong traditional skills and respect for materials — played a large role in Langley’s choice to study the craft of metalsmithing at Massachusetts College of Art, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1999.
Her approach to making her mixed media artwork remains rooted in a metalsmith’s priorities.
This shows up in her attention for detail and careful consideration of surface treatment, organizers said.
“Plus, I delight in using the right tool for the job,” she said. “I am constantly experimenting with materials, finding their natural tendencies, limitations and pushing them to see what can happen.”
Langley spent six months in 2017 as interim program manager at Port Townsend School of the Arts.
Langley grew up in Port Townsend and is now raising her three children here with her husband, Kwin Bailey, a commercial fisherman.
