PORT TOWNSEND — The featured artists at Gallery 9 this month are Richard Lawson, who creates fine photography, and Sarah Fitch, who makes ceramic tiles and sculptures.
Gallery 9 is open at 1012 Water St., from noon to 4 p.m. five days a week. It is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Masks are required. The website is at www.gallery-9.com.
Lawson has photographed landscapes, seascapes and florals for 30 years.
New for this season will be his ”Blossom Road.”
“For me, tree blossoms carry the essence of spring,” he said.
”They are an explosion of color. When I stand before such a scene I am often overwhelmed with gratitude that I can capture such beauty and share it with the world.”
Fitch is a self-taught artist making bas relief stoneware ceramic tiles and sculptures. Gallery organizers describe her work as earthy folk art with a whimsical and spiritual nature.
Her enchantment with ravens is why she named her workspace the Rolling Raven Studio.
“My studio is in the woods where nature’s wildness still exists,” she said.
”I need the quiet and the wild in my creative space. For me art is a meditative practice that helps in clearing mental clutter and maintaining a sometimes precarious hold on sanity in this capricious world,” she added.
New for this season are a stoneware “Night Owl” and ceramic tile. “Hunting Partners.”
“Owls are a favorite subject matter for me,” she said.
”I have felt the whoosh of owl wings in a forest night,” she added, describing owls as symbols of wisdom, silent hunters flying in the dark and spirit messengers.
Sarah Fitch’s ceramics are exhibited at Gallery 9.
Richard Lawson’s Blossom Road is on view at Gallery 9.
