PORT TOWNSEND — A teenager is using her art to help those in need, donating 50 percent of her sales for the month of April to the Dove House.
“My goal is to help people,” said Aloura Remy, 13. “I want to help people have the money to buy the things that they need.”
Remy’s art hangs in Elevated Ice Cream, 631 Water St. The exhibit, which went up Saturday for this month’s Port Townsend Gallery Walk, will be on view for the month of April.
This is the second gallery walk in which Remy has participated. In February, her art was hung in Coldwell Banker Best Homes real estate office, where one painting sold for $180.
Remy and her mother, Adelita Jorquera, also plan to sell cards outside the Food Co-Op on Sundays throughout the month of April. Cards will cost $3, with 50 percent of sales donated to Dove House, they said.
Dove House is a Port Townsend-based advocacy group that provides housing and other assistance to those fleeing domestic violence, and transitional housing for women and children.
Remy, who has been drawing since she was 7, works mostly with colored pencils, pens, chalk and pastels and takes most of her inspiration from nature.
“What I like to do is draw birds and then give them some personality,” Remy said.
Because she’s home-schooled, Remy said she gets lots of time to pursue her passions, which include art, charity and birding.
“She’s an old soul,” Jorquera said.
This isn’t the first time Remy has used her art to raise money for charity.
“I just want to help people,” Remy said. “My mom is always telling me to help people. She’s a good mom.”
Remy’s other sales have raised money for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, where she has volunteered for four years, and the Admiralty Audubon Society, in which she is the county’s youngest member.
“I don’t want animals to go extinct,” Remy said. “So I also want to help animals.”
Remy’s art has been shown at shows around Port Townsend, including at the Jefferson County Museum of Art & History in 2016.
“I just think it’s important to give back,” Jorquera said. “We wanted to focus mostly on homeless or transitional people for this one, just because she’s so young.”
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Jefferson County Editor/Reporter Cydney McFarland can be reached at 360-385-2335, ext. 55052, or at cmcfarland@peninsuladailynews.com.
Aloura Remy’s art will be hung in Elevated Ice Cream all month and 50 percent of all sales will go to Dove House. (Cydney McFarland/Peninsula Daily News)
