NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 4.
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Gallery Walk returns this Saturday.
The walk, lasting from 5:30 p.m. until about 8 p.m., encompasses several downtown venues, all of which charge no admission to see the art and meet the artists who create it.
Sampling of events:
■ The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will feature artists Nancy Fredrick and Sandy Tweed today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Fredrick will display a series of paintings, drawings and prints from her favorite landscapes.
The works in the current series of landscapes are inspired by drawings, sketches, photographs and memory, she said, adding she feels nurtured by spending time in nature.
Fredrick said she looks for places to go where she hears only the sounds of wind in the trees, water flowing in a stream and of birds and animals.
From Big Sur up the coasts of California and Oregon to Washington, she has gathered images by sketching while exploring the coastal scenes.
Included in this show are watercolors, acrylic and mixed media paintings as well as monotype and intaglio prints.
Tweed recently settled in Port Townsend after several years of searching for a new community. She has prepared a sea-themed collection of work for her first experience as a featured artist.
“My paintings capture the up-close-and-personal relationship with nature I have enjoyed since I was a child,” she said.
A self-taught acrylic painter, Tweed’s work reflects her earlier experience with watercolor.
Tweed has extensive experience painting birds and winged insects.
For more gallery information, phone 36-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsendgallery.com.
■ Gallery Nine, 1012 Water St., will feature this month art by Marcy Gordon and traditional Chugach skin and frame kayaks crafted by Mitch Poling.
Gordon and Poling will be on hand from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday to discuss their respective work.
Gordon’s pieces include new paintings and drawings of botanicals, nudes and landscape imagery.
The landscape paintings are part of a series of historic Jefferson County barns.
Many of these are in a state of disrepair, with several having collapsed since the art project began.
In an area of agricultural growth with organic farms, Gordon said she sees the loss of these cultural and classic buildings as tragic and that her paintings are an attempt to at least catalog barns before they are gone forever.
Poling builds the traditional kayaks among the Chugach people who live in Prince William Sound, Alaska, a wilderness area with glaciers, rugged mountains and many islands.
The kayaks are built traditionally with hand-carved cedar and fastened with lashings. They are superb sea kayaks, he said, with many design features that make them stable, easy to paddle and able to withstand very severe weather.
They are also considered as art, he said, with beautiful lines and translucent covering.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com or call 360-379-8881.
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Reporter Chris McDaniel can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56650, or at cmcdaniel@peninsuladailynews.com.
