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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
ARTISTS: Tie led
to four awards
being designated
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for the 2015 Country Fair at
The Episcopal Church of the
Transfiguration, but in all
honesty, she said, she was
never truly happy with it.
For a time, it was dis-
played with her other work
at Sisters Gallery and Frame
Shop, but it did not sell, so
she reclaimed it, reworked
it a bit, darkened the rustic
barn-board frame, and sub-
mitted it for the library show,
along with a scratchboard
portrait of “Logan,” the
Sisters Gallery mascot. Both
pieces received many votes,
but “Ghost Rider” won —
and sold that night.
Hartwig will be the fea-
tured artist in February at
The Episcopal Church of the
Transfiguration, where she
will unveil new work. She
does custom scratchboard
portraits, and you can see her
work at scratchlife.com or
on her Facebook page. Not
one to rest on her laurels,
she rushed home to continue
work on a brand-new piece
for the upcoming My Own
Two Hands art auction, put
on by Sisters Folk Festival.
Linda Hanson, a Leica
photographer and watercolor
painter, first mentioned Cuba
last summer while painting in
one of the cabanas outside of
Clearwater Gallery. “Should
I go?” she asked … “Of
course!” her friends replied.
In November, she flew to
Miami and then on to Havana
as what proved to be the only
member of a week-long Leica
photography expedition.
Her tour guide was a fel-
low Leica photographer who
arranged for comfortable
hotel lodging, took Linda
around Havana, and arranged
side trips in a 1954 Chevrolet,
restored with a diesel engine.
One of those trips was to
photo by jim anderson
randall tillery and Steve Mathews were also winners.
Gather ’round the fire...
Vinales, and along the way,
they spotted an interesting
man by the road, and pulled
off to photograph him. Louis,
a tobacco farmer, was happy
to show off the big barn
where he hangs the tobacco
leaves to cure, but his leaves
had recently been shipped off
to make those famous Cuban
cigars.
After she returned home,
Linda submitted some of
her favorite shots to Leica’s
online LFI Magazine, which
picked Louis and one other
for their Mastershots Gallery.
Choosing from so many
photographs is difficult, but
Linda saw something in the
tobacco farmer, the angle of
his hat, and the lighting and
composition of the photo that
compelled her to pick this
one image for submittal to the
library show.
“It was particularly touch-
ing when after the awards
were announced, a woman
came up to me and said this
photograph reminded her of
the work of Dorothea Lange,”
Linda said.
L a n g e ’s i m a g e s o f
Americans during the
Depression and the Dust
Bowl changed the face of
photography, and Linda long
admired and studied Lange’s
work and the way she treated
her subjects with respect
and dignity. Hanson’s work
can be seen online at www.
lindahansonpaintings.com.
Steve Mathews was leav-
ing the library when he was
summoned back by a friend.
“Not so fast — they are
announcing the winners,”
someone said. Steve, a retired
art educator and illustrator,
who volunteers in classes
at Sisters High School, had
been all but certain his four-
foot tall juniper slab, with its
whimsical fish called “Don’t
Be Koi” would be overlooked
in its corner perch outside
Librarian Zoe Schumacher’s
office. Quite the opposite.
“Lots of people have
stopped to look at it,” Zoe
said.
Mathews’ award-winner
photo by jim anderson
Jennifer Hartwig looks at her award-winning scratchboard work.
is a slab of native juniper
that has been finely planed to
show the natural grain of the
tree, complete with knotholes
and whorls. He first drew the
koi in felt-tip pen and filled
them in with colored pen-
cil, allowing the grain of the
wood to show through. There
are faces doodled into the fish
heads to make them more
interesting, and the fins turn
into feathers and splashes of
water.
Although the piece is 4
feet by 19 inches and two
inches thick, it’s not exces-
sively heavy, and is com-
pletely wired for safe hanging
on a wall.
Aw a r d - w i n n i n g a r t -
ist Randall Tillery created
his painting of Steelhead
Falls last summer, and sub-
mitted it to the American
Impressionist Society com-
petition. One hundred and
sixty top-notch works were
chosen from 1,235 submit-
ted, and “Steelhead Falls”
was among those shown
at the Trailside Gallery in
Scottsdale, Arizona.
Randall often paints “en
plein-air” (on site, outdoors)
but he painted “Steelhead
Falls” from photographs he
took while hiking along the
Deschutes River. He loves
the beauty of this area, and
spends a great deal of time
hiking, with the Deschutes
being one of his favorite
spots.
This is the second year in
a row that Randall has taken
one of the People’s Choice
awards at the library show.
His paintings are shown at
Clearwater Gallery, and his
website is www.artbytillery.
com.
Many local artists also
contributed work to a silent
auction, held during Friday’s
reception. Proceeds from that
event raised almost $1,000
for FOSL. Much of the work
on display in the library is
still available for sale. All
money raised by FOSL goes
to support library programs.
The work will remain on
display until February 25.
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OUTLAW GEAR
HERE
photo by lynn WoodWard
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