Wednesday, September 6, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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art show was for Black Butte
Ranch (BBR) homeowners
and their families, and we
called it Art in the Barn.”
New this year was a gallery
show in the Lodge Gallery,
featuring paintings, photogra-
phy, and mixed media.
Barbara McCormick, who
is on the Art at the Ranch
committee was acting as vol-
unteer coordinator for the
show and auction.
“This is an amazing event
to volunteer for and to work
with. This area is incredible in
the amount of art there is and
such a variety of different art-
ists,” McCormick said. “We
have about 50 artists that were
going to participate in the out-
door art show that had to be
cancelled. But we do have 22
items to be auctioned tonight
donated by artists.”
Local artist Jill Neal was
thrilled that her artwork,
“Wild (Tasteful) Horses,
Equine Spirits Three” was
chosen for this year’s Art at
the Ranch poster.
Neal is the creative artist
behind her Wild (Tasteful)
Women — art that captures
and celebrates the joyful
spirit of women in colorful,
full-figured style and whimsy.
“I was established before I
moved to Oregon and I started
out with wildlife,” Neal said.
“The Wild (Tasteful) Women
art really started taking off
and now I have a little more
time to go back to my roots
and paint more of a variety.”
The Lodge displayed two
of Neal’s Wild (Tasteful)
Horses paintings, “Red
Horses” and “Fall Herd.”
Many of the artists live
at the Ranch and have par-
ticipated in Art at the Ranch
over the years. BBR resident
Curtiss Abbott has donated
his photography to the auction
for eight years.
Abbott’s interest in pho-
tography began with film and
the darkroom and grew into
the digital age.
“Big Meadow View,” one
of his larger photography
pieces, is currently displayed
in the Lodge.
“This photograph was
taken in the early morning at
BBR,” Abbott said.
His images are available
locally at Sisters Gallery &
Frame Shop, at the Glaze
Meadow Spa Shop and
Lakeview Bistro at Black
Butte Ranch.
Local artist Paul Alan
Bennett was on hand during
the reception wearing his art-
work, a new clothing design
in leggings called “The Pizza
Eaters.”
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PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEE
Curtiss Abbott has contributed to Art at the Ranch for eight years.
Bennett studied drawing
and ceramics at The Maryland
Institute of Art and followed
up with an M.A. in Greek his-
tory at The University of La
Verne, Athens, Greece.
Bennett’s artwork has a
style that looks like knitting
in paint. This evolved from
purchasing a pair of knitted
gloves in Istanbul. He was
drawn to the simple patterns
and the texture of the gloves,
so he decided to see if he
could copy the “knit” look
in paint. He used gouache
watercolor and the “knit” look
gradually became his signa-
ture style
“Every year I’ve lived in
Sisters I’ve been involved
in some area of Art at the
Ranch,” said Bennett.
Recently, Bennett has
taken his artwork to a whole
new level with a clothing line.
“Many of my students in
my art class at COCC were
wearing these wonderful leg-
gings and I decided that I
wanted to see if I could get
my art on leggings,” Bennett
explained. “And I used to
be involved in fabric art and
have always liked it. The way
they do the printing these days
makes it easy to have my art
on anything online. So, I found
a company in Canada that can
print my art on fabric like leg-
gings. I started with just leg-
gings but have now expanded
to kimonos, skirts, beanies
and dresses. I didn’t even
know what a pair of capris
were before I started all this.”
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