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A copper-ative approach
Steve and Calisse Browne are the
featured artists for October at the Pacific
Artist’s Co-op Gallery in Lincoln City.
The couple’s copper art is “painted” using
a propane torch flame. As the flame from
the torch heats the metal, up to 14 colors,
from bright yellows and green to bold blue,
purples and browns can be oxidized onto
the copper. This process requires patience
and a willingness on the artist’s part to
adjust their vision for the piece as the
temperature and humidity in the air affects
the way copper reacts to the flame.
Flame-painted art is a negotiation
between the artist and the copper. Once
the design is flame drawn and the color is
oxidized on the copper, color can be ground
off revealing the natural copper color and
enhancing the design.
The couple’s artwork will be on display
from 10 am to 5 pm daily throughout
October at, 620 NE Highway 101.
Artist of the month
Gleneden Beach oil
painter Ronald Yasenchak
is October’s artist of the
month at the Artist’s Studio
Association in Lincoln City.
Yasenchak’s artistic
talents first surfaced in
1968, when he started
painting with oils while
living in Columbus, Ohio.
He and his family moved
to Portland in 1970 where
he put away his brushes
and pursued woodwork
along with various outdoor
interests including hunting,
fishing and golf.
In 1974, he attended a
garden show that included
a bonsai exhibit. Yasenchak
had majored in forestry
in college and he found
bonsai an almost perfect
marriage of plants and art.
For the next forty 40 years,
he designed and maintained
dozens of artfully crafted
bonsai.
In 2008, he and his
wife, Becky, bought a
home in Gleneden Beach
and became permanent
residents.
Trees remained central
to Yasenchak’s art when he
picked up his abandoned
paints and brushes in 2014,
joining birds and fish as the
main focus of many of his
paintings. He also likes to
include a little mystery and
humor in his work.
Yasenchak’s work will be
available to view daily from
10 am to 5 pm at 620 NE
Hwy. 101
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By Joshua Feeny
ART IN THE
SPOTLIGHT
The latest Spotlight Show from
Newport’s Yaquina Art Association
features the artwork of husband-and-wife
duo Joshua and Megan Feeny.
From distant sunsets, to intimate close
up views of ferns and moss, Megan Feeny
expresses the light, movement and energy
of nature in her oil paintings.
A long time Northwest artist, Megan
has been an art Instructor and an artist
represented by many galleries up and down
the coasts of Oregon and Washington. She
now shows exclusively at the Yaquina Art
Association Gallery, where she supports
the association’s mission of inclusiveness
and community outreach.
Megan showed an interest in art at an
early age, watching TV’s “Romper Room,”
for the craft segment, paper and crayons
at the ready. She continued exploring
art all throughout her life. She believes
that everyone has an artistic nature, just
expressed in many different ways. It could
be in visual arts, gardening, writing, music
or creative thinking.
Joshua Feeny’s Spotlight show will
feature his photos and paintings. Joshua
has found that he can express himself
more with a brushstroke or the click of a
camera than with words and believes that
art is a form of expression, rather than a
means to popularity or notoriety.
Van Gough has been a great influence
on Joshua’s art. He appreciates his
rebellious brush strokes of thick intense
color, and painting what spoke to him
rather than what the public perceived as
“good” art.
Joshua was exposed to art in his early
years. His mother would often bring him
and his brother to art classes and shows,
and art supplies were always available at
home. Joshua always had a love for the
romantic periods of history and it often
reflected in murals on the walls of his
bedroom. Having gone through some
difficult personal times, he has once again
reached out to art as a healing form of
expression.
The show will be on display through
Friday, Oct. 25, available to view from
11 am to 4 pm daily at the Yaquina Art
Association Gallery, 789 NW Beach
Drive.