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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Deborah Dawson art at Sterling Bank
(From top) The Buck Harms
Band at Taylor’s Country
Store; Gwen Childs with her
stoneware and sculpture at
An Artist’s Way; guitarist An-
thony Pope at Sassy’s Im-
ports & Time Capsule; and
‘Rosella’ with her homemade
fudge at Special Productions
By DOROTHEA
HOVER-KRAMER
Work by Deborah
Dawson, one of the
area’s best-known and
most prolific artists, is
featured at Sterling
Savings Bank in Cave
Junction during May
and June as sponsored
by Illinois Valley Fine
Artists Inc.
With a bachelor of
fine arts degree from
Southern Oregon Uni-
versity at Ashland,
Dawson has launched a
career of creating ex-
quisite watercolor
paintings that have won
many awards and are
seen in galleries Deborah Dawson with two of her works (Photo by ‘I.V. News’)
throughout Oregon.
She is a member of the
earth.”
ronment for anyone interested
distinguished Watercolor
As interest in the arts
in learning more about hands-
Society of Oregon as well as
continues to grow in Illinois
on-art-making.
Manley Art Center, I.V. Fine
Valley, art is becoming a
Noted Dawson, “I love
Artists, and Josephine County
valuable investment for home
the support and camaraderie
Artists. She also served as
owners. Local, well-
of the group in addition to
Artist in Residence for the
recognized artists’ work like
having a large working studio
Southern Oregon Arts Coun-
Dawson’s significantly in-
with excellent lighting.”
cil, but has retired from the
creases in value during the
The group meets Mon-
fulfillment of teaching to ex-
years.
days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
press her own development
Additionally, acquiring
the RCC Learning Center in
as an artist in now being able
local arts brings joy to one’s
Kerby on Hwy. 199. Coffee
to produce four to five works
home and enriches our lives.
is always on, and guests are
a month.
Illinois Valley Fine Art-
welcome. For more informa-
The exhibit includes sev-
ists group is a welcome envi-
tion, phone 592-5296.
eral local landscapes and
highlights an old truck in a
field that can be seen along
Holland Loop. “Out to Pas-
ture” is her third painting of
the quaint subject, as she felt
drawn to the rust-and tur-
quoise patina of the 1949
International truck returning
to the earth as it decomposes
bit by bit.
As in most watercolor
paintings, Dawson worked
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