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STORMY Stormy Weather Arts Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 6, 7 & 8 Multiple times and locations in Cannon Beach WEATHER ARTS FESTIVAL Tickets can be found at cannonbeach.org For a comprehensive schedule, visit http://tinyurl.com/stormyschedule2015 ARTS FESTIVAL Sumbitted photo “Afternoon Stroll” by Jeni Lee at Haystack Gallery. Lee takes her in-progress works out of the studio and into the elements before the acrylic paints have dried, allowing the rain to create patterns. notforsale Among the artists, unveilings, demonstrations and libations, the 28th annual Cannon Beach arts festival debuts one new gallery and one new gallery owner Nov. 6, 7 & 8 Story by ANDREW TONRY T Photo by Andrew Tonry Blue Bond paints a Haystack Rock seascape in his new gallery, located at 172 N. Hemlock St. Bond will be one of the artists demonstrating his technique at the Art in Action event at 7 p.m. Friday at the Sufsand Ballroom. Other featured artists include Janis Ellison, Heather Soderberg, Rob Hooper, Jeff rey Hull, Christopher Mathie and Hazel Schlesinger. The event in- cludes a silent auction, appetizers and drinks. Tickets are $55. 12 | November 5, 2015 | coastweekend.com There are few works more apropos of the Stormy Weather Arts Festival than Jeni Lee’s “Rain Paintings.” Lee, from Portland, takes her in-progress works out of the studio and into the elements before the acrylic paints have dried. Then she lets the rain come down. “I like that randomness,” Lee says, “the accidents, the chaos. “As I practiced more, I found I could layer more,” she says. “It literally reminded me of the coast. Some of the patterns of the raindrops remind me of patterns in the sand. “Sometimes the rain would actually remove some of the drawing out of those pieces,” Lee continues. “So I’d have to go back in and bring the picture back out. “I liked when the rain would alter and destroy, and I’d have to rebuild,” she adds. “I kind of feel like the winter at the coast is like that too.” Indeed, the Stormy Weather Arts Festival is a bitter- sweet marker: Summer is over; the cold, wet darkness looms. The event also reminds us: Art can sooth that transition. And for artists it’s a signal: Hunker down, and get to work. This year marks Stormy Weather’s 28th annual event. For a lot of artists and galleries preparing for Submitted photo “Red Umbrella” by Kelly Vivanco at Archimedes Gallery. Currently living in her native California, Vivanco pulls inspiration from the natural and imagined world, vin- tage photographs, literature and dreams. The artist will be present at the gallery’s reception at 5 p.m. Saturday, which also features cocktails from Cannon Beach Distill- ery and beer from Bill’s Tavern. the festival — which includes a weekend of food, libations, presenta- tions, demonstrations, a concert and more - that means pretty much business as usual. Submitted photo Such is not the case, however, for two new gallery also offers painting “Oliver and Zoe,” a commissioned pet portrait by Oregon artist Jean-Marie Chapman. Chapman returns for her 10th year as artist in residence at the Cannon Beach Hotel during Stormy Weather Arts Festival. She owners: Christina Anthony and Blue Bond. classes there. will present daily painting demos as well create an oil portrait of hotel owner Claudia Toutain-Dor- –––– “I really enjoy sharing my bec. An artist reception will be held 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the In Cannon Beach, Blue Bond is beckoned by yet artistic knowledge,” Bond says. hotel, 1116 S. Hemlock St. another blank canvas. “After 45 years I have a bit of it. I From Vancouver, Washington, Bond opened his really enjoy giving back what people have given me.” Bond too namesake gallery in July. It’s in Sandpiper Square, on Going forward, Bond hopes to offer some one-on- has been em- WKHVHFRQGÀRRU7KHUH%RQGQRWRQO\GLVSOD\VEXWFUH one classes in Cannon Beach. That opportunity, with braced by his neighbor, ates his boldly colorful, realist oil paintings. potential for a sort of low-key artist’s retreat, coupled renown watercolorist and “I think He does so relentlessly. ZLWKKLVDELOLW\WRDI¿[DQ\LPDJHWRFDQYDVLQDGD\¶V pillar of the Cannon Beach art the gallery has been here “I do a painting a day,” Bond says. “I paint ex- WLPH¿JXUHVWRVHW%RQGDSDUWIURPWKHQXPHURXVJDO community, Jeffery Hull. While long enough that I don’t feel I WUHPHO\ IDVW , FDQ ¿QLVK D SDLQWLQJ leries and commercial artists in the some might be adverse to competition, Hull sees it need to put my own stamp on it,” An- like that,” he says, pointing to a large, downtown area. differently. thony says. “I don’t think it’s about me. poster-sized work, “in about four or And while Bond still operates his ³3HRSOH¿QGZKDWWKH\¶UHORRNLQJIRU´+XOOVD\V It’s about presenting art to people who really ¿YH KRXUV´ 2IWHQ IRONV VLW RQ WKH art space in Vancouver, he hopes to of the city’s artistic patrons. “With art it’s very per- like art and making it a comfortable place for bench behind the easel and watch him pivot more to the North Coast. sonal. You can’t somehow convince people: ‘This them to look at it, and buy it if they want.” work. “Having a gallery in Cannon is the painting you want.’ We don’t Anthony hopes to eventually “In the last two-and-a-half months Beach was always a dream,” Bond even try.” bring some new and young artists ,¶YH ¿QLVKHG RYHU SDLQWLQJV´ says. “It was a dream I never thought 2I %RQG +XOO DGGV ³&HUWDLQO\ LQWR+D\VWDFN*DOOHU\+HU¿UVWFX Bond says. would be possible. And yet, sure I’d love to see him be successful.” ratorial selection will be unveiled He’s so fast, in fact, that waiting enough, here it is. It’s wonderful.” “It has been absolutely incred- at Stormy Weather. But largely, for paintings to dry has become a re- Until he began spending regular ible,” Bond says of the support. “I the changes will be piecemeal. She alistic concern. To demonstrate, Bond time in Cannon Beach, Bond’s work can’t imagine being here without hav- says she’s excited to continue the procures a pastoral sunset of Hay- was largely southwestern. And still, ing friends like that.” Coomes’ aesthetic, which includes VWDFN5RFNDQGSXVKHVKLV¿QJHULQWR horses, elk and cowboys keep watch Hull too has helped Bond prepare a little bit of everything, and the re- the surf. It emerges covered in paint. over a good portion of his gallery’s for Stormy Weather. “He’s clued me lationships they’ve cultivated over Submitted photo real estate. But the North Coast is a In part, Bond is fast because he’s in to what it really is all about,” Bond the years. 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Haystack Rock, and he’s searching been lent a helping hand. Bill and year’s be her fi rst. “To start making a living, I started for his own twist. Patty Coomes, who sold Anthony She’s not sure of the actual num- painting signs,” Bond explains. “I had a sign company “I’ve never painted the ocean before,” Bond con- the Haystack Gallery after run- ber, though suggests it’s higher. in Vancouver to support my ‘art habit,’ so to speak. I’d tinues. “It’s really a change, but I’m enjoying it.” QLQJLWIRU\HDUVDUHOHWWLQJ$QWKRQ\DQ³DP )RU$QWKRQ\WKLV\HDUZLOOEHKHU¿UVW close my business and paint at night.” Bond has been aided by photographer George Vetter, DWHXU DUWLVW´ DQG ¿UVWWLPH JDOOHU\ RZQHU NQRZ “I’ve never been to it,” Anthony says of %RQGVD\VKHVROGWKHEXVLQHVV¿YH\HDUVDJREXW who’s allowed Bond access to his archives as source just what to expect for Stormy Weather. Mostly, Stormy Weather. “Isn’t that amazing? I’ve heard nothing but good things.” kept the building, which he turned into a gallery. He material. Anthony wants to follow the Coomes’ lead. Submitted photo by Steve Karakas Blues musician Lloyd Jones will perform a concert 7 p.m. Saturday at the Coaster The- atre as part of the arts festival. He will be joined by The Atlas Horns on stage. Tickets are $35; call the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce at 503-436-2623. Submitted photo “Sea Cliff ” by Christopher Mathie at White Bird Gallery. Mathie opens a new exhibit of coast-inspired mixed-media large canvases during the arts festival. He will give a painting demo at 4:30 p.m. Saturday and will be present for the artist reception at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, with live music by Denim Wedding. November 5, 2015 | coastweekend.com | 13
