NOVEMBER 24, 2016 // 9
Array of art awaits on Long Beach Peninsula
Peninsula Arts
Association offers
ninth annual
Studio Tour
LONG BEACH PENINSULA, Wash.
— Thanksgiving weekend
offers you a special opportu-
nity to tour the backroads and
byways of the Long Beach
Peninsula: the Peninsula
Arts Association’s ninth
annual Studio Tour. Many
local artists will open their
personal studios tucked
away in the forests between
Willapa Bay and the Pacific
Ocean. You’ll see glass art,
pottery, paintings, photog-
raphy, monoprints, jewelry,
fabric art, metal sculpture,
wood carving, repurposed
art, demonstrations and more.
If your desire is to shop
small this season or to sur-
prise someone special with
a unique gift and have an
adventure while you shop,
then the Studio Tour is this
is the place to be 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 25 and 26.
Maps are available online
at www.beachartist.org, the
Peninsula Arts Association
Facebook page, the Long
Beach Visitors Bureau, The
Picture Attic in Long Beach,
Bay Avenue Gallery in
Ocean Park, and the Ocean
Park Area Chamber office.
This year will feature 16
venues and 20 participat-
ing artists. The route will
be well marked with “Art
Event” signs.
If you start in the south,
you’ll meet Linda Marsh
and Debbie Haugsten at
Marsh Pottery Studio on the
hill in Ilwaco. Marsh makes
both handbuilt and thrown
pieces. You’ll find fanciful
and functional items for
the kitchen as well as the
garden. She’ll offer demon-
strations all day. Haugsten
recreates her fresh and fun
jewelry by taking apart vin-
tage pieces and making them
new again.
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Artist Bette Lu Krause stands between two of her paintings.
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Garden animals by Karen
Brownlee.
Karen Brownlee’s clay
studio is just behind her
house on nearby Sandridge
Road. The bright colors on
her stoneware emphasize
both classical shapes and
whimsical designs. Her
Raku pieces, mosaics and
magical garden animals are
sure to delight.
Crossing to Pacific High-
way and heading north a bit,
you’ll find Kristi Marshall in
her studio at Our Place at the
Beach. She enjoys creatively
repurposing vintage and oth-
er cast-off items and makes
art, jewelry and home
décor, including lamps.
The Picture Attic, a local
gallery and art supply store,
will feature owner Jean
Nitzel’s quirky watercolors
of local birds and iconic
peninsula places. Nitzel’s
galley has been in business
for more than 35 years and
represents 16 local artists in
a variety of mediums. She
also offers prints and cards.
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A watercolor by Eric Wie-
gardt.
Don’t miss The Hobbit
Shop, Jim Unwin’s wood-
carving lair that houses
his creations: functional,
fanciful and finely crafted
carved wood pieces in his
personal and in Northwest
native style. Unwin’s way
of seeing the figures in a
block of wood will amaze
visitors.
Backtrack a bit and cross
the peninsula on Cranber-
ry Road and turn north to
discover Penny Treat and
Elizabeth Bonn-Zimmer-
man’s Sandridge Road stu-
dios. Treat is an established
artist with a bay view studio
full of new work — these
days she is hand painting
on silk and creating new
woodblocks for an upcom-
ing show. Come and see
her hydrangea wreaths and
topiary trees made from her
garden plants.
Just up the road,
Bonn-Zimmerman focuses
on pattern, color and print-
ing in her studio. You’ll find
one-of-a-kind prints and
making of all sorts, includ-
ing repurposed jewelry.
Eric Wiegardt has been
painting loose and fresh
magic since 1985 in his
great-grandfather’s Vic-
torian home turned studio
gallery. His watercolors
have won numerous nation-
al and international awards.
Wiegardt’s paintings reflect
his European travels and are
frequently inspired by the
beauty of the Pacific North-
west: the beaches, sunsets,
Willapa Bay, forests, fishing
boats and flowers.
Weir Studios has been
busy making lots of brand-
new surprises. Andrea and
Sven Weir create glass and
stone jewelry and fused
glass bowls and plates, as
well as oil paintings and
drawings.
Judith McFadden works
with oils and photography
to create realistic scenes.
She is pleased for the
opportunity to welcome
visitors to her home and
share her art.
Bay Avenue Gallery rep-
resents more than 50 local
artists in an array of medi-
ums. Owner, artist and art
teacher Sue Raymond hand
builds flocks of sea birds
and small animal charac-
ters displaying a variety of
comical attitudes. Demon-
strations of holiday animals
will take place from 2 to 4
p.m. Friday, and potter’s
wheel demos will take place
Saturday afternoon.
Carol Couch is a long-
time resident watercolor
painter and art instructor.
Her popular work features
interesting local subjects.
The Studio Tour is Couch’s
biggest party of the year
complete with stellar re-
freshments.
Judy Cox and Nancy
Meyrick are co-hostessing
PENINSULA ARTS ASSOCIATION
STUDIO TOUR
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 25 and 26
Linda Marsh and Debbie Haugsten, 2112 Klahanee
Drive S.W., Ilwaco
Karen Brownlee, 4905 Sandridge Road, Long Beach
Kristi Marshall, 1309 Ocean Beach Blvd. S., Long Beach
The Picture Attic, 711 Pacific Ave. N., Long Beach
The Hobbit Shop, 15024 Pacific Way, Long Beach
Penny Treat, 15316 Sandridge Road, Long Beach
Elizabeth Bonn-Zimmerman, 15915 Sandridge
Road, Long Beach
Wiegardt Studio Gallery, 2607 Bay Ave., Ocean Park
Andrea Weir, 2217 Bay Ave., Ocean Park
Judy McFadden, 24013 J Place, Ocean Park
Bay Avenue Gallery, 1406 Bay Ave., Ocean Park
Carol Couch, 27007 U St., Ocean Park
Michele B. Naquaiya, 1609 273rd Place, Ocean Park
Bette Lu Krause, 27806 L Place, Ocean Park
Don Perry, 34516 J Place, Ocean Park
Betsey Nelson, 808 354th Place, Ocean Park
at Couch’s studio. Cox, a
popular card maker, will
demonstrate and offer for
sale her handmade iris fold
and papercast cards as well
as holiday cards and framed
prints. Meyrick loves to tell
stories with her photography.
Michele B. Naquaiya’s
cozy studio is full of hand
knit accessories like hats
and scarves. She also makes
mosaic art from recycled
materials; her wall plates
depict her abstract designs.
Naquaiya is an artist who
works in several mediums
and is always inspired by
the materials she collects,
such as broken dishes,
bits of mirrors or ceramic
flowers, stones or broken
porcelain. Giving discarded
materials a new life is her
motto.
Bette Lu Krause’ studio
is tucked into the trees a bit
north of Ocean Park. Her
passion for wild places in-
forms her work with acrylic
paints on canvas. She’ll
offer her art as originals and
as prints, on tiles, orna-
ments, cards and on locally
silk-screened T-shirts. Come
and see the newest long-
sleeved shirts just in time for
the holidays. As a naturalist,
Krause strives to help others
embrace the Earth.
Sharing Krause’s stu-
dio is glass artist Vickie
Branch, offering handmade
dichroic jewelry, handmade
glass beads, glass orna-
ments and wind chimes.
Up on J Place in Surf-
side, Don Perry works with
a plasma cutter to hand
cut his metal pieces. Fish,
mermaids, symbols, sayings
as well as signs and holiday
trees crafted especially for
the Studio Tour are made
from recycled industrial
saw blades, mild steel,
stainless steel and copper.
He’ll be demonstrating his
unusual craft.
The tour’s northernmost
artist’s studio belongs to
Betsey Nelson. An accom-
plished, award-winning,
published artist and art in-
structor, Nelson works with
color and atmosphere in oil,
pastel, ink, gouache and
graphite. She also shows
and teaches in Sedona,
Arizona.