PAINTING
BY THE SEA
‘Higher Ground’
by Jeffrey
Hull. The
artist’s Cannon
Beach gallery
celebrates
its 35th
anniversary this
month.
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BY NANCY McCARTHY
Painter and gallery owner Jeffrey Hull
once had business cards describing his work
as “coastal life in watercolor.”
He has since included oils in his col-
lection, but his talent for capturing beach
scenes in watercolor is what prompted him
to pursue a career as an artist. His paintings
hang in the Jeffrey Hull Gallery, operated
by Hull and his wife, Carol. The gallery cel-
ebrates its 35th anniversary this month.
“We opened up in April of ’87, it was
uneventful. We just tried not to have it col-
lapse on us,” Hull said. Even in an arts
focused town like Cannon Beach, galleries
aren’t guaranteed success. In the gallery’s
early days, winters were often spare of vis-
itors. Economic fluctuations affected sales
and the pandemic caused uncertainty.
But customers who became lifelong
friends have supported and encouraged the
Hulls, enabling the gallery to remain open
in the same downtown location on the sec-
ond floor of Sandpiper Square. They are
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