Backstreet hosts reception for Little Dickens winners
FLORENCE — Backstreet Gallery
presents artists Bill Johnson and Jan
Woodford, who won the Best of Show
awards for last December’s Little Dickens
Show. Their new exhibition will be
mighty, but maybe not miniature.
Their reception is April 11, from 3 to 5
p.m., during the Second Saturday Gallery
Tour.
Refreshments will be served.
Since childhood,Woodford has loved
art with her parents fostering her tal-
ents.She’s been painting and developing
her expertise for 50 years, and pastels for
the past 16 years.
Woodford loves to work in series. Her
most recent endeavor is her masterfully
executed seascapes where one can almost
feel the sea spray with waves crashing
against the shore. She might paint with
oil, plein air or take photos and combine
them in the richness of her style with pas-
tels.
One of these beautiful seascapes won
best of show at the miniature show in the
2D category.
She is equally adept at portraiture.
Woodford coordinates the Figure Eight
artists who meet bi-weekly with a live
model.
In February, the Siuslaw Public Library
showcased her work. She has exhibited at
Tsunami Gallery, Mind Power Gallery and
Peace Harbor Hospital. She creates with a
group of artists at Old Town Coffee,
where she is a permanent exhibitor.
Being an FRAA member, Woodford’s
art appears at the Art Center.
Johnson entered several Little Dickens
COURTESY PHOTOS
Bill Johnson and Jan Woodford, who won Backstreet Gallery’s Little Dickens
Show, are the gallery’s artists of the month. A reception will be held for
them April 11. Johnson’s creation (top right) and Woodford’s painting (at
right) are on display.
Shows and won awards at each show for
his 3D pieces. He, too, has been artistic
since childhood when he loved to draw
hot rods.
At Pasadena City College, he began to
take art and design classes. He pursued a
career in the aerospace industry. Later he
worked in residential design and graphic
arts.
Workshops like “Artist Is You, Art and
Soul,” and an assemblage class with
Michael de Meng have influenced his
present day art.
He expresses himself by gathering dis-
carded objects that he finds in thrift shops
and garage sales then transforms and
assembles them into freestanding sculp-
tural pieces.
Machine parts, clocks, watches, dials,
meters, gears and chains are a few of the
items you might find pieced together in
his unique sculptures.
Come enjoy their distinctive creations
during April at Backstreet Gallery, 1421
Bay St. in Florence.
The gallery is open daily from 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Dulin, Maroney next performers in spring House Concert series
FLORENCE — Pianist/composers
Michael Dulin and Greg Maroney will be
making their third appearances in Kathy
Parsons’ House Concert series on
Saturday, April 18, at 7 p.m., in the
Sandpines West development of Florence.
Come enjoy an evening of great music,
humor and heartwarming stories about
music and life. There is a suggested dona-
tion of $20 at the door, and reservations
can be made by calling Kathy Parsons
at 541-999-9720 or emailing her at
kathypiano@gmail.com.
The address and directions to the con-
cert will be furnished when reservations
are made.
Dulin, a native of Brookside, Ala., com-
pleted his musical training at the Juilliard
School in New York, where he worked
with master teacher and concert pianist
Adele Marcus. He has competed at an
international level as a classical pianist
and was a finalist in the (2014) 10th
Annual International Acoustic Music
Awards.
Dulin’s albums of original music have
twice been awarded the prestigious
Lifestyle Music Award.
Four of his albums have reached the
No. 1 spot on Zone Music Reporter’s
World Airplay Charts, and his newest
release, “My Beloved,” is headed in that
direction as well.
In addition to performing his original
music throughout the United States, Dulin
appears both solo and with orchestra in
performances of classical music.
He has also toured as keyboardist with
the legendary Motown group, the
Temptations.
Dulin and his wife, Jan, live in
Birmingham, Ala., where Jan is a school
administrator and Michael is managing
partner at PSI Recording.
Maroney is a contemporary solo piano
artist who has released 12 CDs of original
piano music including “Spectrum of
Love,” which was nominated for
Whisperings 2011 Album of the Year.
His emotionally rich music captures the
beauty and majesty of life as well as its
more turbulent side. Maroney and his
wife, Linda, live on a small farm in south
central Pennsylvania where they raise a
great deal of their own food and seek to
live peacefully and in harmony with
nature.
House concerts provide a relaxed set-
ting where the audience can interact with
the artists.
CDs and songbooks will be available
for sale and for autographing by the
artists. More information is available at
www.mainlypiano.com.
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