colorful signs can welcome all into your home or business. The artist has several beautiful and well constructed benches both inside the gallery and flanking the outside entrance to the gallery. Around the side of the gallery is an amazing 15 foot long bench that is regularly used by Sunriver visitors while enjoying donuts and coffee. View of Mount Bachelor by Midge Thomas. One of these benches would be great at your home for playing f you are looking for that special something for Dad on his special day in games or watching the sun set. June, hurry to the Sunriver Artists’ Gallery. The gallery really provides a Midge Thomas’s watercolors of local Orwide spectrum of solutions for the guy that may already have everything. egon mountains are beautiful, but this year Dads appreciate art as much as anyone. Reception is Second Saturday, June 8 Midge’s art took a new exciting direction. featuring Joe Kendall, Ken Medenbach, Midge Thomas and Patrick Windsor. Metal sculpture is her latest passion, and it For Dads who really enjoy the outdoors, you can capture a bit of that magic will be your passion as well after you stop by of nature in the beautiful pastel renderings of Joe Kendall. These works of art the gallery to take a look at it. are all about illusion, especially the effects of light and reflections on water and Midge’s pieces are mostly wall art, some the luminous colors that are created in nature. Pastel is one of the best ways to depicting many of the fun and memorable depict Oregon scenes with vibrant water, skies and foliage. activities that vacationers flock to Central In Joe’s piece, Suttle Lake, the viewer finds a small scene that Joe discovered while Oregon to enjoy. If you are a snow skier, you on a hike around the lake. The light at that time of day created beautiful reflections will appreciate pieces that capture the moof the surrounding trees and vegetation on the surface on the water. Suttle Lake is ment that a skier has crouched into position a particularly good example of the illusions that can be created with the luminous to take a tight turn. If you golf or play tencolors and blending techniques of the medium. nis, you will appreciate how Midge has capWhispers From the Grass tured the excitement of the moment. There beautifully documents a is truly something for everyone, horse lovers, moment in time when that dog lovers, bird lovers, Midge has nailed it. Red Boat, Fly Fishing Hosmer Lake by Patrick Windsor artist was enjoying Shevlin The three dimensional pieces are made Pond. While “nosing” around even more interesting with Midge’s use of heat and chemical techniques. the pond, Joe found this Midge does a large volume of commission pieces. That means you can secure little stream or slough that something really special for Dad this year. emptied into the pond. The Patrick Windsor is an incredibly talented photographer that has been with viewer is immediately aware the gallery for a few years. He has pieces with a wide category of subjects, of the sense of the outdoors as revealed in his web page windsorphotography.com. At the Sunriver Artists’ and nature that the artist’s il- Gallery, he displays mostly pieces that are more focused on local Oregon fishing Whispers from the Grass by Joe Kendall lusion creates. activities. Because Patrick is an avid fly fisherman, he is regularly faced with the And for the beach lovers, Low Tide is a small painting from a beach scene Joe dilemma of whether to pick up his fly fishing rod or his camera. He says that found on a visit to Newport and down the Oregon coast. The the “golden hour” for fly fishing is also the same for the light contrast of water on the sand and the dark rocks out in the surf for photography. is especially beautiful. You can almost hear the surf and smell In his piece, Deschutes River Motion, Patrick has really capthe salt air. tured the kinetic energy of the river. It is, at the same time, alKen Medenbach’s wooden carvings and furniture have long ways in motion, but also a single moment in time. If this piece been a favorite at the gallery. His whimsical bears delight evwas hanging in your Dad’s office, he would be able to find the eryone who passes by. The bears come in many sizes and can be serenity of the river any time that he desires. displayed indoors or out. If your Dad likes to fish, then surely he A photo of Mt. Bachelor as seen from Hosmer Lake is breath needs a fishing bear to make him chuckle when he can’t be out taking. Two lucky fishermen are enjoying a sunny day with a enjoying his hobby. favorite way to pass the time. Another photo of fly fishing in Ken also produces beautifully made furniture. Chests, tables, front of Tumalo Falls is equally beautiful and inspiring, but the beds and much more. Many local homes have a custom mantel photo of fly fishing in Sparks Meadow is the one that really made from his favorite materials of juniper and lodge pole and captures the essence of both the sport and Central Oregon. ponderosa pine. Ken is happy to work with you to create a spePatrick offer pieces in framed fine art prints, canvas giclee cial piece that is a one of kind family heirloom. His unique and and frameable greeting cards. Fishing Bear by Ken Medenbach www.facebook.com/CascadeAE | June 2013 27
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