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cost $25 with matching earrings for an additional $10. Connolly also offers colorful child-sized bracelets. Mike O’Connell’s unique work is often described as orbs due to his use of circles, Moats said. In one acrylic collage, he wrote an entire story. Another large acrylic is called “Meanings of Life.” Fred and Danna Doe add to the originality of the gallery as a married couple, Moats said. Fred Doe offers paintings and Danna Doe sells her photography. Carlos Xavier offers a special gift with each purchase of his handmade wooden flutes: a free lesson. “It’s a really wonderful way to get music into a child’s life,” Moats added. He also carves walking sticks, adding faces to the wood. Kim Tinuviel was one of the first artists to come to
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Christina Moats recently opened Christina’s Island Real Estate and Fine Art in Freeland. One of the artists in the gallery and real estate office is Carlos Xavier, who creates these wooden walking sticks with carved faces.
Moats. “So she is very special to me,” Moats said. Tinuviel sells her photography. Joann Peterson creates art in the sumi-e Japanese style. “They’re always natural themes in sumi-e art,” Moats said, pointing out the birds in Peterson’s art. Moats also welcomed the Blessing Project, headed by Debra Aaron. Aaron travels around the world to places of extreme poverty and purchases beads, cloth and more made by the women there. Then she returns home and delivers the materials to homebound women who make shadowboxes with sayings out of the materials. “So these are women who live in extreme poverty and could never have money without what they sell through the Blessing Project,” Moats said. All of the money raised goes toward purchasing more materials from women in poverty.
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Gary Berner, a dentist in Oak Harbor and a glassblower, has his vases, bowls and more in the gallery. Jessie L yle designs T-shirts with “fancy” images in both adult and child sizes. Tammi Sloan makes jewelry through My Brown Wren. Her silver and copper jewelry are available at the gallery. Moats is even an artist herself, and sells her wildlife photography. “Everyone’s contributing to the success of the gallery and real estate office,” Moats said, adding that she enjoys the wide variety of artists. “We have a combination of people who are well-known and people who aren’t. So we’re giving everybody a fair chance to be seen,” Moats said. Moats said she plans for the art and real estate portions of her business to help each other, as she helps the community. She has countless stories of assisting community members during housing struggles. One of her favorites is about a Navy man. “He had never had a home. He’d lived on ships and bases the whole 20 years and he wanted to have a dog,” Moats said. She searched for homes for him for months in between deployments and finally found a home in Oak Harbor. “He was so happy to finally have a home,” Moats said. When he drove to meet her and she saw a cute dog in the car, that was the icing on the cake for Moats. “That’s why I’m in real estate. To help people do those kinds of things. And to help them become a part of the community and learn about Whidbey,” Moats said. When people visit the gallery, Moats said she hopes they come in looking for gifts. With such a variety of types of art, Moats said she’s sure people will find what they’re looking for. “My real estate business is about helping people through challenging parts of their lives through giving them personalized, individual attention, and helping the artists along the way,” Moats said. Moats has room for more artists. Specifically, she would like to find watercolor, ceramics and clothing artists. For more information and gallery hours, call the gallery at 221-0989.