https://youtu.be/myJf6HXOCo4 Paula West, owner of the cleverly-named Paula West Pottery, has been a potter since college. She works in porcelain and stoneware clay that is thrown on the potters wheel, or is slab built. She told CNL2 TV, “I make functional pottery…mugs, bowls, plates. I’ve always made functional work. I like using functional pottery. I like…
https://youtu.be/h-MDNk8Zhok Marcia Walters, owner of Why Worry Photography, moved to San Juan Island in 2012 from Half Moon Bay, California. A major reason for moving here, she told CNL2 TV: the island’s natural beauty, and our National Park. Marcia always felt like an artist, from her earliest memories — even throughout her 37 year-career in…
https://youtu.be/YjmVjtPHxB4 Darleen Nixon owns Nixon Art Glass, located on Elena Drive, off of Roche Harbor Rd., just north of San Juan Island’s Sportsmans Lake. Her shop makes a wide variety of beautiful art glass creations, from jewelry to serving ware to home and garden decor. Darleen has a small creative staff to help her with…
https://youtu.be/komFf97fr3Q Kristen Reitz-Green, a new resident of San Juan Island from Vashon Island, shares her passion for her “abstract hyper-realism” style of oil painting. The initial subject of her painting was food. Her current subject is still-life paintings of glass. She absolutely expects her subjects and her style to continue to evolve and change, and…
Hosts Jeff Noedel and Heather Spaulding interview Maria Michaelson the co-owner of Alchemy Arts Center and Nate Fihn owner of Waterworks Gallery.
