Category Archives: art shows and exhibits

Tulip Magnolia for the Twitter Art Exhibit

Tulip Magnolia, 4.5 x 6, watecolor

I’ve entered another Twitter fundraising art exhibit! In November 2010 I entered my first Twitter Art Exhibit, a collaborative fund-raising effort to help a library in Moss, Norway. All I had to do was submit a postcard sized painting and … Continue reading

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Hello Naked Winery, Goodbye Eve Series

nakedWinery_Sept2011_01

The people who run Naked Winery have been very good to me. They’ve been featuring my paintings on the walls of their Hood River tasting room for a couple of years now. Every time I go there, I like it … Continue reading

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Art by the River at Camp Kalama

Marie Painting at Camp Kalama

“So there we were, a bunch of artists, not very much unlike that unruly group of Impressionists who back in the 1870′s set out to revolutionize the art world by breaking away from tradition and painting outside from life.” Here … Continue reading

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Renewable Energy Roundup Art Show

Michelle Elzinga and artist Marie Wise up close

Ellensburg Washington is a rodeo town, but more importantly, it’s windy there. Clusters of industrial wind turbines dot the landscape of rural Kittitas County, churning out renewable energy at Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) Wild Horse Wind farm. For the second … Continue reading

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Tuscan Art Therapy at the Bread & Ink Cafe

Cottage by Celeste Bergin

Rx for a Stressfull Week – Soothing Visuals at the Bread & Ink Cafe. Whenever I get so stressed out that nothing seems manageable, the best therapy is focusing on the soothing visuals of color-infused paintings. I’m not a member … Continue reading

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Springing into Cinco de Mayo with bright florals and new technology!

Yellow Rhody

The bright colors in florals make people feel happy. That’s what I like to capture!  I’m celebrating Cinco de Mayo with an exhibit of my recent florals at The Broadway Gallery, a small cooperative gallery in Longview, Washington. It opens … Continue reading

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Columbian Artists

Columbian Artists

Living by the Columbia River, it makes sense for an artists’ association to call themselves the Columbian Artists’ Assocation. Many of the artists paint the Columbia River and other scenic local landscape scenes. The association has held an annual show … Continue reading

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