Spotlight Artisan Show at YAA
Alana Williams will be the Artisan Spotlight artist displaying 3 dimensional artwork on the center podiums at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery in Newport Oregon. The show will run from June 22 to July 5, 2013 and is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm at 789 NW Beach Drive in Newport. Alana Williams has always been creative; beginning with her High School days in Ogden, Utah where she was introduced to pottery. There she learned how to form clay and throw pots on a wheel. In 2001 a job change for Alana and her husband required a move to the Oregon Coast. Here they built a workshop to produce the items they needed to support their interests. Alana began to sell her art and crafts at local shops and regional shows. Three years ago she joined the Yaquina Art Association and took her first watercolor classes. Alana loved this medium devoting her time to watercolor and acrylic painting. Her favorite subjects are flowers and animals. In the YAA gallery Alana sells her watercolor paintings, hand painted wooden boxes, and “Collage On Wood creations”. Alana considers “Art as a continuing journey”.
Previous to moving here Alana earned her college degree in business, got married and spent the next several years moving with her husband and son, finally settling in Albany Oregon where she developed two life-long passions. The two being gardening and the second with Folk Art and Decorative Painting. Her garden became a showcase and was a favorite on the yearly garden tour and her painting drew an ever increasing following. She attended many workshops and took classes from several renowned artists such as Jo Sonja Jansen. She developed more creative interests with woodworking, dried floral arrangements and herb gardening. She and her husband John built a large shop for woodworking that included a small shop where Alana sold her creations.
In 1991 they packed up and moved to Lewiston Idaho when John took a job there. Once settled they built a workshop and created another garden where Alana grew florals and roses. Alana joined a group of highly successful artists in a cooperative selling her art and dried florals. She used here college skills and took over the book keeping for the co-op. With her income she was able to help pay the cost of college for their son at the University of Idaho where he received his computer science degree.
