John Bradley and Cynthia Jacobi will be the featured artists on the center walls of the Yaquina Art Association Gallery
John Bradley and Cynthia Jacobi will be the featured artists on the center walls of the Yaquina Art Association Gallery located at 789 NW Beach Drive in Nye Beach, Newport, Oregon. The gallery is open from 11 am to 4 pm daily and the show runs from May 3 thru May 16, 2014.
Cynthia Jacobi,Newport artist, creates with watercolor and mixed media. In the Spotlight show, she has applied her textured plaster and collage on wood techniques to a different form: long pillars or column shapes. The result is abstract wall art. Finding asymmetry pleasing, she usually groups the columns into triptychs. Her work is represented at For ArtSake Gallery, an artists’ co-op in Nye Beach, Newport. She is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon,Yaquina Arts Association and the Toledo Arts Guild. She is also a published poet and board member of Writers on the Edge. As a committee member of Save the VAC, she emphasizes the value of the arts to a community. Besides bringing in money, art enriches and connects people. “Art can say what we know in our heart but have no words to express.” Her most inspiring instructors have been Bill Kucha and Eric Sandgren (watercolor), Pat Wheeler (mixed media) and Mary Cernyar Fox (acrylic and color mixing). Cynthia loves to take workshops, gathering new ideas and energy from other artists. She says that the “Newport Paper Arts Festival was one of those fabulous energizing opportunities.”
John Bradley has been painting for more than 22 years now and he has taken as well as taught many classes in the county for Yaquina Art Association and 4C’s in Lincoln City. Bradley has taken art classes at Berkely College of Arts and Crafts, Sculpture Classes at Lane Community College, Intensive Watercolor Studio classes in Taos, New Mexico and Diablo Junior College in Concord, California. At the Fall 2012 Convention for the Watercolor Society of Oregon, John Bradley was awarded the Gold Award, one of the highest awards you can receive in the Watercolor Society of Oregon.
Watercolor by John Bradley
“Avco (Water) in Esperanto” by Cynthia Jacobi
