Two week spotlight show featuring the art of Patti Johnson and Diana Perez-Moya
There will a two week spotlight show featuring the art of Patti Johnson and Diana Perez-Moya at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery in Nye Beach from May 31- June 13. The gallery is open from 11 am to 4 pm daily and is located at 789 NW Beach Drive in Newport, Oregon.
Patti Johnson has been painting for over 40 years and is now facilitating at the Yaquina Art Association classes at the Visual Art Center at Nye Beach. She teaches the oil and acrylic class and will be teaching Pencil class for YAA in the month of June.
Patti was raised on the east coast and moved here in 1976 .She does portraits in oils and paints anything else she considers beautiful.She was taught by her parents,and has taken many workshops and college courses to keep improving.
Patti Johnson says, China painting is another love she has,thanks to the Y.A.A teacher Carmen Dean”. Some china painted items will be on display at Patti’s show.
Diana Perez-Moya loves bright colors, the smell of the marine air and blooming flowers. She sees how everything in Nature goes back to life in many ways, everything in a perfect cycle. That is why upcycling became an important part of her art. She can take a broken mirror and use it as a canvas and driftwoods from the beach as frames. She says, “You never know what you can do until you really look for the possibilities”.
Diana will be showing her oil painting on canvas, mirrors and paper, as well as acrylic on paper, glossies on mirrors and her new “Wearable Art”; landscapes painted and framed on a 2” diameter shells ready to use as jewelry. When she was 13 years old she took her first oil painting class with the Spanish artist Pepe Garcia and continued taking his classes for many years. Diana has studied different art mediums and has taken drawing classes at Yaquina Art Association. She is experimenting with glossies (a water based paint) on different surfaces.Diana has been working at the Oregon Coast Community College for the past 12 years as an instructional assistant for the English as a Second Language class and as a non-credit Spanish teacher for the last year.
By Patti Johnson
“Fogarty Creek” by Diana Perez
wearable art by Diana Perez
