We are excited to be a sponsor of Sketcher Fest Edmonds this month!

Join us during the Third Thursday Art Walk on July 18th where multiple locations around town will be hosting live sketchers!

Aria Studio Gallery // Joan Archer and Leah Goodwin

535 Main St, open Tuesday 1-6pm, Wednesday-Friday 11am-4pm, Saturday 12-4pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Always new paintings and an exciting demonstration by resident artist Joan Archer! Studio watercolor classes available Saturdays at Aria. Photography by Leah Goodwin.

A watercolor demonstration begins at 6:30pm in the gallery’s front room on the night of the Third Thursday Art Walk.

ArtSpot // Edmonds Sketchers

408 Main St, open Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-4pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

July in Edmonds is all about sketching! Artists are coming in from all over the world and hundreds of Sketchers will gather in Edmonds on July 19-21 for Sketcher Fest Edmonds.

Sketchbooks from our local sketching group “Edmonds Sketchers!”  will be on display in the windows of Artspot throughout the month. You will find them all around town on the night of the Third Thursday Art Walk. Come into Artspot for a refreshment to celebrate the kickoff of Sketcher Fest Edmonds. The highlight of the evening will be the artist “throw down“ in front of Artspot at 8pm. Sketchers will bring their drawings for an ad hoc display in front of the store. Be sure to stop by and check it out!   

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Beauty and the Barber // Julianna North

128 4th Ave S, open Monday, 10am-5pm, Tuesday - Friday 10am-6:30pm, Saturday 9am-5pm
SEE ART DURING THIRD THURSDAY ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM ONLY

Julianna North is an artist living in Everett, Washington. Taking inspiration from the Pacific Northwest's natural beauty, outdoor recreation, and her own mental health and body-image struggles, Julianna works to create art that is inclusive of the femme experience. Whether you find silence for your anxiety in the descent on a mountain bike, or are trying to find body neutrality or love in the way your body moves during a hike, Julianna hopes that you can see yourself doing what you love, in the place that we all love, the outdoors.

Bench & Board // Andrea Misiano

610 Main St, open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday noon-4pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Andrea Misiano is a Seattle-based artist. No twig, stone or seashell is safe from her roving eye and crafty hands. Each piece is a unique, handmade tableau of the Northwest landscape.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Cascadia Art Museum // Gail Wong

190 Sunset Ave, open Wednesday - Sunday, 11-5pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Gail Wong is an architectural illustrator, retired architect, part time lecturer from the University of Washington and co-author of “The Urban Sketching Handbook: Spotlight on Nature” with friend and fellow sketcher Virginia Hein. You may also recognize her name as one of the co-organizers for Sketcher Fest Edmonds which is happening July 19, 20 and 21. Stop by and see Gail's work on display during July and join us on Thursday, July 18 between 5 – 8 pm to see her demonstrate the special effects you can achieve with watercolor. Try your hand at it too. This will be an interactive demonstration.

Admission is free from 5-8pm for the Third Thursday Art Walk. We will also offer Ambassador-led tours of our current exhibitions.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Coldwell Banker Bain // Dayna Black

108 5th Ave S, open daily 10am-4pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Dayna is a multidisciplinary artist, small business owner and dreamer. Originally from Southern Alberta, Canada, she settled in Edmonds after falling in love with the Pacific Northwest over 15 years ago while traveling.

Soar Free Artistry embodies her lifelong dream to foster self-love and positivity through a deeper connection to Nature via her art. Her life path has been diverse, shaped by fairly extensive travel and careers ranging from elementary school teacher to global agency operations director. As such, her art spans various styles and is created with all ages in mind, emphasizing the Feminine, emotion, comfort, color, and visual textures as pathways to self-discovery, motivation, and abundance.

At this show you’ll find a range of her original and printed pieces, including framed digital wall art, acrylic pour paintings, and faux-embroidered nature journals, notebooks, and bookmark collections.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Crow // Patti Christie

105 5th Ave S, open Monday - Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 12-5pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Patti Christie is life-long native of the Pacific Northwest. Raised in Olympia, she moved to Seattle in 1980 and currently works out of her studio in Magnolia. As a fine arts graduate of The Evergreen State College, Patti discovered the beauty of pastels 30 years ago. Her landscape expressions are memoirs of her travels from Montana to New Zealand.

Growing up on regular visits to the coast of Washington, the soft tones of the dunes, grasses, and ocean heavily influenced her early career. This style remains evident in her recent work, where colors are soft with little evidence of hard defined lines. The art flows on the paper allowing the viewer a sense of belonging to a specific time of day and season. The understanding of light and shadow is more important to the development of the work than perspective.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

The Curious Nest // Janie Olsen

405 Main St, open Thursday - Sunday 12-4pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Janie Olsen, born and raised in Western Washington, currently has her home and studio in Monroe, Washington. Having painted all her life she says “it is a spiritual, driving force within myself”. Realizing art was going to be one of the main the focuses of her life she graduated from The Burnley School of Professional Art where she studied design and illustration. Working as a graphic designer during the day for many years, she now paints full time with some freelance illustration projects as well. Her head is filled with ideas and she is constantly sketching, painting and thinking of her next piece.

Come see her latest collection that includes works featuring the mighty bear to many a winged creature in the lush forests of her imagination. Details abound and within all of Janie's paintings there lives a call to reflect and immerse into a world of symbols and dreamlike manifestions of the magical realm of animals.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Driftwood Modern // 20th Century Artists

403-1/2 Main St, open Thursday - Sunday 11am-5pm or by appointment
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Driftwood Modern is proud to present an ongoing finely-curated collection of original paintings, prints and sculptures of artists active in the mid-20th century Modern period, with a focus on the renowned Northwest School. They also offer original midcentury modern home furnishings.

East West Books and Gifts // Christine Meshew

110 3rd Ave N, open Monday - Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 12-5pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Ever since Christine was a child, nature’s beauty captivated her to express it visually on paper. To draw a tree, an animal or a flower was so rewarding. The way the colors blend and create beautiful scenes on paper was mesmerizing to her. She spent countless hours in the art room experimenting with different techniques and honing her skills. As she entered college, she decided to pursue a degree in Fine Arts to further develop her passion for creating art inspired by nature. She immersed herself in art history, learning about different artistic movements and techniques that influenced her own work. Throughout her artistic journey, nature remained a constant source of inspiration. Whether it was painting landscapes, drawing animals, or sketching flowers, she always found solace and joy in bringing the beauty of the natural world to life on paper. Her dedication to capturing the essence of nature through art was evident in her pieces, each one showcasing her deep connection to the world around her. As she continued to refine her craft, she knew that her love for nature and her artistic abilities would always be intertwined, guiding her on a lifelong creative path.

Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation Gallery at Frances Anderson Center // Edmonds Arts Festival Poster Artist Heidi Farina

700 Main St, open Monday - Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 10am-1:30pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Heidi’s art is inspired by Pacific Northwest landscapes, including mountains, forests, and sea. She began university majoring in Fine Art, focusing on Oil Painting and Sculpture. After moving from Ohio to Wyoming, pulled towards two different passions, she majored in Ecology and minored in Fine Art, while commuting to Colorado to teach snowboarding at A-Basin every weekend.

 While Heidi ended up in Ecology/ Genetics as a full-time career for 15 years, her love of art continued and meshed well with her love of mountain state ecology and adventures. In the past 15 years she has moved from Wyoming to California to Washington, with mountain and ocean terrain guiding her activities and shaping her inspiration source along the way. Eventually that inspiration led her full circle, to a full-time art career. Now Heidi lives in North Seattle.

Edmonds Vision Center // Cynthia Marker

201 5th Ave S, open Monday - Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-2pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS ONLY

Cynthia has always been motivated and captivated by the play of light on different surfaces and the amazing carpet of color that surrounds us. Her quest to capture these qualities on canvas began in her teens, and she has been striving to do so all of my life.
Cynthia is an associate member of Oil Painters of America, and has belonged to the East Side Association of Fine Arts. Cynthia’s works reflect the Northwest where she lives and paints.

Epulo Bistro // Becca Lavin & Wendy Rader-Konofalski

190 Sunset Ave, open Sunday - Thursday 4-8:30pm , Friday - Saturday 3-9:30pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Becca Lavin started painting in 2020 when her 20 year old private massage therapy practice closed its doors for the last time. Becca's art is mainly abstract or representational abstract using every medium that is within reach. It is restless, colorful and textured with a mind of its own. If there is a theme, she hasn't found it yet. Perhaps, Freedom. By the time she finishes a painting there is usually a deep understanding that has surfaced, for her. She leaves the rest to the observer as that is one of the magical things about abstract. The utter subjectiveness of what comes through to the observer. "I love that about abstract!"

Wendy Rader-Konofalski is a local artist who started painting later in life. A brush with death and seven weeks in the hospital and a long recovery may have worked a form of magic on her brain that opened up a portal into a creativity that she never knew existed. Wendy paints on canvas with acrylics, but often use mixed media elements such as charcoal and ink. She enjoys including collage in her work. She paints abstract works and landscapes as well as small florals. Wendy views her work as a sort of symbiotic relationship: herself as artist, and you as viewer.

Gallery North // Theresa Williams ~ ‘Captivating Creations on Canvas’

401 Main St, open 11am-5pm daily
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Theresa is a Tlingit Alaska Native who grew up in Edmonds. She is a certified Native Tribal Artist with the Tlingit and Haida Central Council of Indian Tribes of Alaska. Theresa is inspired by the majestic Pacific Northwest Mountains, Puget Sound, the gorgeous sunsets over the Olympics, the beaches, lakes, and varied wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Examples of her work include Multnomah Falls, Mount Rainier View, and Fireweed Sunset. These paintings show her use of bold brush strokes and vibrant colors. “I love when people are looking at my work and come up to me and tell me “I’d love to go to that place! or, I’ve been there!” Theresa usually has been to that ‘place’ as she typically uses her own photos as references.

She has also recently learned the Alaskan Native Art of Formline Design. She will have some examples of this in her show. She will also have on display her take on the ceremonial Alaskan Button Blanket Regalia designs, in wall hanging form.

A reception with the artist will be held at Gallery North on Saturday, July 13, from 1-4pm. Theresa will also be at the Third Thursday Art Walk.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Graphite // Artistry of Industry

202 Main St, gallery will be open to the public on Fridays 1-5pm,Saturdays 12-4pm, and daily entrance through Charcoal Restaurant 4-9pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Artistry of Industry is an exhibit of works exploring the visual artistry of human made elements of manufacturing, construction and industrial progress. Featured are scenes of architecture from cityscapes to silos and smokestacks. Imagery of the more elemental parts of industry are also shown: motors, gears, and pipe works. For good measure also included are 3D works of robots and drawings of futuristic flying machines.

Artistry of Industry runs through July 18th - September 7th.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Interiors of Edmonds // Giclée prints by David Marty

326 Main St, Monday - Saturday 10am-4pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS ONLY

Landscapes of the western United States are often the subject of David’s paintings. However several tours throughout Europe, and in particular Italy, have inspired him to regularly paint scenes from European country and city life as well. His work is a combination of plein air and studio paintings. He loves to get outdoors and painting on location whenever he can. Interiors of Edmonds is happy to be showing David’s limited edition giclée reproductions.

Koenig Financial Group // Shivam Bhardwaj & Vey Reutov

120 5th Ave S, open Monday - Thursday 8am-5pm
SEE ART DURING THIRD THURSDAY ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM ONLY

Koenig Financial Group (Securities and Advisory Services offered through Harbour Investments, Inc. Member SIPC) is proud to partner with the Edmonds College Art Department to bring Edmonds College artists to Art Walk Edmonds.

Shivam Bhardwaj is a self-taught artist who primarily works with oil paint and charcoal mediums. He has been drawing since he was a kid and started painting a few years ago. He focuses on all aspects of “painting”. He has done portraits and abstract work. He gathers his inspiration from other great artists. He learns by replicating their style and implementing it to his ideas. He enjoys the challenge of replication. The main thing that drives him is the idea of creating something out of nothing. In the future, he wants to try landscape painting and sculpting. Shivam is a graduate of Edmonds College.  He currently tutors EC students and will begin independent studies with an EC Art Department faculty member in the fall.

Vey Reutov is an emerging artist with a fire for depicting fiction and surrealism into her artwork. Her creations are a manifestation of dream-like imagery that transports the viewer into a fairytale world. Her show, “Into the Inkwell'' is a series of ghost stories translated into drawings of ink: The ghosts we chase, the ghosts we run from, and the ghosts that are still with us. Vey believes it is these deep, haunting thoughts that are a reminder to take a deeper look within ourselves and reflect about who we are. Vey is a student at Edmonds College and a recipient of the Edmonds Festival of the Arts Scholarship, as well as the Ruby and Louie May Endowed Scholarship. She is on track to receive her associate’s degree in Visual Communications and Technical Arts in Spring of next year.

Musicology Co // Jeff “One Song” Barlow

420 5th Ave S, open Tuesday - Thursday noon-5pm, Friday - Sunday 11am-5pm
SEE ART DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Band sketcher Jeff Barlow is the featured sketcher at Musicology this month. Jeff has always loved bringing his sketchbook to band gigs. The environment is perfect for creating art. There is electricity in the air, the surroundings are a fun challenge, and the drawings have a certain raw quality. 

Not long ago Jeff was watching a band play and he'd just finished a drawing that he was reasonably happy with. There wasn't enough time left in the show to do another drawing, but Jeff didn't feel like he was finished. That spurred a crazy idea -- could he draw the band in the length of one song? The band struck up, the pencil started flying, when they finished, Jeff finished. The result was not a Rembrandt, but it had a certain something. Jeff tried it again -- another drawing he liked. Now Jeff goes out almost every weekend looking for gigs where he can do more one-song drawings. 

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Soaring Heart // Laura Moe

111 Main St, open daily 10am-6pm
SEE ART DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Laura Moe survived art college and two graduate degrees. She spent most of her career as a librarian and English teacher in central and Southeastern Ohio, but moved to Seattle where she writes and paints. She is the author of BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA (Simon & Schuster/Merit Press, 2016) named by the New York Public Library as one the Best Books for Teens in 2016 and shortlisted for the WA State Book Award. Her favorite subjects to paint are the flora and fauna and sea of the Pacific Northwest.

Sketchers will be here during Third Thursday Art Walk - stop by!

Sugarology Edmonds // Autumn Tranquilino

133 4th Avenue N, open Monday 12-6pm; Tuesday - Thursday 9am-7pm; Friday 9am-6pm; Saturday 9am-5pm
SEE ART DURING ART WALK ONLY ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Autumn Tranquilino is a visionary painter from Seattle, Washington, who blends mysticism with realism to create works reflective of both modern and ancient cultures. Her work is primarily focused on Goddess mythology, mysticism and indigenous culture. Her work featured this month at Sugarology is from her Goddess Ascension series based on Goddess Lore and the lunar phases. 

Windermere Real Estate // Don King

210 5th Avenue S, open 9am -5pm daily
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Watercolorist Don King has traveled all over the world, seeing art galleries, museums, great artists (Escher) that have inspired his art and painting. He graduated from The Burnley School of Professional Art where he studied graphic design, composition and illustration. From there, his whole career was as an artist and senior art director for ad agencies. Don’s graphic arts education and design background have had a great influence on his watercolor paintings and pencil drawing compositions. Most of his finished art is done in his studio from field studies, subject photos and sketch book ideas to develop interesting images of old buildings, barns, boats and staircases. Don belongs to several art groups, including the Northwest Watercolor Society, and has been selected in juried art shows, such as Edmonds and Kenmore.

Young Art Gallery & Studio // Yuni Wong

218 Main St, open Tuesday - Friday 1-6pm, Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 1-6pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON JULY 18TH 5-8PM

Yuni Wong has a Fine Arts degree from Korea. Creating collages with her paintings makes her feel alive. She receives joy and happiness in thoughts and ideas through black and white images that she transforms into colors. She has participated in many group exhibitions in California and greater Seattle area. This exhibition will be her first solo event.

Yuni Wong has received the Masters of the Moment Award from the San Diego East County Art Association, awards in Painting & Photography from Seoul National University, and Places 1st in Painting & 2nd in Drawing Awards from the City of Kirkland Cultural Arts Commission.

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