CANNON BEACH , OREGON – Haystack Gallery , celebrating its 33 rd Anniversary this year, has set their 2010 Artist's Exhibition Schedule to coincide with the Cannon Beach Gallery Group's monthly themed exhibitions.
The focus this month is on local talent and Haystack Gallery is pleased to feature ‘The 4 Mike's', (Mike Smith, Michael Tieman, Michael Sorensen and Mike Grygrel), Joleen Wambolt, Bill Coomes and Sally O'Neill.
We are again part of the annual Wine Walk in Cannon Beach , Mar.13 to raise money for our local Children's Center. As part of the Saturday Wine Walk event, artist Michael Tieman will unveil in bronze ‘The Wine Thief' his newest sculpture in the Hands of the Artists collection. Sally O'Neill will have two new oil paintings in the gallery especially created for this wine event from her wine and flowers series. This year from 1-4pm Helvetia Winery will be pouring some of their fine wines in the gallery. Stop in and enjoy the wine and art, and help the kids.
Mike
Smith Come and explore the wonderful fanciful worlds created
by artist Mike Smith. An influential artist both nationally and internationally,
he began sculpting and drawing as a child. Mike received a degree
in English Literature from the University of Portland , taught briefly,
and then became committed to developing his art on a professional level. His
early work was abstract, but Mike soon abandoned schools of art and
developed his unique, colorful style which has subsequently influenced
other artists. His work contains worldwide themes and ideas, but
the focus and inspiration of his painting and sculpture remains the
hill where he lives. In his thirty plus year career, he has had almost
100 solo exhibitions of his work which includes watercolor, oil, acrylic,
bronze, ceramic, and printmaking
Michael David Sorensen Michael
started watercolor painting at age 13 and has enjoyed it ever since.
Sorensen claims that he started drawing as soon as he could hold a
pencil in an effort to compete with his older brother, Dan, and his
dad. His dad made a living for several years as a professional artist,
blowing glass, so when it came time to home school Michael and Dan,
their dad became the art teacher. After graduating from high school,
Michael went on to Clark College . At Clark College , he took every
art class he could fit into his schedule and met several instructors
that pushed him in his artwork. Sorensen graduated from Clark College
in spring of 2001 and still relies on his brother and dad for art instruction
and an ever-ready honest critique of his artwork.
Michael
Tieman “The role of an artist from the dawn of time has
been as a visual storyteller. The stories my art tell are ones of confidence,
strength, passion, playful sophistication & the celebration of
life.”
Michael attended the Columbus College of Art and Design and in 1972 received his BFA in advertising design. Taking his degree, Michael and his Canadian wife went to Vancouver B.C. Canada in 1973 where he started out on a successful thirty-five year plus international career in advertising design. In 1986 Michael relocated to Portland , Oregon with his family.
Tieman has sketched and painted since childhood and has spent almost four decades as a working artist, both as a graphic designer and a fine artist. “I create my bronze sculpture as a three dimensional painting; texture is the impasto brushstroke, color is the play of light and shadows across the surfaces, and detail is the free style movement of the impressionist style.”
Sally O'Neill A Native of Southern California, Sally
O'Neill has been interested in the arts since childhood. In 1998 she
expanded her artistic horizons and decided to try painting in oils. This
proved to be a life changing decision.
“As soon as I started working in oils I couldn't get enough. As an admirer of the impressionists I love the effects of light and color the medium allows. My attempt is to create a place more beautiful than perhaps it may actually be. I want my paintings to bring the viewer into a world they would love to be in. A world of beauty and sun drenched days.”
Although largely self-taught, Sally has studied privately with a number of instructors, including her constant mentor, watercolorist Don O'Neill.
Sally is a full time artist and devotes the majority of her time to
painting. She has lived in Oregon since 1991 and maintains a studio,
which she shares with husband Tim and their two dogs.
About Haystack Gallery
A Fine Art Gallery established in 1977, Haystack Gallery displays the artwork of over 75 Northwest, national and internationally recognized artists, covering a wide range of styles including original oils, acrylics and watercolors, bronze and metal sculptures, hand blown glass, limited and open edition giclées and lithographs. We feature artists such as: Steve Hanks , Pino, John Ebner, Frogman, Rie Munoz, Sean Conrad, Mark Hopkins, Sally O'Neill, Don Bishop and Michael Tieman.
For more information contact Patty Coomes, Haystack Gallery at PO Box 12 , Cannon Beach , OR 97110 . Phone: 503-436-2547; Email: news@haystackgallery.com. Web: haystackgallery.com
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