‘I use art to overcome life’s challenges. It’s liberating.’

Brenda Thebeau

Brenda Thebeau holding the lion page that changed her life. Insets: other art journal pieces.
“My new work is far less personal… but it’s all about exploration.”

Loyal to oil: Artist of the Month at Creek Village Gallery

Artist Wanda Black

Even Black's flora can be quite captivating as demonstrated here in a detail from
 a larger painting (bottom) which invites the viewer to imagine the story beyond the canvas.
 The lush images at top form a tryptic.

‘I used to carve and display in the back of a barber shop.’

Francine Simard Levesque 

Gnomes and Santas on view this weekend for the Art in the Valley Studio Tour (Saturday and Sunday, June 6-7, 2015) at Levesque's riverside studio in Rowena include, from left, a richly carved and painted  child’s sleigh, a welcoming doorway sculpture, an intricately carved birdhouse (detail here), a 7-foot high sculpture (only a portion of which is shown).