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Kris Knight
Artist Statement My love of art started in the 4th grade when my teacher asked us to illustrate almost every story we read and I realized that was something I could do. I loved drawing and took classes whenever I could, moving on to oil painting. Raising a family of five children kept me busy…
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Mary Jepsen
Artist Statement Following retirement in 2015, Mary took up watercolor painting for the first time and joined the Yakima Valley Artists Association to continue her education and experimentation in art. Since then, she has had her work accepted for show at galleries in Tieton, Moses Lake and Yakima and earned Best of Show in the…
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Gary Hughes
Artist Statement Born in Yakima, traveled the world for 35 years with a camera, came back to Yakima. Contact Information Gary Hughes Email: gary@hmttech.com Website: https://1-gary-hughes.pixels.com/ Visit Gary’s Web Site Work by Gary Hughes
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Geri Ham
Artist Statement Geralyn (Geri) Ostrander Ham, born and raised in rural South Dakota. I graduated from SDSU with an Art Education major and began my teaching career teaching High School Art in South Dakota. I relocated to the west coast where I worked in Early Childhood Education while raising my family. In 2002 I began…
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Susan Hahn
Artist Statement My paintings explore the juxtaposition of color and light as they suggest images of landscapes, flowers, and abstractions the celebrate the media I employ. Contact Information Susan Hahn Email: susanlh2010@hotmail.com Phone: (509) 594-0065 Work by Susan Hahn “Birthday” 26 x 32 Oil on canvas Framed $375 by Susan Hahn “Flowers in…
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Ana Li Gresham
Artist Statement Ana Li Gresham is an artist and graphic designer living in Naches, WA. She has a passion for the outdoors and finds inspiration at every turn while hiking and exploring in the Cascade mountains. She grew up in Cheney, WA, with an artist father and a mother who loves quilting and all things…
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Joan Eckman
Artist Statement Outdoor activities and art have always been a large part of my life. After retiring in 2007, I began pursuing my art endeavors further. Pencil drawings and watercolor progressed to acrylic paintings. A spinal cord injury changed the way I interact physically with the outdoors, but Plein Air painting keeps me outside where…
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Meldra Driscoll
Artist Statement I have been an artist most of my life and thoroughly love teaching beginners in watercolor! (Watch for new classes for beginners in 2026)My medium of choice most often is watercolor with pen and ink, and I hide objects in the pen and ink part. I have shown my work at The Boxx…
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Sara Cate
Artist Statement I am a naturalist and artist who loves to explore the beauty of nature through the medium of watercolors. One of my favorite subjects is the Central Washington shrub steppe landscape. I delight in the vivid colors, darks and lights of the skies, rolling hills, Ponderosa pines and grasslands and continue to experiment…
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Cheryl Ann Bush
Artist Statement Born and raised in Washington, Cheryl and her husband relocated to Yakima in 2014 after 28 years in Pierce County. She is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and retired from the Puyallup School District and a career in the field of education. For the past several years she has been pursuing a…