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Beach 1 Gallery – Sharon Snelling
October 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am - October 31, 2024 @ 6:45 pm
At the Beach 1 Gallery
Sharon Snelling – Water Color Painting
“I’ve been creating art on Camano Island for about 17 years silk painting and water painting. As a teacher in California most of my art time was during breaks when I came up to the island. After retirement a few years ago I was able to devote more time to my art. I’ve been exclusively water painting for the last 12 years. Having grown up all over the world as an Air Force brat I take a lot of inspiration from many places.
I’ve participated in Art By the Bay for the last few years and will be there again in October. I was commissioned by SCAAC and the City of Stanwood to have two of my paintings of herons applied to banners to be hung around the town. One of which has often been hanging in front of my favorite restaurant, Jimmy’s Pizza. I also was commissioned to paint one one of the items at the Stanwood Historical Society.
Among my subjects have been highly detailed paintings of flowers, fruit, Moroccan scenes, a rusty old Ford, birds and still lifes. My “Purple Rain” flower was one of the featured paintings in the 2023 CAA studio tour catalog and also won an award in the Stanwood Camano Art Guild’s 2022 Art Aloft show.
“Waiting in Essaouria”, a painting of Moroccan fishing boats, was selected to be on the shortlist of international artists for Le Venezie Watercolor Festival in Italy in 2022 and was also later in the Stanwood-Camano Art Guild’s 2022 Color and light show, a regional juried art show. Its companion “Dry Dock” was accepted into the NWWS 2023 Annual Waterworks Exhibition.
This year I was on the CAA Studio Tour at Edward Lynne Cellars on the island.” – Sharon
Her art will be displayed and for sale the entire month of October.
The Gallery is open 7 days a week – Artist Reception Oct 5th 5pm-7pm
We will be serving pop, wine, bottled water and individual bags of chips for the reception.
Beach 1 Gallery in Camano Country Club 1243 Beach Drive, Camano Island 360-387-1655
