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Jody Bergsma
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Jody Bergsma
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Jody Bergsma
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Jody Bergma
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Jody Bergsma
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Jody Bergma
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Jody Bergma
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Jody Bergsma
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Kelsey Arched Twin Headboard |
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Jody Bergma
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Captain's Headboard |
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Captain's Footboard |
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Jody Bergsma
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Roots Arched Twin Headboard |
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| Jody Bergsma:
Jody began painting at the age of 15 and has created up to 60 paintings/year
since 1980. Her paintings are expressions and a request for a more
beautiful, peaceful, and harmonious world. This artist has a very unique painting style that she has developed over
many years and her watercolor technique is self taught. She uses
aboriginal, native, and geometric symbols to create her imaginative inner
visions and unique style. She now travels the globe to research and
gather inspiration. Her imagination is her greatest influence.
We have been collecting her prints and hanging them in our girls bedrooms
since they were little so we have a special affection and affinity for
this local artist who seems to have a universal appeal but also a Northwest
approach with her numerous native, animal, and wildlife scenes with a
sometimes mystical view. When we first met with Jody to discuss our
approach she was very helpful and tried to encourage us to use some of her
more recent images, but we were attracted to a lot of her earlier art, part
of her "Dreamkeeper Series". |
| Susan Sarback: This
artist is the founder of The School of Light and Color and really captures
radiant light and color in her paintings. Like Monet in whose style
she paints, Susan has trained herself to see a wider range of colors,
something she teaches in her school. Students from all over the world
come to her school to learn her techniques of seeing like the Impressionist painters and how to apply that
vision. Her paintings are all about the quality of light and color and
refining color variations that are able to effectively capture the quality
of light, atmosphere, and space. When I first discussed this project
with Susan she hadn't painted anything quite like what I was looking for.
Residing in the wetland of the Sacramento valley, Susan sees a lot of water
and the reflections of color in water, and what I wanted her to paint was a
"Sound of Music" scene with a little girl skipping through a flower filled
meadow, a few baby goats prancing along, and a range of mountains in the
back and a little thatched cabin she was heading towards. Susan and I
exchanged pictures. I showing her some scenes from my trip with my 3
oldest daughters in the Peruvian highlands, with a little hamlet we stayed
in that had some baby goats that came up to our girls, and blue lupin filled
meadows growing higher than your head and snow covered mountains rising over
20,000 feet. These were the things that had inspired me and as we were
taking this journey. I kept wishing there was some way that my
youngest, Kelsey could have come with us. Maybe its her i see in the meadow.
In any case, the trip we took is indelible in my mind and I wanted to
see if I could incorporate some of this in one of our scenes. One of
Jessica's friends who now lives in Switzerland saw the painting and how it
was rendered on the beds and she absolutely loved it and thought it would go
well in the alpine villages of Europe. She and Jessica are working on
me to take a "business trip" to explore the possibilities. |
| Lary McKee: Laryt
calls himself a realist artist and focuses on designing paintings that are free
and flowing in design. Lary comes from Scotland and I met him at a
fair in Edmonds and just fell in love with his stuff. He also prides himself on telling a story using
concepts and ideas and using real subjects for his main focus. I like
Lary's paintings because the colors are so vibrant. They are not
bashfull at all. Since I started this project, and just as I was
getting some of the images from Lary, he got run over by a car (woman driver
texting-not good says Lary), and since then he has had quite a difficult
time of it with long stays in the hospital, lots of pain, etc. but
olne thing that has cheered him up is seeing his images on the coolest
bunkbed ever made with the frog theme and complimentary toy boxes. he
says when he gets better he will be doing some special stuff for me now that
he knows what I am doing with his stuff. We wish this gentle soul a
quicker recovery than he has had so far. |
| Shiaou Yuan Kuo:
Shiaou Yuan studied art in China at an early age. Her teacher noted that
Shiaou Yuan was extremely fast in her painting style and could paint much
quicker and better than the other students. Shiaou Yuan pursued her studies
for quite some time but eventually entered the business world, traveling to
new York where she traded in the wholesale fish market then later retired
from that and purchased a cherry orchard in the Dalles, Oregon. She then
sold the orchard and moved to Seattle to be closer to her family who had
moved there. She returned to her painting and started doing the Buddha
series, eventually getting commissioned to complete work for several temples
both in the US and abroad. I was lucky to meet her through a former partner
of mine in the export freight forwarding business and when I told what I was
doing she asked me if she could try her hand at it. The results were what I
would describe as a Huck Finn approach, at least that was my first
expression when I saw them. She paints with both brushes and her fingers. |
Paul Brockman:
Martin Paul Brockman was born in Rostok, Germany on
March 25th 1882.
Paul did all sorts of decoration work. He made
stencils, painted houses, did interior design painting and free
painted. He was involved in decorative plaster work in theatres in
downtown Seattle. He was also involved in painting the Native American
murals at the Northgate Mall theatre. During the depression when people
couldn't afford to have their houses painted he searched for other forms
of income. Paul got his teaching certificate in 1929. He taught
painting and interior decoration courses at the Broadway Edison School,
now Seattle Central Community College.
This German immigrant artist uses bright and vibrant colors for a very stunning painting style.
We only have one series of painting by Brockman and the style in these
painting is not his usual style (he passed away a long time ago), but
these paintings were done on a toy box he made for his grandson, who also
has just recently passed on. A good friend of mine told me of this toy
box that was down in the basement, I went to look at it and wasn't too
impressed, but took some pictures anyway. When I got home I saw the
detailed layers of coloring and depth of field that wasn't apparent in the
darkened room but which, with the aid of the flash, had picked up this
detail. It's a mix of whimsy what with a giraffe and kangaroo running
around in the same scene, but kids, what the heck, they won't know the
difference for a while anyway, right? |
