“SEA YOU HERE”
Friday, July 15, 2016
At Artisans On The Ave
630 Lake Avenue
Lake Worth, FL 33460
561-762-8162
561-582-3300
Opening Reception:
Friday, July15, 2016
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Open 7 days a week
Monday thru Saturday 11am – 9pm
Sunday 9am – 7pm
Artisans On The Ave Gallery
This is a free event, refreshments will be served
“SEA YOU HERE”
Artisans On The Ave Gallery is celebrating a tropical summer with our 40 talented artists. We reflect on the wonders of the sea and all it has to offer. Artisans On The Ave gallery is located in a quaint and quirky artistic downtown nestled among shops and restaurants that are unique and one of a kind. Living so close to our beautiful Atlantic Ocean has inspired our artists to create their wonderful original art with the theme and colors of the ocean waters and the blazing heat of the hot summer sun. The artists will take you on a visual vacation as you enjoy the many works of their art in our gallery’s 3 wonderful showrooms.
Photographers EJ Morales and Tammy Seymour capture the secrets of the ocean and its divine mystery You will feel as though you have dived deep into the depths of the cold blue waters and are eye to eye with the wondrous. creatures such as century old sea turtles, sharks and fish.
Tracy Rosof Petersen adorns her hand built ceramics with clay seashells, seahorses, and starfish that are then glazed in a variety of ocean inspired colors and hues of the sandy beaches. Her imaginary clay mermaids can welcome any fisherman into port. Tracy offers a selection of vases, plates, nightlights, card holders and much more with a tropical inspired theme. They make terrific one of a kind gifts for that memorable occasion.
Julie Sylvester walks the hot sands of the beach to find unique one of a kind seashells that she turns into sculptures of ships and large vessels, mermaids, lighthouses, coral encrusted beach scenes and more. Her selection of found seashells on beautiful silk twine will adorn your body and make you feel beautiful. She turns vintage wooden boxes into works of art for jewelry or purses with ocean themed images and applied seashells, driftwood, seagrass, and coral. These are sometimes done with the encaustic art technique using applied hot wax or engraving with her wood burning skills to engrave and trim.
Bonnie Brunner uses her talents to make her unique basketry She patiently hand weaves naturally dyed colorful strands of sea grape vines, twigs, and twine, these are then sometimes combined with hand-built ceramic bases that are attached to give each vessel a personalized look, each new piece resembles the waves of the mighty white tipped ocean crashing against the hot sandy beach. They will make quite a statement sitting in your cottage by the sea.
Ocean creatures and the hues of neon colored tropical fish come to life on the beautiful fused glass done by artist Betty Wilson. The light reflects and bounces off the different species of fish she creates with glass.
Ebba Tinwin wraps beautiful sea glass with wire to create gorgeous jewelry for that special someone and yourself. She selects the shards of sea glass that have been tossed to the shores of the ocean by the rough waves. She selects her palette of colors and choice of blues, greens, whites, golds, and turquoise and then polishes each one before wrapped in wires of silver and gold.
Dr.Herbert Brosky hand carves tropical birds out of found wood. His amazing talents of come to life in his realistic carvings. He is a retired dentist and amazingly uses his intricate dental tools to hand carve the details of his artistic birds. He then delicately paints each one to make them come to life. His flamingo wears a beautiful coat of pink and stands perched on stilt legs and the sea gull’s underbelly shows as if you are standing on the ocean pier watching them fly away. The sand-piper sits on a rock of driftwood aged from the salt of the ocean.
The amazing talents of our artists are endless just like the ocean. Wander through the 3 showrooms of our gallery and be amazed as you take it all in. You will feel as though you are on an imaginary visual vacation.
When you visit the 3 showrooms within our gallery you will be amazed at the selection of exquisite art handcrafted by 40 local artists. Visit this opening night for an evening of fun!! Meet the artists!!!