Free-falling into the upcoming season, the GUYS TAKE OVER Art Walk on Sept. 7, 2013, is very different from anything Fairweather’s has done before. The exhibition, all by NW men artists, most certainly, will be arranged for optimal display, yet, too, a spotting scope provided by NW naturalist, Neal Maine, will allow the visitors to be completely captivated by viewing through a camera lens a powerful razor-sharp magnification of a Great Horned Owl, a specimen from the “Fish and Wildlife guys”. It’s a really big “thumbs up” event.

Other notable guys appearing: Paul Brent, Painting Seaside LIVE ™, Jan Shield, Tom Hausken, and Nick Brakel. The show, a benefit for Sea Turtles, Forever, scores another first, as Marc Ward, founder/ activist, will speak to the art patrons.

Paul Brent is an internationally recognized artist who is best known for his watercolors of coastal scenes and nature. His work is a reflection and reinterpretation of the environment found along the edge of the ocean to estuary wonders.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he is a member of the National Watercolor Society and currently resides with his family during the summer months in Seaside, Oregon.

Paul appears throughout the summertime Seaside Chamber of Commerce First Saturday Art Walk events at Fairweather House and Garden, oftentimes painting while meeting and greeting art patrons.

Set Two: Neal Maine & Michael Wing

Having been a part of the North coast community his entire life, Neal Maine is sharing life lessons with Michael Wing, his grandson. They show us all how important it is to be involved. Whether it’s walking the North Coast Land conservancy lands, lending photographic skills and or proudly joining forces supporting the natural lands and its

wildlife, two talented souls are working together to strengthen our community.

Michael is holding his photograph of a pair of reclusive rivers otters found along the Gearhart estuary.

Art patrons continue to be delighted with the kinds of conversations and images that are an everyday part of life for the two men.

Set Four: Jan Shield

Jan Shield grew up in a family of artists and has been painting and sculpting all of his life. He is a Professor of Art at Pacific University, Forest Grove where he has been teaching since 1971. Mr. Shield’s works are included in corporate, public, and private collections across the country including in New York. He has exhibited widely throughout the Pacific Northwest in one and two-person shows, invitational, and juried group shows. Galleries, where his works have been represented, include Lawrence Gallery, River Sea Gallery, Astoria; White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach; and Rental Sales Gallery PAM, Portland.

Through his paintings, prints, murals, and sculptures, Jan shares his deep regard for the most western regions of the United States, particularly Oregon, Hawaii, Japan, China, Australia, and the Pacific Rim. His paintings especially are a comment on Naturalism and symbolism. Other paintings and three-dimensional forms let the viewer feel the power, richness, and substance he discovers in nature through a more abstract style of expression.

Mr. Shield’s studio is located here at Dancing Trees Sanctuary For The Arts. Jan is available by appointment to discuss the sale or commission of his work as well as corporate art consultation and permanent collections placement.

Set Six: Nick Brakel

Nick Brakel holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin Superior and recently completed a Northwest’s Emerging Print Makers Residency. In a series of collagraphs, the artist is exploring concerned about water birds and sea mammals that may be affected by climate change. Finding himself often wondering what will happen to the birds and sea creatures as the climate changes. To the artist, the wildlife seem almost like spirit creatures, watching their fate reveal itself, in the future, in the present, and in the present simultaneously.</

What you ask is a collagraph?

It means collage intaglio. Taking mat board and adding gesso, covering it with carborundum or sand, then adding wood burn lines into the work. It is then sealed in with different viscosities, inked and run through a printing press. As with most printmaking there is quite alot of work before you open a bottle of ink.

In Nick’s words:

“For the GUYS TAKE OVER Art Walk I was thinking it might be cool if I brought some printing plates and preliminary drawings to the opening, so I could show people some of the process.”
Copyright © Nick Brakel

Kristin Qian

Kristin Qian, musician/ artist will appear in Seaside, Sept. 07, 2013 between 6:30PM to 8:pm at Fairweather House and Garden.

Kristin Qian began her violin studies at age 3, piano and composition at 5. She was the first-place winner of the 2008 and 2010 Oregon Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Junior Strings Competition. She made her solo debut with the Portland Youth Philharmonic Young Strings Ensemble at age 11 and debuted with the Portland Youth Philharmonic’s Camerata Chamber Orchestra in 2012. Kristin won the Jewish Community Orchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition and performed solo with the orchestra in 2008 and was a laureate in the 2011 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition. Kristin is a two-time winner of the MetroArts Young Artists Debut. The Van Buren Concerto Concert Competition (2010, 2012), and has performed Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto and Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Maestro Niel Deponte. Kristin was assistant concertmaster and concertmaster of the Portland Youth Philharmonic and its Camerata Chamber Orchestra. At 13, Kristin was invited to and selected as the concertmaster of the 2011 American High School Honors Performance Series Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since the summer of 2004, Kristin has participated in music festivals and competitions in China, France, Argentina, and the United States. In July 2012, Kristin was the youngest violinist to be invited to take part in the 2nd International Violin Competition Buenos Aires in Argentina, and recently, Kristin was a semifinalist in the 2013 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Violin Competition. Kristin is an artist-in-residence with the Oregon Coast Chamber Music Society.

As a pianist, at age 9, Kristin was the youngest competitor invited to participate in the 2007 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition in California. In 2008, she was a semifinalist in the 1st Tureck International Bach Competition for Young Pianists in New York City. Kristin won the 2006 Trula Whelan Concerto Competition. In 2009, she received award in the Oregon MTNA Junior Piano Competition. Kristin was also a finalist of Metro Arts Young Artists Debut. Concerto Competition Piano category and was a finalist of Portland Youth Philharmonic’s 2013 Piano Concerto Competition.

Kristin is also an accomplished visual artist. She has had many solo and group exhibitions including at the Portland French School, George Fox University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Marylhurst University, Fairweather House and Garden, the Westin Galleria Hotel in Houston, Texas, Wieden + Kennedy, the Governor Hotel, and the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Grand Lobby among other Portland galleries. In 2002, she was featured on the KOIN TV live segment “Painting Prodigy” from Shoen Library at Marylhurst University for her solo painting exhibition. Kristin received the Creativity Award and praise from critics for her oil painting “L’humain et l’espace” at the NASA-sponsored The Next Golden Age 18th International Academy of Astronautics Human in Space Symposium International Youth Art Competition. Kristin’s paintings have been collected by George W. Bush, organizations, and individual collectors.

Kristin is a senior at Catlin Gabel School and at the same time, she studies and works with Dr. Cristina Tognon of Oregon Health & Science University in molecular biology research at OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute Druker Lab since April 2013. She is also in the John Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth program and Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth. Kristin completed college-level courses including AP Calculus BC at age 14. She currently is a math and French teaching assistant, as well as a writing tutor at school. Kristin is also the President of Catlin Gabel’s Model United Nations Team and a Committee Chair for the Oregon Model United Nations Conference.

Kristin will play during the GUYS TAKE OVER Art Walk, at Fairweather’s House and Garden, on September 7th.