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December 30, 2022

Top ten 2022 Fairweather moments.

#10. Cherisse Mai, from Calgary, hand-carried her gemstone art to the gallery after a 14-hour non-stop drive.

#9. Paul Brent, a Seaside summertime artist, painted “Nocturne Pelican,” a key signature LIVE action piece for the Seaside Providence Hospital Festival of Trees. The event raised more than $262,000 for medical research.

#8. Victoria Brooks, resident artist, painting LIVE for Seaside First Saturday Art Walk patrons.

#7. Melissa Jander and Marga Stanley, Fairweather resident artists, offered a different perspective on the BALANCING ACT exhibition theme; Mellissa spoke about learning ballet steps, and Marga spoke about the tribulations of having a picnic outdoors with ants visiting.

#6. Chelsea LaFry and Richard Thomasian stepped in to play LIVE during the after-hours events at the gallery. The duo will return in 2023.

#5. Neal Maine, Martin Conley, Peg Wells, Bob Kroll, and Jeanne Walker offered artist talks during a Seaside First Saturday Art Walk.

#4. Sara, Kathy, Denise, Saundra, Joan, and Kay, gallery hostesses, pose for a photo before an opening reception.

#3. Mary Lyn Gough, a watercolor artist, chose the gallery to debut her 2022 fabulous floral art.

#2. Toni Avery, an artist, poses with her work that compliments the exhibition theme and tablescape.

#1. Lieta Gratteri, a prolific floral artist and fellow gardener, attended quite a few gallery exhibitions in 2022.

Please read more about our Seaside Gallery, our commitment to N.W. artists, and our products made by N.W. artists.

Find where original art is integrated daily with irreplaceable humanity, friendship, and beauty.

Beautiful things.

This is Fairweather’s.

612 Broadway Street

Seaside, Oregon

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.com

We are taking a winter hiatus in 2023.

Closed until January 12.

Save the dates for our 16th annual “Foul Weather” sale.

Jan. 12 through Jan 15.

Selected price reductions at 20%, 50%, and 75&.

December 22, 2022

From Fairweather friends.

Handmade twig tree from a friend of N.H., Fairweather gallery patron.

A collage featuring Made by N.W. Hands ™. Top left is a Pacific Force image by Neal Maine over the fireplace. Top right is a tree made from books by N. H. Bottom left is an ornament made with vintage textiles by D.F. Pictured in the middle bottom is a collection of polar bear cat nip toys made by S.V.-G. The bottom right is a strike-off close-up of a vintage tea-dipped newspaper tree by L.L.

From a personal collection in the Fairweather house, a collage of recycled paper, driftwood, and vintage cone trees.

And, so, this is a Fairweather wrap, as we enter the family and friends time of the year. We have all worked extraordinarily hard to realize our dreams in 2022. Now is the time to celebrate those successes. Being artful and grateful for artists of all kinds. Their work keeps on flourishing, with the peaks, quantity, and quality soaring higher and higher. Indeed, it is through Made by NW Hands ™ that we honor visionaries who are changing our cultural arts community. We look forward to 2023, a year that promises to be even more full of ideas and inspiration.”

Please read more about our Seaside Gallery, our commitment to N.W. artists, and our products made by N.W. artists.

Find where original art is integrated daily with irreplaceable humanity, friendship, and beauty.

Beautiful things.

This is Fairweather’s.

612 Broadway

Seaside, Oregon

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.com

Closed December 24-25 to allow time for family and friends.

Open December 26 for our 16th annual “Foul Weather” event.

And, too, as usual, we are closed Tues & Wed until summer.

December 15, 2022

Just in from Christine Trexel, handmade boxes and books. Beautiful things.

As an adult, Christine Trexel began her journey by creating her books and boxes and making paper. She has been fortunate to have taken various classes at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts and with internationally known artists in bookbinding and paper making. Christine retired from a career as an occupational therapist. She worked in Australia before retiring to Panama and returning to America.

For a while, Christine grew and processed plants from her garden in the Pacific N.W. to make paper for the books and boxes using New Zealand flax, iris, crocosmia, anything that had a long parallel fiber. However, she is longer making paper as it began to be much too physically demanding and currently creates her work using selected handmade paper and bookbinding textiles.

Clark, her husband, handbuilds ¼ scale of sailing ship models. Pictured is his model of the Columbia Rediviva.

Christine Trexel recently remarked with a bit of humor, a trip into Seaside away from her home studio “takes a lot of planning and a lot of grit.”

Books have been integral to Christine Trexel’s life since early childhood. She grew up on a farm and spent many happy hours lost inside the pages of a book. She firmly believes a day without time aside for reading is incomplete.

The contents of the books in Christine Trexel’s books might tell history through pictures and writing, or there might be drawings or geometric designs. Her attention to detail is remarkable.” –-D.Caswell

Christine Trexel makes elaborate jewelry boxes. One such box, called “Repository of Lost Things,” for storing lost things: such as a single earring, and complete with a hidden drawer, perhaps, to place lost memories or secret thoughts. Exquisite treasures. And just in time for Christmas.

Take note. A holiday tradition continues. Fairweather’s will schedule home deliveries throughout the North Coast of your purchases of Made by N.W. Hands ™ from the gallery through December 23. And, as usual, with complimentary gift wrapping.

Please read more about our Seaside Gallery, our commitment to N.W. artists, and our products made by N.W. artists.

Find where original art is integrated daily with irreplaceable humanity, friendship, and beauty.

Beautiful things.

This is Fairweather’s.

612 Broadway

Seaside, Oregon

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.com

With deep gratitude to the more than 200 artists that have contributed artworks through the past year.

They and their art patrons have helped us grow to develop an idea of what a gallery can be.

We are humbled to be able to continue this relationship in our community with respect as Fairweather Gallery enters its sixteenth year in 2023.

Thank you.

December 12, 2022

Just in from encaustic and cold wax artist Peg Wells.

“Answering What is Still” cold wax on the panel by Peg Wells.

It’s rare for one specific painting medium to have a whole genre of painting associated with it, but Cold Wax Medium is one such medium. Cold Wax Painting is not defined by subject matter nor the degree of realism or abstraction; Cold Wax Painting is unified by artists’ shared interest in experimentation, texture, and the physicality of paint layers.

I married a naval officer, and we traveled to many countries and states. We settled in Oregon a couple of years ago. I started my artistic journey first on the potter’s wheel, then into tile making and designs. When I was first introduced to Encaustics, I knew I had found my niche. Painting with fire enables me to introduce my travel experience into my designs.” Peg Wells

During a recent HOA relocation interview, Peg Wells, an artist in her 90s, asked if a blow torch studio would be acceptable for her encaustic painting. After learning this would not be permitted, she changed her painting technique to cold wax.

“I have adapted to paint with cold wax in our primary residence in the valley.” –P.W.

“I will enthusiastically continue my hot wax encaustic painting in our second home in Seaside.” P.W.

The most significant difference between encaustic and cold wax is that, while with encaustic painting, the wax must be molten to work with and then reheated with a blow torch (fused) once applied to the surface, in cold wax painting, there is no heat involved.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.” –Proverb

Connecting art seekers and makers through thoughtfully curated exhibitions and juried shows since 2006.

Please read more about our Seaside Gallery, our commitment to N.W. artists, and our products made by N.W. artists.

“Fairweather House and Gallery has become one of the historic Gilbert District’s most sought-after destinations offering an ever-changing and unique visual experience.” –The Seaside Signal.

Find where original art is integrated daily with irreplaceable humanity, friendship, and beauty.

Beautiful things.

This is Fairweather’s.

612 Broadway

Seaside, Oregon

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.com

With deep gratitude, more than 200 artists have contributed artworks through the years. They and their art patrons have helped us grow to develop our ideas of what a gallery can be. We hope to continue this relationship with respect as Fairweather Gallery enters its sixteenth year in 2023. Thank you.

December 7, 2022

Quietude, an exhibition, handmade things through December 23.

Handpainted silk scarf by Cicely Gilman, pottery by Marilyn Cohn (whose signature on each pot is a unique happy face), handstitched purse by Jeanne Walker, handpainted beverage glasses, gouache painting by Lieta Gratteri, and photographs by Steve A. Bash.

For December.

One-of-a-kind. Made by N.W. Hands ™.

Beautiful things.

Pottery by Forest Bash, photography gift cards signed by Linda Fenton-Mendenhall, cards by Don Frank, handpainted stemware by Gretha Lindwood, glass by Fedor Zubanov, 4×4 art by Kris Zorko, glass by D’Arcy Martin, fused glass by Carolyn Myers-Lindberg, 1950s vintage glass, and a Fine Arts mercury glass lamp.

Meticulous displays, like none other, with disciplined attention to design perspectives.

This is Fairweather’s.

Oregon King Tides, a series of oil paintings on linen by Ron Nicolaides, seed pearl copped tree, mouth-blown glass, mother-of-pearl picture frames, signed art glass, silver plated shells, vintage vaseline glass plate, mouth-blown stemware, and handmade shell tree.

Quietude. December.

Find harmony in exquisite materials, combined with the spirit of artists who know how to apply the mark of being in the Northwest.

This is Fairweather’s.

Complimentary gift wrap through December 23

Find where original art is integrated daily with irreplaceable humanity, friendship, and beauty.

Beautiful things.

This is Fairweather’s.

https://fairweatherhouseandgallery.com

Gemstone art, gemstone jewelry, and artists who are gems at Fairweather’s.

Please read more about our Seaside Gallery, our commitment to N.W. artists, and our products made by N.W. artists.

Pictured is “N.W. Coastal Forest,” a genuine gemstone art piece by Cherisse Mia at $495; other artworks available from $495 to $1895 exclusively at Fairweather’s

Top ten 2022 Fairweather moments.

From Fairweather friends.

Handmade twig tree from a friend of N.H., Fairweather gallery patron.

From a personal collection in the Fairweather house, a collage of recycled paper, driftwood, and vintage cone trees.

Just in from Christine Trexel, handmade boxes and books. Beautiful things.

Just in from encaustic and cold wax artist Peg Wells.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.” –Proverb

Quietude, an exhibition, handmade things through December 23.