stranger in a strange land*

'Cosmos' 20-24" chain, colored pencil, mica, paper, sterling silver;  Kathleen Faulkner

  

 2016 is coming to an end.

Soon it will be a new year

filled with uncertainties.

I distract myself with art and good sci-fi.

 

Earth is starting to feel claustrophobic.

The cosmos calls.

*'Stranger in a Strange Land'  Robert Heinlein

 

deep in it

'Northwest is Best'  16x20" oil pastel on panel;  Kathleen Faulkner

These are dark times.

I look out to the west

dark clouds have lifted over the Olympics

To the east, the North Cascades shine

  beneath the dark, brooding sky

 

  It brings to mind a line from a poem, as it often does,

and  'I am blinded by it's splendor'.*

*'What is the Beautiful'  Kenneth Patchen

Life in the Skagit

'Heading Out' 16x16" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

No matter which road I travel around here, 

there's always something to see

and it's always different.

a glimpse

'High End' 24x48" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

 

Summer is coming to a close but 

it's been a good run this year.

Soon these mountains will be covered in snow 

and this area will be 

inaccessible.  

A tradition

 STEAMROLLER Printmaking, 2016 has now come and gone. 

It has been an Anacortes Arts Festival event in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016.

It's becoming a tradition 

silk ready to lift off lino, Kathleen Faulkner

 

Printing a 3x4' linoleum block is not easy.  

This year we worked with white silk.  Wind was a factor but:

Three days, ten artists and volunteers per day

and good teamwork got the job done!

My print, 'Baker's Dozen' 4x3' woodblock ink on linoleum,  printed on silk.  In the background: Dee Doyle's two herons print;   Kathleen Faulkner                                                                                            

weather or not

'Morning After'  24x36" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

 

La Nina is expected.

 My sweater keeps me warm 

on this chilly, wet July day.

Looks can be deceiving

'North of Here'  18x24" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

 

The mudflats call to me.

Like a meditation, I gaze out at them and time stands still.

From where I stand, they look so firm and steady

but I know that if I were to walk out there 

I'd sink to my hips. 

Fly by Night

'Fly by Night' brooch with converter,  2x3" sterling silver, colored pencil, mica;  Kathleen Faulkner

I put the umbrella in it's stand and began to open it.  

I saw something small and furry in the folds.

As I got up close for a better look it suddenly hissed.  

I was taken aback

 and then it flew away.

Small, mysterious bug eating mammal

Our world is a better place with this little bat in it.

where the rings are the thing

'Greetings from Saturn'  earrings 1.5" diameter, sterling silver, colored pencil, mica;  Kathleen Faulkner

I have been working on my jewelry show coming up at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle. It is called Nocturne and will be featured June 15 through July 5, 2016.  

  
It is about life and events that happen in the night. 

I've been at it awhile.

The longer I work on it, the farther out into space I go.

Our newest gallery

'Into the Woods'  54x38" oil pastel on paper;  Kathleen Faulkner

Occasional Gallery Presents:
 

ENVIRONS

Featuring work by Pacific Northwest Artists

Julie Alexander

Amy Bay

Carol d'Inverno 

Kathleen Faulkner

Helen Gable

Cable Griffith

Aaron Haba

Karen Hackenberg

Alfred Harris

Justyn Hegreberg

Evan Clayton Horback

David Kane

Ken Kelly

Perry Kopchak

Margy Lavelle

Steven LaRose

Fiona McGuigan

Jef Morlan

Serrah Russell

Peter Scherrer

Emily Wobb

Opening Reception April 9, 2016, 2-5pm

Open weekends and by appointment through May 8, 2016

16788 Peterson Road, Burlington, WA

360-333-4648

occasionalgallery@gmail.com

 

 

 

rumblings in Paradise

'Hunting Season'  24x36" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

The slough in Edison is full of ducks during hunting season.  

They know the safe places.  

Hunting season cramps my style, too.  

No walks on the dike.  

One can hear gunshots in the distant fields.

Camo and over sized trucks show up everywhere.  

I'm always happy when the season is over. 

near Blanchard

'There's this Place' 24x36" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

We all have those places where we go to think.

Birdsville

'Heading Home'  8x8" oil pastel;  Kathleen Faulkner

February is Bird month in the Skagit.  

The birders come from everywhere to view the spectacle.

One day I counted 28 eagles while slowing to a crawl to drive around the huge flock of snow geese along the road.  

I smiled all day.

A Bird's Life

'Baby Contemplates'  16x14" oil pastel;

Kathleen Faulkner

It is a cold, foggy morning that chills the bones.

I walk faster to warm up

all the while watching the baby heron contemplate.

It's a New Year

'Girl with Pacific Frog Prince' shadowbox 6x6" graphite,
gouache, paper, wood, glass;  brooches: 'Pacific Frog Prince'
1.5" diameter, sterling silver, paper, gouache, glass lens, 'Orb'
1"diameter, sterling silver, paper, gouache, glass lens

Please join us for 'Bewitched,  Bothered and Bewildered'

This jewelry show at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle is opening February 3, 2016 from 5 to 8pm 

and running through the 23rd. 

Also, Guy Anderson and Skagit Women Print and Friends 

at Schack Art Center in Everett, WA on now and running through

February 27th.