19. Lavender Cat Studios
20733 87th Ave SW
Suzanna Leigh, Watercolor Paintings; Inge King, Watercolor Paintings; Alice Larson, Origami
Elegant whimsy in watercolor and origami, with something for everyone in the family!
Suzanna Leigh offers fine art—originals and prints—to grace your walls, as well as her books for adults and children, Vashon calendars, silk scarves, and, a special treat: Marjorie Watkins' Gluten Free Baking, revised and published by Suzanna Leigh, will be available!!
Inge King's whimsical watercolor paintings and cards will make you chuckle. Her painting interests range from French architecture, still life, and especially animals, those beloved pets which add such joy to our lives.
Alice Larson will be showing a variety of her folded paper art creations including origami mobiles, flowers, jewelry, ornaments, and bonsai crane trees.
206-463-5255
16. S. Marotta Pottery
20602 111 Ave SW
Patricia Toovey- herbs, Sara Barry- ceramics, Karen Biondo- botanicals and textile
Join 3 wild women and share our vision of beauty, color, and creativity.
Patricia Toovey and her Reddings Beach Botanicals grow healing herbs. From seed to flower to dryer to tea. She basks in their color, smell and history and is inspired by their healing properties.
Nettles, Milky Oat, Calendula, Meadowsweet and more is harvested from her garden, dried and blended into teas, salves and ceremonial burn bundles. Come see what her garden has given!
Sara Barry’s creativity will be on display with her whimsical ceramic mugs, chimes and perhaps a surprise or two. Her work will put a smile on your face and her pieces will become a delightful treasure to all who receive the gift of a Sara Barry ceramic.
Karen Biondo is playing with color from her garden making prints, postcards, pockets (Yes, pockets) from botanical dyes. There will also be your annual fix of soothing and cleansing goatmilk-calendula soap.
206-795-2532
17. La Biondo Farm
20602 111 Ave SW
Patricia Toovey- herbs, Sara Barry- ceramics, Karen Biondo- botanicals and textile
Join 3 wild women and share our vision of beauty, color, and creativity.
Patricia Toovey and her Reddings Beach Botanicals grow healing herbs. From seed to flower to dryer to tea. She basks in their color, smell and history and is inspired by their healing properties.
Nettles, Milky Oat, Calendula, Meadowsweet and more is harvested from her garden, dried and blended into teas, salves and ceremonial burn bundles. Come see what her garden has given!
Sara Barry’s creativity will be on display with her whimsical ceramic mugs, chimes and perhaps a surprise or two. Her work will put a smile on your face and her pieces will become a delightful treasure to all who receive the gift of a Sara Barry ceramic.
Karen Biondo is playing with color from her garden making prints, postcards, pockets (Yes, pockets) from botanical dyes. There will also be your annual fix of soothing and cleansing goatmilk-calendula soap.
206-795-2532
18. The Willingham Weavery
10315 SW 204th St.
Twelve fiber artists offer items for your home and to wear -- scarves, towels, wall art, hats, decorations, cards -- and much more. Wide variety of price points. A great tour stop to find the perfect holiday gift. Try your hand at weaving!
Kelli Brooke, weaving and bags; Lisa Brown, weaving and spinning; Jan Frost, millinery; Peggy Queary, weaving; Sharon Schoen, weaving and dyeing; Nancy van Roessel, weaving; Robin Webber, weaving; Pamela Wickard, tapestry; Myra Willingham, fiber items; Sue Willingham, weaving; Patricia Wronsky, weaving
20. Vashon Center for the Arts
19600 Vashon Hwy SW
The Miniature Show and Eric Heffelfinger Fine Jewelry
VCA’s 18th Annual Miniature Show is a unique collection of over 100 pieces, all in small form. The show boasts a broad collection of art, with the one criteria - all 2-D art must be no larger than 36” square inches (including frame), and 3-D work is limited to 6" in any one direction. Gallery visitors will see works by beloved Vashon artists, PNW artists they may not know, and artists from out of state. The collection is as varied as the artists showing. All art is hand-crafted original pieces; perfect for a holiday gift or that special nook in your home.
Longtime Vashon resident and fine jewelry craftsman Eric Heffelfinger showcases a collection of his work in VCA’s Gift Shop. This holiday season he has created a new line of silver hand-tooled earrings and semiprecious stone and silver pendants. He will also have new hand-crafted gold bead necklaces and earrings.
“I cast my first piece of jewelry when I was 15 years old. Now, over 55 years and 5,000+ pieces of jewelry later, I get the same sense of excitement when the centrifuge spins the molten metal from the crucible into the mold as I got those many years ago. What can I say? I live, eat, and breathe jewelry making. The basic technique I use as a goldsmith is lost wax casting. Fabrication, when needed, is done afterward. The goal of my designs is to be fluid rather than sharp edged. To be water rather than rock.”
https://gallery.vashoncenterforthearts.org
206-259-3002
21. Kassana Holden Studio
20103 Vashon Hwy SW #D
Kassana Holden - Acrylic Painting, Drawing and Mixed Media
A native Californian, I’ve made the Northwest my home for many years. Drawn to island living after years of urban life with a background in design, I work both in my studio as a painter and as a transformational coach in private practice.
I often find myself drawn to the transformative nature of objects and subjects and how color has the power to evoke a memory or feeling. I’m interested in how we experience things over time and find a residual beauty when things are neglected and begin to fade, discovering what moves into the spaces left behind.
In the studio, I layer paint, wash and scrape until something accidental and unanticipated starts to happen, a process that, for me is both somatic and intuitive
KassanaHoldenStudio.com
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360-204-0029
22. Roots & Dreams Studio
12028 SW Cemetery Road
Renée Marceau, assemblages with found objects. Estavan Roaché, ceramic sculptures and pottery.
Renée Marceau is an artist, farmer, and seeker of patterns. By exploring and making connections between seemingly unconnected objects through shape, color, texture and pattern, she reveals the hidden threads and symbols that dwell just beneath the physical world. Her assemblages elevate these connections and strives to capture the tension between nature’s vulnerability and it’s strength while reflecting its symbolism in our lives. Like nature, we face the tenuous edge of vulnerability and impermanence. In her view, we are not separate from nature. We are nature.
Estavan Roaché began his journey with clay at age five on a sunny day as he was unknowingly initiated into his future life through the alchemy of tasting the clay earth. After completing his MFA in Ceramics at the UW, he launched his professional career of teaching, making an artistic tile line, completing multiple public art mosaic installations, and creating sculptures and pottery. The process of working with clay and being guided by dreams and imagination are what ignites Estavan’s creative spirit. His sculptural work explores dream characters and often leads to new stories and insights into his personal and the collective mythology. His interest in tracking clay from its earth origin to finished product, fuels his artistry in traditional clay processes from throwing tea bowls to making bricks.
Estavan and Renee built Roots & Dreams Studio on their property to house each of their creative endeavors and to manifest a lifelong dream of both independent and collaborative artistry.
23. 3 Potters Studio
12714 SW Cemetery Rd.
Working together for many years, we fill the studio with ceramic art, each potter with our own style.
Liz throws colorful pots as mugs, cups, pasta bowls, plates, serving bowls, teapots, and on, and builds bowls and cups.
Karen throws classic stoneware tableware and builds her garlic-keeps.
Marla continues to hand-build porcelain ware, oven-to-table servers, and stoneware lanterns.
Our ceramic art is art to be used every day, made by serious potters who make art functional.
https://lizlewispottery.blogspot
https://vivartists/viva/artists/liz-lewis
https://vivartists/viva/artists/karen-fevold
https://vivartists/viva/artists/marla-smith
206-463-6691
24. Garbanzo Glass
13549 SW 186th Street
Carly Reiter - Stained glass and wood
Combining traditional stained glass techniques with digital fabrication tools to create unique, lead-free glass panels that feature hand-cut colored and textured sheet glass, and repurposed cedar offcuts.
25. Outstanding In Its Field Gallery
10524 SW 188th St.
- Lynn McClain offers mono prints and linocut prints reflecting the natural world of Washington state.
- Janeen Bramwell - Pastel paintings
- Barbara Gannis - Silver jewelry
- Celtic and nature-themed bas-relief bronze sculptures and etched glass vessels by Lindsay Hart and Jeff White.
- Ceramics by Kedar Mankad
- Woven tapestries and baskets by Barbara Gustafson
206-419-0199
26. Pam Ingalls @Dig Deep Gardens
19028 Vashon Hwy SW
Pam Ingalls, oil paintings
"Seeing The Light" is a collection of my latest oil paintings of subjects here on Vashon Island - and from recent travels to Italy, France, Wales & Iceland. Sometimes beautiful scenes take my breath away, but even the simplest moments have their own atmosphere - their own story. Maya Angelou said it perfectly: “Pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.” That’s what I try to do with paint. I hope my work inspires people to look twice at the everyday beauty around them...and to find their own way to express that.
206-349-5909
28. Quartermaster Press
18531 Beall Rd. SW
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Christina Nichols, Christopher Hanson, Lisa Guy
Quartermaster Press is a 10-person art collective on Vashon, operating for over thirty years. Members are dedicated to the exploration of traditional and innovative printmaking techniques. This year, three artist members will be showing work in a variety of styles: monoprints, collagraphs, etchings, linocuts and collages.
206-459-1720
29. Jennifer Hawke Studio
18531 Beall Rd SW
Jennifer Hawke: assemblage & holiday wreaths, watercolors
Rachel LordKenaga: sculpture, oil paintings & tarot cards
Mary McGinnis: miniature sculpture
Monica Gripman: ceramics, sculpture
Jennifer Hawke Studio is located in the historical Beall Greenhouses on Vashon Island.
Tucked away deep within an industrial wasteland of abandoned greenhouses, come be surprised by the delights in this hidden jewel box.
Jennifer Hawke will be showing her watercolor prints, assemblage work, and handcrafted holiday wreaths.
Rachel LordKenaga will be showing her tarot deck, created from her oil paintings; mushrooms sculptures & vibrant oil paintings.
Mary McGinnis will be showing fantastical fantasy mushrooms and magical miniatures.
Monica Gripman will be showing her sculptures and ceramics.
This working studio is packed with oddities and wondrous ephemera. A curio cabinet mixed in amongst the tools, works in progress, all bathed in the warm light from the clerestory above. A working woodstove to toast your toes, and a feast for your eyes.
(206) 422-8969
