Auction Results:

IMA wishes to thank you for your participation in our first ever Fill Your Heart With Art - Online Benefit Auction!

The results are in and we are happy to announce that we raised $2,950 for IMA!

In these uncertain economic times, we feel very fortunate, indeed. Your feedback on the auction process has been much appreciated and helpful in how we will hold future fundraising auctions. All of us at IMA - thank you for your continued support of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art & Sculpture Park.    We couldn't do it without you!

Fill Your Heart With Art
Online Benefit Auction for IMA
Feb. 25 – March 20, 2011

23 Original works of art donated by 23 Outstanding Northwest artists – Helping IMA to continue bringing high quality art exhibitions, programs and events to the residents and visitors of the beautiful San Juan Islands.

Artist Statements:

Laura Bauer

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Untitled PO6-11
Year: 2006
Dimensions: Diptych- each panel 18" x 24"
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Estimated Value: $800
Minimum Bid: $300

Self–taught Painter and Sculptor Laura Bauer, born in San Francisco and raised on San Juan Island in the Pacific Northwest, creates abstract art works exploring and challenging non-objective constructivism. This is a process of exploration of an idea that is not associated with any specific instance, there are no preliminary notions of what is going to transpire, it is a journey of sorting the puzzle and making use of chance. She counts Modern Masters Picasso and Pollock among her influences as well as Popova, Hepworth and Hartigan. Laura's work has been exhibited in Washington, New York and San Francisco, as well as Portland and many online exhibitions, including PicassoMio out of Madrid. www.laurabauer.30art.com

Bruce Clark

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Black and Silver Iridescent Glass Bowl
Year: 2010
Dimensions: 11" across
Medium: Glass
Estimated Value: $225
Minimum Bid: $75

Bruce Clark: mixed media sculptor - usually including kilncast glass or glass on copper elements. Sometimes referred to as "an artist's artist", presumably because they take pity on him and occasionally buy his stuff. Strong affinity with aliens, particularly those sent here to watch. Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, he now lives and works on San Juan Island. Clark has a MFA in Film, from UCLA. www.firearts.com

Mary Coss

Seattle, WA
Title: Women Studies: Contemplation
Year: 2007
Medium: Encaustic
Dimensions: 10" x10"
Estimated Value: $350.00
Minimum Bid: $125

Seattle artist Mary Coss makes artwork inspired by life experience. Born in Detroit and raised in an atmosphere of politics, art, and spirituality she received her MFA from Syracuse University in an interdisciplinary sculpture and media department. She has lived throughout the United States collecting stories and telling them through her artwork. She currently divides her creative attention between studio work, teaching, and public art projects. She has an extensive exhibition record. Her work can be seen in Washington and California collections including King County Housing Authority, Seattle Public Schools, Bellevue Community College, and Carlsbad Public Library. www.marycoss.com

Danielle Dean Palmer

San Juan Island, WA
Title: December (includes two pieces)
Year: 2010
Medium: Encaustic, oils and photograph
Dimensions: 4"x 6" and 3.75" x 3.75"
Estimated Value: $450
Minimum Bid: $150

Danielle's work depicts a world between times. She uses a blend of old and new image making techniques to reveal a primal and personal vision of nature in its most elemental form. Her elegant compositions are evocative of specimens collected from a memory of encounter, an experience of something eternal and inextricably of us. They are works of discovery unveiled with a subtle lens. Dean Palmer has a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited in California, Washington & Ohio, and is collected nationally. She lives and works on San Juan Island. www.danielledeanpalmer.com

Cathy Fields

Seattle, WA
Title: Portal 1
Year: 2009
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 24" x 24"
Estimated Value: $450
Minimum Bid: $150

In this era of impersonal technological prowess, and life lived at a hectic pace, I relish the hands-on sensation of working in traditional artistic mediums. I love bright and vibrant color, with a composition full of movement and flowing lines. As a self-taught artist, I approach art making as a lifestyle. I enjoy the variety of working in both large and small format, ranging from illustration, to public murals and studio work. The materials I use vary depending on the size and eventual placement of the piece. Although I tend to use acrylics most often, I enjoy exploring new art forms and methods, new means for expressing the narrative threads that inspire me. While my art travels via public and private collections across the U.S., I remain in S.E. Seattle, where I live with my husband and two Dobermans. www.cathyfields.com

Peter Fisher

Orcas Island, WA
Title: Charolais, Driftwood Ranch
Year: 1985
Medium: Pigment ink photographic print on Museo Max 100% cotton watercolor paper.
Dimensions: Print is 8"x12" on 12"x15" paper: matted size is 16" x 20
Estimated Value: $475
Minimum Bid: $250

Everything is connected. I see, feel and photograph the energy connecting everything. My images are imbued with the spiritual qualities of light. I seek out, capture and transform luminous concentrations of color, form and tone into lustrous prints of joy made visible. Energy in nature surrounds and embraces us. It may manifest as the thrill of lightning or as the mystery of inner illumination inspired by art. Fisher has been extensively exhibiting his work since 1975 in the Northwest and has produced many exhibits on Orcas Island, since 1982. He owns the Peter C. Fisher Gallery in Eastsound on Orcas Island. www.petercfisher.com

Karen Hackenberg

Port Townsend, WA
Title: Upward Reach
Year: 2005
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 12" x 9", framed 17" x 14"
Estimated Value: $825
Minimum Bid: $300

In my artwork I explore the tenuous boundary between living nature and human encroachment. The sculptures and gouache paintings of my Water Shed series present a humorously ironic taxonomy of post-consumer creatures of the sea. While gyres of garbage swirl in the Pacific, plastic becomes the new sand. Currently living and working in Port Townsend WA, Hackenberg received her BFA degree from Rhode Island School of Design, and has developed a prominent career in nature-based painting. Exhibiting extensively, Hackenberg has received many awards and is included in public and private collections, most recently in the New York State Museum. www.karenhackenberg.com

Betty Hageman

Seattle, WA
Title: Archipelago VII
Year: 2007
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 12" x 12" x 3"
Estimated Value: $425
Minimum Bid: $150

Betty Hageman explores biomorphic bodies and passageways found in natural microenvironments such as soil and water. She holds a B.S. in Art and lives in Seattle, Washington. Betty's work has appeared in many juried exhibits and galleries around the region. Exhibits have included Angle Gallery, Form/Space Atelier, Harborview Medical Center, Centennial Center Gallery, Washington State Department of Ecology, Golden West Gallery, San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Moses Lake Museum and Art Center, Chase Gallery, and Collective Visions Gallery. Betty has received numerous awards, including artist residencies in Georgia, Wyoming and Oregon. She has also served as juror for art and design competitions, and facilitates workshops on creative thinking. Betty has also owned and managed Betty Hageman Graphic Design for over 20 years, providing strategic design services for marketing and educational materials relating to environmental issues such as natural resources management, habitat restoration, and sustainable design. www.bettyhageman.com

Francie Hansen

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Mendelssohn makes no bones about it; Proud Mary keeps on Rollin'
Year: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media – Found Objects
Dimensions: 21¼"h x 18½"w x 4" d
Estimated Value: $150
Minimum Bid: $75

FRANCIE HANSEN: "We are a throwaway society; we discard things and relationships very easily. I enjoy and see true value in all of the everyday stuff we walk on by without seeing and acknowledging. My eyes are often looking down on the ground at a flattened eyeglass stem, a shoe, a damaged cell phone or a plastic toy. "Please pick me up," these cast-offs call out to me. So I do, and with humor and integrity, I put them together with other treasures in some artistic way, in order to give joy and pleasure to those who see my creations. So-Cal born, college in the 60s, lucky enough to travel the world and apprentice with artists and ethnomusicologists.

Robert Harrison

Lopez Island, WA
Title: Thich Nhat Hanh with Sangha from the series "In the Footsteps of the Buddha," photographed at the Plum Village Monastery in France
Year: 2009
Medium: Photograph - Digital C
Dimensions: 30" x 12" print size, 28.5" x 9" image size, 34.5" x 15" matted size
Estimated Value: $750
Minimum Bid: $250

Robert S. Harrison, 25, is a fine art and commercial photographer. After graduating from Bard College with a BA in Photography in 2007, he directed Subul Assalam Center for the Arabic Language in Fez, Morocco. In early 2009 he became a full-time photographer serving clients in the Pacific Northwest, North Africa and Europe. A native of Lopez Island, Washington, Robert is best known for his Constructions. These large-scale panoramas are composed of many individual photographs transformed in Photoshop into one seamless scene. The artist's vision is to bring decisive moments together, exploring the pathos, joy, contradiction, complexity and beauty of life in these compelling photographs. He was selected for the Ansel Adams Photography review, hosted by IMA, in 2009. www.rsharrison.com

Dave Haslett

Orcas Island, WA
Title: Green Manalishi
Year: 2009
Medium: Green Granite on Black Granite
Dimensions:  10.5" h x 6" w
Estimated Value: $500
Minimum Bid: $250

Dave Haslett was born in the Pacific Northwest where the nature in his surroundings is found in both his bronze sculpture and stone carvings. Dave now carves small hand held fetish stones, pedestal sized pieces and monumental sculpture. Some of the stones measure eight feet high and weigh 3,500 pounds. Dave has traveled to Carnac, France to explore and research many of the standing stones left by his predecessors. Dave is an active member and past board member of the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association. He works with the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts and the education of beginning sculptors. His work can be found in numerous galleries in Washington and Oregon and exhibits his sculpture in many invitational shows throughout the northwest. His studio is found on Orcas Island where the ever-changing landscape, bird and animal life are continuing inspirations. www.orcastone.com

John Heric

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Sculpture Study (for picture brides)
Year: 2008
Medium: Ink and Paint
Dimensions: 8.5"x11"
Estimated Value: $250
Minimum Bid: $125

Over the years, my work has never stopped changing, growing. I constantly challenge my technical skills, as well as my use of imagery. Critical thinking is my contact sport. When the work gets too easy, too comfortable, I move on to something new. There is a story there, my story about something. A point of departure to ponder the history and implications of the image. Sometimes it can be figured out, but mostly the story remains strangely elusive, challenging the viewer and never giving up the whole answer.**

**All of us at IMA wish to express our deepest sympathy at hearing the news of John Heric's recent passing. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. He will be greatly missed.

James Fred Housel

John's Island, WA
Title:  Johns Island #7 - The Path
Year: 2004
Medium: Photograph - Digital Pigment Print
Dimensions: 7"x10"
Estimated Value: $300
Minimum Bid: $100

From about the age of 12 I planned to be an astronomer. The unchanging ceaseless beauty of the heavens was a fabled lure to my imagination. The impossible wonders lurking just beyond the edge of vision embodied my ideas of beauty. I pursued that ambition through a first year at Caltech before I lowered my sights to terrestrial wonders. I have been a commercial photographer since 1973 when I began my career doing production stills for feature films in Rome, including "Fellini's Casanova". Housel's work has been seen in many magazines from Architectural Digest to Sunset. He has traveled and photographed extensively for organizations such as CARE. His work has been shown in Seattle and is in public and private collections.www.houselphoto.com

RaVae Luckhart

San Juan Island, WA
Title: San Juan Channel
Year: 2005
Medium: Stone Lithograph
Dimensions: 15" x 20"
Estimated Value: $350
Minimum Bid: $100

Sound is a contributing element, consciously or subconsciously integrated into my work. Jazz, rock, classical, Gregorian chant and even radio war coverage with missiles and explosions in the background influence what appears on the canvas or paper. My response to the energy of sound is gestural, cathartic and involves "feeling into things," not "knowing my way". When a complete communion occurs, art happens. It is the reason to paint. Luckhart, a native South Dakotan and retired University Art Professor, has received numerous awards in her career, including a Fulbright Teaching Award. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the US and has had many murals commissioned. She is building a studio/home on San Juan Island and maintains her Rapid City studio, L'Atelier du Papier.

Stewart Luckman

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Genesis Relief
Year: 2002
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 14" x 12" x 3"
Estimated Value: $1,800
Minimum Bid: $900

It is unlikely a sculpture will change any minds alone. It may not directly influence political, social or cultural changes. However, the work can have a transformative effect on the viewer. This is what sculpture has always been doing within its province. The constant challenge is working with an ancient material to create fresh and new contemporary symbols. Luckman has received numerous awards, been purchased for collections, accepted for exhibitions and selected for commissions across the country and internationally, including Washington, New York and Finland. He holds a MFA from the University of Minnesota and was a Professor of Art at Bethel University in St. Paul, for 28 years. He lives and works on San Juan Island. www.gravelhead.com

Pamela Mills

Waldron Island, WA
Title: And the sky began to dance (1)
Year: 2009/2010
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 24" x 12"
Estimated Value: $700
Minimum Bid: $320

Childhood experiences of living among trees remain vivid: climbing up, hiding in, sheltered under, jumping out of, grabbing fruit from, reading in, crying beneath, or gazing up into as evening bats came and went. I never lost a sense of enchantment with the trees that populate my life. Trees speak. Listen. I produce work that explores a deep sense of place, and investigates visual perception and painting as a way of "thinking with the whole body." Pamela's art has been exhibited in Seattle, New York, Sacramento, Eugene and Canada. Her work is in public collections in Washington State and Washington DC. She has a BA in Art History and lives on Waldron Island in the beautiful San Juans. www.pamelamills.info

Summer Moon

Lopez Island, WA
Title: Lotus Creation
Year: 2009-2010
Medium: Photograph - Archivally printed and matted
Dimensions: 16"x20" matted print, print size 11"x14"
Estimated Value: $120
Minimum Bid: $50

Summer Moon has always been drawn to and intrigued by the splendor of nature, which of course includes we humans. For over fifteen years she has been exploring ways of creatively framing wordless moments in the landscapes of our natural environment, as well as "landscapes" of the human body and spirit through photography. In photographing people, Summer Moon, challenges herself to tell their stories and to capture them with a distinct perspective. Art photography is her true passion but she also finds much joy in creating artistic images for a wide array purposes such as Portraiture, Wedding Photography and Summer's most recent project; Hands at Work, a coffee table photography book of close up abstract Black and White portraits of hands at various types of work. She has also had her work published in several magazines and has recently received a few photographic awards. Hands at Work Book website www.handsworking.com www.summermoonphotography.com

Terry Ogle

San Juan Island, WA
Title: A Moment at Tarte Park
Year: 2009
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: 20.5"x26.5" (including frame)
Estimated Value: $ 350
Minimum Bid: $125

Terry Ogle, a San Juan Island Artist, works in various mediums from watercolor to wood sculpture. Local island scenes painted in watercolor washes reflect Ogle's love of his Island home. His work has been selected in juried shows and is found in many private collections.

Richard C. Smith

Anacortes, WA
Title: Great Northern at Alder Gulch
Year: 2010
Medium: Photograph-Archival Inks on Fine Art Paper
Dimensions: 9"x 13" print size, 19.25" x 24.5"matted size
Estimated Value: $250
Minimum Bid: $100

For the most part, my work is directed by an underlying awareness of the visual attributes of objects in space and the observable effects of time upon them. The aspects of time I witness are infinitely varied, such as movement captured in the migratory flight of birds, the visual manifestations of its passage as seen in weathered wood, or a glimpse into the uncertainty of the future revealed in an arrival and departure milieu. Born and raised in Montana, Richard now lives in Anacortes, Washington. His work has been exhibited in Anacortes and Friday Harbor, WA., as well as being included in publication for the Skagit Land Trust.

Nancy Spaulding

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Reaching for the Light
Year: 2010
Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 7 ½" x 9"
Estimated Value: $150
Minimum Bid: $95

Pastel has been a new course of direction since 2001. Her work continues to reflect her personal experiences and memories and is most often inspired by nature, her garden and her island surroundings. If one word could some up her current path, she would say "appreciation." Nancy's work has been shown in juried art shows and street fairs throughout the western United States. She has been a featured artist in many Northwest galleries and has exhibited with the Northwest Pastel Society. Her work is in the collection of the Whatcom Museum of History & Art and the San Juan Public Library. She lives and works on San Juan Island. spaulding-studio.com

Dorene Steggell

Eugene, OR
Title: Poplars at Barn
Year: 2008
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16"x 10"
Estimated Value: $350
Minimum Bid: $150

Dorene Steggell's art reflects the places that she has lived – a farm at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, the arid West's red rock, plateaus, canyons and lush mountains, the south of Spain, the maritime Northwest, and the richly agricultural Willamette Valley. In her teens she studied art in New Mexico and Utah. As a textile artist, she taught and sold her work before returning to college to study environmental design and earn a graduate degree in architecture. She now works full-time as an artist and printmaker from her studio in Eugene, Oregon. Dorene currently works primarily in oil painting and monotype. She finds that the two media feed and balance each other. Monotype provides a vehicle for spontaneous exploration and painting provides the opportunity for deeper development and evolution of a work. She has been in several juried shows. In February 2010 she received an award in the Yosemite Renaissance XXV. She has served as a juror on several Oregon State 1% for Art selection juries. www.dorenesteggell.com

Ann Walbert

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Bailer Hill Barn
Year: 2010
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 8"x10" plus frame
Estimated Value: $600
Minimum Bid: $250

When I was an art student in a Midwest college in the 1950's, I was hit with the force of the post Impressionists and the works of the Abstract Expressionists. My love of drawing and the need to explore with paint and brush began then and remains with me today. Sometimes a sketch, music or even a thought will be the trigger for action---stretch the canvas, set the palette with oils and let the brush go to work. I'm still excited when the elements come together to stop the eye and start the imagination. Ann graduated as an art major from Millikin University and also attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She taught drawing, painting and sculpture and was a trustee of the Monterey Museum of Art. Her work has been in many exhibitions and resides in public and private collections around the US. Walbert is now an enthusiastic member of the art community in the beautiful San Juan Islands. www.annwalbert.com

Lynn Weber Roochvarg

San Juan Island, WA
Title: Red Leaves in Forest Pool
Year: 2009
Medium: Photograph printed on canvas Dimensions: 20" x 13.5"
Estimated Value: $200
Minimum Bid: $80

Although Lynn uses her camera to record landscapes and seascapes through the seasons, she especially enjoys focusing on the details of our spectacular Washington environment. Many of her works, therefore, are studies in line, texture, color and form, highlighting single aspects of scenes from woods, fields, or tide pools. She has been a San Juan Island resident since 1998. Her photography has been exhibited on San Juan, and many of her works are in collections both public and private in Washington State.

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