Guy Peck explains his abstract piece, recycled pet food containers layered with paint. His 10 pieces hang this month at the Kenney and were feature in Thursday night's West Seattle Art Walk.
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West Seattle's Thursday night Art Walk featured a photo show by fungi photographer Machel Spence at the Alki Arts Gallery next to the Cactus restaurant. We recently featured the her work here:
http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/02/12/features/machel-spence-make…
A constant cluster questioned the artist about close-up lenses, mushrooms, and other tricks of the trade. But there is no trick to it, just her skilled portrayals of nature's objects generally gone unnoticed.
West Seattle abstract artist Guy Peck was having fun describing to all ages the nuances found in his 10 acrylic and latex abstract creations, evocative of Jackson Pollack, at the Kenney. He believes that the color gray gets a bad rap.
"I really like working with gray," he said. His work will hang there for a month.
His wife, Delores, was also there, selling her elegant purses and jewelry she handmade, called Lella Rae Designs. Former Daystar Care Center communications director Marnie Wrenn was also selling jewelry at her table in the lobby.
A couple of miles south of the Kenney, people packed the Northwest Encaustics studio/classroom in "The Building," a building, of course, with four levels of art studios on Othello west of California Ave. Instructors and artists Shaun Doll of West Seattle and Daniel Santjer of Bellevue were on hand to talk about the encaustic process of layering wax and other flat objects onto photographs and paintings mounted on wood. Most in attendance seemed familiar with the medium. You couldn't throw a paintbrush in there without hitting an artist.
