Port Townsend Art Walk steps out from about 5 to 8 p.m. the first Saturday of each month, offering a mixture of styles and media on display as you duck into local galleries and other venues.

Jefferson Museum of Art and History, 540 Water St., features prints by Lockwood Dennis in the Ferguson Family Gallery.

Dennis, known primarily as “Woody,” painted and made prints throughout his life, creating 400 prints with 385 of those in editions of twenty or more, and hundreds of paintings. Although he lived in Port Townsend and captured many of local scenes in paint, when he started exhibiting and finding a market for his work in Seattle, the work shifted to urban imagery from his visits to the city and other locales around the world.

For more information, call 360-385-1003 or visit jchsmuseum.org.

Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., features “Stillness” in the Artist Showcase in October, as well as “In Residence.”

The Artist Showcase features three 2D and one 3D artist specially selected for the show including Scott Pascoe, Jinx Bryant, Marian Morris and Duane Ervin.

Pascoe is a painter and photographer. His paintings move freely from a post impressionistic style conveying light to non-objective abstracts of regional Northwest color and texture, according to a press release. His photographs experiment with layering, color and texture and the process of aging, restoration and renewal.

“I work quickly and intuitively on photographs, drawings and paintings to outdistance my critical and rational self, improvising and welcoming new directions and pathways,” Pascoe said. Bryant embarked on a new medium this last year. Moving from her first love of pastels and watercolor to oils resulted in an expansion of form and a production of bolder more saturated colors in her imagery, allowing her to paint on a larger scale, she said.

“I love the immediacy and three-dimensional feel of oils. Like marks and strokes in pastels, oils offer streaks, blobs and splatters creating an immediacy that is exciting, and making my paintings sing with intensity.”

Morris has long participated in the local art community and said she finds Washington state to be full of inspiring locations for painting en plein air. When she paints a scene she tries to focus on what interests her the most, and that is usually color.

Acrylics offer her a large range of hue and saturation. Although they offer some challenges under certain weather situations, she finds that using them allows her to carry completed plein air paintings easily from remote locations.

Ervin, a woodworker, says he has always believed that we can accomplish anything we set out to do, and he has always loved working with wood. Those two things came together and led to the creation of his boxes. His work can be a combination of as few as two woods, or at times a mixture of as many as four or five.

“I love working with all the different woods and as each piece is finished I wonder what the next new wood or combination will reveal.”

“In Residence” features six artists from Centrum’s Emerging Artist Residency (EAR) Program. Since 2014, 36 artists have been selected to participate in EAR. The six artists were chosen from participants in the past five years of the program. They include artists Alex Boechenstein (2015), Jaleesa M. Johnston (2018), mario lemafa (2017), Morgan Ritter (2014), Cicelia Ross-Gotta (2018) and Zorn B. Taylor (2016).

Since their time at Centrum, many of the artists have significantly deepened their work and gone on to receive amplified recognition and exciting exhibition opportunities, according to a press release.

Northwind Arts Center is open 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays.

Pippa’s Real Tea, 626 Water St., will feature “The Art of the See: Viewpoints of Nature” by seven artists including Jeannie McMacken, Marie Amerson and Jason Gunby.

Amerson and Gunby have been painting friends for many years, according to a press release. Both studied art in college before meeting at Diane Ainsworth’s studio classes in Port Townsend. Both Amerson and Gunby are life-long oil painters, who share an interest in interpreting local landscapes, each in their own way.

Amerson’s work is all about the paint, and quickly getting down the impression of the subject matter, whether it be landscape, portrait or still life, according to the release.

Gunby uses a more methodical approach involving study of lights and darks, thumbnail sketches, and carefully planned compositions.

Over the years, Gunby and Amerson have set aside bits of time to paint together, outdoors in summer and in the studio in winter.

A reception will be at 6 p.m. during Art Walk. Holly J. Hughes will read selections of her poetry and the artists will discuss their work and how they see the world.

Pippas’ Real Tea is otherwise open from 10 a.m.-5p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will feature the works of Diane Holmes and Nancy Pascoe.

In 2005, Holmes came to live and work in Port Townsend from the hustle and bustle of the California Bay Area, “Apple Computer Country” as she likes to call it, according to a press release. Recently retired, she now has more time to explore and discover new areas of watercolor.

Holmes is a self-taught watercolorist. Most of her paintings come from either her old sketches and/or photos. Her latest creations come from using the Japanese Sumi-e technique. She loves the free movement and flow of watercolor paints and Sumi-e ink that work together. Usually in the Sumi-e paintings, rice paper is used, but Diane decided to try it on watercolor paper. It doesn’t absorb as much but it works.

Being self-taught, Homes said she still has a lot to learn about art, but if it makes people happy, she has accomplished one thing. She said she also gets a lot of her inspiration from the wonderful and incredible subject material the Great Northwest has to offer.

Pascoe is a Port Townsend bag maker who said she delights in creating beautifully designed and crafted pouches and purses for everyday life.

Pascoe draws inspiration from the patterns and negative space of Japanese woodblock prints, vernacular Northwest architecture, and the indigo and grays of our Puget Sound waters and sky. Her process is akin to the Japanese joinery found in fine hand-built wooden buildings. Every detail is carefully thought through to create a seamless elegance.

The exterior fabrics are mostly indigo in color and the interior fabrics are selected to either reflect the outside or to surprise and delight.

Pascoe said she often uses fabrics inherited from her mother for the linings and enjoys the multi-generational aspect of seeing their fabrics together.

Many of the purses are hand-quilted using the Japanese style of embroidery called “sashiko.” Pascoe said she interprets traditional sashiko patterns to suit the fabric and design. The Port Townsend Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information, call 360-379-8110.

Port Townsend School of the Arts Downtown, 236 Taylor St., features the Sherry Grover Art Sparks Benefit Sale for its second year.

Since early July, over 500 6-by-6-inch painting tiles have been picked up by acclaimed local artists, PtSA faculty, students and Port Townsend luminaries, for creation of original works of art to benefit PtSA and its students, according to a press release.

The collection will be available for viewing only during Art Walk. Then, on Sunday Oct. 6, the Gallery will open at noon for sales.

Each piece will be $40 and sold on a first-come, first-served, buy-it-and-take-it basis. Half of the proceeds go to the artist, and half to PtSA.

“The Sherry Grover Art Sparks exhibit is a wonderfully unique Port Townsend event, really showcasing the enthusiasm and talent in our community,” said PtSA Executive Director Teresa Verraes. “This participation encourages PtSA in our mission of bringing out the artist in all of us.”

This year, in addition to the popular 6-by-6 format, PtSA extended special invitations to 20 artists to create 12-by-12 works, which will be available to bid on via silent auction, for two days only – from opening day Wednesday, Oct. 2 through Friday, Oct. 4. These artists include Darsie Beck, Mike Biskup, Kathy Constantine, Maria Coryell-Martin, Nonie Gaines, Meg Kaczyk, Jane Kilburn, Kim Kopp, Suzanne Lamon, Frank Samuelson, Kerry Tremain, Chris Witkowski, Stephen Yates and others.

Art Sparks is named for Sherry Grover, who was passionate about art, artists and the business of art. She loved learning and teaching and developed a program called Art Sparks to empower artists to take charge of their careers by becoming better business people. Her cutting-edge approach touched the lives of many artists over the years and can be linked to several local success stories.

The Sherry Grover Art Sparks exhibition will be colorful and varied with photography, drawing, painting, mixed media and 3D assemblage among the range of media. No pieces are signed on the front, leaving the identity of the artist a possible mystery.

Some of the tiles are by PtSA faculty and local artists with recognizable styles, and others will surprise and delight with the reveal of the creator.

The artists will be on hand to discuss their works during Art Walk.

PtSA Downtown is open noon to 6 p.m. seven days a week or by appointment.

Two Sisters Gallery, 210 Polk St., on the second floor of the Kuhn Building, displays original works by Lisa Allison Blohm who will fundraise for the nonprofit Orca Network and Center for Whale Research.

Editor’s note: To be included in the monthly Art Walk feature, please send information to cmcdaniel@ptleader.com no later than the 15th of each month. Include “Art Walk” in the subject line. Photos should be at least 300 dpi and 4x6.