Port Townsend Gallery presents artists of the month

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Port Townsend Gallery will cap off its exhibit in June with artworks from Loran Scruggs.

The new show will also include some artistic seasoning from Anne Schneider.

Scruggs and Schneider are the gallery’s featured artists for June. Both will be at the gallery to talk about their art during the next Art Walk, from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 3 in Port Townsend. Light refreshments will be served.

Scruggs is well-known for her art pieces that are made from bottle caps, tin cans, and other recycled materials.

She makes colorful two- and three-dimensional pieces, and her works are often inspired by images and themes that leave whimsical and joyful impressions. Scruggs builds on the original elements of found objects. Examples in the June exhibition include “Mister World” (with the starting place of Uncle Ben’s head on tin with a bent bottle-cap headdress) and “Kitchen Saint” (highlighted by the seductive stare from the lady on the Star Extra Virgin Olive Oil can).

New pieces from Scruggs in the June display include her work with a new material, ocean plastic, which comes from Washington state beaches. The gallery exhibit includes Scrugg’s piece titled “World of Plastic” — an 8-foot ocean float covered with the map of the world using small colored pieces of plastic that spin on a spindle.

Schneider will showcase her whimsical impressions of the four seasons during the June show at the Port Townsend Gallery. For this exhibit, she purposefully started with the titles and worked with a seasonal palette of colors to see the story of the season emerge.

A mixed media/collage artist, Schneider uses acrylic paints and collage papers to tell a story in her art. Her artistic approach can be seen on her canvases for two of the works on display; “Spring Vacation” and “Summer Break.” Additional reflections on canvas of the seasonal changes include “Winter Sky,” “Fall Frolic,” and “Spring Blooms.”

The Port Townsend Gallery, located at 715 Water St., is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, and by appointment.

For more information about the gallery, call 360-379-8110 or visit
porttownsendgallery.com.