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EventsBPA GalleryCelebrating the performing and visual arts at BPA! July 2007: Ometepe Exhibit
August 2007: Three Part Harmony
September 2007: Kathryn Matta - "Dreamscapes"
October 2007: Paintings by Steven Fogell
November 2007: Carrie Goller - "Recent Encaustic Works" Endlessly inspired by a variety of media -- oil, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, graphite, mixed media and recently encaustic – Carrie Goller is lured by simple yet sensual organic forms and the intoxicating realm of vibrant colors, shapes and textures found in nature.
December 2007 - Sally Prangley - "Eccentrics"
March 2008 - Dinah Satterwhite, Fine Art Photographer In addition to this series of gallery wraps, Ms. Satterwhite will be showing some of her well-known hand tinted black and white photos. For more information about the exhibit or artist, please contact her at: 206-855-9002 / www.DinahSatterwhite.com.
April 2008 - An Island of Poetry The BPA Gallery’s April exhibit - An Island of Poetry - showcases works by the legendary founders of Bainbridge Island’s poetry community: Bob McAllister, Ralph Cheadle, Everett Thompson, Nancy Rekow, Janet West, and Margi Berger. Retired BHS English and drama teacher Bob McAllister began teaching a poetry workshop on Bainbridge in 1972 under the auspices of Olympic College Extension Courses. In his introduction to the BPA Gallery’s April exhibit, McAllister writes, “Over the years, the ensuing tides of poetry on this Island, and of poets who pursue the fretful muse, have continued to swell.” McAllister sees poetry as a way to view the world, saying, “That’s the blessing of poetry: the need to speak the truth, to examine what’s real, and to approach the infinite.”
May 2008 - Photography by Terry Moyemont For the last seven years Moyemont has been exploring connections between contemporary European garden design and innovations here in the Northwest. His experience, combined with his knowledge of new plant materials, the design possibilities that they inspire, and the connections which they invoke, have led him to speaking and writing about gardeners as artists, as well as gardens as sources for his own art. Presently he is co-owner, with his wife Terri Stanley, of Mesogeo Nursery and Design Center and is the current cochairman of the Pacific Northwest Branch of the Mediterranean Garden Society.
June 2008 - Printmaking by Helena Hoyte Bierly and Collages by Renee G. Jameson Helena says she loves the medium of printmaking because “it allows me to explore the luminosity of color in a way that I hope evokes emotion and sensuality. I react to the immediacy of wet ink on paper and the process always intrigues me because the ink I put on the plate is reversed on paper as it is pulled off the press so, then I react to what I see as I begin to build layer upon layer of color, transparency and texture. The process also lends itself to creating a series of images on an intuitive level.” Renee G. Jameson’s collages deal with the subject of balance, color harmony, texture and the juxtaposition of man-made beauty with beauty that occurs in nature.
Renee draws from materials including Asian papers, found papers from a variety of sources, stamps relating to her love of geography and travel, and organic objects she finds in nature such as twigs and bark.
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Kathryn Matta’s landscapes, still lifes and cafe scenes are vibrantly painted with eye-popping contrast and thoughtful composition. She favors a post-impressionist style and her work has been described as "Matisse meets O'Keefe." Feel welcome to wander through her large scale landscapes, lounge in her cafe scenes or sit in her still lifes. Of her work Kathryn says: “My mission is to explore and share the impressions of my uniquely singular experience. My art is based on these deeply felt impressions, filtered through memory and transferred to canvas. I think of painting as a visual language with an artistic vocabulary. Color, line, contrast and composition are my poems without words, my songs without notes.” 
Bainbridge Performing Arts’ C. Keith Birkenfeld Lobby will showcase dry pastel drawings in December. Artist Sally Prangley’s “Eccentrics” focuses on the quirkiness of people. Colorful both in the characters sketched and the colors used, this exhibit features a range of works, including Listening for the Sounds that No One Else Hears, The Bun, Drink Your Milk, and Umbrella Fetish.
Ms. Satterwhite exhibits her crisp, detailed, colorful Washington Coast photography series at the BPA Gallery this March. The photos are being introduced as a fresh crop of “gallery wraps,” which involve a precise method of printing the image onto canvas and then wrapping the print crisply around a wooden frame. The end result is a fairly seamless, lightweight canvas print that doesn’t compete with a frame or mat. The depth is almost 2” thick, giving it a classic appeal and very professional look. The photo series includes some images from the Northwest coast of Washington (think: rock 
formations at Cape Flattery, a sea anemone at Salt Creek Reservoir) as well as some more local coastal images of Eagle Harbor (think: misty morning sunrise over the Harbor with glowing shades of orange and a perfect sun reflected in the water).
Terry Moyemont has been photographing landscapes and gardens for over 45 years, with exhibitions of his work in Illinois, Michigan, Montana, California, and Washington. In recent years his work has appeared the magazines Seattle Homes and Lifestyles, Pacific Horticulture, Northwest Home and Garden, Garden Design, and in Lady Susana Walton’s book on her garden, La Mortella, and Will Giles' new "Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates" (Timber Press, 2007).
For 35 years Moyemont has also had a successful parallel career in film and video. As writer, cameraman, and editor he has produced multimedia dance performances, documentaries, and numerous demo pieces fro artists such as Dale Chihuly and Italian sculptor Salvatore Cipolla. His documentary works include “The Glass Dimension” (on the work and lives of Czech glass artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova), “Living the Legend” (on the restoration and sailing of the historic USS Constitution), and “On Tour with the Blue Berets” (on United Nations peace keeping in Macedonia). His productions have received major funding from the Illinois and Montana Arts Councils, the Joyce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation.
Helena Hoyte Bierly grew up in the Northwest and has always been involved with the arts, graduating from the University of Washington with a BFA in textile design. She also obtained a degree in Interior Design and has maintained her own firm - Wingpoint Design llc since 1997. In October 2007 she had her first show on Bainbridge Island at Dszign which showcased her mixed media monotypes. She is also an active member of SAMS.
Inspired by the wonder she experiences in the natural world, Renee pursues a daily up-close encounter with nature on walks through Fort Ward and the surrounding trails with her dogs, Otto and Lucky. She says, “I’m continually captured by nature’s spectacle of complexity, seemingly haphazard in its exuberance of growth yet it all seems to come together in simple, perfect balance.”