Artists in the Park – Gallery One

Artists in the Park Series

Downtown Unity Park in Ellensburg, Washington

This farmer’s market season (May – October) Gallery One is hosting ten artist demonstrations at the new downtown Unity Park.

Visit the market, then come meet the artists and see what they’re working on 10:00AM – 1:00PM most Saturdays!

This program is supported by funding from the Ellensburg Arts Commission.

Artists with asterisks (***) next to their name will be working in front of Gallery One for their sessions, NOT Unity Park.

May 10 – Lorena Garcia

Garcia creates abstract pieces of art. She started pursuing artwork with the hopes of being able to share her love of color, jewelry, and art with others. Garcia aims to create colorful artwork as well as wearable pieces of art & more.

May 31 – Robin Mayberry

Mayberry’s artistic practice revolves around intuitive exploration, particularly through encaustic paintings. Each layer she applies becomes a narrative, woven from the subconscious depths of her mind, expressing the rich tapestry of emotions that often lie beneath the surface.

Encaustic, with its tactile and fluid nature, allows her to delve into these depths, navigating the interplay of colors, textures, and forms. It’s a dance between intention and spontaneity, where each brushstroke or mark embodies a moment of introspection and discovery.

Through her work, Mayberry aims to invite viewers into a realm where the boundaries between the conscious and unconscious blur, encouraging them to embark on their own journey of interpretation and reflection. Her art becomes a vessel for emotional resonance, offering glimpses into the universal human experience and inviting contemplation of the intricacies of our inner worlds.

June 21 – Sofia Romero

Romero specializes in animal portraits and depictions of nature, at times contrasting them with fantasy and symbolic elements. They received their BFA from Central Washington University and continue to live and practice art in Ellensburg.

June 28 – Tally Wyatt

Tally Wyatt is a self-taught artist in that she has never had any formal training. Keeping busy with her family, Tally didn’t pick up a paint brush until just two years ago. Now at age 65, Wyatt has found inspiration on YouTube and from photographs of landscapes and seascapes.

July 12 – Scott Mayberry

Mayberry is a mixed-media painter, assemblage sculptor and pen and ink illustrator who has shown his work nationally and regionally. He’s known for creating images that tell a story, rendered with lush surface quality and bold palettes.

July 26 – Sam Albright***

Albright is a Northwest native from a creative family with roots in Seattle going back to the 1870s. Growing up following his mother painting en plein air in the meadows around Mt. Rainier, he carries that tradition forward into some of his own work. Some days the low evening light on the trees draws his eye and Sam tries to capture that feeling with watercolors, brushes and paper. His styles tend toward finely crafted work that has depth and layers; seemingly simple, while revealing complexity over time.

August 2 – Jeannie Johnson

In 1983, Jeannie took an oil painting class along with her mother. She struggled with it but kept trying anyway. She decided to try a different class and discovered a passion. A couple of years later someone asked her to teach her daughter how to paint with oils. After a few months of teaching one person, she put an ad in the paper and started teaching classes. She began with ten students. This grew to over forty-five regular students in nine different classes. She now keeps her classes to four per week. She doesn’t teach weekly classes in the summer but conducts week-long art day camps for kids.

Jeannie is primarily self-taught although she has studied under many different instructors over the years and takes classes whenever there is opportunity for them. She enjoys working in many different mediums. Lately she has been using acrylics–a bit like oils which she loves but they dry faster. She also recently discovered encaustics, which has opened a new vista of creativity.

Jeannie is endorsed by The National Art Show. Artists from all over the country gather together in Ellensburg, WA, the third weekend in May, to share their work with collectors from all over the state. Her work can be seen in private and corporate collections across the country. She has had gallery representation in both Washington and Idaho. She has been represented at Two Rivers Gallery in Wenatchee, Washington.

Jeannie works plein aire and from her studio. She enjoys other artists’ works and gets much inspiration from them. One of her favorite artists is Andrew Wyeth. Most of her original paintings are available as giclees and cards.

August 9 – Tarra Hall Ward

HallWard is a Central Washington artist whose oil paintings and mixed media drawings are inspired by the chemistry and science surrounding her. She held a dual interest as a child; driven to both the exploration of the natural world and the art supplies splayed out through her home. She attended Big Bend Community College, expanding on a dual interest between the arts and the sciences. Tarra studied further at Central Washington University, double majoring in art and chemistry. Her first research project focused on the artistic representation of general chemical reactions through oil paintings and mixed media drawings. Since then, she completed several self-driven projects, ranging in inspiration from the science of pigments, color theory, flavors and aromas.

Tarra currently lives in Ellensburg, WA, where she is a resident artist at Gallery-One. She facilitates workshops focusing on the foundations of color theory and painting, sharing not only artistic knowledge but the chemistry that can affect one’s artistic practice. In between work, she enjoys local hikes, camping trips, and experiments with recipes to share with family and friends.

August 16 – Karl Schwiesow

Schweisow’s creative output aims to create conversation from the interaction between objects and the language used to define them. He creates work which leverages everything from installation-like mixed media sculptures and altered objects to large and small ceramic sculptural abstractions and paintings. Schweisow’s methods are rooted in exploring and expanding the physical and associative characteristics of an object’s original intention and to invent formulas which weave together objects, imagery, materials, and concepts in a way that re-frames meaning at which point the object becomes a starting point for dialogue between our shared cultural experiences and assumptions.

Karl was born and raised in Homer, Alaska. He has lived up and down the west coast and been a commercial fisherman, dishwasher, bicycle mechanic, carpenter, student, business owner, and artist. He earned a BFA from Sierra Nevada College (now University of Nevada) and an MFA from the University of Montana; since then, he’s been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Visiting Artist In Residence at North Dakota State University, a Long Term AIR at the Red Lodge Clay Center, and a Summer Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation. He currently maintains an active studio practice in Ellensburg and also works as Assistant Curator and Art Restorer at Dick and Jane’s Spot and Director of The Palace Gallery.

September 6 – Mary Duke

Mary Diefenbach Duke is an oil painter and mixed medium artist who thrives on the opportunity to paint daily, either plein air or in her studio, and oftentimes recurring theme of scenes in the Kittitas Valley. Her work is filled with vibrant color, energy and painterly marks, inviting your attention to find your own story within hers.