Review By Horst

I started at Brian Scott Gallery, because I was one of the featured artists there. The main floor shows new watercolor work by Lynn Parker and Rick Bennet of Crecent City, and Dale Wells and myself from Brookings. The artists, except Dale, were at hand to discuss their work, but many Art Walkers preferred to listen to Bonnie Pitman's piano music instead. In the Mezzanine a first on the Brookings Art Walk Scene: fashion designs by Leslie Wolf, who explained the creation of a garmet from conception to completion. I could hardly snap a photo of Leslie; she was surrounded by curious ladies most of the time. In the Dungeon Gallery the local webfoot weavers have a surprise in store: a traveling show of the Oregon weaver's guilds. Members demonstrated how such work was created from spinning the wool to hanging the final work. The soothing guitar of Lon Goddard could be heard in the background.
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At Words and Pictures, Nina's familiar piano tunes greeted me. I met local artists Buzz Stewart, Gus Gustafson, Pete Chasar and last not least the Lizard herself: Liz James, my teacher and mentor. We hadn't seen each other for a while. So there was a big hug, right in front of husband Dorian, who didn't mind; what else could he do? Among the new art especially Chasar's huge still lifes, among them three pears, surprised me. A new direction for him? Also, one of Stewart's semi-abstract pieces with colorful birds showed a different side of Buzz.

Dale Hendrix of the Colours Gallery introduced abstract expressionist Lorraine Filippone from Gold Beach with three of her gigantic abstracts. Brookings Art Walkers may remember Lorraine from a solo show in the library last January. Her new work is just as stunning. A must see! I shook hands with big Merv Thompson who laid his arm around one of his contemporary sculptures so I could take a photo. Also present, for the first time was artist Suzanna Solomon, who had just moved to town, and another abstract artist whose work I admired but whose name I forgot. I am very happy we now have a "contemporary gallery" in town. I am trying to work myself in that direction, but it is a rough road.
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At the South Coast Inn there wasn't much going on when I got there, except pianist Tom Tanzi was totally immersed in one of his compositions. I was fascinated by the chord progressions he produced and, hate to tell you, didn't spend much time looking at the fiber art, because I had to run back to relieve Bonnie Pitman at the piano (we alternated on the gig).

But I took time to run up to Manley to take a photo of demonstrator Sara Broderick and her model, an exchange student from Turkey; from there to the library for a minute, where I met my competitor: Marge Woodfin, Art Walk reporter for the Pilot, a good friend of mine (Good dog, Horst! Good dog!) talking to visiting artist Pat Renner from Gold Beach. On the way out I snapped a picture of pianist Tom Broderick, but had to cut it out for lack of space.
Sorry, Tom.
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