Julia Gardner and Lori Presthus have teamed up for this show; both collaboratively and individually.  They have combined each of their separate art forms to create jewelry with resin and small paintings. Each original egg tempra painting is printed to size with pigment based archival ink on acid free papers. The prints are placed in various bezels. Resin is poured into the bezel enveloping the print and drying to a glass-like finish enhancing the beauty of the art. Some of the pieces are embellished with beadwork.

Shown:  Collaborative Necklace

Lori Presthus’s paintings focus on birds in their natural environment.  Lori’s career has included working as a professional cellist and most recently becoming a published artist. The process is the driving force in both Lori’s music and her art. While exploring both art forms, she has found rich colors that permeate both worlds. Her medium offers her the ability to experiment with her medium, techniques and subjects. She applies many washes of egg tempera gradually creating depth. The final details are added usually with pastels but sometimes with other media as well.

Shown:  "Chickadee Green Leaves"

Julia Gardner will be exploring cast resin sculpture.  Bird wings, nests and branches are the themes for this show. Julia Gardner will be showing in both the Window and Feature Area.  She as created both two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed media artwork with resin -- an extremely tricky, often unpredictable medium. Building up her two-dimensional artwork from clear flat molded resin panels, Julia creates “windows” in which her photographs of organic matter (nests, plant pods, branches, etc.) are layered with mixed media (ink, oil pastel, etc.) and suspended in resin, as if in amber. Each layer was created with precise temperature and humidity conditions for artwork that results in the almost glass-like final piece. For her three-dimensional artwork she has assembled nests out of wax, clay, wood, plaster, paint, paper, organic materials and resin. She also sculpted wings, from formed molds, and then creates resin versions that seem to illuminate in frozen flight.

Shown: "Wings"  cast resin