My collage art group has a big show during June 2025 at Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden Visitor Center Gallery.
If you recall, the tissue paper that is slick on one side as for gift wrapping is dunked into a solution of silk screen dye, water, and an oil float for unique effects.
Apropos to the most recent volcanic activity at Kilauea volcano, I have chosen to show my collection of works inspired by the 2018 eruption. Here are three:
“From Haleakalā”“Crater View”“Leeward”/“Windward”
The exhibit runs June 2 to 29, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden entrance is at the end of Luluku road between Pali Highway and Likelike Highway in Kāneʻohe.
Honolulu Hale at Punchbowl and King streets is the venue for the 64th annual member exhibition of the Windward Artists Guild. The juried art show, “Islands of Diversity,” runs through September 11, 2024, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The building itself, designed by Charles Dickey, is a work of art. But we came to see the creations of current visual artists. The awards reception was yesterday afternoon. With 97 pieces on display, I was bound to run into long-lost friends such as Shelley S. M. Miller, who changed her name. I did not recognize her, but she recognized me. Shelley won Honorable Mention for “The Temari Tree.”
DH made this bird’s eye view from the second floor:
Below are my “Rain Fantasy” oil on canvas and “Lava Flows to the Sea” paper collage.
Artist and her “Rain Fantasy” and …“Lava Flows to the Sea”
My friend Bernadette Chan submitted her 2D piece along with her ceramics. “Something different,” she said proudly.
Bernadette Chan
DH admired “ʻUkulele” pictured here with its artist George Evan David.
Mixed-media Art by George Evan Davis
The Susan Rogers-Aregger Best in Show was awarded to “The Dog Days of Summer (A Goddess of the Star Sirius)” by Vanessa McCowan.
“Best in Show” with the artist and benefactor Dan Rogers-Aregger
As juror Robert Mace wrote, “I truly wish we could have given every work in the exhibit an award, because they are all winners. Keep making art my friends. This world needs it.”
A couple of community offerings where my “work” is represented are on the calendar for next month on Oʻahu:
One is an art show at ARTS at Marks Garage, corner of Nuuanu avenue and Pauahi street, for most of December. I can meet you at the First Friday evening reception there, too.
The other is the Windward Choral Society’s “Home for the Holidays” winter concert at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Kailua, 148 Makawao St., Kailua. I’m singing! More details in the accompanying images:
My fine-art colleagues and I are pleased to invite you to Windward Artists Guild’s October exhibit at the Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden in Kāneʻohe. The entrance to the park is at the end of Luluku Road between Pali Highway and Likelike Highway. All the information is on the flyer above. If you would like to visit me in person and learn how I make my hand-dyed tissue-paper collages, I will be at the gallery on the mornings of October 11, 12, and 27. Better yet, come to our reception from 12:30 to 3:30 pm on Sunday, October 8, where you can meet many more artists!
The National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW) is a club for women who work professionally as fine artists, writers, and composers. What they have in common is the blank page to start.
When I was a reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser, during and after college, noted and respected writer Gwenfread Allen introduced me to the Honolulu Branch of NLAPW that held regular monthly meetings I enjoyed. Fine, but what I really enjoyed was meeting the Arts members. I wanted to be like them, and that’s what inspired me to take oil painting lessons from the now late Gloria Foss, followed by tissue-paper dying and collage-making workshops by Susan Rogers-Aregger, who has also passed. Currently I have an inventory of paintings and collages. The most recently completed collage “Crater View” has been juried into “Ultra III” at Pauahi Tower, 2nd Floor Lobby, on exhibit from March 12 through May 11.
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As for music, I’m not composing nor arranging, but I really enjoy my part as a chorister in the Windward Choral Society. The choir is currently rehearsing “Jubilate Deo” composed by Dan Forrest. We are scheduled to perform this major work—seven movements in seven different languages—at 4 pm, June 11, 2023, at Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu. Susan McCreary Duprey is the artistic director. Please mark your calendar!
Gallery ʻIolani on the campus of Windward Community College in Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu, is the spacious venue dedicated to the current Windward Artists Guild exhibit. The entrance to the show space is from the lobby of Palikū Theatre.
“Impressions/Expressions” runs until March 4. I stopped by yesterday with a friend to take a look, and, wow, I am proud to be a member of this art group.
Many thanks to Antoinette Martin, the gallery director who designed the show, and to Lauren Faulkner, the awards juror.
More than 100 artworks from 38 people—both recognized professional artists and newcomers to the art community—are in the fine-art display.
An artists reception for the public is scheduled for 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, February 11. COVID vaccination protocols will be in effect.
Below are photos of pieces by me and my friends Dorothy Brennan and Bernadette Chan.
“Crater View” hand-dyed tissue-paper collage at right, by me.
Ceramic vases by Bernadette Chan
“The Committee” tissue-paper collage by Dorothy Brennan
LouisPohl A new exhibit of my art opens on August 27 and extends to September 27, 2019, at LouisPohl Gallery on Bethel street in downtown Honolulu. I’d love to see you at the reception on First Friday evening of September 6. Home-baked chocolate cookies!
News photographs of the 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano inspired me to create images in collage. I decided to go big and abstract like the feeling I have when I think of Hawaii the big island. My original collection included pieces depicting the captivating orange fire of Pele, and happily those pieces are now in private residences. The remainder of the tissue paper paintings is in comparatively quieter colors. For unity I have created a new piece entitled “Crater View” in muted tones especially for this exhibit.
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