Becky Fletcher, Heart, 2024, Oil on canvas, 40" x 30" x 1" Smith and Vallee

After graduating with an Illustration Major from the Art Institute of Boston in 1974, Becky Fletcher moved to the Northern California coast where she worked in graphic design and free-lance illustration before many years of work as a glass painter. Moving to the Skagit Valley in 1986, she at last found oils in 2005. She continues to be glad and grateful for a medium with which to address the feast of form and color wherever she casts her eye.

Aaron Loveitt, Alluvial, Bronze and Iron, 2024, 35" x 7" x 7"

Aaron Loveitt lives and works on Blanchard Mountain in Bow. Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, Aaron's artwork becomes a symbolic intersection of material, process and points of understanding around the phenomenon of this region's time and place.

This sculpture signifies the malleability of a river's path. Like the forces of its adjacent landscape, this sculpture was forged with significant and sudden force as if accelerating the landslides and alluvial formations that occur in a watershed over millennia.

Purchase of this auction item comes with a studio tour!

Perched on a forested mountainside, Aaron's shop- Canopy Art & Iron is home to an industrial scale sculpture facility as well as an alternative exhibition space that showcases curated exhibits of experimental and regionally inspired artwork. This gallery project aims to bring together community, contemporary art, food and drink to celebrate and explore the exceptional artistic talent that helps make the Skagit Valley so remarkable.

Visiting Canopy Art & Iron is a unique art experience that includes the large outdoor sculptures and current projects of Aaron Loveitt, a tour of his industrial blacksmithing shop and resident artists' studio projects, as well as a gallery exhibition of regional artists, all within the beautiful mountain setting above Samish Bay.

Appetizers and refreshments will be served.

Studio tour is for six participants on a mutually agreed upon date.

Expires May 2025.

Joel Brock, Landscape at Dusk, Acrylic on board, 18" x 18" x .75" ie gallery

Edison Utilizing pastel, charcoal, graphite, acrylic, and gesso, Joel Brock created light-filled compositions based upon observation of architecture, still life, and the landscape. Inspired by local gems such as the Samish River Valley, Brock focused on horizontal expanses that emphasize tranquility and soft haze. Important to him were the possibilities a given subject affords to play with light, shape, and form. His tendency toward abstraction is evident in his compositions with strong geometry and gestural mark making." "Brock attended the University of California, Davis, where he studied with internationally renowned painter and printmaker Wayne Thiebaud. Represented by the Lisa Harris Gallery, now Harris Harvey Gallery, since 1993, Brock's works can also be found in such collections as PACCAR Corporation, University of Washington Medical Center, Swedish Medical Center, City of Lynnwood and PepsiCo, Houston.