Shannon Borg

Mary Bruce

Kim Bruder

Winnie Brumsickle

Debbie Daniels

BJ Dollahite

Alison Engle

David Harsh

Pamela Hoke

Lisa Lamoreaux

Jan Murphy

Jayne Siroshton

Teresa Smith

Dolly Sundstrom

Friday Harbor Atelier
313 Spring St.
Friday Harbor, Washington

Shannon Borg

Shannon has been with the Atelier since near the beginning, when she and Pam Hoke shared a space. Since then, she attended The Gage Academy of Art’s Studio Arts Intensive and one year of Kimberly Trowbridge’s Atelier at Gage in Georgetown in Seattle. Shannon creates oil paintings based on her fascination with South Beach on San Juan Island. She loves how people interact with the landscape, building driftwood huts, building fires, stacking stones. She also loves the strange, organic shapes and colors of the seaweed and creatures that wash up on the shoreline. Come and visit her “naturalist’s laboratory” in her studio full of seaweed, shells, rocks and more - and see her colorful - and increasingly abstract - landscapes and still lifes of the sea. Shannon loves exploring the randomness of brushwork and dripping paint that create layers that look like organic shapes in the sealife she loves.

Mary Bruce

Mary paints abstract watercolors with an Asian flair. Her work will be featured in the Featured Artist window at the Friday Harbor Atelier in February, 2022.

Kim Bruder

Kim is a new member of the Atelier, and she paints colorful, imaginative paintings of the landscape, animals, and her surroundings on San Juan Island.

Winnie Brumsickle

Winnie loves shape and color, and she paints abstract paintings using a process of playing, exploring and refining her shape, line and color, letting the process help her discover the form of the piece. To me, Winnie’s paintings echo Paul Klee’s abstracts, with a beautiful subtlety of color variation, use of graphite lines, and many layers that build up over the surface of the painting. You must see these paintings up close to discover their delights.

Debbie Daniels

Debbie is a true master of photorealism, painting from photographs she takes at the beach of waves, water, stones and also boats, sails, and her newest exploration of flowers. Debbie’s process is painstaking, starting with an underpainting, mixing her colors carefully ahead of time, then laying the paint down precisely. Her larger paintings can take up to three weeks and many hours.

BJ Dollahite

Painting on wood and canvas panels, with a composition in mind, I build up the surface with layers of rice paper, watercolor and acrylic paint.  This base layer gives energy and sets the tone for the painting. I continue layering the basic shapes, defining and adding color and shadow, creating intense color, depth and texture. The painting is in a constant state of change, which lets me evolve my ideas with the energy. Capturing nature and the spirit of place, of the Pacific Northwest, and more specifically my Island which I live and work on.  A place where sky, water and land meet and how light is ever changing and moving.

My intention is to share the beauty of nature I am blessed to live close to, giving the observer pause, to relax and enjoy peaceful moments. I have been painting and showing my work since 1998 on San Juan Island and Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Alison Engle

Alison loves the wildlife and landscapes of the islands, and also has been exploring more abstract textures and shapes that her exploratory painting process reveals. Alison also will be having her first show at WaterWorks Gallery in the fall, and is in the process of creating a body of work focused on this abstract exploration.

David Harsh

David’s red-chalk figure drawings capture the essence of the figure in space, with sinuous lines and delicate details. David first began Life Drawing in 1975 and that endeavor has provided indispensable meaning for him ever since.  After receiving a B.F.A. in Drawing from the Pennsylvania State University David moved to Seattle where he participated in several Artist-managed cooperatives. In 2004, he moved to San Juan Island and have continued to study drawing, and also has worked as a master carpenter to restore historic buildings for the National Historical Parks.

Pam Hoke

Pam loves nature in all its forms, and her intention is to help her viewers connect with nature through the senses to heal and deepen their experience with the natural world. She has been exploring a series of farm animals recently, visiting local farms to get to know the animals as she paints them. She also spends a lot of time on Stuart Island, painting the vistas of sea and sky, flowers and landscapes of the islands she loves.

“I am seeking, I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” — Vincent Van Gogh

Lisa Lamoreaux

Lisa’s work has delighted and fascinated her collectors for many years with its depth of color, magical animals and layers of texture. Recently, Lisa has been incorporating layers of bold, abstract color, with a depth and mystery that pulls the viewer into the secret world of each painting. Come and see Lisa’s newest work.

Jan Murphy

Jan’s shrines made from the things most people throw away show how an artist really thinks. She guilds these pieces a bit at a time, gathering text from old books, cigar boxes, old pictures, keys, doorknobs, doll parts and many other little odds and ends, creating pieces that evoke memory and sacred objects, showing that great art is truly more than the sum of its parts. Her whimsical, colorful paintings focus on the charming and sometimes hilarious animals she helps to protect in her volunteer work with animal protection organizations.

Jayne Siroshton

Jayne is an artist and author who paints large-scale oil paintings and illustrates her books full of the imaginative animals that inhabit the world of Rookscroft & Company, her shop in Friday Harbor.

Teresa Smith

Teresa combines the color of light and nature with her spiritual journeys into the woods and fields of San Juan Island. Her paintings shimmer with the light of dawn or sunset as it touches a stand of trees or the surface of a pond. Her work is abstract and bold, bringing the viewer into the piece for the overall landscape and also the intricacies of brushwork, drips and edges, offering endless adventures for those who love color, paint and light.

Dolly Sundstrom

From a family of artisans, Dolly Sundstrom completed an art degree at the University of Washington and studied oil painting at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle for three years. She sees things simply and strives to paint their essence. Dolly just came across a set of encaustic tools and has been exploring the encaustic process - we are excited to see how wax enhances her moody landscapes.