Bruno and Roberts

Here’s a note from Ruth at WaterWorks Gallery…

Two Contemporary Painters: Elizabeth Bruno & Dana Roberts

Each artist is in the middle of their career. As a mid career artist, each artist draws from her inner worldly experiences to visualize her contemporary work.

Dana Roberts is based on San Juan Island. Her work is intuitive… she paints from her emotions and is influenced even by the weather.  Her painting technique is very time consuming as she paints and, then wipes off the canvas, stippling the surface of the canvas with her brush creating to create minute details. These strokes invoke the story of plants, of clothing or dreams.

Elizabeth Bruno, based in the Seattle area, paints stories that gathered over time, re-flecting many periods in the art world. A bit old fashioned in stylization, the work itself makes a contemporary statement with her subject matter – of woman working, birds singing and dogs walking. These paintings, with their flat sometimes collage surfaces, are dichotomies of days past.

This is the 31st year WaterWorks Gallery has been located in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island. A contemporary, light-filled gallery, it continues to evolve as it remains dedicated to showing artists from the Islands, Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. The represented artists, painters, sculptors, and jewelers reflect the area’s beauty through both conventional and unusual representations. It is this Northwest flavor that makes WaterWorks Gallery the unique place it is.

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