SAN JUAN ISLAND ART RESIDENCY MAY 2024

Taking advantage of Teresa Gillespie's alumni status, we returned for fourth time to spend 5 days (May 14 -- 18, 2024) making art at the University of Washington's Whitley Center on San Juan Island.

Dedicated to approved creative projects, the Center is part of a marine research facility called the Friday Harbor Labs.

This time Teresa made 3 woodcuts of flowers and a Great Blue Crane, while Gary worked on 4 abstract figures. Teresa will include her woodcut prints in a future show at the Oak Harbor Public Library. Also, another of Teresa's woodprints recently sold at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA last week. Gary will submit three of the four abstract figures for a show hosted by the Northwest Collage Society in Mukilteo, WA in August. He will also submit all 4 works to literary journals for possible publications. All of these artworks made during the residency will also be appear in a show at the Gillespie art studio in Oak Harbor on June 28 and 29.

Iris Teresa R Gillespie. Woodcut print. 10 x 8. 2024.

Spring Rose Teresa R Gillespie.
Woodcut print. 10 x 8. 2024.

21st Century Schizoid Man
by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media
on canvas. 23.5 x 12 x 1. 2024

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Ozymandias #9 by GJ Gillespie.
Collage on scroll. 22.5 x 11. 2024.

Rhapsody in Blue by GJ Gillespie.
Collage on scroll. 23.5 x 12. 2024.

Helen of Troy by GJ Gillespie.
Collage on scroll. 24 x 11.5. 2024.