Tumalo Art Co.

April— "Connections", Sarah B. Hansen, Susan Luckey Higdon, Tracy Leagjeld
2026-04-03 15:00 - 2026-04-27 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
S A R A H B. H A N S E N
S U S A N L U C K E Y H I G D O N
T R A C Y L E A G J E L D

These three friends have been painting together en plein air since 2019 and open a shared exhibit,
April 3, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk. It seemed like a good time to show some of the
plein air works as well as studio paintings inspired by their time exploring, absorbing and depicting the beauty of the Cascades.
Each fall the artists gather for an annual trip, camping for several nights in the Central Oregon Cascades
and spending their days painting on site, immersed in the landscape.

Devils Lake Plein Air, Sarah B. Hansen

This time together is deeply restorative—a pause for contemplation, meaningful conversation, renewed friendship,
and connection with nature.At the heart of their tradition is connection:
to one another, to the creative process, and to nature herself. Healing happens here. Bonds deepen.

Breath of the Pines South Sister, Sarah B. Hansen

Painting plein air is a way of seeing deeply. While working as quickly as possible to chase the light as it moves across the sky
and everything changes, the artist also slows down and notices details that would otherwise be overlooked.
The three agree that after being outside painting, “we’re both exhilarated and exhausted. There’s really nothing like it.”

Devils Lake Plein Air, Susan Luckey Higdon

Alongside reflection, there is also thoughtful exchange about the practice, techniques,
and business of being a working artist, making growth an essential part of the experience.

Light Show, Susan Luckey Higdon

On the final morning, all of the plein air paintings created during the week are laid out for group discussion.
The artists analyze, critique, and refine the work, learning from one another through open and supportive dialogue.

Returning home, each artist carries fresh inspiration and a renewed sense of purpose into the studio,
completing more deeply felt works that reflect the shared experience and the landscape that shaped it.

Sparks Lake Plein Air, Tracy Leagjeld

This exhibition features both the plein air paintings created during the week
in the Cascades and studio works that grew directly from that time exploring together.

Heavenly Garden, Tracy Leagjeld

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Come enjoy this exhibit during our First Friday reception. Chat with the artists, enjoy some special food,
and immerse yourself in the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, April 3.
Be part of our vibrant First Friday Gallery Walk and take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District—
Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery(just upstairs), Tumalo Art Co.
as well as various stores hosting artists every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

February/March Group Exhibit—"The Gift of...."
2026-02-06 15:00 - 2026-03-31 14:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
The Gift of….Defying Gravity, Shelli Walters

“Birds have the mesmerizing gift of flight. Gracefully moving through the sky with little effort, they seem to defy gravity.” — Shelli

Join us for our February/March Group Exhibit with a relaxed reception, enjoying great art and conversation, wine and curated food,
during the First Friday Gallery Walk, March 6, from 3-7pm in the Old Mill District.
In the winter and early spring months our artists are challenged with group exhibits that have a theme that lends itself
to many interpretations. Creativity emerges as artists work with their chosen mediums and techniques,
looking inward to express their own unique vision of the idea. Seeing what others in the group bring forward is a “gift” as well.

The Gift of….Dappled Sunlight, Anne Gibson

“A walk along any stretch of the Oregon coast trail offers many rewards. Glimpses of jagged headlands, stormy horizons,
and thick fog are accompanied by the rhythm of pounding surf and bird song skittering through lush vegetation.
It’s wise to wear rain gear any time of year, but one magical day you may even spy dappled sunlight on winter bare branches.” —Anne

The Gift of Nature’s Surprises….Cattails and Curiosity, Sarah B.Hansen

“I embrace the gift of: Nature’s surprises. Hiking on a trail takes me longer than it should, because
I spend my time exploring and photographing little flowers, plants, bugs, and birds along the way. Nature’s gifts.” — Sarah

The Gift of….Warm Beauty on a Cold Day, Katherine Taylor

“There is much to appreciate during the dark months of winter, especially all the subtle contrasts we find
in a frosty landscape: warm and cool skies, warm and cool foliage colors, warm and cool mountain shadows …
all that soothes the soul waiting for spring.”— Katherine

The gift of the Forest, Judy Hoiness

“Treasure that gift as the forest is not a given in today’s world. Humans are responsible
for preserving the forests not only for themselves but for wildlife and their habitat.”—Judy

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Come enjoy this exhibit during our First Friday reception. Chat with the artists, enjoy some special food,
and immerse yourself in the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, February 6.
Be part of our vibrant First Friday Gallery Walk and take in all of the galleries and studios
in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs),
Tumalo Art Co. as well as various stores hosting artists every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

December/January—Winter's Embrace Group Exhibit
2025-12-05 15:00 - 2026-02-03 14:30 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Sundown on Winter

Post New Year’s Celebration Reception, from 3-7pm, during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk.
For some, the coming of winter’s early darkness is challenging and we long for those long, warm days.
This year Tumalo Art Co. artists are leaning into the concept of Hygge, an important part of Danish culture,
and have made art about what brings them happiness in the winter season.

Winter Warmth, Helen Brown

The term Hygge first appeared in Danish writing around the end of the 18th Century, and primarily meant “well-being”. Since then, the philosophy has become ingrained in Danish living,
and may even explain why they are some of the happiest people in the world.

Ancient Ones, Bruce Jackson

Pronounced “hoo-gah”, Hygge can’t exactly be translated with a single word…but, it embodies the feeling of coziness, comfort, and joy that we get when enjoying the simple pleasures of life. A beautiful sunset.
The laughter of children. The smells and gentle murmur of people having their coffee
and pastry in the corner bakery. Even a smile and kind word from a stranger.

One More Story, Dee McBrien-Lee

In a recent interview on NPR podcasts, Ada Limon, past United States Poet Laureate and self described “Summer girl’,
says that for the first time in her life she’s embracing the early darkness of fall and winter.
“I had a lot of loss this summer. This year the darkness feels like a healing dark.
A time to go inward, to reflect, grieve and cherish. It feels like this season
is offering me a chance to do some renewal”.

Openings, Shelli Walters

Hygge is taking time to soak in a hot tub. It’s taking advantage of the long, dark nights to slow down,
read a good book and sip some tea in front of the fire.

The Stars Come Out to Play, Adell Shetterly
Hygge is a way of life that encourages us to be kinder to ourselves, to take pleasure in the small things,
and to fully experience moments of comfort and peace. Letting go of our to-do list, being in the present,
open to deep conversations, un-rushed. It even extends to eating soothing, pure, comfort foods.
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Come enjoy this exhibit during our First Friday opening, or stop by anytime to take a break from the holiday rush.
Chat with the artists, enjoy some yummy food, and see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, December 5.
Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co.
(the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month.
Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

November—Anne Gibson, "Reflections & Reveries"
2025-11-07 15:00 - 2025-12-01 14:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Pas-De-Deux

New landscape paintings by Anne Gibson, Reflections & Reveries,
opens November 7, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk.

Darkness and Light

In this body of work artist Anne Gibson is considering reflections and what is true? The reflection in the water is real, but it’s not necessarily what you see above the waterline. Is what you remember truer than a photo that you snapped in the moment? Truth can be deceptive.
Anne Gibson primarily sees place as her inspiration. She finds herself moved to paint places and memories that fill her heart. Often it’s what she observes while kayaking. Yet recently, she has also been exploring how to portray what breaks her heart as well.

When the Day is Done

This past season, a reaggravated shoulder injury prevented Anne from taking to the water in her beloved school bus yellow kayak. Instead, she reached back to capture treasured places and moments in her studio. Do they spark recognition and memories for you too?

Last Blossom on the Lakeshore

In this day and age, immersing oneself in landscape can sometimes feel escapist, yet what could be more important than honoring,
strengthening connection, and protecting this place, the home we will leave our children and grandchildren?

What Will We Leave

“Landscape is not innocent. [In] any landscape, you can see the traces
of some catastrophes […] and of some hope too.”
– Anselm Kiefer

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Anne Gibson earned her bachelors in art history from Tufts University, near Boston,with phi beta kappa and magna cum laude honors*. Her years writing, editing, and producing publications for the Worcester Art Museum led to work as a graphic designer for museums and universities up and down the east coast from a studio in Providence.
Moving to Bend three decades ago, she freelanced as a graphic designer while raising two children and volunteering. While always enhancing her skills with studio classes in New York, Boston, Providence, and Bend, in drawing, typography, printmaking, and painting, Anne finally devoted herself full-time to art making this past decade. Her lifelong interest and career in the arts, and this extraordinary place she now calls home, feed her creative explorations in the studio.

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We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday.
Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, November 7, or throughout the month.
Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house)
along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the
First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

October—Group Exhibit "Gather"
2025-10-03 15:00 - 2025-10-28 14:30 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Girl Talk

OCTOBER GROUP EXHIBIT

G A T H E R

Tumalo Art Co. opens a new group exhibit, G A T H E R , October 3, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk.
All of our gallery artists interpret the theme G A T H E R in the subjects that inspire them, their many mediums, sizes and shapes of artwork.

Rendezvous
Our artists love to work within a provocative theme with unlimited options for creativity to flow.
We G A T H E R thoughts, ideas, courage, knowledge, memories.

Gather and Flow
Birds and animals G A T H E R stores for the winter and we gather food for the harvest.
People G A T H E R to play, dance, work, mourn, commune, honor and so much more.

Flock and Grove
Birds and animals G A T H E R to migrate or stay warm. Mighty rivers
G A T H E R strength as streams flow into them, rain falls and snow melts.

Beyond the Trees
Friends & family G A T H E R for birthdays and holidays and for any reason at all.
Kids G A T H E R for school and sports and to play.
We G A T H E R flowers into bouquets and hay into nourishing bales.
Clouds G A T H E R as the weather changes.

Gathering Clarity
Stones of many colors G A T H E R in the riverbed over centuries.
Expect loads of creative variety within this theme.

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We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday.
Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, October 3, or throughout the month.
Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house)
along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the
First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

September—Adell Shetterly "Throughline"
2025-09-05 15:00 - 2025-09-30 14:30 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Echoes of the Land, Roots of Tomorrow

A D E L L S H E T T E R L Y

Printmaker Adell Shetterly opens Throughline, September 5,
with a reception from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District
First Friday Gallery Walk.
There’s a rhythm beneath the surface – a quiet thread connecting each piece.
This collection of original prints explores that hidden line – not a literal
mark, but a sensibility. A shift. A rhythm. A way of noticing.

Blueprint for Thought
“My work is guided by intuition, play, and experimentation – spaces where I become lost in creativity and exploration, and time seems to stand still. This timeless state of presence lies at the heart of my practice. Drawing inspiration from the textures, moods, and rhythms of the natural world, along with the pull of my inner compass, my prints evolve through layered conversations of ink, color, and memory. The true joy of my work lives not only in the finished piece, but in the journey of making it – a pursuit of curiosity and connection I hope you can feel in every print.”

Promises in Bloom (varied edition with three prints)
The work moves between abstraction and suggestion; some echo landscapes or memory,
while others live in the language of color, shape, and texture.
Each piece begins with intuition and unfolds through process: a conversation between
hand and paper; ink and press; control and imagination.

The Morning Shines
Rather than telling one story, Throughline invites you to many – layered, shifting, and open to interpretation.
You may not see the thread at first. But it is there, woven through gesture, rhythm, and presence –
a celebration of the tactile language of printmaking. Perhaps you’ll find a piece that speaks to you –
a sense of recognition, a quiet joy, or a spark of connection that stays with you.

In Bloom, A Song
You’re invited to look closely and follow your curiosity.
Adell Shetterly’s artistic journey began after her move to Bend, Oregon. With a background in education,
Adell helped build art programs for two nonprofits, the Art Station and Atelier 6000 (A6).
It was within the environment of A6, surrounded by presses and ink, that she discovered her creative language.
“I fell in love with printmaking,” she says, with a wonder that is palpable in her work.
Adell works in a range of printmaking techniques, including monotype, monoprint, collagraph,
and linocut, at times integrating mixed media.

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We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday.
Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery
from 3-7pm, September 5, or throughout the month.
Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along
with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk
every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

August—Sarah B. Hansen, "Untamed Bloom"
2025-08-01 15:00 - 2025-09-01 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Softly Spoken

S A R A H B. H A N S E N

The opening reception Sarah B. Hansen’s exhibit is August 1,
from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk.
“This series grew out of a deep need to express the wild, unbound
energy I see pulsing through both nature and the human spirit.
These paintings are my way of honoring that raw life force—
the kind that shows up in the wildflowers pushing through
cracked sidewalks, leaning into the wind, or blooming in tangled,
forgotten corners of the world.”

Fire Within
Each painting becomes a meditation on energy—raw, free, and unapologetically vibrant.
The wildflowers are portrayed in their natural environments, not as carefully curated garden
specimens but as spontaneous bursts of color and form, rising defiantly from the earth, dancing with the wind,
thriving in chaos. Untamed Bloom captures the essence of wildflowers not as delicate ornaments of nature,
but as fierce expressions of life’s uncontainable force.

Dancing Laughter

“Wildflowers have always fascinated me. They don’t ask for permission to exist—they just do.
Their colors, shapes, and movement seem to come from some deep instinct, an urgency to live fully,
no matter the conditions. I wanted to capture that—how beauty and vitality often thrive in the margins,
how chaos and harmony can exist together.”

Enthusiasm

These works spotlight negative shape as a way to amplify presence through absence.
The space around each bloom is as meaningful as the flower itself—those gaps, hollows, and shadows
echo the emotional pauses and voids we all carry. Through these forms, the viewer is invited to feel
not just what is seen, but what is felt: resilience in fragility, movement in stillness, and growth through adversity.
Those empty forms mirror the pauses in life: the uncertainty, the loneliness,
the moments of stillness before something shifts.

Abounding Joy

There is a powerful parallel drawn between nature and the human condition.
Like wildflowers, we emerge in unexpected places, shaped by the environments that test us.
The tangled stems and unpredictable compositions mirror the emotional complexities and internal struggles we face.
The contrast of bold color against the quiet of negative space reflects how joy, grief, love, and loss often live side by side.
In that way, the work is deeply personal.
“Every flower in this series holds a different emotional tone—sometimes vibrant and loud, other times soft and unraveling. They reflect the ups and downs, the breakthroughs and breakdowns we all move through as humans. This work isn’t about perfection—it’s about presence. About showing up in all our messy, radiant, ever-changing states.”

Balance
Ultimately, Untamed Bloom is not just about the beauty of wildflowers it is a love letter to resilience.
To the beauty of not being cultivated or controlled, the emotional wilderness we all carry inside us, and to the
courage it takes to bloom anyway. It’s about honoring the emotional landscapes we traverse, a visual poem to survival, vulnerability, and the often messy, always miraculous nature of being alive.

We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday. Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, August 1, or throughout the month.
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Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

July / Dorothy Freudenberg—"Transitions"
2025-07-04 15:00 - 2025-07-29 17:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Poppies Waking From a Dream

D O R O T H Y F R E U D E N B E R G
Opening July 4, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk,
Dorothy’s digital media explores this compelling theme.
There are many kinds of transitions—personal change, land to water, season to season, riverbank to land to name just a few—they permeate our lives.
In this retrospective, Dorothy has assembled images that represent all of these types of transitions.

Blue Winter Garden

“This piece is about the transition from one season to the next. In today’s world, one season seems as rushed as the next in a flurry of self-conscious activity.
This piece harkens back to a time when the Winter season was one of reflection, rest, and inward-looking contemplation.
A time to digest and sit on what we have done, using those realizations to look into the future.”

Over the Rainbow

“With the name of Dorothy, it is no wonder that the golden path beckons to me. Dorothy’s journey was learning that there was
no place to go. That meaning was within her all along. And who was there as a reminder? Toto.
The name means ‘in its entirety’. You are and have all that you need. No need to consult the Wizard.
Toto also means little. And Toto’s role is to reveal and provide safety. He pulls the curtain aside to reveal the deception of the Wizard.
After which, “There’s no place like home.” Wherever that may be.
I actually have a winding brick road that leads to my front door. How cool is that?”

Sunset Through the Trees

“This piece references the transition from daytime to nighttime, the magical time of day when sunset changes the landscape
in every moment. The golden light of magic. The other transition that this represents is the inclusion of AI imagery.
When photography first appeared, people stated it could never be art–it simply records. Now I can photograph
a texture and incorporate it into my work, or I can generate it through AI. For my purposes,
there is no difference in where the image comes from. It is merely a starting point. What I do with it from there is the ART
part of the equation. Pieces like this would not occur in any other way. The appropriate use of
AI opens many creative doors. And yes, it can also be abused, like any technology. “

Season of Transitions

“This piece was created in a critical time in my life. I had left my inspiring rural setting and was immersed in an ordinary
tract home in Bend after a divorce. What will I do, I asked myself, inasmuch as my inspiration came from land
and gardens and beauty around me? How do I create where I have none of that? And for the first time,
I faced a blank screen. And this is what happened. At that point, I finally realized that inspiration can have external cues,
but it can be entirely internally generated. That would be a significant understanding that
dramatically changed how I explored creativity. It was my own transition in so many ways.”
Experience Transitions alongside Dorothy as each of the 13 images in this exhibit represent personal and artistic growth,
as well as incidents in her life and her responses to the environment, which she records regularly.
The exhibit might be viewed as a personal journal of years past, as well as offering a glimpse into the future.
Dorothy’s goal as an artist is to constantly grow and experience ever-increasing subtlety of “seeing”
and expression, both as a visual artist and musician.

We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday. Start your 4th of July celebrations with art!
Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, July4, or throughout the month.

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Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub),
and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

June / Danae Bennett-Miller—"Spirit Takes Flight"
2025-06-06 15:00 - 2025-07-01 14:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Love Stories

D A N A E B E N N E T T – M I L L E R
An exhibit of sculpture and original monoprints

Opening reception June 6, from 3-7pm during the First Friday Gallery Walk in the Old Mill District.

Living Wild in the West

Danae’s cast bronze sculptures and original monoprints use organic shapes and rich but subtle colors to
capture the essence of the animals that surround her during her daily life on the ranch.
These sculptures of birds, deer, horses and elk dance with life.
“My senses are filled with the scent of sage, soft breezes and puffy clouds.”

Jack

Danae’s one-of-a-kind bronze sculptures are part of the cultural landscape in Central Oregon
through public placements, including a round-about with several bronze elk on highway 20 in Sisters.
The sculptures are all made from multiple pieces of flowed wax that when cast in bronze or
glass have an organic quality that seems to interpret the animals energy.

A Peek in the Barn

An expert printmaker, Danae’s prints show her love of drawing and expression.
Her most recent mixed media works are monoprints placed onto cradled board to form her image.
Sometimes she collages multiple monoprints, tearing them to create layers of texture.
Danae then pours layers of resin over the art building up the surface
with subtle use of marks and lines between each layer of resin.

Little Man

Born on the east coast Danae has spent almost all of her life in the western high desert.
She works with her husband and son on ranches in Central Oregon and deep in
eastern Oregon where the big skies, light, weather, animals and distant horizons influence her art.
Danae creates her art in a light-filled studio/workshop and a large press in Tumalo.

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We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday.
Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm, June 6, or throughout the month.
Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

May / Shelli Walters—"Open Nature"
2025-05-02 15:00 - 2025-06-03 14:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Open the door and step onto a secret trail all you own. Meandering through a grove of astute aspen who knowingly whisper to you…breathe. Just as your breath begins to flow more freely it catches at the sight of a heron angling for breakfast Along The Edges of a quiet stream. How did you get here? How long have you been walking? You’ve lost track of time but found yourself again swaddled in the open arms of nature. All else is miles away.

Shelli Walters May exhibit, Open Nature, features new mixed media paintings and paper mache sculpture at Tumalo Art Co.
in Bend, Oregon. The opening reception takes place May 2,
during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 3-7pm in the Old Mill District.

A peaceful grove of aspen clustered along the edges of a golden meadow draws you in for a closer look. If you’re quiet and listen you may hear the stories inscribed on the trunks of these whispering trees. Once you hear them they cannot be unheard. Carry these Days Of Gold with you and allow your mind to return there whenever you need a golden moment.

Shelli invites you to step into the gallery and take a nature walk via her mixed media paintings
and paper mache sculpture. She shares a deep-rooted love for art and nature with a hope
to lift your spirit and offer respite from the challenges of daily life. With a lifetime of art making
and design experience at her fingertips Shelli digs into the use of alternative tools to apply paint.
Splashes, drips, bold smears of color, juxtaposed with delicate textures scratched into paint,
bits of handwriting and type echo the bold and subtle qualities found in nature.
All play so beautifully together – making everything come alive amidst the inviting color palette.

Welcome spring and the Belle Vie! The happy frolicing of birds and their excited twittering fills the air. Observing them joyfully washing away the patina of winter sparked the idea for a charming series of paper mache bird bath bowls — like tiny portals into the wonder and bliss of the garden.

Sauntering through the exhibit are paper mache sculptures of deer, rabbit and a bison named Pondo.
Especially charming are the paper mache bird bath bowls — like tiny portals into the wonder and bliss of the garden.
Shelli repurposes recycled materials to forge these whimsical creations and includes objects
found in nature such as twigs, pressed leaves and flowers.

Its early. The morning chill joins forces with your coffee to awaken you to the light of a new day. The sweetness of the air fills your nose and your legs become more fluid as you walk. You stop to breathe it all in and appreciate the enveloping beauty when your eyes meet…Enchanted Moment. Not far away hidden in the tall grass stands a buck, aware of your presence long before you were.

“Being in nature opens us up. Releasing us from negative thoughts and energy.
Inviting harmony back into our lives. Creating art is a natural extension of this experience.
This art/nature connection is the heart of my work.”

Anticipation is great, the winter was long. The Petal Parade has now begun. Bold intricate characters vie for the attention of the sun as pollinators steal their delicate powders. Their time is short but glorious.

Shelli has been a member of Tumalo Art Company for more than 10 years.
She has been the signature artist for several community events and her work has been featured
in magazines, and on CD and book covers. Her original paintings and sculptures can be
found in the homes of collectors across the country.
We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening this Friday.
Come and chat with the artists and see the artwork throughout the gallery
from 3-7pm, May 2, or throughout the month .
Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub),
and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

April / Judy Hoiness, Tracy Leagjeld & Ingrid Lustig
2025-04-04 15:00 - 2025-04-28 15:00 | OR
We asked 3 contemporary artists represented by Tumalo Art Co. to exhibit together in April.
The opening reception is April 4, from 3-7pm during the First Friday Gallery Walk in the Old Mill District.
Judy Hoiness, Tracy Leagjeld and Ingrid Lustig bring their own artistic expression to how they experience the land, water and wildlife we all share, exploring their connection through their various methods—acrylic, mixed media and monotype.
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J U D Y H O I N E S S new series explores the importance of water for wildlife and their habitat, recreation and beauty.

Water and Land #2
Judy is a fourth generation Oregonian and has lived in Bend for fifty four years. Working in paint and
mixed media, including fabrics and stitching, she has spent many years working in series that
deal with Oregon’s diverse landscapes and wildlife.

Water Series—Snow
A recent commission by the Deschutes Public Library, Saving Oregon Wildlife and Their Habitat,
can be viewed in the newly remodeled Sunriver Library. Always experimental, the Oregon Art Beat segment featuring Judy documented her burying fabrics for years in her garden to find out how the elements affected them,
then using the fabric in art projects. She retired from Central Oregon Community College after teaching thirty years.
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Born and raised in Bend, Oregon, T R A C Y L E A G J E L D developed a deep connection to the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. She is known for her painterly monotypes, which capture both the beauty and fragility of these threatened environments. Through her work, she invites viewers to share in her love for this vulnerable region and to recognize the importance of protecting it.

From the Beginning
Now residing in Portland, Tracy spends a lot of time painting plein air from Oregon’s wild coastline,
to the Columbia Gorge, lavender fields, the high desert and the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington.
Later she takes that inspiration into her studio creating monotypes using breyers like paintbrushes
to lay down the oil-based inks. The layers of oil-based ink create vibrant, expressionistic images.

Waking Dream
An avid hiker Tracy captures the grand landscapes and vivid colors of shadow and light.
She was a founding member of Tumalo Art Co. and owner up until her move to Portland.
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I N G R I D L U S T I G is a painter of wildlife and the desert landscape,
drawing her inspiration and source material from the High Desert.
Integrating geometric shapes, which to her symbolize the human mind, with natural landscape
and animal forms she seeks to attain a symbolic wholeness – between humans, animals and the land in her art.
Her paintings are considered abstract, although integrating natural elements.

Blue Bear
“My paintings are about open space, the natural world, and animal archetypes. The images of animals
in my work are my way of honoring their presence, beauty and power on the planet as well as in our lives.”

Morning Hawk
Originally from the east coast, Ingrid has made art in Bend for 25 years. As the education director of Arts Central for 10 years she helped to grow and manage the Art Station from its infancy a-profits and worked closely with art non-profits like Atelier 6000.
We look forward to seeing you during our First Friday opening reception…come and chat with the artists and
see the artwork throughout the gallery from 3-7pm April 4, or throughout the month .
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Take in all of the galleries and studios in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

February/March 2025 Group Show—"Unbound"
2025-02-06 15:00 - 2025-04-06 14:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
A Gathering of Fishes Dee McBrien-Lee
“This playful piece which follows our February theme of ‘Unbound’ was created to celebrate
the removal of the Klamath River Dam and the joy of the fishes returning to their former habitat. ” Dee

Our Group Exhibit, “Unbound” opens February 7, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk.
“Unbound”—this exhibition is a celebration of art without limits. Each of the artists in this gallery has come to be known for a particular style, a technique, a palette, a medium, or a favorite subject. What might we see if they give themselves the permission to break out of that mold?

Racing the Stars Shelli Walters
“A band of wild ponies thunders across the Earth. Their spirits are as unlimited as the cosmos as they race the swirling night time stars.” says of her inspiration for her piece for Unbound.
Perhaps a landscape painter explores abstraction or a watercolorist starts including other materials to make marks and texture. Come see how these artists push boundaries and redefine what art can be. It’s all about freedom, expression, and the joy of creating without constraints.

The Oceans Rise and the Neighborhoods Burn Anne Gibson
“I was doing some studio play, experimentation, a couple weeks back. Using up pots of paint on scraps of canvas that I just can’t seem to discard. On each scrap I layered colors in various sequences to play with the effects. I then decided to piece them together, using acrylic medium and paint as the adhesive. No real end goal in mind, just creating a surface I could continue working on, loosely thinking this might become something I could submit to the “Unbound” exhibit.
The L.A. fires started and grew, and I found myself spreading red, gold and yellow paint into big flames over the other colors. Against the turquoise blues and greens, the palette felt SoCal to me. It was cathartic, if nothing else. Night aerial photos of burning neighborhoods began appearing in the news. I grabbed a couple rolls of tape in different sizes and masked out squares to represent the burning buildings, in rows like roads, or canyons leading down to the coastline.
The sheer scale of destruction and loss from these fires is hard to comprehend. The realization that nowhere is safe from climate disaster weighs heavy.” —Anne Gibson about her artwork for Unbound.

Free As a Bird Helen Brown

“To be Unbound is to fly free as a bird across boundaries or borders, and to flee enclosures at will.
Humans don’t all have this luxury. Through my painting, I’m trying to express compassion for those feeling trapped…
as well as desire to be as ‘Free as a Bird’.” —Helen

If You Could See Time David Kinker

“We are all bound by time, to see the future and the past, all at once, unbound.
The process came in a dream, process followed brought it to the present.” David Kinker

Released Sarah B. Hansen
We look forward to seeing you at the February 7, First Friday Gallery Walk in Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District! If you can’t make it be sure to drop in during the month to see our group exhibit Kaleidoscope—the perfect antidote to the dark and cold of winter!
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Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

December Group Exhibit "Kaleidoscope"—held over through January
2024-12-05 10:00 - 2025-01-27 19:00 | OR
Above—Kaleido-copia

Tumalo Art Co.’s Group Exhibit, Kaleidoscope is being held over through January.
Come and celebrate a New Year with us January 3, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk.

“A Penny for Your Thoughts” is a monotype by Adell Shetterly.

This exhibit of works by all of our artists covers a wide swath of colorful, joyful images to bring light and warmth into the winter season.
From abstract, to winsome, to traditional…in all mediums including paintings, photography, ceramics and sculpture.

“Look Up #2” a digital media piece by Dorothy Freudenberg.

Every year our artists make tiny fine art that is just right for that special gift—for the hostess, a friend, or a thank you.
From small ornaments, to miniature paintings, they are original and one-of-a-kind

Bruce Jackson’s “Kaleidoscope” is a fine art photographic image of blazing fall foliage.

Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District, open 7 days a week.
We are open Monday-Saturday 10am-7pm and from 11am-6pm on Sunday.
We offer a wide variety of artistic styles, from classic oils to abstract mixed media, photography, digital media, printmaking and more.
And, of course each artist brings their unique creativity and process to the mix.
However, the diverse mix comes together as a vibrant whole, all the works complementing the other.

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Our annual Tiny Fine Art, with hand-made and original from all of our artists, was up on our beautiful trees
and scattered throughout the gallery…tiny framed fine art and ornaments to hang through the holiday season.
Look forward to GIVING ART next year too!

We look forward to seeing you at the January, First Friday Gallery Walk in
Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District! If you can’t make it be sure to drop in during the month to see our group exhibit Kaleidoscope—
the perfect antidote to the dark and cold of winter!

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Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house)
along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists
for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

November—Anne Gibson "A Sense of Wonder"
2024-11-01 15:00 - 2024-12-02 19:00 | OR
Written in the Shadows

A Sense of Wonder
with new works by Anne Gibson opens November 1,
from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk.
Anne Gibson continues to explore her deep love of place and near child-like sense
of wonder at the beauty of this world. Here, she takes a close look at one small Cascade lake that has borne witness to half a lifetime of joys and sorrows over three decades of hikes, skis, snowshoes, and meanderings in every season and virtually every month of the year.

“A Sense of Wonder ” is a painting of a strong horizontal of a high Cascade lake in Oregon gives a feeling of spaciousness.

“Do you have a place that’s engraved in your heart … for countless reasons?
• The forest scent as you drive in the access road that prompts you to roll down the windows?
• The slant of the sunlight through the trees? • The lichen that droops from the thick branches?
• The profusion of wildflowers and tadpoles and the tiniest little frogs?
• The happy splash as your pup chases another stick into the water?
• The times you skied or snowshoed in?
• The friends and family you shared it with?
• The intricate, tiny creeks that twist across the meadows?
• The year you tried to hike there every week of the summer to mark the new flowers in bloom?
• That achingly gorgeous October visit — be it sun-drenched, misty, or snowy?”
This strong vertical of a stream tumbling through the woods, “At the Forest Edge”, is an acrylic painting by Anne Gibson.

Anne also has grown increasingly interested in what her materials can do as she layers, scrapes, glazes, and adds marks with various media and tools, all while looking for the feel of that place, that memory, that golden day or chill morning.

“Winter is Coming” is an acyrlic art work showing a quiet moment in the mountains on the cusp of the changing season.

“I think landscape gets a bad rap in contemporary art. Like it’s been done before.
But as we live through this climate emergency, it’s more important than ever to
appreciate the world around us. To see and savor one tree, or the glancing light
reflecting on the creek, or the rush of water cascading over a rock.
Perhaps it reminds us to be more mindful and make better choices every day.
I started painting landscapes because that’s what surrounds me and brings me peace in an increasingly chaotic world. I want to share that serenity in my art.”

“Climbing Toward the Sun”, is a glimpse of the forest as Anne Gibson hikes the forest.

Art and art making have always been central to Anne’s life, but she realized her dream to be an artist circuitously. With a BA in art history from Tufts University, she worked at the Worcester Art Museum in publications and marketing. At a graphic design studio in Providence, she created catalogs and promotional materials for museums, galleries, and colleges. She continued studio art courses at the School of Visual Arts, NY; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Rhode Island School of Design. After moving to
Central Oregon, she freelanced as a graphic designer, raised two children, and experimented with new media at the Bend Art Center and COCC. Anne’s paintings have appeared in group and solo shows in Bend and Portland, and on the Oregon coast.
Private, public, and corporate collections have acquired her work.

“Winter Creek” is a place devoid of other footsteps but Anne Gibson was there to record this moment of quiet.

We look forward to seeing you at the November 1, First Friday Gallery Walk in
Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District! If you can’t make the opening party
make sure to drop in during the month to see A Sense of Wonder with Anne Gibson’s evocative paintings of place and season.
Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery,
Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house)
along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists
for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

October—Alisa Huntley, "Reflecting Change"
2024-10-03 08:00 - 2024-10-28 19:00 | OR
Sing Me the River ll

Alisa Huntley’s exhibit, Reflecting Change, opens October 4, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk at
Tumalo Art Co. The title is a metaphor for the change of seasons as well as the transitions we endure all through our lives.
Alisa is just getting back to painting after a catastrophic event and finds the healing power of nature a cathartic gift.

“All Jazzed Up” is an oil on aluminum by Alisa Huntley, showing a crystal clear stream in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains surrounded by huckleberry bushes that have turned to autumn colors.

“I love exploring—to be in nature with all senses fully engaged and come upon a scene with extraordinary light and beauty. Those moments that take your breath away, make your senses vibrate. Whatever you’re thinking about falls away. To be fully in the moment is transformative and exhilarating!
The act of painting is also an adventure. It is a powerful mix of vision, inspiration, passion, skill and playfulness. Through acts of creating, we find opportunities to understand ourselves, connect with others and connect on a deeper level.

Central Oregon’s spring-fed Metolius River in blues and greens—The Source an oil on aluminum by Alisa Huntley.

The paintings for Reflecting Change each have been inspired by those magic moments. A fall day on the Metolious River, incredible light at Sparks Lake, a last moment on the North Santiam River before the massive fire.”

Crazy Woman Creek is a large vertical oil on aluminum of a wild mountain creek in Wyoming.

Alisa’s paintings reflect the optimism, strength, resilience, and joy we can find in our daily lives. Her method of working in transparent layers and loose, colorful brushwork is enhanced by the reflective surface of copper and aluminum which creates a jewel-like glow.
With loose, gestural strokes she lets the gleam of the metal show through, adding to the depth and luminosity of the image.
Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District, open 7 days a week. For more information call 541-385-911 or see tumaloartco.com.

September—Improv: Dee McBrien-Lee
2024-09-06 15:00 - 2024-10-01 17:00 | OR
Above: Turquoise Trees, Mixed Media

Opens at Tumalo Art Co. September 6, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Art Walk
featuring new abstract paintings by Dee McBrien-Lee.
Filled with inspiration after an annual sojourn to the southwest, and very moved by the color, Dee decided
to create a show with color as her starting point leaving the balance of the process open for improvisation.
The entire process was very organic and freeing for the artist who works in acrylic and mixed media plus any materials
that come to hand that create texture and pattern.

I’m Your Huckleberry is based on the iconic Western movie ‘Tombstone’. Featured here is Doc Holiday with the three Earp brothers. The title is one of the best known quotes of the film.

The artist explains her process for this unique exhibit of abstract paintings:
“Originally I had not planned to do a show in 2024 but when the slot for September stayed open, I jumped in without a clear direction for the work.”
Orchid Improv, a fresh bouquet in sunshiny colors is a mixed media painting by Dee McBrien-Lee.

“My husband and I travel through the southwest each year and this spring we visited Southern California, Tucson and Winslow, Arizona
(yes, THAT Winslow, Arizona), Santa Fe, New Mexico and Southern Utah. Every place we went we saw amazing art.
From beautiful landscapes to western and native American art, surrealism and of course, fantastic abstracts.
I was enthralled and deeply inspired by all of it. With my head spinning and my creativity bursting to come out,
I decided on Improv as my theme which would give me a broad, somewhat baseless place to begin creating.”

A pure abstract with collage, Letting Go is a mixed-media by Dee McBrien-Lee.

“Each of the 15 new works in Improv began without a plan, nothing more than a few colors and shapes to start.
The evolution of the individual pieces and the arc of the show was very organic and with layering and an abundance of playtime,
things began to take shape. With several of the larger pieces I would see an area that I found compelling and would be inspired
to begin a new piece using this smaller section as my jumping off point. From ‘Avalon’ came ‘My Garden Shed’,
from there came ‘Bridesmaids’. This happened several times and made for a very interesting process overall.”

The Two Olive Solution is a small piece that Dee McBrien-Lee derived from a larger work.

“Other examples include ‘Street Party’ to ‘Piano Man’ and ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ to ‘The Two Olive Solution’ plus ‘All That Jazz’.
My hope is that the viewer will see and feel the various threads that bind the show together and truly make it one of total improvisation.”
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We look forward to seeing you at the September 6, First Friday Gallery Walk in Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District! If you can’t make the opening party
make sure to drop in during the month to see this uniquely IMPROVisational exhibt of 15 new paintings by Dee McBrien-Lee.
Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs),
and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists
for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

August—Katherine Taylor
2024-08-02 10:00 - 2024-09-03 19:00 | OR
Painting the Invisible: Unveiling What’s Under the Sheen
Opens August 2, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk

Katherine Taylor oil painting, Cougar Unveiled, is a dynamic close-up meant to bring the viewer into the cougar’s wild world.

Katherine Taylor focuses this body of work on depicting the underlying mystery of her subjects, as a way to understand the invisible
qualities lurking just below the surface of a person, animal, landscape or even a bowl of fruit.
Classically trained artists like Katherine learn techniques to recreate a 3-dimensional effect on a 2-dimensional surface (like a canvas).
“It’s fun and amazing to be able to achieve this 3-D effect, but it’s still not enough to create a great work of art.
I am sure you have seen paintings of subjects that are accurately rendered but devoid of any emotion or meaning.
I attempt is to break through the sheen of realism to a deeper level of meaning.”

With “Bohemia Unveiled” Katherine Taylor makes an reflective oil portrait of a woman in beautiful peach light.

Katherine believes mastery can only be achieved when an artist goes beyond realism to capture the essence of a portrayal, or the “soul.”
Even inanimate subjects —places and objects— have a soul or essence that we can feel.
Painting essence is not always easy, however. Sometimes an artist attempts to capture it by depicting movement and rhythm, as if there is a before and after
taking place within that one snapshot in time. Sometimes essence is achieved by illustrating the underlying emotion or intention of the subject.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of painting the electromagnetic wavelength of light that brings the object into being (because without light,
of course, nothing would be visible). “That is why I always pay as much attention to painting the light surrounding a subject as I do the person, animal,
or object itself. Light energy is mystical and helps to reveal ‘essence.’ ”

Great American Bison show a resting herd in warm afternoon lighting. An oil painting by Katherine Taylor, the Three Sisters in the Cascade mountains create the backdrop.

All the paintings in this show are Katherine’s attempts to paint the invisible, and trying to live up to Rick Rubin’s wise adage…
“Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know.”

Peppers Unveiled is an example of Katherine Taylor’s dramatic chiaroscuro lighting and luminous glazing.

We look forward to seeing you at the August 2, First Friday Gallery Walk in Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District! If you can’t make the opening party
make sure to drop in during the month to see this vibrant and insightful exhibit of 10 new oil paintings by Katherine Taylor.
Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs),
and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists
for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

July—"The Bend We Love", Helen Brown
2024-07-05 10:00 - 2024-07-31 19:00 | OR
The Bend We Love, opens at Tumalo Art Co. July 5 from 3-7pm during the
Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk, highlighting some of the more beloved places in
Bend and Central Oregon. Some are iconic, like the Tower Theatre, Old Mill Stacks and Drake Park,
and some are more obscure. All are viewed through an artist’s eye with a twist in the perspective,
and with the affection residents and visitors feel for this area.

Helen Brown paints this scene from Awbrey Butte looking towards Mt. Jefferson at sunset to beautiful effect.
Awbrey’s Jefferson details

An award-winning watercolorist, Helen paints on rice paper using her signature batik technique which
utilizes wax resistance to build up the colors and layers. Showing an active curiosity Helen paints various subjects that capture her interest—
from landscapes to statues and musical instruments—with an emphasis on unusual angles, textures and often, whimsy.

“Art” is a sculpture in downtown Bend, Oregon that has become a landmark.

The Art We Love details

Helen’s artwork gained attention when, in 2017, the Oregon Historical Society in Portland invited her to exhibit 30 of her watercolors
about the Lewis and Clark expedition in a four month long solo show. Her work has also been featured several times in
Splash, the Best of Watercolor a nationally recognized publication and she has won numerous awards in juried watercolor shows.

The Stacks in Bend Oregon’s Old Mill District were originally part of the Shevlin Hicks Lumber Mill and have become a focal point for the entertainment and shopping area.

High Wire Act details

Join us during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk July 5. Enjoy great wine from Evoke and Va Piano, yummy food,
and interesting conversation. If you prefer a contemplative atmosphere, stop by anytime throughout the month to absorb this exhibit.

Dogs playing fetch in the Deschutes River are a common sight in Bend, Oregon.

Deschutes Fetch details

Visit Tumalo Art Co. during July and see Helen Brown’s insider impressions in glowing watercolor of Bend, Oregon—
the place we love to live and travelers from all over the world come to enjoy.

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Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs),
and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists
for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

June—Danae Bennett-Miller
2024-06-07 - 2024-06-30 | OR
Spirit Memories details

Light of the Spirit, A Journey of Joy celebrates the beauty of the natural world
with sculpture and printmaking by Danae Bennett-Miller, opening June 7,
during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk from 3-7pm.

Whisperings is a monoprint with collage and poly layers on cradled board featuring an elk in an aspen grove eliciting the magic of wildlife in nature.

To create her one-of-a-kind bronze sculptures of birds, cranes, raptors, deer, elk, horses, buffaloes and chickens, Danae pours hot wax out as sheets. As wax flows it creates beautifully organic textures. With a plan in mind, she then forms the slabs of wax into a model, fabricating each sculpture from many pieces of the flowed wax. A foundry translates the shapes into bronze using the lost wax process. Danae adds the patina’s herself, which is an art form itself. She also adds cast glass to many of her sculptures, bringing the added element of translucence to her work. Along with life-size and larger wildlife and ranch animals, many of Danae’s sculptures are tabletop size which make acquiring sculpture possible for all levels of collectors.

Spiritual Memories is a 30 x 30 monoprint with poly layers exhibiting Danae Bennett-Millers exquisite approach to depicting wildlife.

Besides sculptures for residential and corporate placement, Danae has had many public sculpture commissions.
These include roundabout art of a horse on Greenwood Ave. in Bend, Oregon; herons in a pocket park at the end of Minnesota Street
in downtown Bend and a heron sculpture in downtown Sisters, Oregon. The most ambitious of her public art installations
is a tableau of life-size elk and pronghorn bronze sculptures with towering basalt rocks, in the only roundabout in Sisters, Oregon.
This roundabout is also the only one on a state highway in Oregon. She is presently working on a
commission for a roundabout in the city of Sherwood, Oregon.

Jumpstart is a monoprint on cradled board featuring a deer leaping a ranch fence captured the feeling of wildlife seen everyday on our lands.

Recently a heroic-sized bronze and leaded glass eagle was installed on a tall pine tree stump (see below) at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon. Many of these installations are challenging works of art in themselves.

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Join us during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk. Enjoy great wine from Evoke and Va Piano, yummy food, and interesting conversation. If you prefer a contemplative atmosphere, stop by anytime throughout the month to absorb this exhibit.
Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

May—Nancy Becker & Susan Luckey Higdon
2024-05-03 15:00 - 2024-06-04 14:00 | OR
Seasonal Confusion, Susan Luckey Higdon; Ripples Quietly, Nancy Becker

stillness
New hand-blown glass & landscape paintings

Opening May 3, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill Districts First Friday Gallery Walk, Tumalo Art Co. presents Stillness. The exhibit combines the glowing transparency of hand-blown glass by Nancy Becker with poetic landscapes by Susan Luckey Higdon.

Huckleberry Mist—Susan Luckey Higdon

With a similar sensibility for color and a shared awe of what is communicated by nature, glass artist Nancy Becker and painter Susan Luckey Higdon enjoy seeing their work displayed together. Designing the gallery’s exhibit space with 2D and 3D pieces leads to a stunning synchronicity as the artworks ‘speak’ to each other. Experiencing Susan’s images from her time in the high Cascades and Nancy’s fluid use of color and shape in her glass blowing is a visual feast. Natures hush and deep stillness has inspired this art.

Stillness Before the Storm — Nancy Becker

“Making glass has been integral to my life forever, or so it seems! I live and work on my land in rural Oregon with a crew of horses, dogs, cats and donkeys all who have been through a lot in their lives. I see the spirit of these animals, the land that surrounds me—the colors, the light, the storms, the peace, and my work is infused with these inspirations. Glass is a fascinating medium. It is fluid even when hardened. This particular body of work was made through difficulty as I have been without a work space and needed to travel to a ‘hot shop’. Through that process my connection was rekindled. There are always gifts with difficulty. Experiencing the incredible relationship between glass and fire I am once again drawn into all of the fluid possibilities.”
—Nancy Becker

A Kind of Hush—Susan Luckey Higdon
“This new body of work comes out of a summer and fall of exploring mountain lakes, creeks and rivers near my home. Camping allowed me to contemplate spots again and again in different light and weather,leading to deep connection and moments of awe. Sifting through sketches and photos, and deciding which compositions called me the most, I began the process of bringing these moments in time to life in the studio. Color, light, texture, shapes…I am drawn to complex interactions and want to communicate what I see in a way that captures the spirit of the place, showing accurate mood and detail, but working toward simplicity. All of these paintings challenged me. But in pushing through there is a sense of arrival. Like seeing a dear friend.”
—Susan Luckey Higdon
Nancy Becker used gently swirling colors of nature for this tear-drop shaped vessel, Painted by the Wind.

Join us during the First Friday Gallery Walk and throughout the month to absorb this exhibit. Enjoy great wine from Evoke and Va Piano, yummy food, and interesting conversation.

Listen, by Susan Luckey Higdon

Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

April—Sarah B. Hansen
2024-04-04 08:00 - 2024-04-30 17:00 | OR
Above: Dancing Light

Plein Air to Studio

Tumalo Art Co. presents Sarah B. Hansen’s, Rising Air—Plein Air to Studio, opening April 5, from 3-7 pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk. The exhibit encompasses a collection of plein air paintings created in some of Sarah’s favorite locations in Central Oregon, Colorado, and the Pacific Northwest, alongside large studio works inspired by of the plein air pieces.

Cottonwood Canyon Plein Air was painted during a camping trip to this remarkably beautiful desert river canyon state park in eastern Oregon.

“I copy out mountains, rivers, clouds. I take my pen from my pocket.
I note down a bird in its rising or a spider in its little silkworks.
Nothing else crosses my mind. I am air, clear air, where a wheat is waving, where a bird’s flight moves me…”
– from Pablo Neruda, Pastoral

Dancing Ripples was painted in the studio and inspired by a day painting plein air in the Cascade mountains.

“When I am immersed in nature, painting what is before me, I absorb joy and peaceful energy. Surrounded by the sounds of birds, wind, animals, insects…my shoulders relax and my mind goes blank. Hours can pass of sheer bliss. I notice a sense of floating on air, right next to the bees. The abundance of life works its way into my paintings, becoming a statement on place; a relief from modern life.”

Columbia Gorge Balsam Root is a 14 x 11″ on board painted on-site in the Columbia River Gorge.

“In painting outdoors, I begin to examine my relationship with natural landscape elements and the abundance life in the forests, meadows, rolling hills and canyons I explore. Later, I take those relationships to an interior space, both figuratively and literally, to create studio pieces. The larger studio pieces reflect a deeper dive into my connections to the earth, and an expression of the joy I feel in those outdoor spaces.”

Little Lava Lake I is a 12 x 12″ plein air completed on-site on a gorgeous afternoon in October 2023.

Visit us during the First Friday Gallery Walk and throughout the month to see this enlightening and spirit-lifting exhibit. Get a glimpse of Sarah B. Hansen’s process of exploring the natural world in her art. We are open 7 days a week.

"Awakening"—March Group Exhibit
2024-03-01 - 2024-04-03 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Above: Early Bright, monotype by Adell Shetterly

Tumalo Art Co. mounts a Group Exhibit heralding the beginning of Spring, March 1, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk.

Euphoria is a 30 x 30″ oil painting by Katherine Taylor

All gallery members and represented artists were invited to submit their interpretation of the hopeful theme, “Awakening”, giving a wide interpretation of the first hint that Spring is arriving in the High Desert.

Undine’s Garden, is a 30 x 30″ mixed media by Dee McBrien-Lee.

Paintings in all mediums, glass, digital media, photography and sculpture will be represented.
Be sure and check out all of the galleries, studios and shops in the Old Mill District participating in the First Friday Gallery Walk. Our March opening begins at 3pm until closing at 7pm. Others in the District wrap-up at 6pm.

Choose the Day is a 24 x 24″, mixed media artwork by Shelli Walters.

We provide tasty wine from Evoke and Va Piano, yummy food, interesting conversation and art that will move you. Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery and the the Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), Amejko (in the little red house) and various stores in the Old Mill District are hosting artists.
Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you from Tumalo Art Co.

Spring Willow Dance, with the subtle greens of first buds, captured by Dorothy Freudenberg is a digital media photograph printed on metal.

"Leap"—February Group Exhibit
2024-02-01 - 2024-02-29 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
No Risk, No Reward
“We need to take a leap for what we want, even when there is a risk in the consequence.”—Helen Brown

A group exhibit exploring the concept of Leap Year

2024 brings us a Leap Year which has us contemplating the meaning of the word “leap” and the diverse ways it can be used. LEAP opens February 2, from 3-7pm during the First Friday Gallery Walk in the Old Mill District.

Outbound
“Whether you are at a crossroad or the beginning of a journey, follow your dreams and leap to new adventures.”— Adell Shetterly

In nature, sunlight leaps through the trees, a fish leaps at a fly on the water’s surface and a young fox leaps into new territory in search of his own domain. Our human lives are full of leaps. Some physical, some emotional, some are big and some are small.

Leap
“This painting represents the millisecond before a leap forward, that pregnant and electrically charged still moment when one is thinking about that leap into a new direction before it’s actually executed.” —Katherine Taylor

Exciting, daunting, challenging, unexpected— leaps take many forms. We may leap at the chance to experience something we have always craved, we leap for joy, we leap into new adventures, projects, jobs, roles and relationships. We take leaps of faith, leaps of imagination and leaps into action. We leap to conclusions, we leap over obstacles and wonder how we did it.

High Desert Bike Lane
“It took some mental gymnastics to tack up this 3.5′ x 4.5’ piece of canvas vertically and complete the entire painting sideways, because it wouldn’t fit upright on my narrow studio wall.”—Anne Gibson

We take leaps forward in the progress of our work, our understanding of ourselves and others and our lives. How might you express this concept? The February exhibit features artistic interpretations of “leap”.

Spirits Leap
“The great outdoors ignites my heart, mind, soul and imagination. My spirit leaps.” —Shelli Walters
We are excited to present this thought provoking exhibit and see how the leap concept comes to life through the hearts, minds and hands of our artists.

Join us during the First Friday Gallery Walk fabulous art, great wine from Evoke and Va Piano, yummy food, and interesting conversation. Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. are the hub, and various stores host artists for First Friday every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.

December Group Exhibit—O Tannenbaum held over through January!
2023-12-01 15:00 - 2024-01-31 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Forevergreen, Dee McBrien-Lee

Our December Group Exhibit, O Tannenbaum celebrates the fir trees’ evergreen quality,
traditionally a symbol of constancy and faithfulness.

Retreating Sun, Helen Brown
Being surrounded by the evergreens, be they pine, fir, hemlock, or juniper trees in our high desert mountain home, this seems an apt way to illustrate one of the joys of winter.

Evergreen Melt, Katherine Taylor
Our forests are also home to many species of wildlife and birds and we want to bring them to the show as well.

A Pause in the Woods, Judy Hoiness

Gather Round, Shelli Walters

Start December Gallery Walk experience early—from 3-7pm. There will be great wine from Evoke and Va Piano, yummy food, interesting conversation and art that will move you. Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery and the Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), Amejko (in the little red house) and various stores in the Old Mill District are hosting artists. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you from Tumalo Art Co.
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Give Art!

Our sparkly white trees are decked out with hand-made, fine tiny art offerings by all of our artists!
We encourage you to give art! And we make it possible with affordable tiny art that is perfect for hostess gifts,
and gifting all of your special people.

Jewelry makers Danica Curtright, Judy Clinton, Grace Gasior and Jane Uhjazi offer sophisticated styles for every taste. Blown glass beads, precious and semi-precious metals and stones. Contemporary and colorful.

Ceramics by Patrick Horsley, Peter Roussel and Linda Heisserman, in many shapes, sizes and colors.
Thrown pottery, raku, porcelain and hand-built.

Glass & Wood—Hand-blown glass by Nancy Becker, fused glass by Susie Zeitner and Nancy Dasen,
segmented wood by Dave Carlson.

Giftable sculpture—bronze by Danae Bennett Miller and Kim Chavez, and formed papermache by Shelli Walters.
Can’t visit the gallery in person to make your selections? Check out our online shopping cart. Not all available art is shown online, but there is a good variety to help you see what our artists are creating. Or call us (541-385-9144) and we will talk you through what is available, by using facetime or texting photos. And, we ship!

May your Holidays be joyous and creative!
Not sure which art the one you want to gift will love the most?
Purchase a gift card online.
Or, if you prefer, come in and we will put a traditional gift certificate in an envelope for you.

Bruce Jackson — Intimate Landscapes
2023-11-03 15:00 - 2023-11-28 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Photograph: Illumination details

Opening at Tumalo Art Co. in the Old Mill District, November 3, from 3-7pm during the First Friday Gallery Walk. Bruce Jackson’s exhibit of new imagery, focuses on the artistry expressed in smaller sections of the overall landscape.  The exhibit will be up through November 28.

Bruce Jackson’s fine art photograph, Behind the Veil, was taken at Black Butte Ranch, Oregon. “When I approached this grove of aspens, my eyes scanned the potential and instantaneously locked onto this composition”.

Well-known for his masterful compositions, Bruce Jackson’s ability to capture both the complexity and simplicity of nature shines through in his highly detailed large format fine art photographs.

Just Rewards, photographed by Bruce Jackson at Oregon’s Silver Falls State Park, so named because of the race against time and conditions to achieve this photograph.

His first major success came in the form of fine art posters including, ‘The Summit – Mt. Bachelor’, which sold over 20K impressions. This was followed by winning Grand Prize in the Sierra Club International Photo Competition. Since then, Bruce has created numerous iconic landscape images throughout his 30+ year career. Whether grand landscapes or images focusing on the stunning beauty and intrigue of intimate landscapes, his keen eye for texture, color and shapes has defined his classically unique style.

During a grueling mountain climb, on a stunning, windless day, photographer Bruce Jackson captured this image of a rare combination of alpine plant life. Layers is the resulting photograph.

Bruce’s fine art images grace numerous corporate offices, organizations and private homes throughout North America.A partial list of organizations and corporations that have purchased Jackson’s photographs includes: Alaska Airlines, Audubon Coldwater Creek, Ritz-Carlton, Mt. Bachelor Inc., Hallmark, Sunset Magazine, The Sierra Club, Portland Monthly, Brooks Resources, Western Title, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Oregon Tourism.

Lily Promenade II was created on Mazama Ridge in Mt. Rainier National Park. It was originally created on a single sheet of 4″x5″ color film. Photographer Bruce Jackson felt it was most stunning printed in Black and White.

Please join us during November to view, absorb, enjoy and find images in Bruce Jackson’s exhibit, and throughout the gallery, that you will want to surround yourself with in your daily life.
Our monthly openings feature amazing art, connection and conversation, yummy food and excellent wine provided by VaPiano and Evoke. We would love to visit with you November 3, from 3-7pm or anytime during the month.
We are open 7 days a week—10am-7pm Monday-Saturday and 11am-6pm on Sundays. Soul stirring art awaits!

October Group Show—Simple Pleasures + Jewelry Makers’ Showcase
2023-10-06 15:00 - 2023-11-02 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Above: Still Life with Butterfly, Dee McBrien-Lee

Tumalo Art Co. October Group Show is themed “Simple Pleasures + Jewelry Makers’ Showcase”, opening October 6, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk.
An acrylic on canvas, Anne Gibson’s Last Light conveys tranquility.

A diverse and delightful array of paintings, printmaking, photography, digital painting, glass, ceramics and sculpture will be featured with additional selections from our four local custom jewelry makers.

Danica Curtright creates hand-blown and lampworked beads and from Italian Murano glass in all colors, shapes and sizes. Shown here is the Winters Bud Necklace

Danica Curtright, lamp-worked Murano glass beaded jewelry; Judy Clinton, hand-worked metal creations; Jane Juhazi curated beads, vintage, hand-made and exotic; and introducing Grace Gasior with her hand-made metal worked jewelry. Tumalo Art Co. artists work from abstract, to classical realism, and in between using a variety of mediums—oil, watercolor, mixed media, acrylic, pastel and more.
Susan Luckey Higdon’s, Holding, remembers a lazy summer day at Odell Creek, were shallow crystal clear water flows over rocks and downed trees on its way to Davis Lake. In one wide curve 100’s of Kokanee wait in the shade.

Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District, open 7 days a week. tumaloartco.com; 541-385-9144.

Aptly named, Simple Pleasures is a linocut collage by Adell Shetterly.

Judy Hoiness’s mixed media, Encounter with Wildlife, is an abstracted landscape that leaves much to the imagination.

Dorothy Freudenberg—Gardening in the Mind's Imagination
2023-09-01 15:00 - 2023-09-27 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Dorothy Freudenberg’s September exhibit

features digital media exploding with color and nuance.
Our Conversation Drifted , a strong horizontal digital media artwork, with a big, dramatic red sun and oriental influences.

When Dorothy Freudenberg arrived in Bend many years ago, her garden became the focal point of her burgeoning photography experiences. Eventually she expanded the concept interpreting the whole planet as a huge, interconnected garden—one that supports all of life.
Blue Winter Garden, by Dorothy Freudenberg continues the oriental theme with cool colors.

From using only the camera lens to create images, she moved into exploring digital media which lends itself particularly well to the development of metaphorical creations that have their basis in the real world, but then transcend the literal. On her almost daily early morning walks (often in the Old Mill District, along the river paths) Dorothy photographs nature as it is, creating stunning ethereal images of patterns and textures of flora and fauna often overlooked as mundane. Then, taking bits and pieces from all of these photographs, she creates images digitally that have their basis in the real world, but become pure emotion and imagination.
Poppies Waking in a Dream illustrates one of Dorothy Freudenberg’s favorite and diverse subjects in the garden.

“While I love to photograph nature as it is, I also cannot limit my imagination to simply accept this as the final means of expression. Nature is the inspiration, the mind is the means to embellish and find sublime pleasure in the imagination’s play.
Look Up, a digital media artwork by Dorothy Freudenberg communicates the lyrical joy of a garden at sunset.

A classically trained pianist Dorothy has been putting the images of nature from her morning walks together with exquisite piano music into slideshows that can be seen on youtube. This meditative, calming slideshow will be available during her September exhibit on a USB drive for everyone’s enjoyment. And, you will be able to view the photos used in the slideshow on a tablet set-up for that purpose.
As a special addition to her exhibit, Dorothy worked with artist Dina Rhoden on a collaborative artwork titled, Intricacies, a mixed media dreamscape of floral drama. Dina worked in acrylic paint and collage on top of a digital media image from Dorothy’s most recent Garden Bliss photograph series. The result is magical. Stems, leaves, and blooms seemingly move together in a colorful, ephemeral dance that celebrates life and human imagination.
Dina Rhoden employs vibrant colors and shapes in her collages that celebrate the joy of the human imagination. She has an Master of Fine Arts from The University of Washington and a Ph.D from the University of Cincinnati. During her working career she split her time as a professor and director of a social work agency.
Dina and Dorothy met at Tumalo Art Co. during Dorothy’s artist/gallerist shift and formed an instant artistic connection. They decided to combine artistic expressions as an experiment and it resulted in this artwork filled with pure joy.
Dorothy has also reproduced special fine art cards from the Garden Bliss photographs. Totally assembled by Dorothy and created for her September, Gardening in the Mind’s Imagination show, these new cards are miniature fine art prints. The images are a bit larger than on her other 5 x 7″cards, and have a protective coating that also gives the print a deeper sheen. Prices vary based on creative additions to each card. All of these garden images are available as larger prints. Email the gallery at art@tumaloartco.com to be put in contact with Dorothy for sizes, costs and ordering.
Gardening in the Mind’s Imagination will be on the walls through September…be sure and stop in!

Shelli Walters —SunGarden
2023-08-03 15:00 - 2023-08-29 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Tumalo Art Company’s August exhibit, SunGarden, features new mixed media paintings and paper mache sculpture by Shelli Walters. The opening reception takes place August 4, during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 3-7pm in the Old Mill District.
A bike, bird and flowers show up in the whimsical Garden-A-Go-Go mixed media art by Shelli Walters.

Visitors to the gallery in August will be treated to an uplifting stroll through Shelli Walters whimsical imagined gardens. Steal a few moments for yourself to feel warm sunlight, hear chirping birdsong and tap into the abundant buzzing life in Shelli’s SunGarden series. Allow nature to melt away your thoughts and worries, restoring peace and positive energy. Shelli says this body of work flowed out over the past year in response to the loss of her Mom. Her grief and muddling through the complex estate management process had her craving moments of peace and simplicity.
“Stepping into the garden to catch a breath and unplug from the fray is a healing salve and personal refuge — a powerful way to appreciate the wonder of nature and our blessings.”
Sunbeam is a fanciful collage mixed media sculpture of a horse by Shelli Walters.

Shelli brings this experience into the studio where it spills out in acrylic paint, collage, graphite and crayon on 24”x12” canvas panels creating a mural-like impression of a blissful day in the garden. The panels became part of the creative process as Shelli played with stitching them together into diptychs and triptychs as they evolved to reveal ideas and compositions that contribute to the whimsical nature of the work. A playful color palette, organic shapes and textures weave through the pieces bursting with dreamy summer vibes.
Labyrinth is a triptych of 12 x 12″ wrapped canvases creating an ethereal garden, by Shelli Walters.

Sauntering through the garden are paper mache sculptures of deer and birds on bicycles, complementing the two-dimensional work. Shelli enjoys repurposing materials to forge these whimsical creations giving what would otherwise end up in the trash or recycle bin a joyful new place in the world. She is especially delighted to transform the never-ending stream of her Mom’s junk mail into art.
Loopdeeloop is a mixed media collage, curly-cue sculpture with a bird on top and robins egg blue patina by Shelli Walters
SunGarden celebrates life, joy and sunshine. Visit the gallery, feel your spirits lift and take a piece of Shelli’s Sun Garden home with you to brighten your space year-round.
Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District open 7 days a week. tumaloartco.com; 541-385-9144.

Anne Gibson —Fractures and Interludes
2023-07-07 15:00 - 2023-08-01 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Anne Gibson’s inspiration for her July exhibit
Each moment represents an interlude of a sort, that now between the past and the future. Each fracture might reveal a hidden gem.
In the Flow is a 30 x 20″ acrylic on canvas by Anne Gibson.

In this body of work, Anne Gibson takes a closer look at the spaces in between: the mighty juniper whose roots fracture through basalt to reach the water, the tiny flowers and lichens that cling precariously to a crack in the cliff face, the river suspended between the walls of a deep quiet canyon. Large vertical canvases of these three motifs, each nearly five feet tall, anchor this show and honor the resilience and beauty of the natural world. Other pieces reflect interludes that allow personal restoration: floating down a serene creek, hiking a favorite trail, daydreaming before a peaceful view.
Reaching for Water is a strong vertical painting of juniper and its roots by Anne Gibson.

As fractures in our world seem to dominate every news cycle, whether they be as tangible as a dam breach or as conceptual as ideological divisions, it feels more and more important to seek and cherish the interludes:
Not a beginning, not an end, this neutral place is rich with stillness, with movement in all directions…. So pass in peace, stranger, though our orbits differ, I too have rested here at these limbo interludes in our shared planet’s rotation. – Debjani Chatterjee

Water Dance is an acrylic on canvas by Anne Gibson.

Slow down, look, and experience the interlude you find yourself in today. As this artist does so, she wonders most about our children’s climate future and the lessons we can learn from the resilience of Nature herself.
Fractures and Interludes is a painting of a canyon in Central Oregon by Anne Gibson in her July exhibit by that name.

“Fractures and Interludes”, a one-person exhibit with new paintings by Anne Gibson opens July 7, from 3-7pm during Bend’s Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk. The show will be up through July.

Dee McBrien-Lee —Incanto
2023-06-02 15:00 - 2023-07-04 19:00 | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Tumalo Art Co. features new paintings by Dee McBrien-Lee, opening June 2, during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 3-7pm in the Old Mill District. Her solo show, Incanto, features both figurative and pure abstract works in mixed media with an emphasis on acrylic.
Land of Enchantment a pure abstract bringing up the feeling of the Southwest by Dee McBrien-Lee.

Incanto is defined in Italian or Spanish as a spell, charm, enchantment, fascination, or magic—the act of enchanting or state of being enchanted.
I Am So in Love With You is a semi-abstract figurative painting by Dee McBrien-Lee in her June 2023 exhibit at Tumalo Art Co. in Bend, Oregon

With each painting Dee attempts to immerse or enchant you, inviting you closer to see the mysteries and secrets held within. Dee is happiest when deconstructing images into their most abstract forms while retaining a sense of place and subject. These paintings invite the viewer to create the story, while embracing them with color and shape.
Incanto, a dreamy abstracted image of waterlilys by Dee McBrien-Lee

When coming up with a theme for this show Dee wanted to make it broad enough to include both abstract and loosely figurative works. “Over the past 18 months I have dedicated myself to exploring and digging into abstract design and various techniques that are new to me as well as those I have utilized in the past. I have re-introduced a lot of collage and free play with acrylic and other media and especially love to use oil crayons, graphite and, sometimes, fabric or found items in the work.”
This Magic Moment—by using bold dark color for her figures she means to portray all color and inclusiveness of all skin tones.

If you notice that the figurative pieces in this new body of work all use a very dark color with no defining details other than the outline of the face, hands or figure, Dee says that the decision to depict her figures as ‘black’ was not based on race or ethnicity. “In physics black is the total absence of color, whereas in art black is the inclusion of all colors. So for me the significance of using only one bold color, is inclusion.”
It Was a Sunny Day is an abstract painting by Dee McBrien-Lee implying the play of light on objects and nature.

Be sure to come into the gallery to see this compelling exhibit of new works by Dee McBrien-Lee. Check out her ARTISTS page for a full menu of her art and the pieces in this show that can be purchased online.
Be enchanted with Incanto!
