Tumalo Art Co.

February/March 2025 Group Show—"Unbound"
2025-02-06 15:00 - 2025-04-06 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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!

Helen Brown —The Spectrum of Birthstones
2023-05-03 15:00 - 2023-05-30 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Above Turquoise Deep

What better way to study color than to concentrate on the 12 birthstones of the calendar? Helen Brown will do just that in her May show at Tumalo Art Co. “I like the idea of examining color as a gem because each stone reflects many variations of its color through facets and light.”
“Amethyst Fields Forever” is for the February birthstone and is a scene of Mt. Hood with a lavender field in the foreground.

Helen’s exhibit will include twelve new watercolor paintings, each focused on one gemstone’s color. The subject of her work is broad, including landscapes, flowers, a night-time cityscape and even an old automobile. An award-winning watercolorist, her most recent being an award of distinction in the Watercolor Society of Oregon’s Spring Aqueous Media show now on display at the Barber Library at Central Oregon Community College until May 29, for her painting, Vestiges of Mt. Mazama. She uses a unique process referred to as watercolor batik, using a wax resist process. This, combined with painting on rice paper, gives her images texture and contrast.
The details of the engine grill on an old=time truck is the subject to the Emerald birthstone.

Helen’s natural curiosity helps her to step outside of her comfort zone to explore painting all kinds of subjects. She became interested in the history surrounding the Lewis & Clark expedition which resulted in her show, My Journey with Lewis & Clark, first exhibiting at Tumalo Art Co in 2016, and then at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland from 2017-2018. Helen
regularly paints landscapes from around her home in Central Oregon, from alpine forest and mountains to high desert, as well as scenes from the many places she travels including a family cabin in Montana and the sojourns to the southwest. Previously a french teacher, she has lived in France and Australia.

Finding a Garnet colored prom gown in the middle of white and ivory fancy dresses challenged Helen’s desire to paint.

For this show Helen has chosen unusual subjects like a rack full of gowns for the garnet birthstone and an old green automobile for the emerald birthstone, and a white winter forest of aspen. Many of these various subjects are filled with complexity, which she deals with expertly, retaining the important details that help the viewer explore the piece.

“Ruby Redhead”, a detail of fireweed is the perfect combination of color and simplifying complexity using contrast and highlights.

Find you birthstone!
January — Garnet
February — Amethyst
March — Aquamarine
April — Diamond
May — Emerald
June — Pearl
July — Ruby
August — Peridot
September — Sapphire
October — Opal
November — Topaz
December — Turquoise
For the Topaz birthstone, aspen leaves are a natural.

Helen Brown’s exhibit opens May 5, and will run through May 30. Come in and see the spectrum of birthstones in diverse images.

David Kinker — Grand Escapes
2023-04-05 15:00 - 2023-05-03 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
For Tumalo Art Co.’s first solo show of 2023, David Kinker has created paintings of an epic year of adventure. “Grand Escapes” opens April 7, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk.

“In the Other World”, the colors of the changing light on a raft trip in Argentina.

In the fall of 2022 David took an 18-day raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon—for the 5th time. He then spent seven weeks in Chile and Argentina, including hiking and backpacking in Patagonia, and a two-week river expedition down the Rio Grande Colorado of Argentina.
“Patagonia Horizons” is an acrylic painting of the jagged peaks in the far southern hemisphere.

“As a personal practice of meditation I am driven to paint even on wilderness trips. I am emotionally moved by beauty and natural wonders and paint plein air on my trips as a way to be fully present in observation and the senses.” After arriving home, David dives back into the experience by creating large studio paintings in response to his connections to the places and people he meet, hoping to share his sense of wonder with others.
More information and photos or artwork to come as we get closer to the show!
“Daydreaming”, is an acrylic painting from David Kinker’s time floating the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River.

Equilux — Group Show
2023-03-03 15:00 - 2023-04-04 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
“Bright Bay” is an acrylic by Mollie Jurgenson details

When Day & Night Are Equal

For March, the artists in Tumalo Art Co. create art about the “Equilux” with a group exhibit opening March 3, from 3-7pm during the First Friday Gallery Walk in the Old Mill District.

Susan Luckey Higdon’s, “The Edge of Day and Night” is an acrylic on cradled board.

Twice a year, day and night reach a perfect balance of 12 hours each, creating a little-known event called the Equilux. The Equilux happens just a few days before the much more well-known equinox, which happens March 20 this year. Equilux means “equal light” in Latin and describes when day and night are equal.
“Red Sky at Dawn”, an oil painting by Janice Druian.

This is a compelling subject for artists who are often enthralled by that moment when day becomes night and the incredible light effects that are produced. Art in many mediums and sizes will describe the effect of light and dark on the land and objects in this exhibit.
Helen Brown paints in watercolor on rice paper using a batik technique, “The Cat Pack”, showing the felines rimmed in moonlight.

Our artists work in all mediums, from watercolor to oil and acrylic, mixed media, Digital art and photography. There are also a variety of sizes to choose from. Complimenting the 2D art are hand-blown glass, ceramics and wood-turning and wood segmented objects as well as sculpture. One of our goals as a gallery is to provide art for the beginning collector as well as those who are looking for large pieces for their homes or corporate settings.

“Between Here and There”, a monoprint by Adell Shetterly shows the even light of day.

This is just a cross-section of the art in the show. Come in and experience the shifts in light and dark, daylight and night in our March “Equilux” Group Exhibit. We are open 7 days a week!

The sun goes down over Haystack Rock in Katherine Taylor’s, “Coastal Sky”.

"The Heart of Winter"—February Group Show
2023-02-03 15:00 - 2023-02-28 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
February is both the month of love and the Heart of Winter. Our group show by that name opens during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk, February 3, from 3-7pm. The show will continue through February.
Improvisation with a Blue Note, Dorothy Freudenberg

Our artists are bringing works that embody the warmth of winter—even when it’s cold.
A Rose for Valentina, Dee McBrien-Lee

Landscapes, figurative work, symbolic pieces…in all mediums, large to small.
A Winter Night, Marty Stewart

Artists look beyond the expected in this show, to the feelings of winter, often finding the warmth and color in the depths of winter.
Winter Sage Bouquet, Susan Luckey Higdon

Come in the gallery to see the full breadth of creativity in depicting the Heart of Winter.
Winter on the Westside, Katherine Taylor

Custom valentines for your love are in stock, with one-of-a-kind jewelry by four local makers, ceramics, glass, turned wood and original cards by our artists.
One-of-a-kind glass hearts and balls by Nancy Becker, in several sizes make distinctively personal gifts for Valentines day, as well as any day of the year!

Our four maker jewelers, left to right, Danica Curtright, Judy Clinton, Amber Bremmer, and Alison Wahl.

Shelli Walters makes original hearts in mixed media for Valentines Day.

"Wonderland"—December & January Group Show
2022-12-02 15:00 - 2023-01-31 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
The holidays and winter months conjure up sparkle, joy, and wonder. And our artists will be contributing art to this show that captures that feeling. Whether it’s the shimmering white of snow covered mountains, lights twinkling on water, a bird on a twig….whatever moves our artists into a state of wonder. “Wonderland” opens during the First Friday Gallery Walk in Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District, December 2, from 3-7pm.
Tumalo Art Co. is home to over 25 artists. Each has a distinctive medium and approach to art-making. Photography, digital media, paintings made with oils, acrylics, mixed media, fabric and more, ceramics, wood (both turned and segmented), glass, jewelry.
Our tiny art is a way to give small original art as gifts.

Annually the artists also make tiny, original, hand-made art. These are hung on our sparkly, white trees and can be used as ornaments and permanent, year round art on your walls. We encourage you to “give art” as that most original gift. The tiny art is priced reasonably as well, to keep it within your means to give this one-of-a-kind, tiny art.
Tiny art from our 2021 selection…so many to choose from

We look forward to seeing you during this special time of year!

Nancy Becker & Susan Luckey Higdon—Dreaming of Water
2022-11-04 15:00 - 2022-11-30 19:00 UTC
Glass artist Nancy Becker and landscape painter Susan Luckey Higdon are combining their love of color and shape in Dreaming of Water, opening November 4, from 3-7pm, during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk.
Transitions is a hand-blown glass platter by Nancy Becker.

Finding an affinity that resonates for both artists about the mystery and movement of water, Nancy and Susan have joined forces to create art in their respective mediums, in 2D and 3D for this November exhibit.

Clear Your Mind is an abstracted composition of the crystalline waters of Oregon’s Metolius River.

Glass becomes liquid when heated, swirling with color that Nancy shapes with mastery and wizardry into vessels, vases and platters. She is inspired by the natural world that surrounds her creating colors and shapes that remind her of rivers, lakes, a gust of wind or the shades of autumn reflections.

Both sides of Nancy Becker’s Reflections on Sparks Lake hand-blown glass vessel

Some of Nancy’s vessels are dense with color and others are clear with notes of color swirling loosely throughout. The making of glass is challenging all the way through the process. After the initial hand-blowing of the glass at the furnace, it must be annealed, meaning it needs to cool very slowly so that it doesn’t crack. Only after the annealing is complete are the true colors of the piece revealed. The last step, polishing, must be handled with extreme care.

Restful Waters — Steelhead at Steamboat Creek by Susan Luckey Higdon

Susan is transfixed with the movement and color of water, capturing it’s layers, from the pebbles on the bottom to the creatures in the stream, to the continually changing reflections. For the past few years she has been abstracting her work with composition by cropping closely to find the essence of the scene. Her rendering is representational and impressionistic to capture what has moved her to paint. Susan wants to express the chaos of pattern existing in nature.
Both artists have been working in their chosen mediums for over 30 years. They continue to challenge themselves to interpret nature in a way that connects emotionally, intuitively and joyfully with the viewer.

Anne Gibson—Topophilia : Into the Canyons
2022-10-07 15:00 - 19:00 UTC
On the very first day of Anne Gibson’s first visit to Central Oregon, a morning hike at Smith Rock and an afternoon ski at the Nordic Center up in the Cascade mountains cemented her dream to move out West. Over the decades, this place became home as she lived through both uplifting and painful life experiences, all sharpened and cushioned by the pinch-me joy of actually living in a place most people only come to vacation in.

Crooked River Canyon

Though rendered in a representational way, Anne’s Canyon paintings are a retrospective of the artist’s internal journey during the pandemic years when life changed dramatically all over the world. It was a time to take stock, to look and feel deeply, and to find ways to love this troubled, exhilarating, maddening, gorgeous world.

Glow on the Canyon Rim

During the pandemic, our homes became both refuges and prisons. The places where we used to meet friends and family and feel community were mostly shuttered to us. Here in Central Oregon trailheads leading to our favorite spots to walk, float, climb, play, and find peace were closed. Initially Anne found solace by painting favorite places she couldn’t go anymore. Working from dozens of her own source photos, she virtually visited places like Smith Rock in her studio, creating a series of soaring pinnacle paintings such as Golden Hour – Smith Rock. Another in this series, October Skies – Smith Rock, was chosen for purchase by a panel of writers, artists, designers, curators, and Multnomah County staff in the 2022 Regional Art & Culture Council’s Public Art Purchase.

The force of Stillness

Eventually, as cabin fever built, the people in Anne’s pandemic household cast about for new ungated places to walk and breathe. Somewhere beyond neighborhood streets. New-to-them trails up in the BLM became favorites. They returned again and again to the Crooked River, Deschutes River, and Whychus Creek canyons viewing the cliffs and water from the rim at dawn, or the river-level depths when the late afternoon sun cast deep shadows or the flat light of a cold gray winter day. Each visit inspired new color palettes and compositions to Anne as she began to paint portraits of these places.

The Vortex

“Standing on a canyon rim or scrambling down rocky switchbacks, you witness layers of history in the cliff faces formed over millennia. These many Central Oregon canyons—and there are dozens of them, some hundreds of feet deep—were formed during the Pleistocene, as many as 5 million years ago. Venture far enough and all trace of human intervention fades. It might leave you feeling insignificant or expansive and part of a much greater whole. But it definitely makes you feel something. These canyons open-up new worlds.”
—Anne Gibson
“There is a word for love of a place: topophilia, popularized by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in 1974 as all of ‘the human being’s affective ties with the material environment.’ In other words, it is the warm feelings you get from a place. It is a vivid, emotional, and personal experience, and it leads to unexplainable affections.”
– Arthur Brooks, “Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.”  The Atlantic, January 14, 2021
This exhibit will run through October.

Dorothy Freudenberg—Quiet Moments & Lively Interactions
2022-09-02 15:00 - 2022-09-30 19:00 UTC | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Quiet Moments & Lively Interactions, a retrospective by photographer and digital artist Dorothy Freudenberg, opens September 2, from 3-7pm, during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk. Juxtaposing introspective images with expressively vibrant digital compositions, Dorothy blends different artistic mediums by incorporating them all in her imagery. Her work transcends the graphic arts, suggesting that music, the written word, and the visual arts all overlap.

An accomplished pianist Dorothy references music as inspiration for her artwork. During the opening she will be offering musical improvisations on her electric piano—the melodies are interwoven with the creation of her images. Musical improvisations support the different images presented, or make suggestions of musical works to which one can reference.

Contemplative photography, implying the seasons, are displayed along with lively and unique digital compositions that are an expression of the artists inner world. The pieces are printed on metal and individually framed for a vivid, lustrous presentation.
Dorothy’s images have two distinct sides—her layered digital images that use multiple photos, textures, and filters and are created overall using a computer program. These “Lively Conversations” are literally painted with digital tools. Dorothy’s digital media images tend to be quite colorful and vibrant with lots of detail.

“Quiet Moments” are Dorothy’s contemplative images. These compositions come to her during her morning walks where a single ray of light filtering through branches, or a blossom with out-of-focus colors from a building in the background or other plants, become a rich expression of awareness. The commonplace and overlooked becomes magical. These moments are captured in a single photograph.

Dorothy Freudenberg set out to college many years ago intending to study art and literature. Four years later she came out with a degree in Piano/music. Family circumstances prevented her from pursuing her dreams in that field, but before long her life changed once again and she emerged on a motorcycle with a camera strapped on. This would be the start of a journey where, even though some threads got dropped, the pursuit of art became a passion that carries through to today. Finding creativity in photography captivated her but it wasn’t until recently that the threads of visual art and music came together. As she once again is taking music seriously all of the threads have converged. This time with a creativity and freedom that wasn’t present the first time around. In this show Dorothy is expressing all these forms simultaneously and it is a joy.
Come into the gallery and enjoy the show. Or, shop online anytime.

Katherine Taylor—Thinking Wild
2022-08-05 15:00 - 2022-08-31 19:00 UTC
Thinking Wild, opening August 5, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk, features a new collection of Katherine Taylor’s poignant wildlife portraits. The exhibit will be up through August.
Katherine’s oil paintings of animals are so intimate, their spirits and personalities shine through. This exhibit includes a bobcat, raccoon, wild horses, a fox, an owl and many more…all in action and with eyes that that make you feel you can see into their reality. A “painter of light and dark”, she succeeds in portraying their wildness and their natures by employing the dramatic chiaroscuro lighting and luminous glazing she learned from her classical art training.

Katherine Taylor paints “Wild Wild Horses” in oil

A portion of the proceeds from this show will be donated to the non-profit, Think Wild, a local animal hospital dedicated to providing care to injured or orphaned native animals so as to facilitate their successful release back into the wild. “I am a big fan of the work that Think Wild does in our local community; these dedicated individuals not only volunteer their time to rehabilitate native birds and mammals, they advocate for wildlife conservation. Their hospital compound off Neff Road in Bend continues to grow to accommodate the many species they treat, as well as to provide a venue for public educational events. I wanted my August art exhibit to help highlight the good work this group does,” says Katherine.
Katherine Taylor paints a wild gray wolf in oils for her August exhibit at Tumalo Art Co.

Katherine’s original love as an artist is painting the human figure. However, wildlife portraiture has proven to be just as compelling for her. “It’s the spirit of a sentient being that I am ultimately most interested in capturing, and animals have spirit in spades.”
A Red Fox is Katherine Taylor’s collection of wild animal portraits

In choosing which wildlife to paint for the show, Katherine handpicked mammals and birds local to Oregon that best captured the spirit of the species. Only two of the animals featured, the Kiger Mustangs and the mountain lion, are not treated at the Think Wild hospital but are included in their Oregon wildlife conservation-education efforts.

Peregrine Falcon, an oil by Katherine Taylor

Katherine’s initial wild animal easy picks were from the lynx genus, the bobcat and the mountain lion. They are closely related to the domestic cat, and being a cat caregiver herself, she is a fan! Though she has never been granted her life-long wish to experience a red fox sighting, painting one turned out to be the next best thing. She discovered foxes have the most fascinating eye color and came to appreciate the eyes of many of the animals she painted. “The bobcat and cougar have riveting eyes, but so do hawks, owls, and falcons. And the bald eagle I captured in paint really surprised me with its pale green glitter-eye.”
Canadian Geese in the golden light of autumn

This quote by Anthropologist Loren Eiseley partly explains why Katherine chose to paint close-up portraits of the wild animals in her August exhibit:
“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
If you come across an injured or orphaned wild animal that needs help call the Think Wild hotline at 541-241-8680.

Adell Shetterly—P3 Press | Pull | Print
2022-07-01 15:00 - 2022-08-03 19:00 UTC
Beaming Up above—remember Star Trek and the myriad worlds that the crew landed on and explored? They transformed into small particles to beam down or up. Perhaps this is one of the worlds they explored.

Bend artist, Adell Shetterly, has followed her own artistic path as defined in ink. Her July show at Tumalo Art Co. P3 Press | Pull | Print, opening July 1, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk, features original hand-pulled prints which investigates the processes and various techniques in print.
She presents new work, rich and diverse in wealth of marks, color, layers and lines drawing on imagery that ranges in style from abstract to deconstructed landscapes, inspired by nature, memories and moments of daily life.

Using her own press, every image Adell inks on a plate is pulled by hand. The impression is transferred from the plate to paper creating a unique image. As she works Adell unlocks her imagination to the possibilities in print questioning, “what would happen IF?”
For Entwined, the past and the present are interwoven revealing the stories of a lifetime. To tell this story Adell used glue to make the circles that the dried and became a relief when run through the press.

Adell used hot glue stencils for Quantum Entanglement, playing with abstract design and shapes. Initially printing the plate with light gray on cream paper she placed the stencils first, then inked plastic wrap and ran it through the press.
Quantum Entanglement is the physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others. “This piece kept pulling me in, and when the title emerged it all came together.”

Magnetic field lines near sunspots often tangle, cross, and reorganize. This can cause a sudden explosion of energy. “I played off this idea to create a landscape strongly influenced by the sun.”

Come enjoy all of the art in the show—see you Friday, July 1st and throughout the month.

Danae Bennett-Miller—New Sculptures & Printmaking
2022-06-03 15:00 - 2022-06-30 19:00 UTC
Small birds, cranes, eagles and elk and other wild animals show up in Danae Bennett-Miller’s
June show, “Spirit Found”, opening June 3, from 3-7 pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk. The show is up through June. For this exhibit Danae has created both bronze sculpture and collage monoprints with polyurethane layers on cradled board.
Detail of Danae Bennett-Miller’s “Grassland”, a monoprint of a buffalo.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The animals who live with and around Danae are her inspiration. They connect to the spirit of the earth and fill her soul. A rancher who raises chicken and other farm animals, Danae has a close relationship with her surrounding environment and is well-known for her organic, life-filled forms of animals. To create their dynamic shapes she flows out strips of wax with ripples and texture and forms them into the shapes she is imagining for each creature. This technique gives an organic aliveness to each one. Once cast her pieces are one-of-a-kind. Augmenting her sculpture works with printmaking has given a new avenue to express form, texture and line to all of her animals.
“Sunburst Raven” is cast in bronze and glass by Danae Bennett-Miller.

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 roundabout on Highway 20 in Sisters, Oregon.
See more of Danae’s available sculpture and monoprints
