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Art is a form of free expression, and a way to churn emotions into something tangible, raw, and sometimes even beautiful! I live my days as a mom and a wife, a business owner, a designer and creative director, a traveler, and lover of art, music, and nature. I thrive on the entrepreneurial daring of business, problem solving and pivoting as new challenges present themselves. I am passionate about the nature of design, creating spaces that not only function but are unexpected, intimate areas of reprieve. I love the nurturing intuition of being a parent—it’s one of the most rewarding risks to work to raise independent, kind, happy humans. As a family we enjoy traveling together, being inspired by history, nature, art, and culture. All of this influences my artistic moments.

I have always been a Creative, an Empath, and an Artist. My artistic journey has evolved from writing and poetry to journalism and photography, to mosaic and collage, to interior and architectural design. Painting is a new medium for me; one I started exploring during the pandemic. There were many highlights of 2020 where many of us were feeling a new level of fear and anxiety, even hopelessness. And helplessness. I was at a crossroads where reinventing myself felt necessary. I spent nearly all my free time (sheltering with a family of four including two teens) experimenting on board or canvas, listening to music, and putting my fears, my thoughts, my emotions to work. That passion evolved into a serious craft that I depend on. Using mixed media, with paint as the base, I build layers and textures, adding depth, color and making marks as I go. Some work shows angst, while other work feels more at peace. That is life. Life is beautiful. Life is fleeting. Life is now so, live each day without regret and do what makes you shine. That is my promise to myself as I carry on this journey. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my statement, and to view my emotional expressions!

  Heather's available work at Fogue Studios. 

 Artist Statement

M. K. Chandler was born and raised in New England. She relocated to the northwest in the late 1960s. Always creative, she has made art of one sort or another since childhood. Her fascination with people, especially women, has led her down many paths in many mediums. Primarily watercolor, drawing and stitchery. 

M.K's main body of work is titled "Honorable Ancestors and Alter Egos". 

The most recent creations are “Little People with Big Personalities”. Ornate costuming, striking color contrasts, imaginative scenarios and humor are happily present.

Current work available

 ARTIST STATEMENT

I love the neighborhood environs in West Seattle, and value the relationships I’ve built with neighbors, merchants and other local artists. 

I’ve always been fascinated by cars and buildings, both as objects of design and as vessels for our collective history and memories. My paintings attempt to capture their souls and tell stories of the places they’ve held in our lives.  

I approach them with a playful sense of humor, and always strive to offset the subjects with compelling patterns and backgrounds.  I think my years of architectural drafting find an echo in the detailed linework and graphic lettering in the paintings.

Recently I’ve been experimenting in a more three-dimensional direction by doing shadowboxes combining paintings with vintage toys and other recycled objects.

ARTIST BIO

I grew up on the east coast.

And I was around art from an early age, with a mom who did painting, printmaking, sculpture and fabric arts.  I moved to Washington for college and have been in Seattle for over 30 years, and a West Seattle resident for twelve years. 

I did visual arts in high school and college, but my career has been in architecture and interior design. In my fifties I decided to devote more time to artmaking, and when my mom passed away in 2017, I vowed to honor her memory by taking the drawing and painting abilities she sowed in me and developing them as far as I can.  Follow Tom Costantini Art (@tomcostantiniart) • Instagram photos and videos 

Tom's available work at Fogue Studios

 Artist Bio

 I was born in 1952 in a naval hospital on the Marine Corp Air Station at Cherry Point, North Carolina. As a Marine Corp dependent, my childhood was divided up into three-year segments. In addition to the few weeks I lived in Cherry Point before my father was transferred, I have lived in Memphis TN, Albuquerque, NM, Yuma, AZ, and various places in California. I went to high school and a few years of college in southern California and graduated from Humboldt State University in northern California in 1976. My bachelor's degree is in fine arts where I focused on painting in oil and illustration with pen and ink. I moved to Seattle six months after graduation and have lived in this area ever since.

I made my living in technical publications. Over the course of my career I have done technical illustration, photography, technical writing, and desktop publishing. All the while I continued to paint in oils, created dry pigment pastel drawings, and designed and fabricated stained glass windows. In the late 1990s I created an online comic titled Comics Outta Left Field. This was a reflex reaction due to my favorite cartoonist Gary Larson retiring from drawing "The Far Side". I never had aspirations of equaling the humor Larson created with his strip, but it was fun trying for awhile. I retired from gainful employment in 2018 and have since focused entirely on my primary love of oil painting.

Artist's Statement

I graduated from Humboldt State University in northern California in 1976. My bachelor's degree is in fine arts where I focused on painting in oil and illustration with pen and ink. As a college student, my paintings leaned toward the abstract but today I like to paint what I see. I love the beautiful scenery experienced from traveling. The subject matter of my paintings are representational of places I've been and things I've seen. Landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes are my primary focus with people occasionally interspersed throughout. I paint in an impressionistic style as I like the expressiveness of a loose brush stroke and how it brings out the richness of the oil paint. It also allows for spontaneity when I'm applying paint to canvas.