The Northwest Corner

Solo Art Show

Opens January 7, 2023

Renton Technical College

Renton, WA

Culinaire Room

The title of this exhibit plays tribute to Murray Morgan, whose 1962 book, The Northwest Corner: The Pacific Northwest its Past and Present, chronicles the history of our region, its people and its landscape, with vivid stories and photographic images. Morgan notes a certain attitude we have here, “a linger awareness of the isolation once imposed by the mountains to the east and the ocean to the west, a pride in the landscape.”

When I was growing up in the Northwest, we were given a lot of freedom to explore, to hike, to sail, and encouraged to help out in the garden and in the kitchen. I rode the city bus to take music lessons, the city streets and buildings passing by through the windows of the bus. I miss many of the old buildings and the Seattle of my childhood. In this spirit, my paintings reflect some of my memories of times past as well as my inspiration from the parks, gardens, seascapes, and urban settings of today.

It is my intention that this art exhibit will evoke some of your own memories and your appreciation of what it means live in the “Northwest Corner.”