WATER WORKS

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domicile is please to present Water Works, an exhibition centered around the theme of water. For the duration of the exhibition, domicile has pledged to donate 10% of all sales to charity: water, a non-profit organization that funds clean water projects in developing nations. Every $40 raised provides a lifetime of clean water to one person. Most importantly, with charity: water’s 100% model, they guarantee 100% of every public dollar donated goes directly to fund clean water projects. Help us reach our goal of $10,000, the amount needed to fund clean water for one community, by donating to our campaign:  https://www.charitywater.org/domicile/an-evening-for-clean-water

DEBBIE DANIELS

Debbie is a self taught oil painter who has been painting for four decades.

She is inspired by the natural beauty of the surroundings where she lives in the San Juan Islands and will never tire of painting the sea.  Captured movement plays a vital role in her work. Debbie’s paintings rarely have a horizon line so that the viewer is immersed in the up close details of our surroundings. In capturing movement, she hopes to expose a moment in time and provide something deeply personal to the viewer.­

Debbie is a member of the Oil Painters of America and a signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists. She works from her studio at Friday Harbor Atelier in Friday Harbor, WA, and is represented by Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, Seattle; Articles Gallery, St. Pete, Florida; and Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor.

DEBBIE BIANCHI

Octopi have caught my attention, they are mysterious and known to be highly intelligent and playful shapeshifters. The ability to change color and shape to blend into their surroundings is fascinating. These qualities have inspired me to continue to play with paint and create ways new to me to express this mystery and shapeshifting quality that I find hypnotic. I want to capture the strange and alien beauty of these creatures in my art. 

My first creative passion was sewing with my mother. She taught me that making something beautiful out of scraps of fabric and other discarded items is very satisfying and something to share and connect with others. The shapes of patterns and textures of the fabrics sparked a desire to create my own images.

I paint with many mediums but mostly in acrylic on canvas or panel, sometimes incorporating mixed media pieces such as Japanese paper, found vintage labels, photos and other sentimental ephemera. I paint over these things in many layers letting some things show through, creating a little mystery here and there. I have participated in many solo and group shows in the Northwest and New York City. My work has been a part of private collections across the United States, Canada, Australia, South America, Germany, Denmark and Japan. I have also been published in several books including Kaleidoscope by Suzanne Simanaitis and Look up Here- Five Years of NW Urban and Contemporary Art by John and Michelle Osgood. My husband and I are both Seattle natives and we currently live in Seattle with our two kids, a cat, a dog, and several fish.

VANESSA LANZA

I start by coating cotton rag paper with a photosensitive cyanotype solution. Then I will dip it in ocean water ( sometimes utilizing the waves/tides, other times I bring a bucket of ocean water home and do it there). As I’m exposing the paper to sun, I will add salt, sand, pebbles, seaweed, etc depending on the effect I’m going for. Once it is exposed for sufficient amount of time, I rinse it off and let it dry. It’s blue colors will set in about 48 hours. Then I will repeat the process, adding more cyanotype solution to certain areas, exposing it to the sun, then rinsing and drying. If I’m happy with it, I may lighten some areas with washing soda ( similar to oxiclean) and/ or citric acid. The end product is usually a bit of a surprise and I love that part of it!

SARAH KAYE

I find there is a simple joy that we get from seeing and using objects we love. We are tactile and visual creatures, and this (design) stuff matters to us. For instance, that small moment of pleasure when you realise your favourite coffee cup is clean for your morning coffee? Well that moment is my motivation–I’m after your small pleasure. Tactility? That’s my bag. I want everything I make to feel good–for a cup to have sucha surface and curves that you don’t want to put it down when it’s empty.
(btw those aren’t spelling errors, I’m English)

Trained in Product Design at Parson’s School of Designin New York, I come at the development of my work from a very practical place…what would this be like to fill, drink from, wash, hold, put away?  

After Parson’s I spent 12 years working in marketing and advertising, before returning to ceramics at Pottery Northwest in Queen Anne, as a Resident. I think this journey is reflected in my work, along with the places I’ve been lucky enough to live: London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, New York, and Melbourne. Now in Seattle, I live right here in Madison Valley and I work in Georgetown at Equinox Studios where I never tire of watching the colours of the sky, mountains and the water.