Category: Artists

I’m AmityAmor, a 32-year-old artist based in Hillsboro, Oregon. I grew up in Oregon and graduated at Glencoe High School. I paint and draw to share my work with others around me. I’ve loved art since childhood and have spent years developing my style through curiosity, experience and self-expression. I hope to continue to share my work with others to bring joy, quirkiness and whimsy to the world.
My work blends cute, cartoony elements with spooky, eerie tones, creating pieces that feel both playful and a little unsettling. I work in multiple mediums, mainly acrylic painting and ink drawing, and I’ve recently started exploring digital art.
No matter the medium, I approach each piece with creativity and honesty. My art reflects my growth and my passion for trying new things—and I hope it encourages others to do the same.

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While have worked in several forms of two and three dimensional art, I currently work mostly in watercolors, acrylic and drawing media. As a high school art teacher, I have worked and taught several types of two-dimensional media in addition to ceramics and sculpture. The breadth of this work reflects my curiosity and need for exploration and possibly my restless side. I used to favor oil over acrylic but after years of using acrylic in the classroom I became as fluent in them as I was with oil and found acrylic more versatile and less toxic. Watercolor presents its own set of challenges; I vacillate between showcasing my drawing skills in this lush medium and just wanting to explore and play. It is so much fun to capitalize on experiments and accidents or to just try something new! My favorite subject is nature. It used to be almost exclusively plants for their lush colors and shapes but I am enamored with texture as well.

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www.ohhuewatercolor.com

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I’m a maker who loves the quiet that comes from creating whether it’s painting small or big pieces or creating things from upcycled item, I find inspiration in all of it. For my current projects, I am enjoying tearing and layering hand-painted watercolor paper into small landscape collages inspired by the natural world, and each piece is a mindful, one-of-a-kind moment. I believe small art can bring big joy.

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Beth Pansino is a self-taught watercolor artist based in Beaverton, Oregon. Her work is inspired by the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, with a particular interest in landscapes, flowers, and the interplay of color and light.

Pansino works in several distinct styles, from peaceful, atmospheric landscapes to bold stained-glass-inspired paintings. Her geometric floral and mountain pieces combine nature-based subjects with abstract patterns, allowing her to explore color and composition in a playful, distinctive way. She also creates a series of monochromatic landscapes accented with metallic gold, drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese painting.

She is a member at the Village Gallery of Arts and her art has been shown in juried and community exhibitions, including the Lake Oswego Festival of Arts Open Show Express, Walters Cultural Arts Center’s Small Works Show, and the Newberg Wild Wonders Exhibition.

Alongside her studio practice, Pansino teaches beginner watercolor classes, sharing her enthusiasm for the medium and encouraging students to discover their own creative voices.

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Cherie Savoie Tintary is based out of Forest Grove Oregon, She has been exhibiting art for nearly twenty years. She was an analog photographer, but due to a medical issue, she switched mediums to analog collage in 2020. Her work has been published in Kolaj Magazine, Contemporary Collage Magazine, PNW Collage Collective, Paris Collage Collective, Special Agent Collage Collective and many more. I will be curating a group collage show in 2027 at Cawein opening March 13 2:00-4:00 pm .

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Aspiring architect with a hobby in photography 🙂

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Acrylic on canvas painter . Doodler on paper. Art from the heart. Bringing together the beauty of living in the Pacific Northwest while being influenced by Salvadorian folk art.
@tinasarrt on instagram

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Nicole Rasmussen is a stained glass artist based in Cornelius, Oregon, who loves making colorful, light catching pieces that bring a little extra joy into everyday spaces. Driven by her love for reading and all things fantasy, she naturally gravitated toward making functional art bookends, alongside a whimsical collection of sun catchers. Her designs are inspired by things she loves, ranging from cats and flowers to magical dragon wings and delicate butterfly wings.

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Born in Nebraska and raised in Western Colorado, Zoe Stanek found her place among the trees in Oregon’s Pacific Northwest. Her work takes inspiration from fairy tales, folklore, and everyday magic, depicting playful scenes teeming with wonder. With unifying visuals like animals, food, and folk art, Zoe’s art is for everyone.

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Megan is a lover of all things animals, art, and coffee. She and her husband enjoy weekly date nights at Forest Grove restaurants, supporting Viking and Boxer sports, and running many miles through the neighborhood sidewalks.

While Megan loves playing with watercolors and rarely travels without basic sketching supplies, her submissions to this year’s gallery are focused on colored pencil work. She loves the control and realism they offer and is excited to share her creations with the community.

Her other creative works can be found painted on the window front of Kindness Family Pet Clinic, featured on her website “Best Friends on Paper” – a display of fine detail custom pet portraits, or recorded in several books found online and along local coastal bookstores.

https://www.bestfriendsonpaper.com/
https://www.booksbymegan.com/

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Martha Robertson has been quilting for over 40 years and started her quilt pattern design company, Laughing Squirrel Designs, in 2025. She teaches classes, serves as publicity chair for the Westside Quilters Guild, and has had articles featured in “American Quilter” magazine. She enjoys working with bright colors and incorporating her cartoon drawings into her work. Her most recent work, a plaid shirt pattern series, is focused on upcycling thrift store men’s cotton plaid shirts.

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Russell Lee Baldwin
www.lumavista.art

Residential and Commercial Art Glass
Hard-Edge Impressionist Landscapes
Repainted Photographs
Text-To-Image Generative Art
Novels and Jazz

From 2009, Baldwin developed a reductionist style of digital images which he terms Repainted Photographs. Beginning with digital photographs, the process involves Photoshop filters and techniques, with adjacent tools including Topaz Photo AI and others, plus generative AI using MidJourney.com.

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Patti Isaacs is a Midwesterner; native to Northern Indiana. She relocated to Oregon and has called Portland and surrounding areas home for most of her adult life.
Patti’s art journey has taken her along many mediums; from family members teaching knitting, crocheting, embroidery, sewing and quilting. All of these early creative journeys have brought her to her most recent mediums, paper manipulation and silk painting.
Patti studied art throughout high school and college at Indiana University. Through collaboration with fellow artists and self-study, Patti has learned the technique of silk painting called Serti and paper art of Iris Folding.
Patti’s trips to Japan inspired an Asian influence to her work, as well as a serenity and strength through color and texture choices.
Patti’s solo show at The Loft in Seaside entitled “From the Land of the Rising Sun” was well received. Her show list includes Celebration of Creativity, The Reser’s Small- Wonders, Washington County Open Studio Tours, The Japanese Gardens-The Paper Garden show, Fire on the Water- The Dragon Boat show and Art on Broadway.
Patti served on the board of Washington County Open Studios and Village Gallery of Arts. She co-juried the Sherwood Center for the Arts Student show several years.
Patti’s website is www.pattiisaacs.com.

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Ethan is an artist and printmaker residing in Forest Grove. He earned his BFA in painting from OCAC and works primarily in acrylic and watercolor.

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Fueled by both passion and purpose, the artist believes that colors and textures possess a unique ability to soothe and energize at the same time. It soothes anxiety and ignites imagination with possibilities. Neerajana’s artistic journey is a continuous exploration of self discovery and expression with fresh experiments, constantly pushing boundaries, seeking new ways to express and connect with the audience. She believes that “beauty resides within us all, waiting to be unveiled and shared”. She often uses acrylic paints, spray paints, inks, modeling paste to build up the base layers, then final layers are done in oil colors. Her style is “Abstract realism” leaving areas loose for boosting audience imagination and realism in forms. Drawing inspiration from beauty around her, she loves to paint nature like birds, flowers, trees, animals and landscapes.

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My name is Kendall Hurley and I am an embroidery artist originally from Anchorage, Alaska. I have been working with this medium for over six years now and am very passionate about keeping needlework and textile art alive. Embroidery has been around since humans began sewing, some of the earliest examples come from civilizations in ancient Egypt and China. In a world inundated by a have-it-now mentality, taking the time to sit down and craft with my hands is a practice I find both meditative and exciting. Playing with color and texture has long been my goal, and recently I’ve begun incorporating beadwork into my pieces. There are many things to love about embroidery, but my favorite is that nothing is ever the same, each piece is unique, much like people. Much of my inspiration comes from the natural world, which I credit to growing up in such a beautiful place. As an avid reader, I also enjoy adding a touch of whimsy to my work. You can often find me after work curled up on my couch, needle in hand, listening to whatever movie my partner put on, happily stitching away.

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I am Sienna Langstaff, an acrylic and mixed media painter based in Portland, Oregon.
I have lived in a variety of places; from a childhood centered mainly in Ohio, moving to small-town life in Germany as a young adult, and later acclimating to the big city of Tokyo, Japan. But since Portland has been my home for 2 decades, the PNW has captured my heart!

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Sara Knighton is an artist and maker living in Forest Grove, Oregon. She has called Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, and Oregon home. A self-taught surfer and Coast Guard Veteran, she has found her happiness making somewhere on the Pacific.

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My name is Vibha. I am a self-taught visual artist. Making art has helped me process experiences, deal with grief, and improve mental well-being through creative processes. I’m driven by the intention to heal while creating vibrant, one-of-a-kind art pieces that capture the beauty of the natural world. I’ve experimented with a range of styles, techniques and media, from abstract, landscapes and still life in watercolor and acrylic paintings to mixed media collages and beaded jewelry. My art is not just a creative outlet, but also a source of personal growth and healing. I’m happy to share my work with others and inspire them with the same joy and wonder that art brings me. I’m constantly learning, experimenting, and pushing the boundaries of my creativity, and I’m excited to see where this journey takes me.

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I am an acrylic painter that sometimes does oil pastels. I have a great response to my pastels but they take a long time to do so I prefer acrylics which I spend time trying to look like oil paint. I do all subjects. I recreate creation as I don’t think I can improve on what the Creator created for us to enjoy. I paint what makes me see joy and beauty as we need more of that always. Art is a way to express our emotions as is writing. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed painting them.

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April is a pop-conceptual artist and writer preferring to find beauty in the mundane, the grotesque, and the overlooked. She has an interdisciplinary studio fine arts degree in painting and drawing and works in various other mediums as well to satisfy her need for variety. April has been making art professionally since 2005, and teaching art since 2016. Children and adults take classes in various mediums from her in Forest Grove and surrounding towns.

Find April on

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aprilhoffart/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AprilHoffArtist
Website: https://www.aprilhoff.com

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