Spotlight show featuring artists, Charlotte Carter and Douglas E. Sheldon
There will be a two week spotlight show featuring artists, Charlotte Carter and Douglas E. Sheldon. The show will open on May 4, 2013 and run through May 17th at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery located at 789 NW Beach Drive in Newport, Oregon. The gallery is open from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm daily.
Charlotte Carter will be displaying pastels, watercolors and mixed media art. Charlotte likes to capture fleeting moments in nature, things that grow or change. That could be plants or flowers, people or animals in motion or repose, changing weather, i.e.sunsets, rain, dark nights, etc. She likes to exaggerate and enhance color. ” I use color to create mood” she says.
Charlotte Carter teaches the Yaquina Art Asociation Pastel class that is ongoing on Thursday mornings from 10-12 noon at the Visual Art Center upstairs classroom. She has also taught Ceramics and Sculpture in Ann Arbor, Michigan for Public Adult Education & the Ann Arbor Potters Guild for 6 years, being a member for 15 years. She has her B. S. degree in Design Drawing and Painting from the University of Michigan and worked as a Graphic Artist and Illustrator in Publishing for at least 20 years before retiring.
Carter has painted and drawn in oil, watercolor, pastels, colored pencil, ink & charcoal, made clay hand thrown pottery & sculpture, firing them in a High Fire Kiln and enjoys photography. She has also welded metal & carved wood sculpture. Charlotte is a mother of two, and a grandmother of seven children. She grew up, attended schooling, and was married in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Art has been a part of her life since she was four. She also enjoys writing short stories about her life. Her work can be seen at the Senior Center and at the Yaquina Art Association gallery in Nye Beach and her work will be displayed in the Canyon Way Bookstore in October and November.
Douglas E. Sheldon was born in central Kansas. He began art classes in fourth grade and loved painting and watercolors from a young age. Sheldon went to college with the intent to major in art and become an art teacher but reality hit him. He ended up working as a visual art director doing window displays and merchandising for major companies like May Company and Meier and Frank. He was the lead display person in the men’s department for Montgomery Wards.
He worked in merchandising until going into landscaping when he moved to Oregon. He moved to Oregon when he retired about 20 years ago. Sheldon teaches watercolor classes on a rotation basis for the Yaquina Art Association, as well as being a facilitator for the clay class. He has made it a priority to visit and paint most all of the national parks and loves doing seascapes as well.
"Barn" by Douglas Sheldon
watercolor by Charlotte Carter
