Yaquina Art Gallery Pedestal Spotlight Show featuring the artwork of Eric Paukstaitis–August 25th to September 7th
In a two week Pedestal Spotlight Show from August 25th to September 7th, the Yaquina Art Association will be featuring the artwork of Eric Paukstaitis . The Yaquina Art Association Gallery is located in Nye Beach at 789 NW Beach Drive. Hours of operation are 11 am to 5 pm every day until September 3rd (Labor Day), then our hours change to 11 am to 4 pm.
Eric Paukstaitis is relatively new to the Oregon art scene, in fact he is relatively new to the art scene in general. Eric has been actively creating and selling his art for just over a year since retiring to Otter Rock. He previously worked for 40 years as an environmental geologist/hydrogeologist. Upon retirement he wanted to try something totally new, something creative. While taking a printmaking class at the local community college, he became fascinated with not only the beauty of woodblock prints but with the woodblocks themselves. He started engraving wood panels as art objects and his unique art form was created. Eric developed a process for texturizing the surface of the piece to be used as his “canvas” which is then hand painted to create a quasi 3-dimensional art panel.
Whether it is his creative spirit or an inability to focus, Eric continues to experiment with his art form. He has recently combined his engraved images with an acrylic flow technique to create dynamic images of our beautiful shoreline. He is also experimenting with a heavier impasto technique on engraved images to capture the grandeur of some of our rugged bedrock formations along the coast. Examples of these techniques, along with some new woodblock images, can be seen in Eric’s current spotlight show at the Yaquina Art Association (YAA) gallery in Newport, as well as the Artists’ Co-op Gallery in Lincoln City.
“Yaquina” by Eric Paukstaitis
