Spotlight show featuring the art of Sylvia A. Hosie and Cynthia Jacobi
There will be a two week spotlight show featuring the art of Sylvia A. Hosie and Cynthia Jacobi from June 15 through June 28 at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery. The gallery is located at 789 NW Beach Dr. at the Nye Beach Turnaround in Newport, Oregon. The gallery is open from 10 am to 5 pm daily and features framed and unframed artwork of local artists as well as craft items, cards, jewelry, woodwork and smaller gift items.
Sylvia A. Hosie
Sylvia A. Hosie is a travel photographer with emphasis on historical sites and the natural world. She strives to convey a sense of place through scenes of everyday life and images of the people she meets along the way. Her motivation for travel is often the desire to see, touch and photograph places of antiquity. In this spotlight show she turns her camera on Asia. A recent trip to northern India and an earlier month-long trip to China, Tibet, and Cambodia are the sources of the displayed photographs. “The first time I went to Asia I had concerns about the differences in culture, food, and language. I found instead our common values of family, friendship, faith, and education.”
“The image ‘Veiled Woman’ was taken in a small village in Rajasthan, India. Our group had heard it was a village of snake charmers. While others were photographing the cobras, I noticed this woman who was very curious about us. She kept lifting her her veil to get a better look at us. There is a whole story there in her hands.”
Sylvia has been a member of the Yaquina Art Association Photographers since 1984. She also belongs to the Toledo Arts Guild, Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest, and the Portland Photographic Society. Her photographs and cards are available year round at the Yaquina Art Center and at the Toledo Street Market held each Thursday this summer. More of her images are available on her website, sylviahosiephotography.com.
Cynthia Jacobi
Newport artist Cynthia Jacobi creates with watercolor and mixed media. Often inspired by Oregon nature, she gravitates towards the shapes of salmon, birds, ferns and coastal landscapes. She paints because it activates creative endorphins – the time when an artist transfers energy to the medium. “It is like playing in a sandbox of paints,” she says. On occasion, her work has been focused on serious political themes of women, war and children.
She loves watercolor for the luminosity and the wonderful surprises formed as pigments puddle into the paper. From mixed media, she loves textures, and the feel of patterns from nature pressings and found objects. Her palette tends to be warm as red is her favorite color – from earthy reds of landscapes to brilliant roses in salmon. “Although,” she explains, “my newest series with photo transfers onto plaster of my Grandmother is in black, white, and cool blue gray.” Her favorite tools are a handful of brushes for watercolor, and for mixed media, a nail and hand-made stencils. Her latest mixed media fish incorporate vintage fishing lures.
She usually starts with a sketch and “thumbnail” to establish design and contrast. Knowing when a painting is done is a challenge. She often displays the painting at home and looks at it several times a day to help decide when to quit or start over. Using a photo can help find values. Cynthia’s goal is to paint honestly with her own ideas. It is icing on her cake to capture an emotional response with the viewer.
She is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, For ArtSake Gallery, and the YAA. Through the Toledo Arts Guild she participates in teaching after-school art classes. She is also a poet and board member of Writers on the Edge. Her most inspiring instructors have been Bill Kucha and Eric Sandgren (watercolor), Pat Wheeler (mixed media) and Mary Fox (acrylic and color mixing).
"Veiled Woman" by Sylvia A Hosie
