Mary Young and Sally Ann Morris are featured artists
Mary Young and Sally Ann Morris are featured artists in a two week spotlight show at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery in Nye Beach. The show will be Dec. 13-Dec. 26, 2014 and is open 11 am to 4 pm daily at 789 NW Beach Drive in Newport. There are also display tables set up with arts and crafts for the holidays with many unique gift ideas by local artists.
Sally is not only talented in pastels and watercolors, but she enjoys creating things in glass and clay. She is currently taking the YAA clay class that meets on Tuesdays from 12:30-3:30 in the upstairs classroom of the Visual Art Center. The class is open to the community. Sally also loves working with glass. She started taking classes 5 years ago and has been taking small glass pieces and shaping them into a larger piece or fusing them together to create shapes and beautiful colors. Once the glass is just as she wants it, it is fired once to fuse the glass and then fired again to make it into a shape such as a bowl. Her glass pieces include vases and mobiles. Sally has lived in many countries and gets inspiration from her visits. She lived in Puerto Rico, Azores, and Japan and studied art there. She will be displaying some Japanese dolls that she learned to make in Japan. She moved here from San Diego in 2004 where she studied colored pencil and drawing. She now takes pastel and watercolor classes as well as the clay class. She recently returned from the Holy Land and is excited to do some artwork depicting that area.
Mary Young loves happy things. My best work makes me smile or laugh, and in turn makes others smile and laugh too. Mary says, “I am inspired in a big way by nature and animals. Playing and experimenting with color is a huge part of my glass work as well. I find joy in creating color combinations that just sing together. I also love the sublime result of creating monochromatic art pieces. The beauty of glass is its infinite variety of uses and techniques. You can do anything you can possibly think of.”
Mary will be displaying Fused Glass Artwork or “Warm Glass”. She is inspired by the art world and the artists that make wonderful handmade pieces of art. She stumbled on fused glass when her father purchased a kiln. She began experimenting with it and found her niche. Mary is a member of the YAA and has served on the Board of Directors for several years. Her work can also be seen at the Newport and Lincoln City Farmers Markets, the Sparks Gallery in Depoe Bay and Ocean Beaches Glassblowing & Gallery. Mary moved here 7 years ago from the Portland and Vancouver area.
Heart by Mary Young
