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Shelia Coe and Dianna Woolley are winning combination
Walla Walla – The July exhibit at Combine Art Collective will feature work by Sheilia Coe and Dianna Woolley.
After retiring, Shelia Coe, pursued her other interests, including becoming a Master Garder. Fortunately, she took an interest in sculpture after taking instruction from sculptor, Penny Michel. Coe works in clay, creating pieces inspired by nature and animals. Her childhood was one full of art, thanks to a mother who encouraged her daughter to become an artist. It just took a while. Perhaps it is a combination of scientist, engineer and artist, bringing her successful career in dentistry to her new passion in sculpture. Her pieces are beautifully realized, creating shapes and spaces, both engineered and whimsical.
Dianna Woolley is one of the five founders of the Combine Art Collective and continues in that role from her new home in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her work is in many Walla Walla homes and others across the country.
After working in collage and encaustic, Woolley primarily uses oil, sometimes incorporating cold wax into her work, obscuring and revealing shapes and forms to produce complex and intriguing paintings. Her process has developed through her natural curiosity and an inclusive approach to learn and be inspired by the community around her.
“My work is fueled by artistic curiosity, dedicated studio practice and challenges offered by tutors, peer mentorship and workshop participation. Through decades of applied studies, begun in landscape and figurative work, my paintings have grown into lively abstractions fat with distinct mark making, color contrasts, and imaginative images.”
Woolley will be back in Walla Walla and at the gallery on July 2. Please make sure to stop by to say hello.
This exhibit will be on view from July 1 through July 13, during the hours of 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursday through Sunday.
Artists' work can also be seen online at:
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