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28 January - 10 March
Janet Waring

This is a rare opportunity to see the work of the British artist, Janet Waring. Her work uses a personal notion and visual language to communicate a shared sense of existence and descent.

These paintings express uncontrolled, indefinable order within the beautifully boundless chaos that is - all that we are - and all that we know.

She acquired the more formal aspects of her artistic education, studying painting techniques and methods in Florence, Italy. She currently lives and works in England.

24 March - 12 May
Jean Calomeni



Jean Calomeni works in watercolor and mixed media. Her themes are ones of relationships, independence and empowerment. Although, these paintings often tell personal stories, the narratives resonate with shared familar motifs. They combine confident, loose washes of color with fine draftsmanship.

“My first and long-lasting love of media has always been watercolor. I began by painting with my mom in our breakfast room in San Antonio, Texas.”

26 May - 7 July
Jackie Hurlbert

Jackie Hurlbert’s ceramics communicate something beyond representation or pure aesthetics. She has created a vocabulary of symbolism, where oversized feet denote the strength to stand alone, and exaggerated hands beckon you to step inside yourself.

“Clay serves as the vehicles for my meditation; it speaks without words. Everything that I feel is automatically transferred to the clay through my hands.”

21 July - 8 September
Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson is perhaps best know locally for his illustrations in the Boise Weekly and internationally for his band posters. He has shown in galleries over a number of years. In these painting he expresses the same unique perspective of life that can be found in his illustrations, but also a clear understanding on how to manipulate paint to create surface and effect.

For this exhibition Wilson is creating a new series of paintings based on a found box of family memorabilia and his mothers recollections of these treasures.

22 Sept - 3 November
Lisa Kaser

An established illustrator and sculptor, Lisa Kaser's works are largely created from found materials gathered on her daily walks. This is combined with dyed felt and layers of natural beeswax. The Characters she creates have both pathos and humor. They engage a particular desire to nuture and care for these strange little creatures.

This has great meaning to me from the standpoint of recognizing value in something discarded.”

17 Nov - 22 December
Molly Hill


Molly Hill's art is a wonderfully rich mix of narratives. The artist darts between new and revisited symbolic visual language. A homage to an Asian cultural aesthetic remains a strong feature in her work. She sees the theme, as a vehicle to explore imagery that she is “obsessively curious about, intrigued by, and compelled to investigate”.

In effect she has created her own world through an amalgamation of visual aspects drawn from the traditions and rituals of strong cultures, and her own experience of the human society.

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