Featured Artists:
Bonnie Beall, Frances Li & Kimberlee Weisker

Clinkscales and Petty's works of art will be shown March 1 - April 26, 2007 at the Life's Crossing Gallery on the first floor of the Portland Donor Center with an artist's reception "Around the Clock Tour" of the American Red Crosson March 15, 2007 from 12:00-2:30pm.

Art patrons wishing to participate in the tour should RSVP to Sara Schirmer at 503-528-5671.

About Bonnie Beall
After a long career as a professional musician, Bonnie became interested in the creative arts. She studied drawing with Royce Kugler of Beaverton and watercolor painting from Linda Paton. She has taken workshops in watercolor from Nita Engle, Ellie Cook, Jeanne Dobie, Dory Kanter, Jan Kuntz, and Judy Morris. She studied drawing in graphite and colored pencils with Lee Hammond. Bonnie has been fortunate to be able to travel extensively and has a large file of photos for painting. She has also painted on site at many locations. She especially loves to paint landscapes and flowers.

Bonnie is a member of the Village Gallery of Art in Cedar Mill, Main Street Art Society in Hillsboro and Local Colour, a Forest Group who meet to paint together every week. She has had many opportunities to paint on site, participate in demos in schools, show her work, and paint together with other artists.

Contact Artist:
Bonnie Beall
513 NE Birchwood Rd.
Hillsboro, OR 97124
503.648.3378
bonjbeall@aol.com

(Maihwa) Frances Li
Frances Li was born in Shanghai, China and at the age of two her family moved to Taiwan. She was educated in Taiwan and as a young woman she came to the United States to study for an advanced degree.

As a girl in Taiwan, Frances studied painting for many years with traditional teachers, known as “masters.” They specialized in different subjects: one master painted bamboo, another painted plum blossoms, and a third painted landscapes. During her hour-long lessons each week, Frances was given samples of paintings to copy, progressing in size from small to large. After she completed her paintings, her teachers would critique her work. Today she uses this same traditional method to teach painting. Flower painting drew most of her interest and became her specialty, remaining so even today.

Frances also learned Chinese calligraphy in school and formally studied Ikebana. Her interest in flowers is two-fold: flowers from her garden act as subjects for paintings and for Ikebana arrangements. Because of her early training, skill, and interest in many art forms, Frances has become an accomplished artist who teaches and demonstrates painting, calligraphy, Ikebana, and Origami.

Frances was principal of the Triple Cities Chinese School in Endwell, New York where written and verbal Chinese, as well as arts, were taught. It was founded to preserve the Chinese heritage for generations of Chinese children born in the USA. Frances enriched that heritage through her practice and teaching of Oriental art forms.

In 1993, Frances moved to Austin, Texas with her family where she taught Chinese art at the Austin Chinese school and to private students.

Frances and her family moved to Portland in 1996. She is very active in The Japanese Garden Society of Oregon as a guide, performing various tasks for the garden and participating in their Geijutsu Sai Art Festival and Sale. She completed the Portland Art Museum docent training program in 1999 and is now a member of the Docent Council. In 2000, Frances also became a guide at the new Classical Chinese Garden in Portland.

Contact Artist:
Frances Li
14270 NW Lakeshore Rd.
Portland, OR 97229-7080
503.645.3149
maihwa@juno.com

Kimberlee Weisker
Thru The Eyes of Kimberlee:

Over many years I have endeavored to paint with oils, acrylics, pastels and watercolors. I presently enjoy watercolors the most. Often watercolor is presumed to have a transparent and low value appearance. I have transformed my works of art into multiple layers with intensified color glazes dependent upon technique and individual expression. After thirty-plus years I have become a consistently changing, self-taught artist. I have decided to convey to other art enthusiasts my genuine love affair with color and nature, which I have personally experienced while creating carefully, my watercolor works of art. People tell me that when they see my paintings they can’t believe that it is actually watercolor. The values and intense colors that I use are like nothing they have ever seen before. Numerous visits to Buchart Floral Gardens in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, Sheriner’s Iris Gardens, the Portland Rose Garden and the beautiful Northwest have inspired me to recreate in watercolor the magnificent beauty of nature. God has given me the artistic talent and inner energy to paint so I hope I can bless and instill in others that special gift of allowing them to see through the eyes of Kimberlee.

Contact Artist:
Kimberlee Weisker
21000 NW Quatama Rd, #173
Beaverton, OR 97006
503.645.4266