Festival Art

Our 2008 Festival Art is  

Lavender Bliss   

by Sally Cays  

Artist Bio -

Ms. Cays is a self taught artist whose work can be found in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest . The Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Cays's Gallery on the Wall are two local venues where her work can be seen. Cays says that her “ watercolor paintings reflect her love of intense color and strong contrasts, and express the beauty in the world around her with what she calls the luminous quality of watercolor ." While most of her works are watercolor florals and still lifes, Ms. Cays has included wildlife, landscape, and portrait paintings; as well as award-winning highly detailed colored pencil, ink, and charcoal drawings.

With regional, national, and international recognition, Ms. Cays is a signature member of The Norhtwest Watercolor Society, a member of the National Watercolor Society and of the American Watercolor Society, and a juried member of Women Painters of Washington. Her works have been published in "Splash 5; the Glory of Color" and "Splash 6; The Magic of Texture” ( North Light Books). Ms. Cays instructs a popular watercolor class and also offers an online course “Portraits of Children.”

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