The Artists

Shari L. Hutchinson-Walker - Agate Pass Studios

Northwest landscape and portrait paintings

17101 Angeline Avenue NE, Suquamish, WA 98392
(206) 914-0750
sharihutch@aol.com

As an artist, I am interested in many forms of media and enjoy experimenting with approach, application and subject. I am actually a fairly straightforward landscape painter, but, the difference for me is that I see landscapes everywhere! Whether that landscape pictures a mystical layering of an old-growth forest, the craggy cliffs overlooking Agate Pass, the gentle rise of a sleeping infants cheek, or the spiritual depths represented in a crack in a beach bulkhead, for me, they are all related.

In my paintings, I have always tried to reflect the spiritual nature of a place, a person, or a thing. Because of my multiple interests, you will, of course, spot many traditional landscapes, forest scenes, water views, maybe even a city-scape, among my work. But, I also do figurative work and take commissions for portraits, especially of children.

My search for the spirituality of an image, has also led to a distinctly different, more abstracted series of paintings. These paintings have images centered on themes of redemption and sacrifice, and explore the structure and texture of a surface.

In addition, as a landscape painter and lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, I feel I have a responsibility to record the fragile and endangered in our environment, as well as the incredible joy and beauty that surround us. My studio is on beautiful Agate Pass, situated between Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap Peninsula, ancient home of Chief Seattle and his descendants, home to a quiet, secluded conclave, tucked under the Agate Pass Bridge.

2010 Summer Studio Tour: August 13, 14 & 15

2010 Winter Studio Tour: December December 3, 4 & 5

Questions? Call 206-842-0504, or e-mail us at: bistudiotour@earthlink.net.