JOANN  CHARTIER  

JoAnn Chartier is an award winning painter, sculptor, printmaker and published writer.  She’s been making art since the age of 12, when she won her first blue ribbon. She earned a degree with honors from California State University Sacramento and has won recognition for her work as a writer and painter, including double bronze awards at the California Discovery Show of 1994 and a bronze for art direction of a teaching video from the New York International Film and TV Festival. She has co-authored four books about women in the old west published by Globe Pequot Press.  A resident of Oregon's Willamette Valley, she exhibits and teaches at locations around the state.
I like good coffee.
I like a good book.
I like blue-highway road trips.
I love color. And taut canvas. And the rhythm and sweep of big brushes loaded with rich pigment stroking and dabbing and scrubbing in the bones and planes, the lights and the darks and the drips and spatters that make a painting.

I don’t paint pictures. I discover images. I interpret science and dreams. I translate odd geometry. I absorb fields and mountains, sea and sky, shadow and light and fling it from my brushes and my fingertips until a new creation appears.

I don’t paint portraits. I layer gesso on gorgeous paper and scrub transparent blacks all over it and then meditate on the mysterious appearance of a man’s profile, a tiger’s eye, a palm tree in a boat. I tiptoe into the dark and add a highlight, darken a shadow, delicately scratch and stipple until shapes emerge.

I don’t explain the results of the interaction of eye and mind, brush and paint. Everything from string theory to pond scum influences what comes from my hand.

What it means is up to you.

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Represented by DragonFire Gallery at Cannon Beach, Oregon

Cannon Beach is famous for its artists and galleries, drawing thousands of art lovers, photographers and visitors at all seasons. Located west of Portland on the scenic Oregon coast, the artist colony has grown over the years to become a major destination. DragonFire is one of the largest and most diverse galleries on the Coast. It features an array of contemporary art and handmade glass, jewelry, wood and metal art. In 2007, DragonFire was chosen by Oregonian readers and the newspaper's travel editor as one of 3 galleries on the coast that should not be missed.

I am pleased to be included in the lineup of artists featured at DragonFire.  Look for special events like the
Stormy Weather art festival each November and the Spring Unveiling on the first weekend of May, presenting art in action, live music, and, as always, the unique atmosphere of Cannon Beach. For more information, go to www.DragonFireStudio.com




JOANN CHARTIER
NINE MILE BLUES  5' x 9'  ACRYLIC ON CANVAS  THREE PANELS      
FARM    ACRYLIC/CANVAS: 45X55               sold/Belgium Collector
Corvallis Studio

You are invited to visit my new studio in downtown Corvallis, Oregon, located at  340 SW Second Street at the corner of Adams, #3 on the second floor among studios of other artists.  Corvallis, home of Oregon State University, offers a revitalized downtown with fine public art along the riverwalk parkway, lots of fine restaurants, local wineries, microbrewies, art galleries, live music and theater and recreation of all kinds.  I have also been invited to show at a new gallery there -- Dana Marie Art Gallery -- located at Madison Square: 425 SW Madison, Suite E1. You can visit Starbucks and Noah's Bagels in the same building and enjoy the ambience of Corvallis.

For an individual or group appointment, email me with the time/date of your planned visit  Hope to see you in Corvallis or at Dragonfire Studio Gallery in Cannon Beach at art events there.
New Work at DragonFire Gallery
Canal               
Looking South      Cannon Beach
Beach   sold  Rockaway Beach OR
Rain Showers          sold   Washington