Summer 2013: Artwork

Introduction

Our Summer 2013 edition features Nani Chesire and Jocelyn White whom we are proud to publish for the first time, and veteran artists Liz Walker and Anne John who grace our pages with their experienced and noted work. Four distinct styles, four notable voices, all creating art for very personal reasons.

Tonia Twigger McConnell
Guest Art Editor

Featured Art by Liz Walker

We are pleased to showcase painter Liz Walker as our featured artist. Her rich palette is a perfect match to the vibrant colors of summer.

Liz explains, “My paintings are about color and shape and how to best balance the two within a rectangle or square. I often start out with a patterned, marbled background. Then I stand back and evaluate what’s there – sometimes making the shapes into a human form. It’s that element of ‘What if?’ that keeps it interesting for me and, I hope, for the viewer.”

Liz has a B.A. in Art from Trinity University in San Antonio, and has been active in the local art scene since moving to Portland from Boston in 1999. She began painting in watercolor in 1991 and now works primarily in acrylic and marbling. Liz’s favorite subject matter is fanciful people in everyday settings. Color is an essential part of her work, but she also enjoys telling a “story” within each painting.

A member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, Oregon Society of Artists and Northwest Watercolor Society, Liz’s award winning paintings have been displayed throughout the Northwest. Go to www.lizwalkerart.com to find out about upcoming exhibits and see images of her latest paintings.

Enjoy a sampling of Liz Walker's work in VoiceCatcher's Featured Artist Gallery:

Poetry Rich, strong, poignant, humorous and inspiring. We’ve caught twenty never-before-published poems by sixteen unique voices.		Prose Seven talented women search for themselves in their bodies, their family, themselves.		Artwork Established dynamos and aspiring voices add colorful visions to our third issue.		Young Voices Language leaps off the page in the poetry and prose of five young authors who delight in sensory detail.		Contributors Meet the authors and artists who make this Summer 2013 edition a rich, varied and engaging experience.

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS POETRY         Abandoned Church by Tanya Jarvik         Commencement by Kelly Running         Depoe Bay by Wendy Thompson         Directive by Cristina White         Hawk Moth by Wendy Thompson         How to Recycle Love Letters by Jennifer Dorner         I Swapped a '74 Mustang for This by Jennifer Fulford         Polaroid of My Mother by Cindy Stewart-Rinier         Lover, Molester, and Maidens (Haibun) by Margaret Chula         Savory by Pat Phillips West         Seascape by Marjorie Power         Suspended by Grace Kuhns         The Hand-Off by Pattie Palmer-Baker         The Ride by Linda Ferguson         The Ticking Shirt by Tricia Knoll         Three Facts about Sperm by Ursula Whitcher         Three True Stories by Penelope Scambly Schott         Today at the Library by Pat Phillips West         Trapped Birds by Grace Kuhns         You, who will be alive and reading after I'm gone by Penelope Scambly Schott PROSE         After the World Ends by Kait Heacock         Something Permanent by Ashley-Renée Cribbins         Your Hand at Your Throat by Karen Guth         Black Sharpie by Anne Gudger         Diagnosis by Helen Sinoradzki         For He's a Jolly Good Fellow by Laura Stanfill         Breathing Underwater by Valerie Wagner ART         Unity by Anne John         Rearguard by Anne John         Speculation by Anne John         Wire by Jocelyn White         Taitian Trio by Nani Chesire         Catch Your Breath by Nani Chesire YOUNG VOICES         We Will Read to You by Rebecca Cleveland-Stout         Strawberry Party by Natalie Lerner         A Young Night by Clara Beaumont         Beach Wanderer by Isabella Waldron         Light and Dark by Colette Au CONTRIBUTORS