2024 Paint the Town / Write the Town Show

2024 Paint the Town / Write the Town Show – AiA

About Paint & Write the Town:

Paint & Write the Town is AiA’s signature and most popular summertime event. Artists of all skill levels, working in any medium, meet to create art that’s interpretive or inspired by of one or more of the scheduled, inspiring locations in the Salem area. Works can be created “en plein air”, in the studio or a combination. The art and/or poetry must be inspired by these locations and is painted or created on location as much as possible. Poets of the Mid-Valley Poetry Society and others join in to write poems about the sites. The event culminates with a juried exhibition with cash awards in the fall.

Photos from the 2023 Show

Artists in Action is pleased to announce that 2024’s Paint & Write the Town Exhibition of Art & Poems will be held during the month of October at the Elsinore Framing and Fine Art Gallery. We are looking forward to displaying the original works created during AiA’s summertime en plein air event in Elsinore Framing and Art Gallery.

Opening Reception: First Friday, Oct. 4th, 5-8 PM. Awards @ 6 PM

Awards, which will include a ribbon and a monetary reward, will be presented for First, Second and Third Place as well as up to three (3) Honorable Mentions.
Additional awards may be presented.
Award winners will be announced online at opening reception, the AiA Website and social media.
This event will also feature a People’s Choice awards to be determined and announced once the exhibition has concluded.

Eleanor Berry

Cameron Covey

Richard Berry

**Grape Plantation- Photography on Canvas 14x 11…$95**

**Independence Street Scene- Photography on Canvas 14 x 11…$95**

**Storm Clouds- Photography on Canvas 14 x 11,,,$95**

Lorraine Dye

Shadows of Bush Park- Pastel on Sanded Paper 13 x 16…$250

Allyson Flagg-Miller

**Crows Near a Field Fire, Willamette Valley Farming- Oil & Wax on Canvas 18 x 23…N.F.S.**

Home On the Farm, Mother & Son- Oil on Canvas 18 x 23…N.F.S.

Dee Hendrix

**Deepwood Gardens Gazebo- Watercolor 11 x 14…$375**

**Pintails at Baskett Slough- Watercolor 20 x 16…$425**

**Rozella at Adeleman’s Peony Gardens- Watercolor 16 x 20…$425**

G. Hopkins

Blue Skies Over Cascades- Mono-print 12 x 16… $130

**Lavish Gardens #1- Mono-print 12 x 16…N.F.S**

Mt Hood- Mono-print 12 x 15…$130

Marilyn Johnston

Amelia Kelly

**Ankeny Vineyard- Watercolor, Acrylic, Ink pen 9 x 12…$125**

**Baskett Slough- Watercolor, Acrylic, Ink pen 12 x 9…$125**

**Riverside Park, Independence- Watercolor, Acrylic, Ink pen 9 x 12…$125**

Jean Lea

**Adelman Peony Pickup Display- Watercolor & Gouache 22 x 18…$350**

**Storm Approaching the Vineyard(Chemeketa Vineyards)- Watercolor & Gouache 16 x 13…$150**

**Vineyard Through a Glass of Pinot- Watercolor & Gouache 13 x 16…$195**

John Mohney

**Ankeny Fields-Watercolor 16 x 20…$250**

**Near Baskett Slough- Watercolor 20 x 16…$250**

Ada Molinoff

**You Have Arrived at Ankeny- Watercolor 16 x 20…$250**

Ann Moore

**Century Farm Cows- Gouache & Ink Resist 10 x 8…$175**

**Milkweed at the Refuge- Gouache & Ink Resist 10 x 8…$175**

**Ripening Grapes- Gouache & Ink Resist 9 x 12…$250**

Michelle Myers

**Adelman Peony Gardens- Watercolor 14 x 10…$375**

**Seabright Garden- Watercolor 14 x 10…$375**

**Wallace Marine Park- Watercolor 14 x 10…$375**

Don’t Forget to cast your vote for this year’s People’s Choice Award.

Abel Poton

**Ankeny Hill Nature Center & Wildlife Refuge- Oil 20 x 16…$250**

**Deepwood Estates Gazebo- Oil 20 x 16…$250**

Debbie Robinson

**Finding the Quiet- Pastel 9 x 12…$300**

**Nature’s Connection- Pastel 10 x 8…$$285**

Karen Stangeby

**Lavender Fields Forever-Watercolor 20x 16…$150**

**Main Street,USA (Independence)- Watercolor 16x 20…$125**

**This Old House (Deepwood)- Watercolor 24 x 18…$225**

Diane Trevett

**Baskett Slough Hills and Queen Ann’s Lace- Oil 18 x 6…$375**

Olga Walmisley-Santiago

**Ankeny Summer- Acrylic on Canvas Board 14 x 11…$300**

**Aumsville Pond Serenity- Acrylic on Canvas Board 16 x 12…$400**

**Independence Riverbend- Acrylic on Canvas Board 12 x 16…$400**

Deanna White

**Ankeny Bird Refuge- Acrylic 8 x 10…$150**

**Seabright Gardens- Acrylic 12 x 12…$250**

Patricia Young

**A Walk in the Park (Independence)- Acrylic on Canvas 11 x 14…$350**

**Ankeny Hill Overlook- Acrylic on Canvas 20 x 16…$450**

**Ankeny Vineyard Veranda- Acrylic on Canvas 11 x 14…$350**

Vote Here for Peoples’ Choice starting 10/5/24

This form will be posted on the website on October 5th.

Our 2024 Adjudicator: Lee Christiansen

2024 Paint & Write the Town Judge (Visual Art)

About the Artist

Being raised in Oregon, my works reflect both the verdant colors of Western and Central-Eastern sides of the state. I love the dramatic changes of the skies over both these landscapes. I think my paintings function on an abstract level, also offering an emotional expression of time and place. An artist friend once described my approach to painting as “a modern extension of impressionism in the American tradition.”

While in college, I became interested in some of the Abstract Expressionists, whose paintings had strong movements and powerful although troubling images. I always loved the works of many of the impressionists for their great color. Also works by Chagall, Emile Nolde and Franz Marc were significant for their color use.

While able to use my imagination to help produce images years ago, I find myself relying on a camera as a reference tool. First a heavy SLR, then a series of digital cameras, and now I only use my phone. But still, I love to work outside (plein aire) whenever conditions allow, both in oil and watercolor. Recent travels have resulted in a few paintings and studies from further afield, but I still like to express my visual interpretations of my surroundings; of things as I see them.