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Clark County art exhibit features county life

Clark County art exhibit features county life

On a quick glance, it might be easy to mistake Marilyn Hocking's paintings for photographs. In fact, she admitted when she does a show she often has to put up a sign to clearly label her works as pastel art.

Hocking's pieces are reflective of her hometown, Ridgefield, as well as her southern roots in Louisiana. Stunningly realistic landscape pastels and oil paintings capture snippets of the county's quiet rural lifestyle, summer swims on the Lewis River and the Ridgefield Fourth of July parade.

"I like to do nostalgic pieces that are a nod back to the old city roots of Clark County," Hocking said. "Like the Lewis River swimming people where kids have been going for decades. If that's not Clark County culture then I don't know what is."

She describes her style as realistic yet idealiBuy hid kit, ballasts, and headlight bulbs.stic. Though photos and memory are typically the basis for her artwork, she likes to take the real and make it into something better and more beautiful. In her depiction of Clark County pastoral life, for example, "there are no power lines, there are no weeds and there are no mole hills."

"Someone once told me that Norman Rockwell used the same idealism technique to make his works balanced and finished," Hocking said. "He never had an ideal life so he painted an ideal life."

It was an event in Hocking's life that pushed her to seriously pursue her passion for painting. A teacher, a mother and a wife, Hocking always planned to explore herinterest in art someday. But when she was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago, she realized she shouldn't delay her passion any longer.

"Fighting that battle with breast cancer woke me up real fast," Hocking said. "It made me realize not to put things off to someday, because nobody ever knows what their someday might be. Since then I've been painting and painting and painting and I haven't looked back."

Behind Jon Brittingham's series of peaceful silkscreens of rivers and boats is months of detailed labor.

His form of artwork is screen printing, also known as a serigraph. Brittingham completes the entire process by hand in his studio, starting with a pencil drawing. He then moves to a pen and ink final, from which he handcuts each color separation with an X-Acto knife.

"A color print takes me from conception to end four to six months," he said. "It's a long process and since there's no mechanics involved, all of the registration from beginning to end is done by hand. For a hand process it's very precise."

Brittingham, an artist trained in numerous fields including metal scultping and architecture, learned the art of screenprinting after working as an art director for several years. His love of water and the 25 years he lived on the Oregon coast heavily influence his work.

His series of serigraphs, "River People," featured at the exhibit, depicts the lives of of people interacting with waterways. A variaton of color and black-and-white pieces in the series highlight local bodies of water, such as Merlin Lake.

For Brittingham, art is a vehicle for an expression of feeling.

"I want to express that we should enjoy the earth the best we can and take care of Mother Nature," he said. "I hope people look at it and understand that we have a wonderful state and area that we should get out and enjoy. There's a lot more to do here than drive-bys, rock 'n' roll and sex and drugs."
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