If you haven’t had a chance to see the Anya Coxworth exhibit, hurry over to Village Frame & Gallery in Multnomah Village. Anya is our featured artist for April, and then we have to take these down to install a new show. This exhibit is free to the public during regular Gallary hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm, at 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219. Don’t miss it!
Painter Anya Coxworth at First Friday April 1st

First Friday is tomorrow, already! It should be gorgeous weather, so come meet local painter Anya Coxworth from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Anya is a Portland resident, in fact, we first met her at Fat City. She’s been exhibiting her work around the area and is known for her use of vibrant color and flowing lines. Anya’s work will be featured at Village Frame & Gallery throughout April.
Anya Coxworth, Artist’s Bio
Anya Coxworth is a self taught painter born in Flint Michigan in 1971 relocating to Portland Oregon in 1999. Inspired as a child by her artist father she began experimenting with color and lines. Anya has now been painting whimsical portraits, landscapes, and originals for 29 years. She has sold her work locally and internationally for the last 16 yrs. While in Portland she gave a lecture on her work at Portland Community College during the annual Artbeat event in 2006 and has donated pieces to Habitat for Humanity and Oregon Health and Sciences University benefit auctions. The Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland accepted an original painting of Anya’s for the cities permanent collection. Anya currently resides between Portland and Yamhill Oregon.
First Friday, April 1st
No fooling, this is a show worth seeing with your own eyes at Village Frame & Gallery. We will be open until 9 p.m. at 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219. Hope to see you there.


Karen Story Featured Artist at March 4th First Friday
Karen Story is an painter who majored in printmaking and painting at PNCA in Portland, Oregon. She was the recipient of a Louis Bunce Scholarship award, the Printmaking Department scholarship award, and the Local 10 Scholarship award. She exhibits throughout Oregon and her work is owned by the Portland Art Museum and many private collectors.
This month, Village Frame & Gallery is featuring Karen’s newest show, Shipscapes.
Karen Story Artist’s Statement
I use art to communicate with those around me, as well as with my own inner being. Through arrangement of color, form, content, line, shape, and value I attempt to create a unique experience for the viewer.
This show is especially exciting for me, since the medium is not one I generally use for artistic expression. After I discovered Captain Bob, a rusting 65 year-old ship on the Multnomah Channel (while kayaking), I could think of no other way to capture the beauty of what I saw than through photography. I was stunned as I noticed the ‘landscapes’ which surrounded the ship, at the level of the water, created by years of re-painting, rust, moss, oxidation, and erosion.
Presenting familiar but unusual scenes of lakesides and ocean/land views, the shipsides compelled me to repeatedly visit and photograph them over the following 4 years. I continue to photograph ships during various times of day, season, and weather. The images are evocative of time and place, but with a slight mystery about exactly what one is viewing. These illusions may evoke emotion as well as memory.
Currently an encaustic painter, I use many of the images to inspire paintings in a medium which is also somewhat mysterious, and also asks the viewer to look more deeply into the painting. While assembling this show, I have been able to revisit the initial reactions and excitement brought on by discovering Captain Bob and other rusted ships in Swan Island harbor. It has been my pleasure.
Meet Karen at First Friday
Join us at Village Frame & Gallery for an artist’s reception Friday, March 4, starting at 6:00 pm. We are located in Multnomah Village at 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak of Shipscapes:




What’s Love Got to Do with First Friday?
Valentines day is coming up, and First Friday is the perfect time to browse with your lucky partner and see if there is something – jewelry, hand turned wood pens, or art – that might tickle their fancy!
We’re open until 9 p.m., so come to Multnomah Village to eat, shop, browse our art gallery, and enjoy the evening with your Valentine. Village Frame & Gallery is featuring artists of the Pacific Northwest: Beki Killorin, Sharon Augusta Mitchell, Keaney Rathbun, Barbara Pihos, Tony Turpin, Ken Elliott and Jeanette Nuxoll. Don’t miss this exhibit!
We are located at 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219. Can’t make First Friday? Stop by any Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm.
Focus on Pacific Northwest Artists This Month at Village Frame & Gallery
Right now in the Gallery: art from around the region by Beki Killorin, Sharon Augusta Mitchell, Keaney Rathbun, Barbara Pihos, Tony Turpin, and Ken Elliott, plus Jeanette Nuxoll. Don’t miss this exhibit! Open to the public during regular business hours at Village Frame & Gallery, 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219.
In the meantime, let’s take an art break!
Un-First Friday Features Artists of the Pacific Northwest
Village Frame & Gallery Open Late January 8th
Happy New Year! Since we were all out celebrating last week, Multnomah Village is having “Un-First Friday” this week. It works that same as a regular First Friday, we will be open until 9 p.m. with a new show in the Gallery. Come to the Village for dinner, shopping, and catching up with friends and neighbors.
Village Frame & Gallery will be featuring several artists from around the Pacific Northwest. Hope to see you there!
Important Dates this December
Need something framed in time for Christmas? Bring it in by December 12th.

Great framing takes time, so bring your gifts of art and seasonal decor to Village Frame & Gallery this week to make sure they will beat Santa to your door.
Despite the business of the season, we will make sure your project receives the care an attention we have built our reputation on since 1999.
Shop hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm. at 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219.
Have questions about whether or not we can frame something? Call us at 503-245-8001.
Holiday Hours at Village Frame & Gallery
In order to spend time with our families and friends, Village Frame & Gallery will observe the following special holiday schedule. We hope you are also able to spend time this season in the company of those you love best.
Thursday, December 24th: Closing at 4 pm
Friday, December 25th: Closed
Saturday, December 26th: Closed
Thursday, December 31st: Closing at 4 pm
Friday, January 1st: Closed
Suzanne Vaughan at First Friday December 4th
Meet Artist Suzanne Vaughan at Village Frame & Gallery this Friday

Every good story starts at the beginning, and the start of Suzanne Vaughan’s tale lies deep within the heart of Auckland City, New Zealand. Even
as a young child, she absorbed and appreciated the intense vibrancy of the landscape, paying close attention to textures, shapes, horizons, and colors. As she evolved into a woman, she brought with her the inspirations of her childhood and stored them away deep in her subconscious, allowing them to simmer and expand. During the years post and prior to her relocation to America, Suzanne Vaughan’s passion for painting ignited. Her recent works, the Portal series and Cityscape series, embody that explosion of color from within and trace her progression through trying times.
Her painting process involves an energetic, flowing, and rhythmic application of paint. In the Portal series, multiple layers of pigments and tinted
glazes are overlaid generating a luminous glow that suspends flicks, drips, and brushstrokes of paint. Her Cityscape and Landscape paintings are treated with the sharp strokes of palette knives to build up heavily pigmented and textural layers that are often scraped to reveal merging and interacting color complexities. There is a degree of intuition involved, an element of surprise, a dynamic interaction with the unfolding images, color, and textural variances.
However, the most important part of the creative process is the way she can fully immerse herself into her works. Art is about creating an alternate world within reality, where the stresses and troubles of the world evaporate, and where there is only room for one thing: art. “I have to do it,” she says, “it is an ingrained and vital part of who I am.”
Portals and Cityscapes by Suzanne Vaughan opens Friday, December 4, 2015, 6 – 9 p.m. at Village Frame and Gallery, 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219. This exhibit is open to the public, at no charge. Can’t make it Friday? Stop by during regular business hours, Tuesday – Saturday
10 am – 6 pm, throughout December.
In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek of this vibrant show:
Only One More Week to See Our Local Artist Showcase
It’s a feast for the eyes at the Gallery this month!
Looking for something to do this week that doesn’t include getting soaked and cold? We suggest soaking in some local art at Village Frame & Gallery, followed by dinner nearby. This month, in the Gallery: Anya Coxworth, Karen Story, Olive Eng, Patricia Giraud, and Violet Blackwood, with Denise Sirchie. The exhibition is free and open to the public during regular business hours, Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm, until the end of November at Village Frame & Gallery, 7808 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219.
Want to know more about these Portland artists? Read on …
Anya Coxworth
Artist’s Bio

Anya Coxworth is a self taught painter born in Flint Michigan in 1971 relocating to Portland Oregon in 1999. Inspired as a child by her artist father she began experimenting with color and lines. Anya has now been painting whimsical portraits, landscapes, and originals for 29 years. She has sold her work locally and internationally for the last 16 yrs. While in Portland she gave a lecture on her work at Portland Community College during the annual Artbeat event in 2006 and has donated pieces to Habitat for Humanity and Oregon Health and Sciences University benefit auctions. The Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland accepted an original painting of Anya’s for the cities permanent collection. Anya currently resides between Portland and Yamhill Oregon. To view more work visit Anya Coxworth on Facebook and to commission work email her at anyamarie71@gmail.com.
Karen Story
Artist’s Bio

Majoring in printmaking and painting at PNCA in Portland, Oregon, Karen was the recipient of the Louis Bunce Scholarship award, the Printmaking Department scholarship award, and the Local 10 Scholarship award. Her work is owned by the Portland Art Museum and by many private collectors, and can be seen at Alberta Street Gallery (Portland, OR) and RiverSea Gallery (Astoria, OR).
Karen works primarily in encaustic, which guides the artist to work on the canvas in a direct and flexible way. This allows for unexpected changes in composition, form, texture, and color. Layering and removal of layers keeps this process-oriented painting method archealogical in nature, as there is much digging back into and revealing the often forgotten history of the painting. A certain non-attachment to the current phase of the painting develops, and allows for a freedom not experienced in other media.
Olive Eng
Artist’s Bio

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Olive Eng’s parents were originally from the Guangzhou province of China. Olive grew up with a unique blend of both eastern and western influences. The family moved to California when she was a teenager. After receiving her Bachelor’s Degree from UCLA and her Master’s Degree from USC, Olive worked for the LA City Schools for 20 years. When it came time to retire, Olive moved north to Portland and moved into the Rose Schnitzer Manor. She began dabbling in painting, taking collage and water color classes at the Multnomah Art Center (MAC). Over time, Olive really began to develop her distinctive style of art using a blend of paint — both acrylic and water color — colored papers, print material and other mixed media.
Olive has shown her work at the Pacific Art Guild in Los Angeles, the Festival for the Arts in Lake Oswego, the Oregon Society of Artists, the Ageless Art Exhibit, part of the Oregon Alliance of Senior and Health services (now LeadingAge Oregon), and in 2011 had her first solo exhibit at Stonehenge Studio in John’s Landing.
Patricia Giraud
Artist’s Statement

The seeds for my imagery were planted long ago. I have always been intrigued by the complexity and immediacy of the natural world. My childhood days were spent outdoors, quietly exploring shallow streams, scooping up tadpoles, and seizing the opportunity to be near any animal but especially horses.
Initially, the horse was chosen as a totem around which the nuances of relationship, trust, vulnerability and stewardship were considered. More recently, I have expanded those themes to include figures in natural environments–drawing upon memories while interpreting the shapes, textures found in the landscape.
Violet Blackworth
Artist’s Bio

I’m fortunate to have spent years in Spain, Paris, Berlin, and Tunisia, as well as traveling over the globe from Africa to Malaysia, Japan, Hawaii, Sri Lanka and India.Also I must give thanks to the fact that I grew up surrounded with good design, from an early age supplied with art materials. My father, John A. Kapel, the renowned designer, would give me advice at times, commenting briefly upon my collages, batiks, mosaics, masks and paintings. I sold my first works of art at ten, four batiks that resembled paintings, and ever since then I’ve been living and breathing art.
Among artists I’ve known in my life, Leonor Fini was most influential. She was my muse when I entered my twenties and started to paint in earnest, turning out dark very colorful semi-abstracts. Many depicted fantastic beings both beautiful and demonic—phantoms from dreams or nightmares
that tempted me, drove me, and pushed me to paint with intensity. Always I was tormented by an occult yet illuminating force—unknown, ephemeral, maybe magnificent, or perhaps fatal like an immense jungle flower concealing a venomous snake.
Other projects included a film in the 80’s that Fassbinder would have directed except for his untimely death, house renovations in styles from rustic to solar to Danish modern, ecological thinning of drought-stricken forest at risk of fire, and raising full-blooded wolves to live in the wilderness. Throughout, I continued my artistic work, moving from drawings and paintings to computer graphics when programs for art first came out.
Recently I spent some years in Tunisia painting on silk and designing clothes. Upon my return to the States, I shifted into photography. At the same time I developed a singular style in photo-montage. Initial works utilized photos from magazines and other publications — then I began to use photos I’d taken, combining work in “photopainting” with computer graphics for special effects.
Currently I work in three related but fairly separate mediums: photo-montage, photography, and a special technique I call “phainting,” creating works both painterly and photographic.
Denise Sirchie
Artist’s Statement

My passion for art was awakened around the age of 9; I attended an art class every Saturday each summer through the age of 14. I was taught the basics: sketching, oil painting, pastels, charcoal, still life and portraiture by an inspiring, memorable teacher. As maturity permitted, a short train ride into Philadelphia allowed me to attend the Philadelphia College of Art. I acquired independence, a taste of city life, but more importantly.new eyes. I believe it was then that I began seeing not the ordinary, but the unique possibilities within simplicity.
After college and several years of traveling, I settled in California. Pottery lured my interest and after 4 years of mastering the wheel, clay and porcelain became my new best friends. Upon marrying and then the birth of my son, my art transitioned once more, this time through a child’s eyes: simplicity in form, with bold, contrasting colors … as innocent and beautiful as a child. A few years later, we migrated north and settled in Portland. Life was sailing along smoothly until an early diagnosis of breast cancer. Lights flashed, sirens screamed, treatments commenced, and realizations surfaced.
Therapy for my soul and mind was found in mosaics. I had always admired the media; my husband supported my interest and insisted I give it a try. Self-taught through the help of books and friends’ advice, I became immersed.
Ten years later, the passion to create and the desire to stay healthy is joined in a marriage of determination. The direction of my art is constantly in motion. The freedom that the media allows is alarming: the reason I love it so. As Ralph Waldo Emerson summarizes: “Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.” Bzzzzzzzzzzzz
Thanksgiving Hours at Village Frame & Gallery
Village Frame & Gallery will be closed Thursday, November 26th, and Friday, November 27th, so we may spend Thanksgiving with our loved ones. We will reopen for regular hours on Saturday, November 28th.
We hope you will, likewise, be able to spend Thanksgiving with the people you are most thankful for and we look forward to seeing you after the holiday.
Need Gifts Framed?
Framing orders for Christmas delivery need to be dropped off at the shop no later than December 12th.