South Coast Trawler: Bright and Bold

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Bright and Bold

This afternoon the Southern Coos Hospital hosted the gifted painters of the Bright and Bold show. And in spite of some dark clouds all of the artists were there and willing to share their gifts with the crowd. It is rare to get time alone with one artist but for four such talented people to give up their weekend to meet and greet the public is like Haley's Comet, miss it just once and you're out of luck for the next seventy-three years.

Mile Ousley and his charming wife Yvonne were there. Next time you get a chance to button hole Yvonne ask her about her tapestries. They were in the break room at the hospital, but I'm sure with a little coaxing you can get her to give you the inside skinny on the whole thing. And as long as you are in an investigative mood ask Mike about the looms he has built for Yvonne's work. He does all of the construction and crafts the looms from all sorts of natural woods. Sounds like a future show to me. Maybe if we talk it up we can get the Man in the Carpeted Office at CAM to give a listen?

S. L. Donaldson was there along with her faithful native companion, even if he was more interested in the cookies than he was in looking at fine art. Takes a lot of maturity to pick art over cookies. Hey Scout, where exactly were those cookies?

Tim Greathead was also there but like many of the patrons of the show he got captured by the delightful sounds of Left Coast Jazz. Keyboard and bass, add cool school jazz and stir, gently so as not to bruise the tunes, then sit back and relax. But do get up before they have to run you out of the hospital, it's really a place for sick folks and not a lounge.

So you missed the really, big shew, but here in tiny pictures is a glimpse of what you could have been doing.