Artist, Kathleen Mattox, and Photographer, Annette Nordine will be present
Saturday, March 10th from 11am until 2pm. Music by Shirley Kirsten, on electric keyboard.

Kathleen Mattox is a local artist from Sanger. She painted while in
college and has been part of many creative endeavors over the last 30+
years since college. But she only returned to watercolor in the year
2000. Most of her works begin with watercolor and then go on to incorporate
other media such as permanent pen, gel pen, textured paper, magazine
photos, modeling paste, watercolor crayon, opaque paint, metallic
paint, gesso etc. In addition to loving a lot of color, she is especially
drawn to the elements of line and texture. Most of her works are large,
usually full sheet watercolors.

In the past year or so, she has begun to further explore acrylics,oils,and pastels and incorporating them into her current watermedia collages. She finds herself most drawn to mixed media works and experimental collages.

Wanting her works to be fun for herself and her viewers, she is not
afraid to experiment and "play" as she explores new subjects, ideas, and
processes. Her subject matter tends to be impressionistic, expressionistic, and/or abstract rather than realistic. She likes to work in series, returning to the same subjects over time. Musical themes permeate many of her compositions, as well as clocks, Italian hill towns,the Madonna and child, and abstract geometric shape compositions.

In her demo on Saturday, March 10th, she will work on several pieces that
are already "in progress" and focus on adding to a mixed media collage
that she will design and work on that day. She will be showing works in
several media during the month's show at Allard's.

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Photography by Annette Nordine

Until 1984, photography was something others did. I was the by-stander. But that was about to change.

That year, I had the opportunity to travel in Scandinavia with my dad, Harold Nordine, and received a bon voyage 'point-and-shoot' camera from my husband, Chuck Doud.

With camera and suitcase in hand, I quickly found having a camera was like having a ticket to go behind the scenes, discovering alleys, people, glimpses into people's lives waiting to be captured on film.

Numerous photography classes and workshops helped to spur me on with subject matter and more complicated 35-mm cameras. Winning awards at various contests and fairs further encouraged me to branch out and sell my photos. I became a weekly fixture at numerous farmers markets in Washington. I also held two, one-person shows in the 90s.

My love of photography proved an asset when, in the mid 80s, I changed my career to "newspapering". I learned to appreciate the here-and-now aspect of photojournalism, and the power of photos in newspaper advertising.

I've retired from the daily work routine, focusing on photography, freelance writing and a new love, watercolor. I was born and reared on a dairy farm near Burlington, Washington, and graduated from Washington State University with a teaching degree.

The work you will see here includes my favorite barn scenes from Washington and Oregon. The grape photos are representative of our beautiful Madera vineyards.

Location: Allard's Gallery, 5350 N Blackstone AVe, Fresno
Starts: 2007 Mar 10 - 11:00am
Ends: 2007 Apr 10 - 6:00pm