Nov. 22 reception will highlight LW multimedia artist Yevette Louie
ART LEAGUE
Art League’s Spotlight on the Artist reception will be held on Nov. 22 at Clubhouse 4 from 1-3:30 p.m. The featured artist is Yevette Louie, a multi-talented artisan and artist. Louie is also a current vice president of the Lapidary Club and active member of the Art League, Ceramics Club, Photo Arts Club and the Culinary Club.
Louie and her husband lived and travelled on a sailboat for over five years before eventually settling in Ecuador for several years. When they became grandparents, they decided to move back to the U.S. to be closer to their grandson Stevie.
Louie was 12 when she took her first art class—life drawing—at the Art Students League in Manhattan. She was quite surprised when she walked into the studio to find a naked male model. She was sure she was in the wrong place, having confused the term “life drawing” with “still life.” She expected flowers or fruit, not naked bodies. She rode the elevator up and down a few times until she decided that she could do it. She has been taking classes and enjoying art, naked or not, ever since.
Louie considers herself a multi-media artist. She enjoys working with textiles, felt, clay, collage, photography, acrylics, alcohol inks, watercolor, basket weaving, beading, zentangle, needle arts and fused glass. In addition, she occasionally gets caught up in making paper, jewelry and 3D felt houses, and felt bunnies in Altoid tins. She makes practical things as well as fanciful things, whatever catches her imagination. Color is what moves her forward.
She particularly likes paintings from the Impressionist movement. Each painting draws her in, then she steps away to see how the colors dance in the light. The forms are shaped with colors rather than defined by line.
Everyone is welcome to this event. Louie’s creations of fine fused glass pieces, watercolor paintings, zentangle patterns, fused glass jewelries, beaded jewelries, ceramics, photography and textiles will be on display. Guests are welcome.
—Larry Sioson
