Meeting the artists: Gallery at Town Center

The Gallery at Town Center in Lake Forest Park is featuring  pastel and oil painter Susan Dawson and Photographer Nancy Garseth through April 6 Tuesday-Saturday 12-5pm.

Susan Dawson's pastels
Photo by Devon Rickabaugh

Susan Dawson finds open air or plein air painting calming with “a sheer awe and beauty to it” which she hopes she portrays in her work. She has one landscape in the show from Lopez Island. The rest are bird pastels including a crow and a stunning Bateleur Eagle from the Philippines who eats monkeys.

Nancy Gorseth poses with one of her photographs
Photo by Devon Rickabaugh

Photographer Nancy Gorseth says “Through my work I attempt to examine the intricate details in life, the small, wondrous depictions of beauty that sometimes go unnoticed.” She loves color and uses macro lenses to blow up small details of nature like flowers and butterflies. She plans to photograph more birds in the future. She went to Canada to photograph the unusually large migration of snowy owls from the arctic last year.