Gourd artwork, images featured throughout artwork stroll

Gourd artwork, images featured throughout artwork stroll

Published 1:30 am Thursday, March 5, 2026

PORT TOWNSEND — The gourd artwork of Debbie Cain and the images of Becky Stinnett can be featured from 5 p.m. to eight p.m. Saturday through the First Saturday Art Walk in downtown Port Townsend.

The pair are the featured artists for March at Gallery-9, 1012 Water St.

Cain labored with stained glass for years earlier than exploring 3-D gourd artwork in 2005 whereas dwelling in Southern California. She was intrigued by the probabilities of gourds as a multi-dimensional canvas. Her inventive course of consists of wood-burning, carving by micro-carver after which portray by hand.

When she began, she had the chance to work facet by facet with Native American artists. Many of her items painting intricately carved animals, flowers and landscapes with a Native American motif.

Since she moved to the Pacific Northwest, her inspirations have modified together with her environment.

“Hiking through nature and watching wildlife has enabled me to put my inspirations on the gourd canvas for people to enjoy,” Cain mentioned. “I have always enjoyed creating through different mediums. Gourd art is where my heart lies because my imagination has no limits.”

Cain makes use of feathers, beads, cabochons and different pure gadgets to brighten the gourds, and she or he additionally incorporates using pine needles and resin on lots of her creations.

Stinnett arrived on the Peninsula from Wisconsin in 2013 with a bachelor’s diploma in nuclear drugs know-how.

In 2016, Stinnett acquired a digital single lens reflex digicam so she may share the mountains, forests and seashores of her new residence together with her household within the Midwest.

“I have the extreme good fortune to explore wild places that few people have the opportunity to go to, and I want to share these sights with others,” Stinnett mentioned. “My goal is to capture the scene and reproduce it on print so that others can appreciate the natural beauty our world has to offer. I hope to demonstrate through my photography why these places are worth protecting.”

Her current work has centered on the night time skies and the wonder in them that human eyes don’t have the sensitivity to understand.

These shoots require a whole lot of planning and a substantial amount of luck. First she decides on a location, then she makes use of cellphone apps and web sites to determine when and the way the Milky Way will align with the foreground panorama. She plans the shoot as near the brand new moon as potential, when the skies are the darkest.

On the day of the shoot, she crosses her fingers for clear skies earlier than heading out with a backpack full of substances to her in a single day location.

Stinnett’s images will be considered at www.
beckystinnettphoto.com or on a few Clallam Transit buses.

Cain’s gourd artwork and Stinnett’s images can be on exhibit at Gallery-9 from 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. Wednesdays by way of Mondays all through March.

For extra data, go to www.gallery-9.com.