Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

"Growing up on the Kitsap Peninsula, I spent many hours playing on the beach and in the woods near our family home. It was here that I developed an appreciation and love for nature. I’d often walk the shore or roam the woodland trails alone, listening to the forest sounds, watching the waves on the beach or the sunlight moving over the landscape. I’d catch small crabs, tadpoles, frogs and butterflies to observe and marvel over. I love doing quick, gestural drawings with expressive use of line. I also sketch and take reference photos in the field, where color and dramatic light get my creative juices flowing. I bring these back to my studio for creating larger, more finished landscapes in pastel.

Recently, my interest in natural history has led to more work involving animals and birds in their Pacific Northwest environments. Personal observation, field sketching and photographing wildlife all contribute to these painterly new works."

Randena received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The Evergreen State College in 1996. She was a three-year recipient of the Alfred G. & Elma M. Milotte scholarship for her undergraduate work in painting and natural history studies. She has taught design at Olympic College and demonstrated drawing and painting techniques as a guest artist for arts organizations and design and painting classes. Her membership in the Washington Native Plant Society and Audubon Society add to her wealth of personal experience with nature, continually informing her work.

Randena has been exhibiting and receiving awards in regional and national juried shows for over 20 years. She is a member of Women Painters of Washington and the Northwest Pastel Society, earning the title of Distinguished Pastelist in 1995. Randena is represented by Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, WA and Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

• Art Port Townsend Juried Art Show, Port Townsend, WA, Lisa Van Doren, Juror
• Northwest Pastel Society Members Exhibit, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA
• Northwest Pastel Society Open Juried Exhibit, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
• Two-Person Exhibit, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Water Shapes Exhibit, Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge island, WA
• Columbia Center Gallery WPW Group Show, Seattle, WA
• Invitational Miniature Show, Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, WA

• Two-person exhibit, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle
• An Enduring Legacy: Women Painters of Washington 1930-2005, Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA - David Martin, Juror
• Invitational Miniature Show, Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, WA

• Three-person Exhibit, Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, WA
• Art Port Townsend Juried Art Show, Port Townsend, WA - Jake Seniuk, Juror
• WPW, Depot Gallery, Anacortes, WA
• Northwest Pastel Society Members' Exhibition, Firdale Gallery, Edmonds
• WPW Membership Exhibition, Flamingo Gallery, Renton, WA
  

• Art Port Townsend Juried Art Show, Pt. Townsend, WA, Greg Bell, Juror
• Northwest Pastel Society Members' Show, Bainbridge Is., WA
• Invational Miniature Show, Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Is., WA

• Northwest Pastel Society Open Juried Exhibition,
    Harbor Gallery, Gig Harbor, WA 2002
• Women Painters of Washington, Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA

2001

• Women Painters of Washington, Membership Exhibition, Sidney Gallery, Port Orchard, WA

1998

• Solo Exhibition, Artist's Edge Gallery, Bremerton, WA

• Solo Exhibition, Olympic College Art Gallery,
  Bremerton, WA
• Two-person Senior Thesis Exhibition, The EvergreenState College, Gallery II, Olympia, WA

• Second Place, WPW Abstracted Landscape Exhibit, Bainbridge Island, WA
• Whatcom Museum, An Enduring Legacy catalogue

• ADG Printing Award, WPWP, Anacortes, WA
• NPS Director's Award, Northwest Pastel Society Members' Exhibition, Edmonds, WA
• Artist & Craftsman Award, WPW Membership Exhibition, Renton, WA

• Honorable Mention, Northwet Pastel Society Members' Show, Bainbridge Is., WA

• NPS Award, Women Painters of Washington Show, Port Orchard, WA

• Alred G. & Elma M. Milotte Scholarship

• Second Place, Honorable Mention and Purchase Awards, North Kitsap Arts and Crafts Fair, Poulsbo, WA
• Merit Award, Northwest Pastel Society Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Issaquah, WA

  
  

• 2000 Instructor, Olympic College, Design
  1995, 1996, 1997 Demo/Program, Olympic College
• 1991 Juror, North Kitsap Arts and Crafts Show
• Women Painters of Washington, Member
• Northwest Pastel Society, Member, Distinquished Pastelist

• Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, WA

• Kitsap County Court House
• Washington State Ferries
• City of Poulsbo, WA
• Hall, Pinckney & Kintner and West, P.S., Bremerton, WA
• Bellevue Hilton Hotel

"Ridge Top Road at Dusk" - pastel

"Rufus Sided Towhee" - pastel

Spring Rains - pastel

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