Our Featured Artist - Donna Standerwick              Born in Maine on the Fourth of July, I spent the first 20 years of my life there in the same city. My love for nature, people and all kinds of animals comes from my background, as well as a strong streak of Yankee stubbornness and confidence. It is from this that the seeds for the things I paint: what, why and how; and who I am, were sown. While attending the University of Maine, I met John, my husband of more than 50 years. After our wedding we headed west for Washington State with our collie puppy (Gordon Bruce Robertson MacTavish) and my life of moving about began. Featured Artist Donna Standerwick Two of our five children were born here in Washington. The others were born in Alaska. It was in 1961 that we had the opportunity to move to Alaska. We took it and moved to Sitka and it was there that I first took up a paint brush and oil painting. We lived in Alaska for almost thirty years. We moved frequently-averaging every three and a half years. Because I made many new artist friends and many worked in different media than I, I learned new media. In order to learn about their media and to grow as an artist, I took on a new media in almost every place we lived. In depth, I studied and learned how to do various kinds of print making including silk screen and block printing; carving – traditional and native; black & white media; native arts; writing and illustrating children’s books; watercolor; tapestry; and pastel. I have always felt it important to continually grow as an artist and one way to do this, as well as experimentation, is to work in new media. We returned to Washington Sate in 1990 and settled in Port Angeles. Basically self taught through extensive reading and practice, I have also studied at workshops with many national and internationally know artists among them Zoltan Szabo, Barbara Neiches, Robert Bateman, Edgar Whitney, and Nathan Jackson. My works are also in The Landings Gallery and Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles, WA., Lakeshore Gallery in Kirkland, WA, and online at my website: www.dstanderwick.com.          Saturday, March 19, 2011/ 9am to 5pm Sunday, March 20, 2011/ 10am to 4pm Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 N. Fir Street, Sequim, WA Presented by Soroptimist International of Sequim *Celebrating over 60 years of Service to Sequim