Orcas Center’s Visual Arts Committee (VAC) is excited to present an art opening on Friday, May 23rd from 5:30pm – 7pm with featured artist, Peter Fisher in the lobby, and a community show with the theme of "Orcas Retrospectives" in the Madrona Room.
Featured Artist: Peter Fisher
2025 is the 50th Anniversary of my first art exhibition; it was at Tacoma Art Museum when I was 18 and a high school senior. The group show was called “Photography 1975” and their jury chose 5 of my entries. Luckily, my high school history teacher had worked for Ansel Adams and taught the “Zone System” so I was producing artwork that I still sell by 1974. In 1983 I moved to Orcas and opened my photography business.
This exhibition provides a sampling of my favorite images from a lifetime of making art. Orcas Island is my favorite subject matter but I enjoy photographing everything from flowers to ferries. Nature is my primary muse but whatever catches my eye is fair game: my artist’s statement is “everything is connected – I see, feel and photograph the energy connecting everything.” Art in service of beauty and spirit!
From about age three, (circa 1960) growing up in Arkansas, I remember knowing two things: I wanted to be an artist and I wanted to share my joy of playing in nature by making art.
The Orcas I visited many summers as a kid included stays at North Beach Inn, running around Madrona Point, and visiting my grandparents, who moved to Grindstone Harbor in 1964.
After 1976, my parents lived in Tokyo, Jakarta, and Brussels. I’d bring film and document my visits; my slide shows are visual stories of where I have been and what seen.
After enjoying a childhood trip to Norway in 1968, I went to school at Hallingdal Folkehugskole in 1977-8. I learned Norwegian, met my cousins, made new friends. I loved the slow pace of life, the skiing, and the culture.
The most extraordinary experience I had overseas was working in Kashmir, New Dehli, and Rajpur for indian scholar Gopi Krishna. One day, shopping for dish scrubbers, I found these.
Why am I an artist? To celebrate and honor my love for the beauty in nature. When I feel my heart connect to the spirit of a rock, or see the life force in a blade of grass, then I create art to give thanks for the gift of mystical experience.”
For more information visit:
https://orcascenter.org/event/art-exhibit-peter-fisher-orcas-retrospectives/
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