Columbia River Gallery

05/13/2026

Just one of the many fabulous things to bid on this weekend. TAC Gift Basket...oh yeah! Click the link to see.

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival (CFAF)

04/02/2026

MARTY HOGAN
Oregon Sunstone and Argentium Silver Ring

This just might be the particular ring best suited to my personal predispositions, metal preferences, and geographical location. In the history of the planet. Just sayin’. 🐦‍⬛

In the Artist’s words:
As a child growing up in rural North Carolina, I remember holding a piece of jewelry in my hand and wondering how it was made. I grew up on a farm in rural North Carolina 75 years ago, My family was poor and couldn't afford store bought things, so we learned to make them. That ability to look at something and figure out how it's made and then proceed to make it has served me well throughout my life. After a long career as a hospice social worker and author of an end-of-life book, I began making jewelry about 10 years ago.

I use traditional metal smith techniques such as sawing, hammering, etching, soldering and stone setting to make sterling silver jewelry adorned with ethically sourced semiprecious gems. I am intrigued and inspired by the forms and textures found in the stones I use and in animals and plants around me. My work has been described as organic yet refined. I do not attempt perfection in my work, but rather, carefully placed imperfection. I strive to create one of a kind pieces of jewelry that tell a story and that make the wearer feel beautiful and empowered. Making jewelry gives me a creative outlet that includes design and manipulation of raw materials into wearable art that inspires and adorns the wearer.
- Marty Hogan

OREGON SUNSTONE AND75 x 1 x .75 ARGENTIUM SILVER RING
I have made this ring from recycled silver which I have melted, pressed and hammered. This gives the appearance that it has been excavated from an archeological dig. The Oregon Sunstone I have set is a specimen from the Pana mine in Eastern Oregon.
- MH

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival | Troutdale OR
May 16th & 17th, 2026

04/02/2026

These newly framed originals by artist, Jennifer Bowman will brighten your day, available at Columbia River Gallery. This design combines the made to order handcrafted work of TWO indie frame makers...The Chester Frame Company and AJoy Frames. Stop in for an in-person look!

03/29/2026

Cheesy Bacon Steak & Rice Power Bowl 🥓🥩🧀🍚

Hearty, cheesy, and loaded with crispy bacon — the ultimate comfort bowl!

🍴 Ingredients:

* 1 lb steak, diced
* 4 strips bacon, chopped
* 2 cups cooked rice
* 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
* 1/2 cup sautéed onions
* 2 cloves garlic, minced

👩🏽‍🍳 Instructions:

1. Cook bacon in a skillet until crispy, then remove and set aside.
2. In the same skillet, cook steak until browned.
3. Add garlic and onions, sauté for 2 minutes.
4. Stir in cooked rice, cheese, and crispy bacon. Mix well and serve hot.

⏱️ Prep Time: 10 minutes
🍳 Cook Time: 15 minutes
⌛ Total Time: 25 minutes

📝 Notes: Top with a fried egg or drizzle with hot sauce for an extra flavor boost!

03/29/2026

BRENDA MCGOWAN
Beaded Open Hoop Earrings in Rose Gold
Beaded Triangle Necklace in Rose Gold

These are lovely, with the combination of beaded focal pieces and the rose gold offset structures.
(Note that Brenda did not present them as a set, the congruence of the beading was too much to resist.)
🐦‍⬛

In the Artist’s words:
I have been creating handcrafted jewelry for over twenty years, using a variety of techniques including metal work, intricate wire wrapping, beading, and metal stamping. Quality gemstones, love of color, and attention to detail define the work.

Many of my pieces are created with round wire in either sterling silver or gold fill, including the earring wires. Each piece is of wire bent into shape then lightly hammered for strength and style. I then use fine wire wrapping to add gemstones. One of my favorite wire wrapping techniques is a basket weave.
- Brenda McGowan

BEADED OPEN HOOP EARRINGS
1” x 1.75”
BEADED TRIANGLE NECKLACE
1” x 5”
Wire wrapped with tiny gemstones in a basket weave style. The gemstones include Peridot, Ethiopian Opal, Amazonite, Pearls, Sunstone, and Rhodochrosite. All wire is 14k Rose Gold fill.

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival | Troutdale OR
May 16th & 17th, 2026

03/29/2026

DOUG ROY
Spying

I have been doing a lot of internal Wow-ing when I first see one of our Artist’s work. This one was out loud. I spent way too much time. Trying to decide which of the five works I was going to feature first (as of this writing still TBD). Trying to count how many teeny-tiny pieces of paper made up just one tree trunk so I could tell you (I failed). Pondering how I can’t glue two pieces of anything together without glue showing and Doug can do that hundreds of times with teeny-tiny pieces of paper.

I did my best, Enjoy, and you’ll see all of the five in the next round of posts, and all of the all when you’re at the Festival. Say hi when you see me loitering. 🐦‍⬛

In the Artist’s words:
I am now an 80 year old paper artist! I have been working in paper for the last 25- plus years.

I graduated from CSULB in the 1970's and went to work as a freelance illustrator as I was unfit to work with others. Mary and I have been married for 60 years this year 2026, many of them happily.
We have 6 granddaughters and two tuxedo cats and live in Newberg Oregon.
My artwork is made from hundreds to thousands of hand cut and glued pieces of paper — some smaller than 1/32" — and framed under museum glass.
- Doug Roy

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival | Troutdale OR
May 16th & 17th, 2026

03/29/2026

SHAUN MORRISON
Morrisonite Jasper Sterling Silver Belt Buckle

Boy. This show is going to break me. Start wearing necklaces again, start wearing belts again, take down some of my art and put up someone else’s… Gorgeous work, Shaun. 🐦‍⬛

In the Artist’s words:
I have worked with leather since receiving a kit as a youngster but could never find nice buckles for the belts that I made. After a long career in scientific research, I took metalsmithing classes and began to design and fabricate my own belt buckles. After discovering the amazing patterns and colors hidden in a variety of stones, I learned the art of lapidary and began to include beautiful stones in my unique belt buckles.

I strive to provide frames for the beautiful patterns and colors that Nature, the ultimate artist, has hidden in the stones she has created through the millennia. In my artwork, I design and make unique jewelry items, including belt buckles, bolos and pendants featuring PNW jaspers and other beautiful stones. I do my own lapidary work to make the cabochons in my pieces. I am also the metalsmith, working in silver and bronze. I also make belts for my buckles which I sell and fit on site.

My art is highly unique not only for the lapidary work that I do, but also because no other jewelers that I've seen at art shows make belt buckles.
- Shaun Morrison

MORRISONITE JASPER STERLING SILVER BELT BUCKLE
52mm x 44 mm
Unique Morrisonite Jasper belt buckle with a rare Morrisonite cabochon in a sterling silver setting.
This buckle if for a 1-3/8” (35mm) wide belt.
- SM

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival | Troutdale OR
May 16th & 17th, 2026

03/29/2026

CHRISTINA ZUCCHINI FOWLER
Black Cherry Burl Vessel

Yes, please. Tell me a story. Of straight paths and detours. Of beautiful flaws and perfect imperfections. Of growth and death and rebirth. Tell me. 🐦‍⬛

In the Artist’s words:
For every piece I create, I can tell its story. I have been turning eleven months of the year for ten years now, and still woodturning is very challenging. Each piece is one of kind and each type of wood has its own density, hardness, and specific tendencies yet is unique in figure, grain, moisture content and condition. I go into the wood with just a vague idea of what I want to make but the final form achieved is revealed with a steady hand and an open heart. I have encountered embedded nails, worm holes, poison ivy and oak. I have turned wood that I later found out was toxic. So I am diligent, careful, and I do my research. I turn safe and I teach safety in my shop. I only source wood with permission. I have a holy respect for the wood. It is alive and it is a gift. And I am blessed to be a part of its new life in new form.

I locally resource my wood from fallen trees. I cut the logs myself and process the wood for turning on a lathe. I use various carving tools such as gouges, skews and chisels to form, hollow, and reshape until the final form is revealed. Sanding and finishing are the final steps in creating a piece that gives the tree which it came from another life, a new identity in a human crafted form. I truly believe that wood crafted items placed lovingly in our environments, remind us how vital it is to preserve, plant, and appreciate the oxygen giving, carbon reducing trees of our rare Earth.

I am influenced by my personal interpretation of nature as it is my passion, and endeavor to uncover the unique figure and distinct characteristics of each piece of wood that I turn to again bring to life that which we are gifted from nature.
- Christina Zucchini Fowler

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival | Troutdale OR
May 16th & 17th, 2026

03/29/2026

SHAILER TUELL
Stairway To The Stars

I love when art doesn’t live all the way within the lines. 🐦‍⬛

In the Artist’s Words:
From early on growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I have been drawn to shapes and textures of the wild forest and vast desert landscapes. With a curiosity in natural design, fractal patterns and exploration into the stranger sides of life, I enjoy shaping wood along with other elements and wood burned life forms.

My work is created using a variety of woods shaped by hand, some of which is reclaimed and often enhanced with stone, air plant, and copper as well as wood burn.

My work is inspired from observation and curiosity about the interplay between the natural world, both the seen but also more subtle realms, and the inner landscape of imagination. Creating and working with wood by hand and bringing in other natural elements has become a practice for me in staying grounded amongst the dysfunction of a hyper technologized society. I feel compelled and inspired to explore ideas and creations that might bring the spirit of curiosity and nature’s beauty and intelligence into other people's environment and inner world.
- Shailer Tuell

STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
6” X 9.5” X 2”
This wall piece was created from wood burned maple forming mountains or clouds with the grain, maple burl, acrylic paint, copper disk, and burnt hemlock space horizon.
- ST

Cascadia Fine Arts Festival | Troutdale OR
May 16th & 17th, 2026