Art by the Bay
Camano Island's Arts Festival
Saturday and Sunday
July 19-20, 2008
Utsalady Elementary School
608 Arrowhead Road
Camano "no ferries" Island, WA

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Featured Artist Profile

Art by the Bay Featured Artist:
Bev Paulson: storypainter

Each year, the members of the Stanwood-Camano Arts Guild get together and vote to select a piece of artwork submitted by their peers to be used as the poster for the annual Art by the Bay arts festival, held on every year on Camano Island the third weekend of July. Bev Paulson’s watercolor “Booty from the Deep” is this year’s winner.

Bev is a person with a great sense of humor who is able to infuse that wit into her artwork with careful execution and a keen sense of form and design. Born at the end of the great depression, her parents strongly encouraged music and art, and to explore the fields that surrounded their Lockport, New York home. During summer vacations, Bev roamed the Canadian woods and rivers with her cousins.

Bev explains, "I try to reflect in watercolors encounters with furry or feathered creatures, the love and exuberance of children, the wisdom and spirit of the aging, and majestic moods and textures of the outdoors." Often, she accomplishes these goals and adds a dash of whimsy as well.

Later, Bev moved West, finished school, and started her working life. Her employer arranged for her to illustrate a purchasing manual using pen and ink drawing for the State of Oregon, and urged her to study commercial art at Oregon Technical Institute. She was later employed as a production illustrator at Boeing Renton, rendering pencil isometric drawings of airplane parts. The company offered an after-hours class, where painting instructor Chuck Webster introduced Bev to the joys of watercolor painting.

Bev married Bill, and the following fifty years have been spent at home raising two children, and entertaining five grandchildren with original stories and related illustrations. Bev and Bill moved to Camano Island in 2001.

Bev is a member of Stanwood Camano Arts Guild, the Camano Arts Association, the Camano Roaming Artists, and the Brushes Brigade. She has won many awards at shows like the Stanwood-Camano Arts Guild Spring Art Show, the Stanwood Camano Fair, the Shoreline Arts Council Show, and has participated in numerous events such as Art by the Bay, the Stanwood-Camano Art Banner Project, the Roaming Artists Show, the Port Ludlow Art Walk, and PAS in Federal Way. And her work has been featured on a half dozen posters - two of them for Art by the Bay.