Celtic Charm

 Celtic Charm

Celtic Charm

Mixed Media

Char Wirfs

Water color, embroidery on paper, and ink. This was made for the Celtic Celebration contest/ display at Rogue Gallery and Art Center in Medford in 2021 and won second place. I used watercolor paper and had to punch holes with an awl for every stitch I made.

Currently it's on display through the end of March 2022 at Art Presence Art Center Gallery, Jacksonville, OR

Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

art-presence.org

From Photography to Water Color

 Mushrooms in the Sand

Walking along the beach at Cape Kiwanda, Oregon State Park on a very rainy morning I found these tiny mushrooms growing in the sand. I sprawled on my belly to capture this photo. Turns out my husband and I have gotten a lot of milage from this photo. 

My sketch book first captured a water color and ink redition. Yes, since Covid started confining us I have added water color to my mixed media creations.

The photo and water color from my sketch book inspired 
Walt to paint a large acrylic painting which he finished in the fall of 2021.

This is currently on display at Rogue Gallery and Art Center Membership Gallery, Medford, OR until late April 2022.

Sun Flowers

Water Color

Char Wirfs

Has been exhibited at Art Presence Art Center

Jacksonville, OR

Rogue Gallery and Art Center

Medford, OR

Currently on display in a private collection.

 Bird

Textile Collage

Char Wirfs

Hand quilted, appliqued, and embroidered.

Currently on display a Rogue Gallery and Art Center

 Medford Oregon.

http://www.roguegallery.org

Good Bean Coffee Angels

Guardian of the North Woods

Guardian of the North Woods

Textile

20" by 16"

Hand Quilted

Char Wirfs

   The challenge was issued is 2016 to local artists by Good Bean Coffee of Jacksonville, Oregon:  Create an angel using your media.  I machine pieced 4 log Cabin blocks in colors of an Alaskan midnight and joined them to form the background.

   The angel, trees, bear, and star were hand appliquéd to the background.  Finally I embroidered her unruly hair using chain stitches.  She requested red hair, more on the strawberry blond hews.

   It hung in the Good Bean Coffee angel show with thirty other pieces.  Then it took a turn being displayed in the Members Gallery at Rogue Gallery Art Center in Medford, Oregon.  Soon after that, it was air-lifted to

 Denali National Park and Preserve 

where you may catch up with it there.

  Ask Denice if you can see it.

Here is the angel I made for the 2017 Good Bean Coffee Display

Angel of Hope

Textile

11" by 14"

Hand Quilted

Char Wirfs

     This little lady was inspired by another quilter.  Since hanging out with several other angels last December at Good Bean Coffee Angel Show, Hope stays connected to my wall at home in Jacksonville, Oregon.  Every now and then she gets displayed in a local quilt show or gallery.  This is the disguise she wears in public to spread Hope without being noticed.  I wonder what she really looks like...

 Hope has been shown at  

Good Bean Coffee, Jacksonville, OR

Berryman Gallery at Rogue Valley and Art Center Medford, Oregon

  Art Presence Art Center

Jaksonville, OR

Hope has been re-homed in a private collection.

Desert Song

Desert Song

Desert Song
Textile
16" by 20"
Char Wirfs

   This is a hand-quilted fabric collage that features an original portrait line drawing that I hand appliqued and embroidered.  I enjoyed working on this one with whimsical creatures and bright colors.

This is the drawing that I used to create the line embroidery that I appliqued on the finished.

Desert Song has been on display at the Berryman Gallery at

Rogue Gallery and Art Center in Medford, Oregon

June 1 to July 24, 2018.

Art Presence Art Center, Jacksonville, OR.

It is currently in my studio collection.

Paragliders

Paragliders, April 2017, Oceanside, Oregon

Second attempt to launch a paraglider above Oceanside Beach, 

Three Arch Rocks monolith shown in background.

Saturday Night April 22, 2017

Third attempt was successful, but a side-wind carried the gliders into spectators watching from sidelines and swept everyone over the cliff into shrubbery.  

After everyone got untangled, damage assessment was made to equipment and people.  The launch was aborted and one person was transported to Tillamook County Hospital.

Photos by Char Wirfs