Art Walk Edmonds
Every third Thursday from 5-8 pm galleries, businesses, and restaurants join in celebrating the arts & cultivating local vitality within Edmonds. Cascadia Art Museum has been participating since our opening in September 2015, providing the community with live music, artist demonstrations and exclusive screenings of Northwest artist videos. We are also excited to offer free admission during the Art Walk Edmonds evenings. Art Walk Edmonds is a FREE community event held monthly throughout the year, rain or shine. We invite you to come enjoy all types of art including fine art, music, performance art, culinary art, and the written word. With a growing assortment of fun events and activities, you will always find something new to engage your creative mind. Come do something AWEsome with us! For more information on Art Walk Edmonds, check out their website: artwalkedmonds.com
This Month at Cascadia Art Museum:
Matej Anzin
Thursday, October 16th, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
This month, we’re excited to host local artist Matej Anzin as our Art Walk artist! Matej Anzin was born in 1979 in Slovenia which was at the time under the communist regime of the former Yugoslavia. He started drawing and painting at an early age. In his teenage years he attended local art workshops and was part of group exhibitions. He became a scholar of Slovenian late masters of Impressionism he admired dearly. That is what shaped his own style of painting and the perception of arts in general.
He graduated from Industrial Design in Slovenia and a couple of years later migrated to California where he continued pursuing his art. Now he resides in rural Issaquah where he creates his work and draws inspiration from the picturesque PNW (as he describes it). The PNW reminds him of his home country, and he remains loyal to various techniques of Impressionism, often bordering on Expressionism.
Impressionism pushed him to explore painting techniques further pushing boundaries of color tones and brush strokes, even spatula use to achieve his very own personal interpretation of the subject, creating a range of styles from realistic portrayals of the subject to impressionistic and abstract even. He found the entire color spectrum inside expressionism that usually a pair of eyes misses because it isolates the color spectrum to the most prevalent tones, to present the viewer with a definitive form and shape, but Matej wants to show us all that there is much more light in every subject than what it appears at first glance. He is a firm believer that his work, full of colors and texture is only properly experienced in person.
