LIBERTY GALLERY
MARCH 2025
“Two Views of Spokane” - Paintings by Local artists
Featuring artwork by Melissa Dingfield and Megan Perkins – each portraying Spokane scenes in their own unique styles.
February 23, 2025 – March 29, 2025
First Friday Reception to Meet the Artists:
March 7, 2025: First Friday Reception to Meet the Artists; 5:00-8:30 pm
The world is a beautiful place that artists Megan Perkins and Melissa Dingfield portray in their unique styles.
Megan uses flowing watercolor to depict the long views of eye-catching scenery surrounding Spokane and iconic buildings that make up Spokane’s heart. She wants her work to inspire people to look at the world with childlike wonder and to be reminded that there are opportunities everywhere to be grateful, to be alive, and to witness the day unfolding.
Melissa’s oil paintings explore in exquisite detail local gathering places and the people passing through them. Her work is relatable and authentic, capturing everyday events drawn from her own experiences and telling the stories of the places she’s been. Melissa creates an intimate three-way conversation between the maker, the art, and the audience, hoping to empower viewers to know that their stories matter enough to become a work of art.
Megan Perkins
About the Artist: Megan Perkins is an artist, teacher, and native of the Pacific Northwest. She works primarily in watercolor with a love of color and expressive line. She has exhibited at the Chase Gallery, Terrain, The Confluence, Gallery One, and the Jundt Art Museum among others. She teaches at the Spokane Art School, Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, and the Corbin Art Center. She is most well known for her Artist’s Eye on Spokane series, which was started during a year-long project of painting at a new location in Spokane every week for 52 weeks. She loves to travel to new places and paint their landmarks and landscapes for fun. Most recently her work has been featured in Trending Northwest magazine and on PBS’s Northwest Profiles. Her work is in private and public collections across the United States.
Artist Statement: The world is a beautiful place, but most people don’t notice that beauty. I use my artist’s eye to capture what I see so I can share the loveliness of daily life with others. I want my work to make people wonder at the world like they did as a child and to remind them that there are opportunities everywhere to be grateful that you alive and a witness to the day unfolding, even in quotidian things.
Melissa Dingfield
My paintings explore the stories of places and the people passing through them. I am interested in creating a three-way conversation between the maker, the art, and the audience. I begin my work with live sketches, usually in gouache, capturing moments in time and space. Back in the studio, I use a combination of sketches and photographs to create oil paintings that tell the stories of the places I have been. My work is relatable and authentic, as I draw from my own experiences to create a visual language that tells a story. I capture everyday experiences, but elevate those experiences by creating detailed, high quality paintings. By elevating those experiences, I hope to empower the viewers that find the stories relatable. I see you, and your story matters enough to become a work of art.
Email:
artist@melissadingfield.com
Social Media:
www.facebook.com/ArtistNotebook
February 2025
the Liberty Gallery hosts a preview show of artwork by artists who will be participating in the 2025 Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour.
When: January 26, 2025 – February 22, 2025
First Friday Reception to Meet the Artists:
February 7, 2025: Opening Night Reception to Meet the Artists; 5:00-8:00 pm
The Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour celebrates its 18th year in 2025 of representing fine quality arts and crafts. The tour takes place in artist studios, gardens and river settings located in the Little Spokane River Valley of North Spokane. The last Saturday in September is always tour day, which, in 2025, is Saturday, September 27, from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
The 2025 tour will feature four studios and over 50 artisans. Included will be a wide variety of artwork for sale - ceramics, paintings, photography, sculpture, jewelry, fiber arts and mixed media. Our expanded selection of artists includes the favorite and familiar and also intriguing new artists. Artists are in their booths to present their work in the tour’s unique outdoor and garden settings.
Leading up to the show, the works of the Little Spokane River Tour Artists are featured in several preview shows. The Tour is proud to announce that the first preview show of 2025 will be at the distinguished Liberty Gallery, at 203 N Washington St in Spokane, beginning Sunday, January 26th and continuing through February 22nd.
