Blue Sea Artisans featuring Rochkovsky in January
The Blue Sea Artisans Gallery will be featuring plein air oil painter Richard Rochkovsky in January.
Rochkovsky graduated with a bacher’s degree and credits for a minor in art from the University of Virginia in 1972. He practiced architecture in New Jersey, Virginia, Washington state, and finally in Hawaii. Now, he’s finally on the beach painting each Friday with the plein air group PaintingOutThere.
The group boasts about 20 painters sometimes in the winter with a newsletter outreach of almost 300 interested painters and collectors. The goal is to energize fellow painters to enjoy the process of painting.
Rochkovsky will be at the gallery Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m. For more information, visit RichardRochkovsky.com or email Richard@RichardRochkovsky.com.
The Blue Sea Artisans Gallery is located in the Keauhou Shopping Center. For more information, call the gallery at (808) 329-8000. The Gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Carey highlighted by KVA this month
The Kailua Village Artists Gallery’s featured artist for the month of January is award winning photographer Thomas Carey. Carey became interested in photography while he was in junior high school in Southern California, just taking pictures of his friends surfing and skateboarding. He would wrap his little Kodak Instamatic camera in plastic to keep the water out. As an adult, living in Ventura, California, he began SCUBA diving and purchased an underwater camera.
After retiring and moving from California to Hawaii early in 2004, Carey had more time to follow his passion, which is traveling the world to do marine photography. His interests in photography are underwater, marine topside, travel, landscapes, and portraits. His photographs have been featured in publications such as: Skin Diver Magazine, Sportfishing Magazine, Nat Geo Explorer, and California Fish and Game Magazine.
While not diving, Carey enjoys making bowls, vases, and all shapes of wood. He specializes in Hawaiian woods, including koa, mango, norfolk pine, milo, monkeypod, and “whatever nature generously provides.” His work includes traditional bowl shapes, such as Umeke, used by Hawaiians for centuries, as well as more modern vases, platters, hollow vessels and spheres.
Carey will be working at the gallery on Wednesdays, Jan. 18 and 25. The Kailua Village Artists Gallery is located in the Kona Marketplace in Kailua-Kona. It is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
For more information, call (808) 329-6653 or visit www.kailuavillageartists.com.
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