The Artists’ Collective in Elk will be presenting a dual show for the month of February. We will be having our usual Valentine’s jewelry show, featuring the jewelry of our three jewelers: Walt Rush, Rhoda Teplow, and Lee Zabin. In tandem with this, we will be having a posthumous show of drawings entitled Jim Vickery in Black and White.
For over 50 years Walt Rush has been creating and designing jewelry. In order to achieve some of his creative designs he has developed some unique techniques. ... view more »
The Artists’ Collective in Elk will be presenting a dual show for the month of February. We will be having our usual Valentine’s jewelry show, featuring the jewelry of our three jewelers: Walt Rush, Rhoda Teplow, and Lee Zabin. In tandem with this, we will be having a posthumous show of drawings entitled Jim Vickery in Black and White.
For over 50 years Walt Rush has been creating and designing jewelry. In order to achieve some of his creative designs he has developed some unique techniques. Walt enjoys the outdoors and the beauty of the ocean and because of this he has created jewelry with a more fluid and organic look. To achieve these designs he actually cast in water, straw and also hand fabrication and wax carving which gives the
jewelry a look like the rolling surf, crashing waves, driftwood and things of nature. Walt works mostly in Silver and Gold and also uses precious and semi-precious stones.
After graduating from U. C. Berkeley, Rhoda Teplow joined the Peace Corps. She was assigned to a village in Togo, West Africa. There she was introduced to African trade beads, which had originally been
brought from the island of Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon of Italy. Her body of work includes her own handmade porcelain beads, brass from the Ashanti tribe, recycled glass beads from the Krobo tribe in Ghana, hand-carved jade beads from the middle fork of the Eel River, Tibetan/Nepalese jewelry, colorful handmade beads from a tribe in Bali, and other beads she has collected in her travels around the
world.
Lee Zabin makes jewelry from abalone shell, and other shells, as well. Most of the shell in her jewelry is collected here on our Mendocino coast. It is made in the tradition of Native American regalia.
Jim Vickery was a graphic artist and painter, and lived in Irish Beach. He is well known locally for his whimsical, bizarre and hilarious drawings and paintings. On display this month will be his original pen and ink drawings of fantasy lighthouses.
Because of COVID and poor weather, we will not be having our artists’ reception, but the show may be seen daily, from 10 to 4.
The Artists’ Collective is located at 6301 S. Hwy 1, between the post office and Queenie’s, in greater downtown Elk. (707) 877-1128.
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