Entryway Gallery March 8 – April 14, 2013: Lee Baughman and Susie Cowan are two international award-winning artists and teachers. They share many attributes: media, color, and subject matter. Lee and Susie have partnered in an art and travel business, Art Adventures.

Lee Baughman paints primarily in water media. He explores the combination of watercolor and acrylic painting methods and his art reflects an interest in exploring the creative process. Clues to the artist’s personality and interest are scattered throughout his work. “I paint the things I enjoy having in my life and that I want to put into the world.” Lee’s love of color and design is evident as he interacts and interprets landscapes of the Northwest as well as images from Italy, France, Mexico, Canada, Hawaii and Alaska.

Lee Baughman has taught at Clark College for 18 years where he facilitates art classes as an adjunct faculty member for the Continuing Education Programs. Additionally he leads numerous workshops and art trips every year. He is a past president of the Southwest Washington Watercolor Society. His work is collected by many individuals and companies.

Susie Cowan has been a working artist since the early 70s finding her niche in the world of aqueous media. She began teaching watercolor and experimental acrylics through the Mature Learning Program at Clark College in Vancouver, WA in 1986 and co-founded www.Art-Adventures.com with Lee Baughman in 1995. Susie also teaches workshops in her Portland studio as well as Menucha. She has been honored with the signature membership of the NWWS (Northwest Watercolor Society), RRWS (Red River Watercolor Society) and a Charter Member of SWWS (Southwest Washington Watercolor Society).

The images in this exhibition are selections from “The Coco Heads,” a series inspired by one small Mexican coconut head mask, which evolved into a collection of over 20 paintings from one of their Art Adventure tours. Other painting tours taken to Hawaii, Utah, Italy and beyond were grist for the creative mill as well as life events that often color Susie’s work. For more information about Lee and Susie, please contact them directly. Their business cards are located in the Lakewood Center Entryway Gallery