Bruce Edwards
www.BruceEdwardsArtwork.com


Josh Brooke Coté’s sculpture explores the boundaries and relationships between
 man, woman and nature, centered around our relationship to the environment. 
Fusing elements of surrealism and realism, his ideas arise from dreams, observation and
nature.  He often works with themes of transformation, nurturing and regeneration,
often evoking mystical images.  His work hasbeen called “Beautiful” by Pulitzer-Prize
winning author E. Annie Proulx and “Redolent of the earth” by the novelist Jim Harrison. 
He works in wood, concrete, stone and wire. 

Each piece of wood and stone is unique, unpredictable and carries with it a sense of mystery and has
a unique inner voice.  “I carve local stone and try not to cut down living trees for a sculpture; most of
my wood is salvaged from trees blown down in windstorms and discarded or recycled lumber. I also
use recycled copper and aluminum electric wire for my wire sculptures. My work attempts to glorify
the natural world in which I live and depend upon creatively and physically.  My creative energy is
about growth, and transformation, stepping into the unknown, and perceiving this energy with
intuition and the challenge, the art, is attempting to translate this mystery through the process of
my sculpture. “
425.941.7207
 jpllc@hotmail.com
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Mathew Waddington lives in Duvall a few blocks off of Main Street with his lovely wife Donna and a
lot of books. He works as an architect for a small residential architecture firm, and before that was a carpenter in town, and he was also a volunteer firefighter in Duvall for 9 years, back when the fire engines were red and you had to manually shift the gears. Donna owned the Silver Spoon in years past, and now works as a chef at Carnation Farms. She is also a fanatical knitter and is in knitting overdrive in expectation
of an oncoming grandchild.


Matthew has painted and drawn since he was a little kid, and has painted scenes of the valley and the Snoqualmie river for the past 18 years, off and on. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1987 i
n architecture, and prior to that studied painting for one year at the Evergreen State College in 1982. He has shown work in a few area restaurants, and recently was part of a group show at Miller's Arts in Carnation.

He now mostly paints in McCormick Park as it has nice views of the river and is an easy walk from home. Recently he's somewhat finished a studio space and so feels compelled to use it for something besides storing extra chairs. He paints in oils, and likes to paint rural landscapes best of all, out in the open. He paints on masonite from the Home Depot.

He can always be reached at 425-788-1684.
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Local musicians who have performed at DFA functions.

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