Upcoming · opens Friday August 7
Teresa Smith · Cathedral Grove · Oil on canvas
The exhibition
Two painters in productive tension. Teresa Smith paints the Douglas fir forests and salt water shores of the Pacific Northwest with the specificity of long attention — these are places she knows, painted by someone who has been looking at them for years. Britt Freda paints the animals those same places are supposed to protect.
The title names what both bodies of work share and complicate. Sanctuary as landscape, as cathedral, as ecology — and sanctuary as something under pressure. A collector standing in front of both bodies of work in August understands the tension without needing it explained.
The artists
Oil on canvas · Pacific Northwest landscape
Smith paints the Douglas fir forests and saltwater shores of Bainbridge Island with the specificity of someone who has walked the trails. Her work holds both the beauty and the fragility of the Pacific Northwest ecosystem — sanctuary as fact and sanctuary as something that requires maintenance.
Pacific Northwest. Studio practice rooted in long attention to place — the same forests, the same shorelines, painted across years.
Mixed media · Endangered and threatened species
Freda works from scientific illustration traditions to build paintings of endangered and threatened species — the animals whose ecosystems overlap exactly with the landscapes Teresa Smith paints. Her work is the counter-argument: sanctuary for whom, and at what cost.
Pacific Northwest. Practice grounded in conservation and natural history — paintings used in conservation contexts; collecting the work is part argument, part record.
Where to see it
Opens First Friday, August 7. The full installation in the Bainbridge gallery rooms. Weekend hours expand for the opening week.
2870 Prospector Avenue. Selected works traveling with the show. Park City rooms hold the installation through the end of August.
The full show in the Viewing Rooms — every work documented, both artists' statements in their own voice, available to collectors anywhere.
The exhibition opens First Friday, August 7, and runs through the end of August. Visiting in person is the strongest way to meet the work — the surfaces, the scale, the intervals between Smith's landscapes and Freda's animals. If a visit isn't possible, every artist's full statement and the documentation are online. Inquiries about specific pieces, availability, or holds are answered personally and usually same business day.