Rickards print features Yosemite

For the past 10 years, Clearwater Gallery owners Dan and Julia Rickards have carried out a Sisters Harvest Faire tradition of offering complimentary signed and numbered fine art prints of our beautiful Cascade Range. This year marks a shift in subject matter from our local landscape to our amazing national parks.

The first painting in the National Park Series is a breathtaking slice of Yosemite, "Unfolding Light." An avid outdoorsman, artist Dan Rickards chose Yosemite for the series' debut in part because of having grown up in close proximity to the park; its granite rock and vegetation diversity ingraining itself into Rickards' core. In May of this year, the Rickards spent several days exploring the beauty of the light on Yosemite's valley floor and mariposa grove.

One of Rickards' career goals is to paint all of the national parks, aiming at two or three a year. Some editions will give back to the parks themselves and certain ones will reward the unsung volunteers who donate their time and efforts to help build trails and improve the parks from guest rangers to garbage collectors.

Thus, Clearwater Gallery's Harvest Faire tradition continues with its "new face" this coming Saturday, October 12. The gallery door will open at 10 a.m. and the first 150 people to visit will receive a certificate to redeem for a complimentary signed and numbered fine art print of "Unfolding Light."

Clearwater Gallery and Framing is located at 303 W. Hood Ave. in Sisters. For more information call the gallery at 541-549-4994 or visit their website at www.theclearwatergallery.com.