Stained glass artist Bill Jaeger, watercolor artist Stefanie Culbertson, and porcelain and watercolor artist Betty Gerstner will headline a featured artists reception Friday at the Kailua Village Artists Gallery in Kailua-Kona.
Stained glass artist Bill Jaeger, watercolor artist Stefanie Culbertson, and porcelain and watercolor artist Betty Gerstner will headline a featured artists reception Friday at the Kailua Village Artists Gallery in Kailua-Kona.
Jaeger learned the art of stained glass many years ago. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Wichita State University and a master’s in business administration from the University of Kansas. Since his retirement, he has devoted his time to his stained glass. Each art piece is an original design of hand-cut glass fused together with the copper foil method.
Jaeger has created a new series titled “Grandmother’s Plate,” featuring antique depression glass plates surrounded by a design of stained glass.
Culbertson has a bachelor’s degree in digital design, but has continued painting watercolors during the past two decades. In the last seven years, she expanded her “Anuenue Series” of vibrant watercolor paintings, featuring Hawaii’s sea life animals, waves, and flora and fauna.
Culbertson’s latest work, titled “Smack the Lip – Surfing Hawaii,” shows the detail of the moment of a surfer smacking the lip of the wave and creating spray getting back into the wave. The rainbow is reflected in the wave with the sun setting while it is raining, creating the feeling of this humid, tropical Hawaiian afternoon.
Gerstner has been a porcelain artist over 35 years. Gerstner studied watercolors with some of the better known watercolor masters on the Big Island. She now divides her time between the two mediums of porcelain and watercolor.
The beautiful scenery, tropical atmosphere and wonderful people of Hawaii are Gerstner’s inspiration for her art, her diverse subjects ranging from tropical birds, fish. Gerstner’s art studio is at her home in the picturesque “up country” town of Captain Cook, where she teaches her porcelain painting classes. Her jellyfish vase. titled “Jellies Vase.” shows the fluid motions of the jelly fish around her vase.
The artists will be present during a public reception slated from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday (April 10) at the gallery located in Kona Marketplace off Alii Drive. Light pupus will be served.
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 329-6653.