Gallery
Bayside Gallery is here to benefit Bayside Housing & Services. When you purchase art in the gallery or the Gift Shop you are directly contributing to our mission: Strengthening our community through housing, advocacy, and human services supporting social and economic independence. From all of the staff at OAP and Bayside, THANK YOU!
Tracy Higgins LeMoine
I took my first oil painting lessons at the age of 13 and began entering
Juried shows at 14. I had my first major art show in Malibu, CA as a teenager
under the name of Tracy Higgins. I received my AA in Fine Arts from Santa Monica College in 1985. I have lived and painted in California,
Oregon, Ohio and Washington.
Although, I was trained in several mediums, I now paint with acrylics and prefer to create nature pieces such as animals, landscapes, mountains, and sunsets. I often paint from my own photographs and also enjoy painting portraits of people’s pets. I love living, painting and photographing in the Pacific Northwest. I feel I am free from the stress of the world when I am creating art.
I hope my paintings and photographs bless and inspire you. Also visit me on Facebook Heart n Soul ART.
I paint from my Heart so it touches your Soul.
Tracy
Mike McCollum
Born in Hoquiam, Washington, Mike is a lifelong artist by nature, training, and practice. Many of Mike's artistic sensibilities were developed while in the San Francisco Bay Area in the '60's and '70's receiving an MA and MFA from UC Berkeley apprenticing with influential ceramicist/sculptor Peter Voulkos. In 1980, Mike was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts individual fellowship grant.
Mike McCollum's academic career is long and commendable; twenty-six years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) as Professor of Art, five years as dean of the Fine and Performing Arts College at UNLV and five years as academic dean at The Cornish College of Arts in Seattle.
Mike McCollum has been creating and exhibiting his artwork since 1964. He is known for his personal style and competency across diverse mediums from bronze casting and ceramics to drawing, painting and printmaking. For the last decade he has been working with wood and resin creating both 2-D and 3-D work.
Mike's extensive exhibition record includes shows in NYC, SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Maine, and the Olympic Peninsula. He has participated as an artist-in-residence at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA and the Robert MacNamara Foundation in Westport, Maine.
Regarding his motivation to make art Mike says, "It keeps me alive and engaged everyday." He lives in Sequim, Washington with his wife, Patricia, a cat, Bob, and an ever-changing array of water fowl and birds.