COFFEE, COFFEE, COFFEE. What thoughts are conjured up when you see a coffee cup? Do you think of the sound and smell of coffee brewing first thing in the morning? Spending time with family and friends? Driving up for a coffee to go? Rushing off to work with coffee in your cup holder? For those of us who are coffee lovers we are well aware of how coffee engages all of the senses. Debra Brochin loves the feel of her favorite cup in hand while anticipating that first
sip. A coffee cup is a good thing says Brochin, but much better when shared with a friend.
Debra Brochin and Diana Cronin decided to focus on the coffee cup for the month of April. Debra's original prints will include several different printmaking techniques, including collagraph, drypoint, lino-cut, monotype and chine colle’. Debra will be displaying some of her tools and plates used to create her work.
Debra is a member of Corvidae Press, a printmaking guild, located in Fort Worden. As a member she has access to Centrum’s printmaking studio 24/7. A perfect day for Debra consists of printmaking, walking across the street for a yoga class, printing a little more, than walking across the parking lot for lunch and a cup of coffee. Of course this combination of events is best when
done with a friend. Where else but Port Townsend can you have all of this right at your fingertips?
Diana Cronin - Assorted Cups
Diana Cronin loves the idea of working on one ceramic form, the cup. She routinely works in series by hand turning twenty to thirty similar shapes on the potter’s wheel. Being an avid coffee drinker herself, she has affection for the coffee cup. “It is such an intimate item. We cradle it in our hands, we raise it up to our lips to drink from and it becomes a ritual part of our lives because we use it everyday.”
Diana frequently alters the wet shape leaving finger indentations in the clay and changing the cup’s appearance so it is not perfectly round. These little imperfections are done to remind the user that this is a unique handmade item.
Diana will be showing fifty of her brightly glazed porcelain coffee cups. No two are exactly alike and she will have a variety of shapes including demitasse, latte bowls and both mini and monster mugs.
The Gallery 9 featured artists will be at the Gallery Walk, starting at 5:30
p.m. , Saturday, April . Enjoy the refreshments and meet the co-op artists!
Gallery Nine is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located at 1012 Water
St., phone 360 379 8881. The website featuring the artists work is:
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