About the Artist

For the past 10 years, Artist Marilyn Blitz has been studying and painting in Palm Springs, California and Vashon Island, Washington.

Her first Vashon show was at Quartermaster Inn in 2008 and featured her watercolor paintings. The following year a series of works, both watercolors and acrylics, based on the barns of Vashon was the theme of her successful exhibit, "Barnspotting" at The Hardware Store Restaurant.

Continuing to explore the natural themes and beautiful, expansive views of the Island, she has produced a new group of paintings for this year's show, "Vashon Wide Angles". They are primarily landscapes, all in acrylic, and several are quite large, composite paintings, up to eight feet long.

"Vashon Wide Angles" opens at The Hardware Store Restaurant, downtown Vashon, on August 6th, with an Artist's Reception at 5:30pm, and closes September 1st, 2010.