“Siren,” an oil painting by Ann Elizabeth Scott, featured at the gallery.

House of Orange, a new gallery in Cannon Beach in the former Miska Studio Gallery space, has expanded the art offerings in South County.

After painting and selling art in her midtown gallery for 30 years, Miska Salemann moved to New York, and former Washington residents, the Brownlows, saw an opportunity.

Ginger Gordon-Brownlow had switched careers during the coronavirus pandemic from healthcare to picture framing. Soon she realized that artists, including her husband, Greg Scott Brownlow, a painter, needed assistance with promoting their work as entrepreneurs.

A friend of Salemann’s, Gordon-Brownlow offered to take over the gallery. “It was really turn key for us,” she said.

House of Orange opened in October. Sixteen Northwest artists, including Salemann and Scott, are showcased there, with artists rotating every few months.

The new gallery aims to connect buyers with artists offering abstract and representational works, both wall-hanging and sculptural.

Workshops for new and aspiring artists are also led by the artists that are showcased, including Dianne Aioki, a 30-year art instructor (painting, printmaking, and other forms) and Greg Scott (watercolor). More advanced artists can book private lessons.

Rotating classes at the gallery, which often meet weekly over a set time, are focused on painting and illustration. Scott’s next group of watercolor classes begins May 9, with a series of four 5 p.m. Thursday sessions.

Some one-time courses are also offered, including three this weekend. At 11 a.m. Saturday, Aoki will lead a two-hour course on the basics of monotype printmaking, with subject matter inspiration from tide pool and other ocean creatures found near Cannon Beach.

Later on Saturday, at 3 p.m., Aoki will teach the basics of painting clouds, and at noon Sunday will cover the basics of working with pastels, including techniques of scumbling, blending and finishing.

In conjunction with the Spring Unveiling Arts Festival, held in Cannon Beach the first weekend in May, the gallery will debut a new show. “See Creatures,” which opens May 3, will bring together Northwest artists in an exploration of creatures from the sea, sky, land and fantasy.

“There’s going to be some very imaginative work in quite a variety of mediums coming in,” Gordon-Brownlow said.

Artists will include Margaret MacLean, who will show porcelain figures, Ann Elizabeth Scott, with surreal landscape oils, and Phil Seder, showing recycled material sculptures.

During the opening weekend, collectors and art enthusiasts will also have the opportunity to meet artists, engage in short educational workshops, watch demonstrations and participate in a collaborative building of a creature.

“And we’re really excited about that,” Gordon-Brownlow said.

House of Orange Gallery

House of

Orange Gallery

107 Sunset Blvd., Cannon Beach

www.houseoforange.gallery