RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts
5215 NE Elam Young Parkway, Suite A
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Contact: Elaine Smith 503-693-9101, Audrey 503-933-2408

Press Release

For immediate release — before October 19. 2007

Local Artist Builds Houses with Pencils

Audrey Angel donates beautiful chair to a Hillsboro Chair-ity fund raiser for Habitat for Humanity.

Audrey creates an art chair using her extraordinary skills with color pencils to help raise funds for Willamette West Habitat for Humanity and Caring Touch Fund. Many readers will recognize her art from a variety of Portland art gallery showings. The realistic woman's face that is emerging in this current art piece is a testament to her signature style. This chair will be sold through silent auction at a Chair-ity event to be held in Hillsboro Saturday night October 20, 7-9 pm. The event will be held at RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts, 5215 NE Elam Young Parkway, Suite A, Hillsboro, OR 97124. Audrey hopes to raise many funds for the two charities with her chair.

"I understand the needs of families who need housing," says Audrey, herself a single mother of two who struggles to make ends meet. "I am donating this art to a good cause." Paul Evans of Haiku Gallery in Portland is familiar with Audrey's art and says of it, "I always welcome a waltz through a world of Audrey's art be it an altered perspective, where surrealism sits subtly in the folds of fabric or painted boldly across skin, or an alluring introduction to a world of fantasy, beautiful and sometimes deviant." The public will be amazed at the quality of her work and this chair will bring many needed dollars to this worthy cause.

Audrey started drawing at the age of three and has been perfecting her style ever since. She became interested in eyes at an early age and her current work reflects that intense study. Evidence of this study of eyes appears in a piece of art that won first place and people's choice awards in a Vancouver, WA school district art show in her junior high years. She continued her art studies in places like our local Hilhi and the Portland Art Institute in downtown Portland. She will tell you, however, that most of her style was developed through intense self study and experimentation.

After experimenting with many mediums, Audrey settled on color pencils as her main focus. Her patrons are constantly amazed at the shading and quality she has developed with this medium. Most people expect to hear that her medium is paint, not pencils. "Audrey's art has never ceased to amaze me. The first time I had the opportunity to view her originals up close, I couldn't believe they were all done in colored pencils. The first pieces I acquired were commissioned. Audrey took a few old snapshots of me from some 22 years ago and made me into a seductive elven faerie. Since then I have purchased two other originals that I absolutely 'HAD TO HAVE!' The pencils allow her so much more detail than I imagine any other medium possibly could. I am able to sit and stare for long periods of time at her art, and still find something new each time. I love it! Thank you so much, Audrey," says Diane Standley, proud owner of four original pieces by Audrey.

About Audrey's Work

Audrey's art covers a variety of venues including, cheesecake, fantasy, pop art, and realism. Her work may be viewed at www.audreyangel.deviantart.com.

Pictures are available to accompany this article.

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