JURORS
SUSAN DERRICK
Susan Derrick is a mixed media painter. She grew up in southern New York and holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Alfred University. She worked for 10 years as a commercial Illustrator in New York before moving to the Seattle area. She now resides on Bainbridge Island, WA.
Derrick has had several solo shows and her paintings have been included in numerous juried group exhibitions at galleries, art centers and a museum show. Susan Derrick is an award-winning artist and an Artist Trust EDGE recipient. She is an arts educator, an avid collector of vintage 1960-80s fashion and a life-long student of dance.
MAREN OATES
Maren Oates is a gel plate printmaker and collage artist who has always called the beautiful Pacific Northwest home. One of her favorite activities outside the studio is walking along the beaches of Western Washington, where she gathers inspiration and occasionally finds objects to create texture on her gel plate.
Her work has been shown regionally at the Schack Art Center (Everett, WA), Parklane Gallery (Kirkland, WA), Jansen Art Center (Bellingham, WA), Arts at the Port (Anacortes, WA), Columbia City Gallery (Seattle, WA), Artist Trust Auction (Seattle, WA) and Edmonds Arts Festival Gallery. In 2022, her work received an honorable mention in the Print category in the Juried Gallery of the Edmonds Arts Festival and 3rd place in the Paintings, Prints, and Drawings category during The Arts of the Terrace exhibit.
She regularly teaches in-person gel printing workshops at the Schack Art Center, and in 2024, she was an instructor for the Gel Printers Summit, an online event featuring lessons by top gel printers worldwide.
When not working in her home studio, she enjoys spending time with her two children and husband in Mukilteo, WA.