Bridge City Counseling Offices’ waiting area is set up as a small gallery and is graced each month with the work of local Northwest artists.  This both provides local artist with a space to display their creations and allows those who come into our office to experience some of the beauty and depth of art that has been formed right here in our city and region.  

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Featured Artist:  Orianna Herrman Milne  (September / October 2011).

obvox@yahoo.com  503.314.3867    oriannaherrman.com

 With the base of wooden doors and canvases I use oil paints to explore the meeting of opposites, the emotive influence of sound through motion and texture, and the articulation of the inner world within the abstraction of atmosphere and color. An inert, yet ever moving state of passion, emotion, experience and love.

I never studied painting – it was handed to me as an opportunity. After inheriting paints from two non-family members I figured I was being told to get busy! I attempted my first painting and promptly ruined a perfectly good brush – not realizing that the paints I had been given were oils. After a 6 week free form painting class and numerous trips to local art stores, where I fully pestered the employees for advice and tips, I began to paint…

I am not a planner. By no means do I look at a canvas and know what I will create. It finds me. Or I find it. Every time I set out with specificity I am shown how much more I can create without the parameters of my initial expectations. When those borders are removed a freedom emerges and the painting reveals itself over time.

As a professional singer and actress I have resigned myself to the fact that I am a ridiculous well of emotion. Not to mention I am Italian and come from a family of artists! Through the freedom I allowed into the practice of painting I found how essential this process is to support my work as a singer and actor. When there are no mistakes – the possibilities become endless.