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All in the Family at Cole Gallery

Susan and Jennifer Diehl, a mother-daughter duo, open their show at Cole Gallery during the Edmonds Third Thursday Art Walk. Mother Susan opts for big spalshes of color, while daughter Jennifer creates a dreamlike aspect in her work.

“Like mother, like daughter” is not always a phrase young women like to hear. But when it comes to artists Susan and Jennifer Diehl, it applies, in the greatest of ways. The mother and daughter are showing their work at a duel show at this month.

You can see their work tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Edmonds Third Thursday Art Walk.

The Diehls have shown at Cole before, and Susan spent 12 years living and painting in the Pacific Northwest before moving with her husband and three children to warmer climes in Phoenix. Her gorgeous paintings are full of vibrant color and subtle emotion, embodying captured moments of still life and landscape.

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“I am always searching for the same thing in my painting: light and atmosphere,” Susan said about her work at the gallery. “For this show, in order to render this big idea, I have chosen some of my favorite and, I think, archetypal subjects to paint: namely, figures in their environment and intimate landscapes.”

Daughter Jennifer, a full-time painter who lives in Oregon, paints impressionistic scenes from modern life, infusing a softness onto her subjects, giving them an almost dreamlike quality.

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“My paintings are like pieces of my life … like a puzzle,” Jennifer explained. “Whether it be my iron, my cup of tea, the sunset near the family cabin where I spend my summers, or even an apple. You can see my life through my work, in little bits and pieces. I think people seem to be able to relate to that somehow. They have seen that, and they have felt it, no matter how simple their life is, or isn’t at the moment.”

Cole Gallery will be hosting a champagne reception on Saturday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The reception will include appetizers, live music, and a visit from Jennifer Diehl, Lorna Libert and glass artist Charles Friedman.

The show opens today and continues through Oct. 19.

Also, don’t forget to vote for Cole Gallery in Evening Magazine’s Best of Western Washington Poll!

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