Louise McGowan Bezark – Artist Spotlight

Please introduce yourself and briefly describe your art.
Hi, I am Louise McGowan Bezark and I am in a long term love affair with gourds!

What led you to be an artist and to share your art in Auburn Old Town Gallery?
I visited Auburn Old Town Gallery over 17 years ago and experienced my first introduction to gourd art. I didn’t know what they were at the time, I just felt them capture my mind and heart. After receiving a request to apply to the gallery, being accepted and installing my art, brought me full circle with my artistic destiny.

Where are you originally from?
I am California born, from farming generations. It’s quite fitting that the art medium that found me grows right here in this state.

What did you want to be when you were younger?
I really was born to create and have studied many forms of creative expression over the years. I have quilted, tailored, stained glassed, potted, garden designed, mothered, and sculpted for over 6 decades. My early dream was to be a mother and an artist.

Tell us about a compliment that you’ve received that you’re most proud of.
When someone views my work and stands still and silent, they are seeing and feeling the essence of my love that has been birthed through these hands. That is the ultimate expression of why I create.

What’s one thing that has made you smile recently?
The humans and animals I love, the art that moves me, means that there is rarely a moment I am not smiling.

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Read Louise’s previous interview here.
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