George Kettlewell - Biography

Register-Guard Review 2006

2004 Story by Bob Keefer/Register-Guard 

George Kettlewell graduated from Kent State University in 1970
with a BFA in painting. He studied with painters Dan Rohn and Leroy Flint, and sculptor Paul Baus. There he met Kersti Hamann, also
an art student. Together they opened an art gallery called Silver
Lake Gallery.

They moved to Oregon in 1972. In Cannon Beach, George and Kersti turned to ceramics, had a ceramic studio for 17 years and the Ocean Pottery Gallery for 10 years.

In Oregon, he has shown at:
Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, paintings, 2004 and 2006
William Jameson Folk Craft Gallery, Portland, ceramics, 1984
Jameson/Thomas Gallery, Portland, ceramics and sculpture, 1986
White Bird Gallery,Cannon Beach, ceramics and painting, for the last 25 years
The Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach, paintings, 2002

George and Kersti moved their studios to their home in Cannon Beach, and turned again to painting.

 
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