Buckley Wildlife Artist Featured at Enumclaw City Hall

The works of a local wildlife artist will be featured in the Enumclaw City Council Chambers for the next few weeks starting Wednesday, Aug.
3, as part of the city’s Gallery 2011 series.

Sallie Zydek was born and raised in Buckley and has been interested in wildlife and doing artwork since she was in grade school. She attended
White River High School, Tacoma Community College, and the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. After completing some graduate work at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, she worked as a graphics illustrator with the Corps of Engineer, Omaha District, for 19 years.  She has been a member of the www.natureartist.com group out of Canada, and is a member  in “The Arts for Conservation Foundation.”  She also has had many pictures shown in the “Wildlife Art Magazine.”

“I have taken many art classes to learn the different uses of pencils, acrylics, pastels, and India ink,” she says in a city news release. “It is
amazing to me what one can do with a bottle of ink, a scrapper pen, or an engineer’s rapidograph pen. My art today is working in scratchboard and stippling. I use my knowledge of animals, and I research everything I do.”

Gallery 2011 is located at 1339 Griffin Ave. in Enumclaw. Hours are
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesdays for municipal court proceedings. For more information, call the Enumclaw Cultural Programs office at 360-802-0239.