PORT TOWNSEND — “The Nature Journals of Carolyn Woods,” watercolor studies of landscapes and wildlife, will be on display through Oct. 12.
Woods’ nature journals can be viewed from noon to 3 p.m. Fridays through Sundays in the gallery at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 1001 Water St.
Woods has been on the center’s staff, in one capacity or another, for more than 10 years and is currently the center’s education manager. She also has served as an intern with the Marine Mammal Stranding Network and a term as an AmeriCorps member.
Woods holds a bachelor’s degree in ecology, evolution and conservation biology from the University of Washington in Seattle.
“I’ve been drawing, painting and scribbling my entire life, and I’ve always been drawn to subjects in nature — plants, animals, landscapes,” Woods said. “But it was an internship at a wildlife refuge in the San Francisco Bay 10 years ago and then working at PTMSC as an environmental educator that helped inspire me to take up nature journaling.
“I was in landscapes that were new to me, and seeing animals and other living things in a new way as I was preparing to teach other people about them. I found myself wanting to explore them artistically to deepen my understanding of things like identifying marks and features for shells, wing feather patterns and kelp branching structures.”
In addition to viewing Carolyn’s intricate studies of landscapes and wildlife, visitors also will have an opportunity to sketch the center’s collection of seashells.
Sketching materials will be provided, or visitors may bring their own.
For the more information, visit www.ptmsc.org/gallery.
Journaled drawings of buffleheads from “The Nature Journals of Carolyn Woods” will be on exhibit at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center through Oct. 12.
