Quincy Library art exhibit features Olympia woman

QUINCY - A three-month art exhibit at the Quincy Library, 108 B Street SW, features the works of an Olympia woman with ties to this area.

Kathryn "Katy" Anderson, painter/writer, is the niece of Quincy's Verna Teeter. She made an appearance at the library on Aug. 3 to kick off the exhibit. She also did a reading from one of her books.

"She sold a lot of originals and prints and some books," said Roxa Kreimeyer, founding member of the Mary Kazda Book Club.

Anderson's mixed-media paintings are being displayed in the Mary Kazda Art Space. They will be there until the library is moved to a new building in about three months.

Anderson's appearance was sponsored by the Kazda club and the Tuesday Evening Book Club, Kreimeyer noted. It was well attended, she said.

"(Katy) paints large stunning pictures and also delicate pictures, such as a bird house surrounded by small flowers," Kreimeyer said. "Her large sunflowers were an attraction."

The Anderson exhibit includes a rooster, the back view of two horses and riders in the rain, a heron watercolor and brightly colored fish on a black background.

"Kay Judge, who bought a large painting of sunflowers, hung it right away over her piano and commented that it makes her happy just to look at it," Kreimeyer said. "(Katy's) paintings reveal her own positive outlook on life."

Teeter has been one of Anderson's chief customers. She has many of her niece's works on her walls at home.

"My own private gallery," Anderson said.

Anderson is a published poet and author of non-fiction. She teaches workshops on writing.