Welcome
June Underwood is an oil painter and textile artist. In addition to painting with traditional oil media, she dyes, paints, and prints on fabrics, and then incorporates traditional tools and techniques of quilting. Her landscapes of the high desert of eastern Oregon and Arizona have been exhibited nationally; she is currently working on digitizing oil paintings she did at an artist's residency in Basin, Montana in 2007/2008; she will print them on silk. Underwood works both representationally and abstractly, and her most recent oils are of scenes from southeast Portland, Oregon.
You can find informal comments and photos from the Underwoods' quotidian on June and Jer's blog, SoutheastMain. June is also the moderator of the Ragged Cloth Cafe and a contributor to Art and Perception.
"June Underwood's Motto: Fools Rush In" (The Professional Quilter. Fall, 2007) features June, interviewed by Eileen Doughty. Another interview was conducted about June's oil painting at the residency in Basin Montana; it iis found in The (Helena Montana) Independent Record (January 04, 2008), entitled "Celebration of Place"
For a poem for the occasion and some samplings of paintings June did in Basin during December and January 2007-'08,
click here
