Local Color Gallery
Item Number: 151
Time Left: 28d 13h
Leading Bidder: ja846d416
Leading Bid: $2,450
Next Minimum Bid: $2,500
Online Close: Aug 15, 2025 12:00 PM EDT
Bid History: 21 bids
Description
Artist: Julie Eldredge Dykens
Julie is an artist who owns the Local Color Art Gallery in West Chatham. She is a native Cape Codder having grown up in Chatham and having attended Chatham Schools.
Julie majored in Studio Art at Smith College after a stint as an offshore commercial fisherwoman and a seafood wholesaler.
Julie’s art reflects her deep love of the natural world here in Chatham and on Cape Cod.
She works primarily in flat clay reliefs and in wooden sculpture. Both mediums are inspired by her experiences on the ocean and tending to inshore waters and the shoreline. Her works are detailed and, at times, whimsical.
Julie lives in West Chatham with her husband, Jeff. They have three children and two beautiful grandchildren.
Special Instructions
This Whale is composed of driftwood from many beaches. The first piece of driftwood was gathered from a beach on the BVI Caribbean Island of Jost Van Dyke. The second piece was found near a walkway next to The Brooklyn side of The East River ( in full view of The Statue of Liberty! ) The third and largest piece, is from salvaged, sunken slabs thrown into Lake Willoughby, Vermont from a mill which operated next to the lake in the early 1800’s. ( This driftwood wood was salvaged and donated by Jay Case, the owner of Larry’s PX ). Finally, many additional pieces of driftwood were found on my walks on local beaches such as Hardings Beach in Chatham, and Nauset Beach in Orleans.