Gallery 2011 to Debut Wildlife Exhibit

A little bit of the wild is coming indoors.

Enumclaw’s Gallery 2011, located in Council Chambers at City Hall, 1339 Griffin Avenue, will debut a new exhibit starting Aug. 3.

Sallie Zydek’s “Images of Wildlife” will be on display until Sept. 6.

Zydek, a wildlife artist from Buckley, will showcase what she can do with scratchboard and stippling. Her interest in animals was borne of her childhood in Enumclaw.

“I use my knowledge of animals, and I research everything I do,” Zydek said in a news release.

Zydek said she has taken many art classes to learn the different uses of pencils, acrylics, pastels and more.

“It is amazing to me what one can do with a bottle of ink, a scrapper pen, or an engineer’s rapidograph pen,” she said.

Zydek, who attended the University of Puget Sound and completed some graduate work at the University of Nebraska, worked with the Corps of Engineers in Omaha for 19 years, during that time becoming a graphics illustrator. She is a member of the Arts for Conservation Foundation and has had her work displayed in Wildlife Art Magazine.

The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and is closed to the public on Tuesdays for municipal court proceedings.