The gallery is located in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, 70 miles north of Seattle, Washington. Established in 1985, waterworks gallery exhibits artists who live and work in the Pacific Northwest with an emphasis on local artists living in the San Juan Islands. The gallery also shows various Regional, National and International Artworks.

We offer an eclectic range of artworks representing over 30+ artists in the full spectrum of media: Glass, Watercolours, Oils, Works on Paper including Etching, Lithography, Mezzotint and Photogravure; Stone, Wood and Ceramic Sculpture. Since the conception of the gallery, our mission has been to find and show not only established artists, but the "emerging" new talent. We are excited to present a selection of artworks for your viewing pleasure and hope that if you are ever in the San Juan Islands, you will have a chance to stop by for a visit.

Things have gone haywire in recent years in the art collecting business. . . such things as extraordinary high prices, unexpected slumps and low prices. What is happening ? . . .

Well what it boils down to (on many levels) is the question: What is value?". We need to return to a place where value is more than just monetary, although monetary value is an important and certainly, a major objective factor.

But now is the time to consider aesthetics and the concept of sacrifice.

One should buy a piece of art because we love it and it does something for our souls. After all, most artists create art because they love it and it does a great deal for their souls. When a piece of art maintains value or escalates, we should consider that a pleasing plus to our collecting. Just as our taste in music may change, our taste in art may change. We should be buying with an increasingly discriminating eye, regardless of what we are collecting. It is important for us to hanker for, or long for, a piece. Our ownership gives the piece an increased value that has not been too easily won.

Art engages our eyes, our minds, and our hearts and in time we should begin to understand the soul of the artist and begin to participate in his vision. What we choose as our art says something about us. . . our hopes, our dreams, our basic needs. Pretty, engaging, scary, etc.

All art has its place. It says something about the human spirit especially since most of it is non-utilitarian. Taste has been defined as precisely the ability to gauge, on the spot, the amount of pleasure an object can provide, whatever its cost. Even though value can be a semantic conundrum, the short term investment, the quick turnover is no longer feasible and art these days has to be treated as an asset to be enjoyed.