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Gallery North presents its February featured exhibit, "Washington Wild", by oil painter Ben Groff and clay sculptor Cyndi Brown.

That's wild as in wilderness and wildlife: Groff's closely observed and very popular landscapes lovingly capture the beauty of the Cascades' remote mountain areas, while Brown's exquisitely colored mid-size figures bring to vivid life the indigenous fauna of our beautiful state.

Groff is a realist painter focusing on mountain landscapes and other natural scenes. But "realism must never be an end in itself; rather the brush must adapt itself to the object and th...