Nationally known artist-illustrator will be featured at Orcas Center during the month of September.

Frank Loudin has shown his art around Orcas for the last 25 years with his downhome-style of watercolors.

A reception and talk will be held Friday, Sept. 8 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The opening includes an On and Off the Wall display in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center.

With several one man shows at the once-upon-a-time Clarion Gallery and later at The Crow Valley Pottery Gallery, Loudin has made many friends and collectors out of local art lovers.

He is represented in galleries from New York, Houston, and Scottsdale to Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Carmel and other art centers in California for the past fifty years. Loudin has settled comfortably into Orcas Island with his wife, Jan, and several dogs, where he finds inspiration at every bend of our picturesque backroads.

Rusty flatbed Fords, mossy stumps, miniature waterfalls and general fantasy is sprinkled throughout his illustrations of yesteryear America from West Virginia to the west coast.

He sold his first painting of an old western mining shack in 1962 and since then there have been over more than 3,000 images painted by his hand. There are too many to remember each painting, but this show will feature some of the best.