(Author's note: This is an excerpt from a slightly longer post on my blog, Arteaser)
I made my first visit to
Limn Gallery, which is tucked away behind the Limn furniture store on Townsend.

One of the two galleries was featuring local artist, Rik Ritchey (below left with a friend and collector), who had a series of mixed-media paintings on polyurethane foam:

I enjoyed how the applied acrylic and ink created stunning organic shapes:

A closer look revealed embedded items, such as candles, and stitching.