Art at the
water’s edge.

JG Art Gallery + Events sits on Winslow Way E — two blocks from the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal, in the heart of the town’s gallery district. The space was formerly Roby King Gallery, a Bainbridge institution that represented Pacific Northwest artists for over two decades. Jude Grenney acquired it in late 2022 and built a new program from scratch.

What Jude brought from Park City: a curatorial eye trained on technique, a tolerance for abstraction, and the conviction that a gallery should feel like a conversation rather than a transaction. What Bainbridge Island brought back: a slower pace, a collector community that returns season after season, and a landscape that produces painters of exceptional quality.

The current Bainbridge roster includes Kathe Fraga’s lacquerware panels, Andy McConnell’s carved wood constructions, Amy Ferron’s watercolors, Barbara Duzan’s bead-pressed bronze animals, and Diane Ainsworth’s luminous landscapes. The roster changes. The standard doesn’t.

The Bainbridge program is anchored by artists Jude found through studio tours, gallery walks, and referrals from other Pacific Northwest painters. Several were new relationships built after the 2022 acquisition — artists who had never shown in Park City and whose work is distinctly of this place: the light off Puget Sound, the Douglas firs, the particular blue of an overcast Bainbridge morning.

Kathe Fraga’s lacquerware panels, built up in layers over weeks, carry the quality of Japanese lacquerware translated into Pacific Northwest imagery. Andy McConnell carves and paints wood constructions that hold the grain and history of the tree. The gallery chooses work where the making is visible.

International shipping available — inquire for terms. Custom crating and installation referrals for major works.