For Sallie Zydek, artistic interests were first expressed as a young girl. Since that time, she has traveled through life with an  interest in animals and well-developed skills in the arts.

Born and raised in Buckley, she has been interested in wildlife and artwork since grade school. She attended White River High School, Tacoma Community College and the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, then completed some graduate work at the  University of Nebraska in Omaha. She worked with the Corps of Engineer, Omaha District, for 19 years, and while there became a graphics illustrator. She has been a member of the www.natureartist.com group out of Canada and is a member of the Arts for Conservation Foundation. She also has had many pictures shown in the Wildlife Art magazine.

“I have taken many art classes to learn the different uses of pencils, acrylics, pastels and India ink,” she writes. “It is amazing to me what one can do with a bottle of ink, a scrapper pen or an engineer’s rapidograph pen.”

Her work these days is in scratchboard and stippling.

Zydek’s work will be on exhibit at City Hall’s Gallery 2012 July 5 through July 31.

Gallery 2012 is in council chambers at Enumclaw City Hall, 1339 Griffin

Ave. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

For more Information, contact the Enumclaw Cultural Programs office at 360-802-0239.