Marie Luckhurst is the winner of the 7th annual Farmers’ Market Poster Contest for 2013.

“I’ve entered a few time times so I was surprised to win,” she said.

Her art was inspired by photographs of a truck in the Fourth of July parade.

Luckhurst, shown right, grew up on Lopez Island. She began her art career in Dillingham Alaska, selling her first piece of art work in 1980.

Self taught, she developed her watercolor style and continues to work in watercolor with the islands and the local Native American culture as her inspiration.

She is also known for her mixed media native dolls, portrait masks and story masks.Luckhurst enjoys making jewelry from the abalone that was also used for adornment by all coastal people. Her work is in the collection of the Samuel K. Fox Museum in Dillingham, Alaska, the collection of the late Gov. Jay Hammond of Alaska, and Wells Fargo Bank, Dillingham Alaska. It can be purchased at Chimera, The Lake Crescent Lodge, Port Angeles, and The Makah Museum, Neah Bay.