MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Rock & Gem Club will feature the Olive M. Colhour exhibit in its show, displaying some of her award-winning carvings, intarsia-mosaics and Faberge-style flowers.

Six display cases of stone floral and fantasy carvings, as well as Florentine mosaics created by the Rockhound Hall of Fame’s First Lapidary Laureate, will be featured at the club’s 40th annual show, Saturday, Oct. 11, and Sunday, Oct. 12, at Totem Middle School.

Colhour died in Seattle in 2000, at the age of 102. She had no formal art training, and was also self-taught in the lapidary arts. She learned from books, and trial and error. Her feeling was that, “If you aspire to do jewelry work, cut and polish stones, or study the techniques of carving, don’t stifle that creative desire for lack of knowledge, or because you live in the country. Buy some books and dig right in. How can you lose?”

It was in 1955 in Yakima that Colhour first entered and won Best of Show at a rock and gem show. She was 57. In 1988, she was inducted into the Rockhound Hall of Fame, as the First Lapidary Laureate.

For more information, go to www.Colhour.com.