PORT TOWNSEND — Martin Justin David will host a grand opening for his new studio and art gallery from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday.

The gallery, dubbed Kreatia, is located at 710 Landes St. in Port Townsend.

The opening reception will feature works spanning David’s 38 years as a working artist.

David’s creations include paintings and drawings of people, landscapes, portraiture, architecture, old bridges, wooden boats and some Western art.

David spent six years as an illustrator-draftsman while drilling with the 124th Army Reserve Command at Fort Lawton in Seattle.

The gallery’s inaugural show also will feature some work by local artist and photographer Steven R. Johnson.

Johnson’s photography has been featured in “Here Among the Sacrificed” by Finn Wilcox, a book about hoboing and riding freights around the country.

Johnson provided the art for “Where the World Does Not Follow,” a book about translating Tang Dynasty poetry written by Mike O’Connor.

He also traveled to China with Bill Porter, who is published as Red Pine, to photograph Porter’s search for hermit monks living in a remote mountainous region for Porter’s book “Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.”