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Laura Kennedy Aiken
Crayons, markers, paints, colored pencils, stone, and glass---I enjoy it all. My brain is always on art. I am a self-taught mosaic artist customizing in kitchen backsplashes, and unique signage. Mosaic...
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Michael Allen
I am a native of Greenville, South Carolina and I work primarily with oil on canvas. My subjects range from wildlife, to land and seascapes, to ethnic (African/American). My African-Americans works...
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Kent Ambler
While the imagery in my art is generally subject or object oriented, the visual appearance of each piece is of most importance to me. I work from an aesthetic and intuitive approach rather than a conceptual...
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Joe Ambuhl
I’m 45 years old; hair designer by trade, and have 10 years in Designer Fashion designing showrooms. Understanding beauty and art has always been my passion. Coming from a family history of artists has...
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Barbel Amos
Sometimes I have a specific idea in mind to paint, other times I let my intuition guide me as to which way my painting will develop. I have enjoyed being involved in art all of my life, first during my...
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Casandra Andrews
Casandra Andrews, a native of Greenville, S.C., is a versatile artist whose exuberant mastery of different mediums-pastel, watercolor, texture, acrylic, ink and pencil- parallels her ability to see and...
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Randolph New Armstrong
For me, art is a lifelong journey that is influenced by feelings and experiences. I enjoy cheerful, intense color and use bright hues in most of my work. People in action are my favorite subjects and I...
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Yvonne Herd Arrowood
My art is a passion that I love to share…. I am primarily an oil painter, specializing in portraits and Old Master reproductions. I love color and shapes, shadow and light, human faces and paintings that...
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Anne Hill Barry
I paint because life is full of line & light… of balance & beauty, composition & color, paint & poignancy. My paintings are “built” with layerings of the visual and the tactile. Each work becomes an...
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Lou Ellen Beckham-Davis
I love the beauty of light passing through and illuminating stained and leaded glass. Working with stained glass allows me to work with many different materials- domestic, French, and German hand blown...
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Kathryn L. Bell
I have chosen the letters of the alphabet in their various styles and combinations as my expressive medium. Letters are design in themselves as well as part of the larger design of the whole. My work is...
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Eric Benjamin
My images are based on the landscape real or imagined. They are a representation, not a documentation of nature. While the landscape is a jump-off point, I am more concerned with creating a strong, emotional...
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Barbara Blair
Knack Studios was born of a passion for discovering home products that reflect a distinctly urban professional lifestyle. With an eye for detail and a talent for repurposing found objects, Knack offers...
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Carl R. Blair
In life, it is prudent to think first and act afterward. In art, I act first and think afterwards, gaining spontaneity and freshness, along with unexpected accidents that happen that I can take advantage...
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Hans-Peter Bolz
Hans-Peter Bolz always had the desire to become an artist, even at an early age growing up in postwar Germany. His first grade teacher recognized his talent and encouraged him to keep painting as long...
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Joseph Bradley
I am fascinated with my own emotional connections to certain imagery. Each of my works is a process of layering, intuition, and experimentation. My recent work is very process-oriented using many washes...
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Deb Bridges
Raku is a very fast, unpredictable method of firing pottery. Seemingly insignificant things like a breeze blowing into the kiln vent holes or the speed at which the kiln is heated can make a glaze change...
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Susan Bridges-Smith
I am inspired by the natural colors in landscapes. Often there are hidden colors in nature, and I take liberties to exaggerate these colors into vibrant oil paintings with bold purples, fiery reds, and...
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Duffy Brown
I have been making metal jewelry for 16 years and use mostly sterling silver, copper, and brass. For the past couple of years I've included lapidary work in my designs, cutting and shaping stones that...
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Roger Bruckner
As a custom framer who likes making shadowboxes of unusual items, I love the challenge of making even the most worthless items look frame-worthy. My assemblies are made up from many recycled and found...
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Shane Bryant
I like to make things people can use. While all of my work is highly decorated, and any piece could stand alone on pure aesthetics, it is the inherent utility that I enjoy. I take great pride in creating...
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Jane Todd Butcher
Although my acrylic/collage landscapes are typically very colorful, I have also returned to my old love of drawing with charcoal and pastel. To satisfy my need for color, I often combine charcoal with...
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Kyle Buttram
At the end of March Kyle Buttram was laid off from a job in the textile industry. She was shocked into serious art making again! Now her loss is considered a kind act of Providence. Using her knowledge...
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Ryan Calloway
I combine the traditional techniques and elements of a blacksmith shop with modern advanced welding technology. Every stage of building and finishing steel is engaging. I enjoy working with fire as a transforming...
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Jim Campbell
My artwork grows from a number of impulses. Since childhood, I have enjoyed making things; sock puppets, Popsicle stick trays, lanyards, and drawings in the dirt. You name it. So here I am several years...
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Sharon Campbell
For decades, I have worked with clay, beginning as a studio assistant at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Not surprisingly, after mixing hundreds of pounds of clay a week, I hoped I would...
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Angelia Carrier-Schmerbeck
Experience and exposure of working in the world of meticulousness as a Technical Designer and the imaginative realm of an Artist collide on canvas. My paintings are fusions of thoughts from the left and...
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Katy Cassell
Enameling is the fusing of glass to metal through heat. I choose this medium because it allows me the freedom to work seamlessly between the realms of painting, drawing, and metalsmithing. It exists...
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Tim Cassell
Symmetry, balance, harmony. The geometry of nature and the structure of growth. The beauty of mathematics. Tranquility. An opening flower, a dividing cell, the perfection of a crystal. Honesty of...
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Bob Chance
My current works consists of forms that reflect ways I have explored in the past and ideas generated by looking closely at pots from a variety of ceramic traditions. My inspiration for these pieces has...
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Steven Chapp
I have always enjoyed making marks on a surface. Printmaking is one of the media in which I do this. It is my objective to create images that not only speak of marks but to have marks that speak for the...
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Faith Chase
I try not to take life too seriously and have a little fun with everything I do. But at the same time, I try to excel at any task before me. I think my art is a reflection of that philosophy. It’s not...
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Bill and Pam Clark
The Clark House Pottery is the creation and dream of Bill and Pamela Clark. Our pottery is influenced by the Mission Style, Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s. Our work is completely original,...
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Emily Clarke
My color palette is inspired by the Technicolor movie musicals of the 1940’s and 50’s. My images are inspired by family photographs, ads, movies, memorabilia- anything that creates for me the sense of...
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Kevin Clinton
My art portrays humanity. My pieces hold up a cracked mirror to reveal mankind and all its flaws. I work primarily in wood, whether carving sculptures, woodcuts, or more recently, wood engravings. Through...
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Mary Coleman
The art world is my kind of world and having the privilege of becoming an artist is one of the most important highlights of my life. To be an artist means to be able to see beauty in all things and convey...
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Cheryl Combs
My art arises from enjoyment of creating interplay between lines, colors, and values on a variety of supports and in a wide range of media.
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Diane Kilgore Condon
Painting has lately become the singular response for everything. I have some random problem- go to the studio and work it out. As I've gotten a little older the wierd vectors I'm encountering in life seem...
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Jennifer Conn
Time marches on and waits for no man. I think artists feel the gravity of that statement more than most people because they deal with its fleeting moments in their art. A sunrise at its peak or the play...
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Daniel Cvammen
I create art because it makes me thrive. I create art because I want people to see my life the way I see it. I create art because it is exciting. Viewing just about anyone's work can give you a good idea...
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Carla Dabney
There is nothing new under the sun, so, as a realistic painter, my challenge is to bring a fresh perspective to figurative art. Whether I am capturing sunlight on a surface or depicting bold patterns from...
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Liz Daly-Korybski
I was sitting at home one day looking at some scraps of stained glass from a project. I could not bear to throw out the smaller pieces. It dawned on me? Hey, you went to school for Jewelry Design, Make...
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Holly Deitz
Setting new trends by preserving the past. Each piece is a little time capsule. Vintage components are paired with precious metals, providing limited editions with almost limitless possibilities. At Ornamental...
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Pamela DeWitt
From time to time, although all too seldom, each of us takes a moment to really look at the beauty and wonder of the world around us. I paint to convey that sense of peace and awareness. As I put brush...
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Kim Dick
I am investigating the unseen spaces that define and surround the body. I use my body to explore the relationship between the daily experience of living and the overall representation of my form. Primarily...
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Peggy Dickerson
I originally began painting oils in the 60's, but my primary focus the past 11 years has been watercolor. I have had the privilege of studying under many talented teachers. One aspect of painting that...
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Jeanet S. Dreskin
I am painting many layers of transparency to create elements of wind and water flowing in a turbulent manner. Reflections emulate the chaos of our world and forecast a more peaceful future.
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Tricia Earle
Sometimes I think and plan my paintings, at other times it is intuitive. Originally I was an oil painter. I especially liked doing expressionistic landscapes and my favorite place was the southwest. Occasionally...
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Janina Tukarski Ellis
I paint with the knowledge that everybody is intriguing. Everyone is the hero of a story. Every moment is the climax scene in its own novel. My personal challenge is not to seek out remarkable inspiration,...
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Marty Epp-Carter
I moved to South Carolina in December of 2006 and am currently getting my MFA at Clemson University. Before coming here, I lived in Boston and that’s where I became a practicing artist. I’ve always liked...
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Greg Flint
For a while now my work has largely revolved around the art scrounging. I'm either using found objects such as shell fragments, pebbles, or rusted bits of steel in my jewelry, or I'm appropriating old...
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Paul Flint
Sometimes it's a subject mater that makes me want to get in the studio. Sometimes it's a color or what one of my studio mates is doing with a new material that pushes me to work, (or it could be what they...
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Tom Flowers
First of all I am an artist. I have a passion for life and nature, and I express it through my art. I paint and I sculpt. I observe as much as I can see, and I am always looking for things or visions...
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Susan Goldsmith
My ceramic pieces focus on the potential of functional pottery yet I am always looking to find the unusual in the forms I create. I am drawn to nature as my greatest inspiration. The colors, the feel...
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Betty J. Gorman
I have always been inspired by the impressionists and have constantly strived to capture the purity of light and color as they did. I enjoy working with oils because of the depth and versatility of the...
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James G. Gorman
My background as an artist and educator spans a period of nearly 35 years. In that time I have explored a range of mediums that include graphic design, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, silversmithing,...
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Barbara Green
One of the first creative acts of humans was to make jewelry. I love creating beautiful pieces of art that are worn and become a personal statement for the individual wearing my jewelry.
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Lynn Greer
I am fascinated by the variety of color in both sky and lights in the cityscape at night. I have been experimenting with the luminosity and compositional possibilities inherent in this subject. My medium...
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Glenda Guion
I hope to communicate in my work that which surrounds me both physically and mystically--from earth, gardens, and man-made forms to archetypal symbols and theories. It is the contrast between the organic,...
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Rhonda Gushee
My figurative sculptures are investigations into how humans interact socially and within personal relationships. They are reconstructions of the emotional and intellectual mechanisms that people use to...
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Georgia C. Harrison
A moment in time, feeling that moment and expressing that moment in light and shadow, texture and movement… that is where I am.
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Anne C. Hassold
My process of creating art is very straight forward. At a young age I was exposed to old masters’ paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Once exposed, I began work shops, and continued my art...
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Brenda M. Hill
My medium is photography. Capturing the extraordinary detail of a wildflower or the time worn beauty of a Victorian angel expresses both the beauty and reality of nature.
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Diane Hopkins-Hughs
I have always been captivated by form, light, and texture in the world and in my photography. Whether in nature, architecture, realism or abstraction the mystery is the same and I hope to capture a bit...
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Deborah Morrow Johnson
As an admirer of the “Grand Classic” style my work includes portraits, still lives, and copies of the masters. I attempt to combine objective reality with capturing the mysterious essence of beautiful,...
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J.B. Johnson
I try to show and share with others... the magic in nature. To bring out that special moment where everything falls into place... the perfect memory that lasts a lifetime. Whether it is the curve of a...
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Rebecca Jonas
I’m returning to the tour in a new location, and studio space. The change has given me a new perspective and approach to my computer created works. In creating a Photo Nouveau I’m utilizing skills used...
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Erin L. Jones
My work involves the abstraction of familiarity, be it of the corporeal realm or of objects from my environment, translated into sculptural ceramic forms. This discovery and creation of form focuses on...
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Ken Kalasinski
If art is considered a passion, then I am an observing and compulsive painter. Picasso is a very strong motivator in my work. The influences of color and form are the basis of my attempt. It is my hope...
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Al Keiser
Limited edition and one-of-a-kind photographic images printed on fabric is a different medium which I have developed over the past five years. These prints can be best viewed first hand. You have to...
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Patricia Kilburg
While exploring subject matter that interests me, I build up layers using encaustic paint, watercolor, oil, charcoal, ink, and other mediums. I experiment with the materials and then respond to what I...
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J. Ashley Kirby
Several years ago I watched a vice-presidential debate where one candidate asked: “Who am I?" Why am I here?” I think that these questions are a constant thread in the artist’s mind. We are searching for...
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Annie Koelle
I think I have always assumed that I would be an artist as a profession, or rather, I never considered doing anything else. As far back as I can remember I have always drawn—on the carpet, on the fireplace...
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Christopher Koelle
In my work, I strive for a sort of gradual revelation. I try to experience an enjoyably unpredictable process of making marks and playing with ideas in order to produce a strong, graphic image of something...
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Catherine Labbe
Life experience is my source for creating art. A fascination with the response of the human soul to its environment motivates my work. I think of the artistic process as an arena where this relationship...
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Lavette Lane
Color makes me happy. Painting, creating, and discovering are a few of the passions in my life. I enjoy using acrylics, crayons, and watercolor pencils. I connect with the canvas in ways that reveal...
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Kay Larch
By nature, I've always been drawn to mosaics. Blending the style of this ancient art form into my own acrylic paintings was a natural path for my art to take. Using brilliant color and a cool, glassy texture,...
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Cham Little
Most of my art is motivated primarily by instinct. The major force that drives this instinct has to do with the surfacing of subconscious relationships among a variety of subjects and formal visual elements....
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Dabney Mahanes
I am a painter, concentrating mainly on the figure which allows me to explore the full range of my creative expression. I find rhythmic line in the body gesture, exciting shapes in the body contour, and...
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Lorraine Martinie
For me, CREATIVITY is the result of INSPIRATION. I choose my subject matter by what excites me artistically and then it's just a matter of letting the painting "happen". I paint for my own pleasure, but...
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Michael McDunn
The work I do evolved from my need to survive in a part of the country where, for many years, contemporary furniture styles were quite unacceptable. This forced me to design furniture that was fitting...
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Benjamin McKamey
I look to the natural world for the inspiration that drives my artwork. Trees provide a unique framework for me to experiment with and develop relationships of color and line. I prefer simplified forms...
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Joe McKinney
I work in both acrylics and oils in creating landscapes, both traditional and surrealistic. This ranges from miniature to mural. I have painted all my life. Twelve years ago I decided to try bigger brushes,...
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Susannah Mele
My work represents my love of the earth and spirituality. Weaving is somewhat representational of the earth. The continuous flow, the over and under movements of yarn, paper, fabrics, forming patterns,...
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Glen Miller
Much of my recent work is visual storytelling, perhaps derived from my Appalachian heritage. Although some are real persons, I often use invented but empathetic characters in my work, combining visual...
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Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers
Driving this body of work is my interest in the notion of the iconography of the ordinary. I hope the images transform seemingly common or everyday moments that might otherwise be overlooked. Derived...
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Brenda Morgan
Lighting a torch, melting glass and creating something unique – no one was more surprised than I was that this suits me so well. I’m fascinated by both the process and the result of glass bead making (lampworking)....
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Vicky Moselay
I have always considered myself “Wired for Art”…drawing and painting since childhood. Following high school, I attended commercial art school in Cincinnati, Ohio to transition my talents into a graphic...
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Pegi Newton
I paint the places and things that I love. Since painting and traveling are two of my favorite pastimes, inspiration is never hard to find. I am especially drawn to coastal themes and images.
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Jay Owens
My work is a remix of pottery and drawing. Making pots allows for quick experimentation with form. I use the pottery wheel not as a tool to exercise perfection but a way to build forms quickly. Working...
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Nicole Payne
My process is very much about imagination and creativity, as far as the convergence and juxtaposition of ideas. My mind is like one of those lottery ball tumblers; I have ideas bouncing around constantly,...
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Bev Peeples
My passion for photography began years ago when my husband’s job moved our family to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Growing up on a cotton farm in the flatlands of Texas, the rolling hills and greenery of the...
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Teri Pena
Open landscape and endless skies are predominant in my work. I relay the essence of nature through color and movement in an almost dream-like state. Painting in oils with oversized brushes, I leaving behind...
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John Pendarvis
For me it is exciting to try new things with old mediums and processes. I want my art to celebrate life, hear my voice and share it with others. Art is a reflection of life lived if we are honest...
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Julia Peters
The learning process of artistic endeavors has been in my life as long as I can remember. My ability to draw and paint is not all that special. A lot of people can do what I do. My special gift is the...
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Eileen Piccoli
Wearable Art. The idea that one can create pieces of art that can be worn on the body greatly influenced my decision to design jewelry. An art background probably helped develop my particular style, which...
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Georgia Pistolis
I paint mostly realism floral and landscapes in watercolor and acrylic, and currently have developed a passion for contemporary realism in still life. I find Inspiration in everything that surrounds us....
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Jim Reel
My background is in commercial art as an advertising agency art director and graphic designer. A lifelong passion for painting is now a full-time venture and adventure. A native of South Carolina, I have...
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Ken and Janet Ries
The basic steps of working in stained glass -- cutting, grinding & fitting, wrapping and soldering -- are just half the story of a vibrant panel. The first, and more important, half is the prep work. Before...
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Patti Rishforth
I've studied classical portraiture for many years. I know the structure of the head and the proportions of the face and figure in various age groups. A good artist can paint the most rich and accurate...
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Brent Roberts
The focus of my work is hand-built sculptural ceramic forms. I create pieces for the pedestal as well as the wall. The combination of these formats allows me to express my 2-D and 3-D interests. These...
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Julie Roszkowski
For me, photography is about feeling, about beauty, and about truly seeing what lies in front of us. Often, what is mundane and normal to one person can be beautiful and astounding to another. It’s merely...
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Bob Santanello
I grew up in Northwestern Pennsylvania where I first developed my love and respect for the outdoors. I moved my family to South Carolina in 1976. My passion for the outdoors is exemplified in many of my...
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Grace Scherer
Every painting expresses to the viewer the personal feeling of the artist toward the subject. Like a signature, this expression is made individual by the use of line, shapes, stroke and color. Inspiration...
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Jack Schmidt
My photographs are often of common objects, or people in common life situations, but are presented in such a style as to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. My images may be, the scarred, the aged,...
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Jill Schmidt
As an artist, I draw inspiration from texture and color interplay. I work mostly in acrylic and watercolor because I feel they both are a spontaneous medium. Using both paint brushes and palette knives,...
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Marie Scott
My vibrant oil paintings are intended to convey a sense of color, light, contrast, and beauty, as I strive to capture an ordinary scene or object in a fresh way. I paint the things I see and experience...
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Larry Seymour
Wildlife has always been a part of my life. I feel the best way to show the love I have for the fantastic animals of this world is to paint them. After two trips to Kenya, I have found that the animals...
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Julie Hughes Shabkie
Abstracted realism would best describe my work. My objectives are to explore realism without being predictable and abstraction without becoming inaccessible. I enjoy experimenting with different textures:...
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Lois Silk
After exploring other venues, I always return to my joy of painting the human form, figure, face, and emotions. I'm inspired by the challenge before me when beginning a new blank canvas. It becomes...
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Charles Slate
My main body of work is traditional black and white film photography, processed in the dark room by hand. I still love the touch (and smell) of the chemicals and feel that the process that takes place...
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Charlotte (Charlie) Slate
I’ve been working with fabrics and dyes for years, constantly adding to my repertoire of techniques such as Arashi shibori, batik, marbleing, and screen printing. I use dye, discharge, resist, and burn-out...
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David Slone
You can’t be satisfied.
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Bonnie J. Smith
I love the elemental simplicity of mosaics. No individual tile has much power, but when combined with others, the result can be dramatic. Recently I’ve been making retro, pop-art style tiles and contrasting...
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Susan R. Sorrell
I have been truly fascinated by the use of cloth as a collage element. Within the last few years, I have been experimenting with fabric, beading, painting, printmaking, and found objects that can be attached...
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Tim Speaker
As an artist and designer, I am afforded the opportunity to present my unique way of seeing the world around me. Yet my vision of the world is directly linked to a time when I had no vision at all. As...
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Barbara St. Denis
Color, design, the figure, buildings and inanimate objects are the primary elements of my paintings. Symbols and shapes which represent my personal artistic journey, ie; my fascination with clocks and...
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Jacquie St. Denis
Line, value, color and shape tend to be the visual arts elements predominant in my work. Equally important to me, however, are the elements that can only be seen during the actual painting or drawing process....
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Charles Stephan
I have had a passion for working with domestic and exotic woods from all over the world for nearly twenty year. With their beautiful colors and varied grain patterns, each piece becomes a work of art...
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Guy Stevens
The interplay of light and texture is a prominent influence on the choice of subject and technique. I think of myself as an expressionist. I am an intuitive, expressive colorist, striving to give the viewer...
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Rebecca Stockham
Whether it is my large, abstract prints or my smaller, scanned images, through my art, I point out the unnoticed. Beauty in something reviled or ignored. Reverence in the mundane.
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Lily Stratton
My fascination with clay stems not only from its gritty, urban characteristics, but also from its contrasting beauty and simplicity. I have uniquely combined these elements to create Lily Pottery. Each...
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llyn Strong
I believe there’s a magic in the human ability to make something that didn’t exist before, and that the act of making deepens our humanity and our understanding of ourselves. The essence of contemporary...
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Anne Taylor
My life is full of passion for the arts. A passion for photography drew me to learning the elements of printing color and black & white images. Two things have changed this year which altered my...
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Jo Ann Taylor
Plein Air painting is one of my joys but every day I paint in my studio with my "Mind’s Eye". The studio paintings are always more expressive because I am not confronted with a lot of information and I...
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Patricia Thomas
I love expressing my creativity through my art. I enjoy the challenge of capturing my subject's personality in a particular composition. Oils are my medium of choice because of their slow drying time and...
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Alexia Timberlake
For the last several years I have explored the manifestations of the human body as vessel, as tool, and as found object. Recently, I have been more interested in going beneath the skin. The correlation...
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Carole Knudson Tinsley
I paint in an impressionistic and abstract manner. I strive to be a good shape maker of whatever subject I am interpreting. I am often inspired by the mysteries and spirits of Native American sites and...
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Judy Verhoeven
I got back into art when I took an acrylic painting class at the museum. When painting however, I had a constant urge to apply papers to my canvas, leading to collage. My collage is process driven. Ideas,...
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August Vernon
I was born into an artistic family and grew up in a creative town. As a painter, my passion is the quest for the masterpiece. Someone said to me some time ago that “painting is dead”…that statement inspired...
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Susanne Vernon
I’m a mixed media artist, but my focus for the last 6 years has been to invent and develop my own ‘plaster mosaics’. I carve the plaster into tesserra and paint designs on each - I am so involved in the...
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Suzanne Vitti
My work reflects the beauty of imperfection. It's a celebration of spontaneity, detail and texture, with influences of pop culture, commercial imagery, religious symbolism, and intercultural aesthetics...
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Jason Waggoner
For me, art is about making connections. Whether those connections are physical– stitches of cotton thread or copper wire– or conceptual–metaphor, simile, visual rhyme. These material connections are the...
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Katie Walker
In my recent work I am combining multiple layers of poured acrylic paint onto a wet ground with hard-edged geometric marks and shapes. I am interested in creating different levels of planar space, blurring...
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Wes Walker
Photography has been my creative focus since adolescence. Although, I have been involved with various technical aspects of the medium such as high-speed motion studies for the fiber industries as well...
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Eli Warren
My infatuation with photography is in presenting the creative. My art isn’t as much in creating, but in finding and emphasizing the scene. In the outdoors, man and nature are very adept at creating interest...
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Jim Warren
I started working with steel about 12 years ago to make trellises for our roses and other garden plantings. It has since grown into quite the part time “hobby”. I really love letting my imagination run...
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Lu Wixon
Lu Wixon paints with acrylic on wood. Lu works out of a studio in her home. She designs her pieces either by employing the natural elements of the wood itself or by drawing, cutting out, painting and...
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Fred Wood
I use the plein aire approach to watercolor that attempts to capture on paper a fleeting moment of the day before it vanishes in thin air. In this approach, I hope to also capture that same moment in the...
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Kathleen B. Wood
My three-dimensional work has always involved the combination of disparate materials. Since my retirement from teaching art in public and private schools, I have concentrated on wearable, affordable jewelry...
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Judith Woodward
Ever since I was in the 6th grade, I have wanted to be an artist and have been interested in painting and drawing. However, it was not until I got older that I began to pursue my interest in the fine...
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Mark Stuart Woodward
I was introduced to her in early childhood and she has consumed my soul ever since. She is quite the lure, mysterious and sexy. I have spent a lifetime trying to please her and understand her but she keeps...
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David Young
Sculpture and hand building with clay have always been my favorite art form. For me, hand building is exciting, challenging, and very free. Clay is a wonderful medium that allows me to express my impressions...
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Doug Young
Using people for the subjects of my work, opens up an infinite number of possibilities. Just as every person is unique, so is the creation of every sculpture. Age, gender, ethnicity, occupation, expression...all...
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Susan Young
My work addresses the relationship between forms and their interaction with each other. This relationship may exist through two pieces that communicate with each other, through forms within other forms,...
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