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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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Dave Appleman
Simplicity of form and design has always interested me. Line, form, balance, rhythm, harmony, and contrast are the basic elements and principles that play a major role in my sculpture. I like to keep it...
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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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Kavita Bali
My creative journey began in the late 1960's when my grandfather gave me a pencil to draw with while he babysat me in India. At age six we moved to the US. Soon I received my BFA from the Rhode Island...
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Alice Ballard
My art is a reflection of my relationship with natural forms. These forms come to me on walks, while I work in my garden, on visits to the produce section of the grocery store or, appear as gifts from...
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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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Dori Baumwart
I have spent over 30 years working in Information Technology for Corporate America, ensuring that every single detail was perfectly executed. About 8 years ago, I realized that I had a very creative...
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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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Jennifer Bedenbaugh
Like many people who are driven to create, I have spent a lifetime testing my passions in all sorts of mediums. While majoring in Studio Art with a concentration in Graphic Design at the University of...
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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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Alix Bernard
I enjoy drawing, painting, and kiln fired glass work. Educating myself in my art passions has become as satisfying as producing a quality work of art. I've been a fabricator for 15 years so I also incorporate...
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Barbara Blair
It all started several years ago with my kitchen cabinets. Instead of spending thousands on a renovation, I chose to spend hours of blood, sweat, and tears on a transformation. I purchased a few cans of...
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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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Suzanne Bodson
My work incorporates the use of both installation and drawings to reflect my observations and thoughts of my surroundings and experiences. I am continually seeking to portray the ephemerality, delicacy...
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Hans-Peter Bolz
I always had the desire to become an artist, even at an early age growing up in postwar Germany. My first grade teacher recognized my talent and encouraged me to keep painting as long as I enjoyed it....
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Alexia Timberlake Boyd
I have been exploring the manifestations of the human body as vessel, as tool, and as found object. In the last two years, I have been more interested in going beneath the skin. The correlation between...
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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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Patti Brady
My work is about the materially of paint, of the accidents, planned and unplanned. Energy, growth, decay, regeneration, space and layers of debris are found, sandwiched and embedded. Plant life, large,...
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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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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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Kyle Buttram
Using my knowledge and heritage of the textile world, I employ a patterned ground to begin each piece. By adding rich hues of oils, I create imaginative landscapes, alluring interiors, myopic still life...
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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
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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Marquin Campbell
My jewelry and paintings express my love of all things beautiful and feminine. The jewelry line is called Chouette, The Art You Wear. Each piece is fun, fresh, and wearable art with a fashion forward...
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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
Growing up in Appalachian Mountains afforded me one of the best playgrounds a child could wish for. My playground now is my studio where I get to create art, whether it's a mixed media piece, acrylic...
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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 A. Chapp
I have always enjoyed making marks on a surface to create an image. 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...
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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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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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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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Terry M. Davenport
Growing up in Canton, Ohio, Terry enjoyed art of any kind and in his teens began an interest in photography. He progressed from a Kodak Brownie, to a Kodak Instamatic, to a Nikon F SLR. Today he enjoys...
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Robert Decker
Art is everywhere and in everything we do. My art is an attempt to take those things we see every day and show the beauty and harmony that they represent in the world around us. I grew up in the outdoors...
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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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Jane Doyle
I have painted for over fifteen years. My appreciation of color began as a child seeing my mother’s garden filled with an abundance of flowers. My love of art began many years ago when taking classes in...
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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 have been investigating the intersection of consumer culture with nature and how we humans who are consumers of the Earth that is our host, affect that host, both positively and negatively. I explore...
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Diana Farfan
My pieces are a bridge that helped me to understand my need to communicate, with figurative work, the metaphoric manipulation of the human being. My intent with this work is to cause viewers to consider...
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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 love and fascination with pottery comes from the need to make forms that are not only functional but also pleasing to the eye. I am inspired by diverse cultures such as China and the Middle East where...
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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 40 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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Jason Stanley Hall
My love of surface is the most evident characteristic of my work. I am fascinated by the mark making potential that the clay surface provides. I am inspired by Ceramics long history of functional use....
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Edith McBee Hardaway
My work is realistic abstract. I enjoy the excitement of pouring paint on canvas or paper, using whatever is at hand to produce wonderful textures and forms. I use plastic wrap, tissues, sand, glass, oil...
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April Harrison
My artistic mission is to invite you on a journey into a place where time stands still, and life’s special moments, felt by special caresses, tender touches and fond memories, transport you into a state...
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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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Leslie Ann Hart
Recently my husband and I have had a baby girl which has inspired me greatly. Not only to be a great mother but to be an inspiration to her as a creative and open minded individual. I have found that...
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Suzy Hart
What drives me as an artist is a powerful desire to translate feeling into form. My art is an act of emotional force, indefinable by language, expressed in touch, in the rhythm of the hand on the material,...
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Chris Hartwick
For me, creating art is very relaxing; like reading a good book. Once settled down to create, much of the stress and cares of the day seem to be non-existent as the piece takes shape. It is very enveloping....
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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 training...
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Carol Henkels
I began collecting pottery long before I started creating it, and am most inspired by pieces I have collected since the early 1970’s from Jugtown Pottery near Seagrove, NC (an area that once supported...
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Brenda M. Hill
Photography is a means of communicating and making a connection with the viewer. The magic of springtime wildflowers, a gorgeous sunset on a cold wintry morning and the return of snow geese are moments...
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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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Hilary Jernigan
A non-representational composition to me is very musical. Color and value resonate notes, tones and moods. Shape and line help create a sense of rhythm, tempo, and beat. A finished composition presents...
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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
As an artist and artisan I enjoy working in many different mediums, and taking on unique projects. Painting a fantasy sky through a triple tray ceiling presented new challenges in logistics and perspective....
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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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Matt Kargol
I use sculpture and installation as a means to reorganize and examine the hierarchy in mass visual culture. I tinker with the visual allure of popular culture to help me gain control of its primal charm....
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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. This medium of...
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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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Hanna Kozlowski-Slone
My work investigates the visual character of the decorative motif – its form, its capacity for expression, and its potential to disrupt the repetitive structure in which it exists. Through re-contextualization,...
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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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Gretta McCall
I use the light, muted and surprising colors of the atmosphere and landscape in my abstractions to create an ethereal quality. Each piece is born of an inspiring moment, a thought or the witnessing of...
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David Scott McCurry
My art is about visual observation and perception of the real. It is also about history and the lived experience of people in specific locations. I enter into deep conversations with objects, buildings...
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Susannah Mele
Creativity is an inner force , a drive within us all. For me, it is a necessity towards maintaining a balance on earth. My focus had been on weaving and fiber arts in the past and I traveled long journeys...
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Glen Miller
My work is primarily figurative. Although some are real persons, I often use invented but empathetic characters in my work, combining visual elements and techniques which, for me, reveal the complexity...
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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 from...
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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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Laura Nance
My desire is to let my paintings reflect the joy and sweetness of a beautiful piece of music. My use of color and light, at times evoking a dreamy world of enchantment and pleasant whimsy, plays in the...
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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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Johnny Nutt
Around 1999 an architect friend of mine showed me an article in a trade magazine entitled “Hot jobs for the new millennium”. It listed “potter” around #3. She asked me what I thought about that, to which...
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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 leave 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 enough...
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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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Nancy Pratt
My love of art began as a child in my ability to draw. I was born into a family of creative people. As far back as I can remember, from my Great, Great Grandfather down to me. I never did much with my...
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Linda Campbell Pryor
Art for your home is not just about the “sofa painting” that matches your décor. It should cause you to contemplate, smile, or even laugh out loud. Using one of a kind art pieces from local and regional...
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Jim Reel
My background is in commercial art as a graphic designer and art director, accompanied by a lifelong passion for drawing and painting. A native of South Carolina, I have lived and worked in Greenville...
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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 ceramic sculptures and sculptural vessels. In regards to the vessel, I am particularly interested in the vase and bowl form. The work is inspired by natural form, but...
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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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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 goal as an artist is to capture and spread beauty. I want my paintings to create a sense of hope, serenity, and optimism. Regardless of my subject matter, I paint the simple things found in nature or...
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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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Charles Slate
My main body of work is traditional black and white film photography, processed in the darkroom by hand. I still love the touch (and smell) of the chemicals and feel that the process that takes place is...
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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, marbling, and screen printing. I use dye, discharge, resist, and burn-out...
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David Slone
To me, art and the idea of being an artist hold a promise of something that nothing else seems to have.
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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 years. With their beautiful colors and varied grain patterns, each piece becomes a work of art...
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Barbara Stitt
My inspiration comes from almost any subject matter that sparks my interest at the time and I have always been fascinated by pattern, design, texture and color. I enjoy working with these applications...
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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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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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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
My art reflects my humor, my commitment to family, my hope for peace, and my appreciation for the creatures of our planet.
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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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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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Lily Wikoff
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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Enid Williams
My work reveals an interest in both the physical and intellectual process of perception, especially the manner in which we read and understand pictorial space. I rely on a complex ordering of form and...
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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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