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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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Melissa Anderson
Each painting begins in reality…. a vase, a person, a landscape. Once the paint begins to cover the canvas, the painting takes on a life of its own becoming an abstraction of the reality. The focus is...
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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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Els Balsa
Painting for me is color, natural landscapes, light and shades to the characters of the mediums I love.
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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,...
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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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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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Pamela Brock
When i create, there is a place i go in my heart, soul, and mind that developes the essence of my creation. i hope when one views my paintings they can see the spirit and convictions of my heart. i am...
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Duffy Brown
All of my jewelry is original and hand fabricated using soldering and also cold-connections. Riveting and weaving are favorite methods of cold connections. I often use hammered and etched surfaces for...
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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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Bruce Bunch
"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." -Cicero Whether it's the excitement of a crisp mountain stream breaking at a Rainbow Trout's first leap, or the mystery of a crackling campfire's...
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Jane Todd Butcher
My art is part memory, part impression from a lifetime of enjoying the outdoors. I’m especially interested in conveying the many moods of nature and the importance of conserving our forests and natural...
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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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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
My images speak for my concerns of the human existence. The crow figure has been a metaphoric image of humankind and the tension we humans create and live in. Many of my monotypes and other print media...
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Faith Chase
The inspiration for my current work stems from the unconditional love and companionship that a pet brings to an owner. I enjoy portraying texture, color, and emotion in my work. I hope that the viewer...
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Bill and Pam Clark
Designing and exploring in clay is our passion. We are like a kid at Christmas that is excited to discover the next great prize. When we start on a design path and there are many ideas in our portfolio,...
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Emily Clarke
My work is a reflection of the things I see around me all the time- a discarded paint tube, a beautiful sunset, a cast off pair of shoes, the face of a loved one, an old family photograph. Through painting...
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Cheryl Combs
Most days I am a seeker trying to find with a quiet eye the power, the joy, the beauty that are the reasons to be. Good days, a willing listener hearing enchantment’s rhythm in the shadow of the...
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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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Judy Iselin Cromwell
My painting has been inspired by wilderness adventures, and especially with involvement in conservation organizations in preserving our mountains & forests, rivers & green spaces, as well as historic architecture....
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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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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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Pamela Dangelo
I can not remember a time in my life that I was not fascinated by the process of creating art. When I was very young, I recall watching someone start painting on a bare canvas and I was totally awed with...
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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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Peggy Dickerson
I originally began painting oils in the 60's. My primary focus the past l0 years has been watercolor. I am primarily a realist and paint mainly from photographs that I've taken, from African tribesmen...
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Polly Gaillard Donohue
To me, photographing people is the closest I can get to understand another person’s experience. It is a great thing to let the lens transport me into another existence – a reality that is usually completely...
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Jane Doyle
I paint for the purpose of discovery, seeking out the infinite range of colors that can blend together, to produce a work that reflects how I see and interpret any given subject. In this process I allow...
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Jeanet Dreskin
In my paintings I explore concepts of growth and life in a land of environmental destruction. I try to visually express this 21st century dilemma.
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Tricia Earle
Sometimes I think and plan my paintings, at other times it is intuitive. Long ago I decided to become a realistic painter of landscapes, and occasionally of people. However, I have always wanted to paint...
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Janina Turkarski Ellis
My sole reason for painting is to capture those poignant, yet fleeting moments created by a ray of unexpected sunlight transforming a mundane object into a thing of beauty. I, therefore, draw on my surroundings...
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Marty Epp-Carter
I moved to Greenville less than a year ago. Before coming here, I lived in Boston and that’s where I became a practicing artist. I’ve always liked the phrase “practicing artist,” because it implies what...
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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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