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Bob Henley
Fine Art
Bob Henley's deepest wish is that his life will be remembered as a statement for the preservation of wildlife and its habitat. He is a staunch conservationist, trying to convey his dedication to nature through a growing collection of expressive oil paintings.
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Michiel Van der Sommen
Sculpture
Creating busts and life-size sculptures in bronze and terra cotta (fired clay), Michiel Van der Sommen represents the human figure in motion and in solitude.
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Arlene Daniel
Fine Art
Using oil and pastels as her medium, she creates beautiful color balances with soft muted colors to contrast richer pigments for excitement.
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Bill Firestone
Fine Art
"One of my goals in painting is to be loose and expressive. The more I paint in my studio the less deliberate I become and preconceived ideas of what the painting should look like fly out the window." -Bill Firestone
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Nita Honaker
Fine Art
Nita has been painting for over twenty years. Every year is a new adventure in art. She has won many awards but her greatest reward is when people like her work. She was recently selected for the "Women Artists of West Virginia" permanent exhibit at Charleston University.
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Linda Ruth Dickinson
Fine Art
A self-taught artist born to midwestern American missionaries and raised on the island of Taiwan, Linda Ruth Dickinson draws on her transcultural heritage to bridge seemingly disparate outlooks by seeking to express the intangible through universal iconography in a synthesis of eastern and western thought.
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Ed Gowen
Fine Art
Ed Gowen has been drawing and painting all of his life. In his paintings, he manages to establish the effect of space and has a technique that wields the power to suggest moods.
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Mia LaBerge
Fine Art
A Virginian realist/impressionist whose artwork conveys her love of light, shadow and color expressed through the rendering of her own natural surroundings.
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Mei Shu
Fine Art
A Radford, Virginia artist who specializes in watercolor and oil. Her subjects are mainly floral, mountain, foliage and oriental themes. Through the use of different techniques and materials, her paintings become more appealing and vibrant.
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Phyllis Knight
Fine Art
Phyllis Knight's paintings are generally watercolor or mixed media that can include watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels along with hand made textured papers.
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Nancy Tuttle May
Fine Art
Nancy's current work incorporates acrylics, pastels, gold leaf, metal powders and silk tissue on paper and canvas. This process involves freedom and discipline working together to allow the spirit to function.
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Connie Winters
Fine Art
Citing the work of classic French Impressionists as an ongoing source of inspiration, she gravitates to France for a renewed sense of spirituality and desire to create her detailed and vibrant landscapes.
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George Shumate
Fine Art
A Virginia native who has painted numerous oils and watercolors depicting his favorite subjects. His art aims are to enhance the awareness of the beauty and necessity of nature, and the need to preserve wildlife in its natural habitat.
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Robert Hewitt
Fine Art
A former oil and pen & ink artist who converted to watercolor when he discovered the color and freedom it gave him. He trusts the truth of the moment's impression and has become increasingly adventurous in his techniques to capture that impression.
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Barbara Burlingame
Fine Art
A creator of colorful and whimsical art, she focuses on contemporary painting and fun sculpture incorporating paint, handmade papers and found objects to create mixed media works.
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Ion Carchelan
Fine Art
His watercolor subjects are the people, places and things that he sees around him while being a reflection on the transcience of things of the seasons, of the physical world, and ultimately of our own experiences and lives.
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Bruce Rae
Sculpture
Bruce Rae's art consists mainly of wood work. Now retired, he resides at Smith Mountain Lake and is a member of the Smith Mtn. Arts Council.
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Ron Dearing
Sculpture
Ron Dearing's interest in wood goes back more than half a century. Ron concentrates exclusively on native VA woods. His turnings try to capture unique grain patterns and include all of the imperfections of the wood that impart a special beauty. Use of other than local wood is primarily to accent, or to add complement to native woods, although recently he has added a series of pieces made from exotic woods.
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Karg
Sculpture
Standing under his spectacular awning and facing the furnace he built, he concentrates on working the hot glass, skillfully turning a flowing globe, adding intricate, colorful designs to the crystal-clear mass.
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David Goldhagen
Sculpture
David Goldhagen's sculptural forms and massive handblown glass platters are distinguished by his unique style. His painterly approach to art glass marries bold colors to brilliant, clear crystal in a clean, modern style.
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Stephanie Firestone
Pottery
Stephanie offers functional and non-functional pottery. Stoneware selections include one-of-a-kind bowls, platters, and vases that may be grouped due to their warm mix of colors and shapes. Raku-fired pieces are meant to relate to each individual viewer. Capturing the color and beauty of seasoned objects found deep in the woods, they are of a spiritual nature. Dried plume grasses may be placed in tall slab-formed vases to enhance the visual excitement.
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Paul Proffit
Pottery
Paul Proffit's pieces are Raku and Horse Hair. Raku is an American adaption of traditional pottery firing techniques from ancient Japan. Also, he believes there is something spiritual about creating HorseHair pottery because it combines clay, water, animal, and fire. He learned how to create HorseHair Pottery on a trip to New Mexico and Colorado.
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Dawn Ashby
Pottery
Dawn has always loved working with her hands and creating art. She specializes in handpainted pottery and small furnishings. Bright colors and whimsical motifs decorate all her pieces. Words of inspiration are written on pieces to bring a smile or just remind us that sometimes it's the little things that make us feel good.
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Norma Shapiro
Jewelry
Color and the miraculous forms of nature have been the inspiration of her artistic endeavors which currently are fused glass and flame-worked jewelry.
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Jennifer Prince
Jewelry
Jennifer Prince is passionate about creating jewelry. Her jewelry is made of hand selected vintage beads, sterling silver, and Swarovski crystals. Each piece is lovingly and skillfully handcrafted by its designer.
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Tabra
Jewelry
Internationally known artist, Tabra Tunoa, studied jewelry fabrication and design at the Massana Art Institute in Barcelona, Spain. The inspiration of Tabra's Gypsy, ethnic style comes from her many years of travel and study in exotic regions of the third world.
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B B Becker
Jewelry
Mark "B.B." Becker's first course in sculpture sparked a lifelong interest in fine art, the beauty of classic lines and a fondness for organic materials. His jewelry designs are a reflection of these interests but ultimately it's "all about the words."
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Sandage
Jewelry
Sandage pieces are created in the mountains of Virginia. They are crafted with care using sterling silver, 14K and 18K gold, gold-overlay and gemstones.
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Jackie Holland Berkley
Fine Art
She has returned to a more spacious, atmospheric approach with her latest abstract works leaving the viewer more room for a broader philosophical or visual interpretation.
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Sue Furrow
Fine Art
The majority of her paintings are done with acrylics, but she also uses charcoal, dry pigments, watercolor pencils, colored pencils and occassionally masking fluid.
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Rosemary Traylor
Fine Art
Using her favorite mediums of watercolor pastels and acrylics, she draws her inspiration from area landscapes, the water, beautiful sunsets and the change of seasons.
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Virginia Lloyd Davies
Fine Art
An oriental brush artist since 1976, she has paintings in private collections in China, Britain, Europe, Japan, Kenya, Guatemala, and the U.S.
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Nancy Bulluck
Fine Art
She is a traditional artist with a contemporary flair. Working in watercolors, oils, acrylics, encaustics and mixed media, she uses her painting as a way to investigate relationships between light, texture, form and subject.
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Barry Woods Johnston
Sculpture
Barry Woods Johnston's sensitivity to the dignity and importance of personal meaning is at the core of his global appeal. Johnston's sculptures prove a highly developed mastery of balance, design, and the resolution of abstract stresses.
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Barbara Henris
Fine Art
Barbara took her first art class when she was 14 and taught her first art class when she was 15. Since then, art has played a key role in her life. She is now a full-time artist who focuses mainly on still lifes and landscapes.
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Connie Logan
Fine Art
Connie Logan paints landscapes, figures, studies, portraits and etc. Her colors are rich and intense and her compositions are carefully planned with texture, accomplished brushwork, and dramatic light and contrast. The theme of her artwork is deeply intimate and spiritual, revealing peace, joy, beauty, and happiness.
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Rebecca Lynch
Pottery
Rebecca Lynch is a Richmond, VA artist whose stoneware pottery features slip-trailing and textural applications. Her work displays her sensitivity to nature motifs and repeating designs on items which are meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Nancy Lewis
Pottery
"I have developed a love for making pottery, both wheel-thrown, altered, and hand-built, that shows that the clay and glazes were once very wet and malleable before being hardened by firing and glazing to make them functional as well as beautiful additions to your homes." -Nancy Lewis
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Suzanne Crane
Glass
Growing up in a family of botanists, Suzanne Crane watched her mother collect, identify and press rare praire plant specimens. She loved the abstract patterns that resulted. Crane now gathers floral from creek sides and the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains to press into the stoneware clay of her ceramic pieces.
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Roland Bailey
Fine Art
His works have been published by "Ideals Publishing Corp.," an international publication and "Virginia Wildlife-Hunting Laws." He recently did character sketches for a video promotion of movie, "The Judas Project."
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Frederick Yohe
Fine Art
Frederick quit his career in advertising and marketing to begin to paint full time. Initially, he concentrated on portaiture. All of his work is acrylic on portrait-grade canvas and not a single one is "airbrushed."
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Katherine March
Fine Art
Katherine March has been represented in many juried art shows in North Carolina and Virginia and has had several solo shows in the central Virginia area. She has won several awards for her work. She is currently painting in oils and finds that medium very adaptable to her interest in color layering and in showing how light affects color as it travels across it. She prefers to work outdoors if weather permits.
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Rebecca Humphrey
Fine Art
Rebecca Humphrey employs a variety of media but her artwork is largely based in paper. The tactile qualities of handmade paper and collage nudge her into a playful interaction with her materials.
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Voleta Meyer
Fine Art
Voleta Meyer has lived in the Roanoke, Virginia area for 25 years. She began taking art and drawing classes in her early 20's. Through a private instructor, she began painting in oil approximately 6 years ago.
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Susan Ward
Glass
Each plate created by Susan Ward is individually hand-fabricated. The designs are original, lush composites of drawing and painting with collaged imagery. The artwork is affixed to the back of a clear, handmade glass plate and the design is then sealed with seven coats of lacquer.
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Revelle Hamilton
Fine Art
Revelle Hamilton lived and worked in New York City as a fashion designer. In 1980, she moved to Bedford Virginia where she works as an artist and painting teacher in her home studio. After painting exclusively in watercolor for the first ten years, she now works in other media also: oils, acrylic, pastel and oil pastel. Her work ranges from realistic to non-objective.
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R. Nelson Grinder
Sculpture
R. Nelson Grinder has been carving decorative waterfowl since the early '90's. As an intermediate level carver, his carvings have won a number of first, second, and third place awards in the categories that they were entered.
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Elizabeth Pollock
Fine Art
Elizabeth works in oil, pastel, watercolor, woodcut, etching, and has done some sculpture. During all the work and experimenting with these mediums, she has continued in the oils primarily.
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Toulouse-Lautrec
Fine Art
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec was born in Albi, France in 1864. He reached adulthood with the body trunk of normal size but with abnormally short legs, which deprived him of leading a normal life, so he lived wholly for his art. He stayed in the Monmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks, all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. He died in 1901 at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters, particularly the Moulin Rouge group, have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales.
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Delmus Phelps
Fine Art
Being comfortable with the landscape and the still life enables Delmus a great amount of freedom in selecting subject matter. Within his landscapes there is a softness, warmth, and glow that exude a peace and serenity much needed in our hectic lifestyles of today.
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John Matthews
Fine Art
Matthews' artwork, which is built on dominant forms, is distinctive for its bright, clear colors, contrasting lights and darks, and the development of interesting and eye-catching surface textures. Matthews uses barns to accomplish these fascinating studies. The result is a representational picture that has an almost surreal quality. The viewer feels that entering one of these barns would be an unexplainably interesting experience.
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Kathleen Husted
Fine Art
Kathleen tries to blend visual rhythm, the effects of light, and an impressionistic color palette to capture the mood of a location. Her landscapes are a reflection of the beautiful countryside, rolling hills, mountains, lush vegetation and the radiant colors of Virginia.
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Betsy M. Kellum
Fine Art
"In all my work I search for a sense of peace, beauty and serenity in our hectic and stressful world. I hope my viewers can pause for just a moment to share that feeling." - Betsy M. Kellum
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Ellen Sanders
Fine Art
Ellen has been painting for much of her life and often chooses landscapes as her subject matter. Her paintings reflect her interest in barns and other country settings. She is inspired by the beauty of the Virginia mountains.
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Robin Anne Cooper
Fine Art
Robin's work consists of cutting canvas pieces and arranging them onto a background canvas, creating shapes and textures that build, layer by layer. This is extremely time and labor intensive with each piece of the collage individually painted, cut, and placed. However, this is the only way Robin feels she can achieve the rich texture and sharp lines that she loves.
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Nancy C. Tucker
Fine Art
"Personal interpretations of the effects of light and color on the landscape are exciting and stimulating to me. Through my painting, I hope to help my viewers create an individual and unique visualization of their surroundings." -Nancy Tucker
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Susan Oller
Fine Art
Susan is new to our area but not to the art scene. Coming from a family of several artists, her mother an accomplished portrait artist, was her first instructor. Susan has been showing her acrylic and oil landscape paintings since 1979 in galleries and juried art shows. Her works are being sold nationally and some internationally. She is known for her tranquil, luminous, lifelike landscapes. She and her husband moved to this area from Florida. She is returning closer to her childhood roots of InWood, West Virginia and enjoying painting our beautiful countryside.
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