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Alan McCarter
The ethereal beauty and spiritual inspiration of the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains drew Alan McCarter to North Carolina to become a full-time artist. Alan McCarter’s style is soft idealized, romantic realism, using acrylic in a rich, classic technique. He paints majestic panoramic mountains, light and movement in streams and waterfalls and woodland interiors. These eternal qualities of the beauty in Nature convey an uplifting sense of peace, meaning and purpose.
http://www.mccarter-gallery.com
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Bee Global
A candle studio offering distinctive beeswax creations, Bee Global studio and gallery is a work of exceptional craftsmanship. A working candle studio since 1996, Bee Global is the home of Bee Glow™ lanterns, award-winning ornaments and pillar candles with the finest natural beeswax. Wildflower gardens provide the beautiful setting for their studio gallery, an original design that combines architectural creativity with sustainability. Enjoy the glow.
http://www.beeglow.com
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Bonnie J. Smith
Bonnie J. Smith is fascinated with modern architecture, the furniture of the 1950’s, water towers, and recently, glass. Sometimes these fascinations are apparent in her decorative clay work. The geometric starkness of her retro, pop-art style tiles is in contrast with the unpredictable inconsistency of her firing methods. Bonnie assembles the decorative tiles into self-contained wall hangings as shown here, and sometimes incorporates functional elements such as a mirror. She also creates individual tiles and custom murals that can be used as fireplace surrounds or in other decorative applications.
http://www.bonniejsmith.com
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Catherine Labbe
Catherine Labbe was drawn to art at a very early age, and always had a box of crayons nearby which evolved to a box of oil pastels and a sketch pad. While in art school she took a printmaking class and fell in love with the linoleum printing process. She then began experimenting with the monotype printing method. A monotype print is a unique, singular image pulled from one or more multiple plates. Catherine uses Plexiglas plates that can be independently inked. Ink is applied to each plate in various methods. The monotypes are created using multiple plates to develop a layering of colors. She begins by applying ink based oils onto the plate as if she were painting on canvas, which gives the image a painterly quality. She may then add a second plate using a subtractive method, which is usually done with a darker ink such as a blue black. The entire plate is inked and then certain areas of the ink are removed with rags or brushes to allow the area printed by the first plate to come forward, which enhances the shapes and colors of the image. Each print is pulled by hand using a manual press and printed on handmade or cotton rag acid free paper.
http://www.catherinelabbe.com
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Clark House Pottery
Clark House Pottery is elegant, one-of–a-kind art pottery by Bill and Pamela Clark. Influenced by the Mission Style, Arts-and-Crafts movement of the early 1900’s, their hand-crafted art includes mirrors and sinks such as this Tuscan Ivy Mirror and hand-textured, Pair of Turtles Sink. Custom sinks in all designs, sizes, mounts and colors are available.
http://www.clarkhousepottery.com
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Connie Winters
Perhaps best known for her vibrant Impressionist-style painting, Winters has a unique sensitivity to color. Her unusual gift has enabled her to excel as a painter, capturing the lush splendor of spring gardens and other colorful scenes on canvas in rich, brilliant hues. Her work can be found in some of the country’s most prominent art collections.
http://www.conniewintersart.com
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Creations in Steel
Smitten with the indescribable energy exchange that takes place while blacksmithing, Roberta Elliot molds beautiful steel creations. The versatility of mild steel allows her to create the bold shapes usually associated with her ironwork, as well as the soft, feminine lines for which she strives. Each creation represents original designs and personal interpretations of traditional forms and techniques.
http://www.velvethammerltd.com
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Daily Paintings by Toni Grote
Iowa artist Toni Grote feels very fortunate to be able to live in a small rural town, create her art and since 2000 use the internet to sell her original paintings and prints. In October 2006 Toni joined the daily painting movement and took up the challenge to post a painting a day. As of Nov 2008 she has posted over 600 paintings. Toni is a prolific artist and paints a variety of subject matters using canvas to old ceiling tin to textured masonite with styles variying from realism to minimalism.
http://www.artisttonigrote.blogspot.com/
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