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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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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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Deb Bridges
Deb Bridges has found her creative home in raku pottery. Raku is a pottery firing method in which a piece of pottery is removed from a hot kiln (at approximately 1850°-1900°), placed in a metal container with combustible materials such as sawdust or shredded paper, and left to smoke. Deb loves the dramatic contrast of raku. She submits her sometimes simple and symmetric, sometimes complex and irregular wheel-thrown forms to a firing process that is unpredictable and unreliable. Her decorative glazes also respond in unpredictable ways, producing an array of colors and textures. She often pairs her wheel-thrown vessels with thrown and hand-built lids that both reflect and embrace the essential whimsy of raku.
http://www.bonniejsmith.com/deb_bridges_home.htm
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Flying Pig Furniture
Matching the enduring beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the smoothness of the New River’s headwaters, Ken and Kristin Sevensky of Gum Ridge Mill and Flying Pig Furniture honor the original mountain craftsmen who built the structures from which their wood is reclaimed. Their family-run business features salvages of rare wood varieties that are difficult to find anywhere else. Ken and Kristin have a passion for making custom-designed furniture and floors using repurposed wood from mills, barns and homes. Flying Pig Furniture is unique and filled with local history.
http://www.gumridgemill.com
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