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Siglinda Scarpa
Show runs June through July
Artist Rreception Sunday, July 6th from 4-6 PM
Carolina Brewery goers will enjoy three distinct approaches to artistic expression by Chatham Guild Artists at the June/July Show. Landscapes by Rita Baldwin, ceramic expressions by Cherie Westmoreland, and abstract acrylic paintings by Leslie Palmer blend to produce a harmonious vision at the Carolina Brewery and Grill on route 15/501 in Chatham County. There will be a reception on Sunday, July 6th from 4-6 PM. Enjoy free refreshments and meet these three exciting artists.
Rita Baldwin creates landscapes in oil, primarily painted on location “I have found special beauty in rural Chatham County and attempt to capture the mystery and poetic mood of my subject,” Baldwin notes.. “Although each painting is planned, I especially enjoy the surprises which often emerge.”
Cherie Westmoreland ‘s sculptural ceramic work is influenced by her grandmother and mother, whose creativity and craftsmanship were expressed in photography, quilting, and all kinds of needlework. With a background in printmaking and drawing she has worked as a book designer since 1986. "My recurrent imagery includes: birds, particularly crows, vines, ferns, and fish -- My work also includes laser print photographic transfers fired onto clay," she explains.
Leslie Palmer is known for her detailed naturalistic drawings, but uses a different voice in this show. “My current acrylic and mixed media paintings express a pureness of thought without form or narrative,” she stresses. “Once released from the restrictions of representational references memories, experiences and emotions flow as fluid as the paint; merging and engaging as it caresses the canvas.”
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Karen Tiede can’t remember not knowing how to knit. The child of a Marine Corps family, she had lived in Germany, Quantico, England, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Camp Lejeune before attending college. After ten years in Chapel Hill, she came to the arts community in downtown Moncure in search of an affordable house, unaware she would find a new vocation. Her first degree was in chemistry and Russian, from Duke; she added a master's in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design several years later. She knit throughout those years, for friends and herself, and finished a lace tablecloth that used six miles of thread. When she saw a pattern for a rug made out of old t-shirts in a knitting book in 2006, a whole new art form took shape. Currently, she’s half-way through a “Down to Earth" series of 100 rugs, made from old clothes found in Chatham County, using quilt patterns translated into garter stitch as inspiration.
“I continue to be amazed at the beauty and utility that can be created from discarded materials,” Tiede states. “Traditional quilt and rug patterns provide the core designs for my rugs, explored in various series. My knitted rugs are made from 100% post-consumer recycled fabric. The more rugs I complete, the more ideas for new patterns, series, and colorways appear.” (The rugs can be machine washed in cold water and tumble-dried.)
Painter Joey Howell had over 40 years experience writing and performing music before he ever even tried to paint. During his music career he has played guitar and percussion in numerous bands and as a soloist. His discography includes his critically acclaimed 1997 cd /Moondog/, a collection of solo acoustic guitar compositions. A North Carolina native and graduate of Duke University, Howell moved to the deep woods of Chatham County in 1987. In 2000, in an effort to fuel musical creativity, he took up drawing for the first time, branching out to painting a few years later. His work is known for its bold colors and unusual palettes resulting from the use of "color scales", which are analogous to musical scales. "My musical experience influences my painting on both conscious and subconscious levels," he says. Joey joined the Chatham Artists Guild’s Open Studio Tour in 2006.*
For "Out There" Howell created a new series of spacescapes, inspired by photos from the Hubble, Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes. “I really like astronomy and cosmology, and I feel that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding of our cosmic environment and origins is among the most worthy of endeavors,” Howell says. “When I saw these images on NASA/JPL-Caltech's website I immediately thought they would make excellent subject matter for paintings.”
“Up to now, my subjects have been mostly the human body, animals, plants—living things, rendered naturalistically within an abstract setting,” he explains. “In contrast, the new spacescapes are looser, because I made little effort to stay true to the photos, bringing my own sense of space into the paintings,” he continues. “On some level, I consider the Universe a living, evolving organism, so in that sense, these paintings fit right in with my previous subject matter.”
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The Chatham Artists Guild (www.chathamartistsguild.org ) is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each year, Guild members open their studios to the public through the Chatham Open Studio Tour. Visitors travel throughout lovely rural Chatham County to meet artists in their own work spaces, and share their ideas on art and the creative process. The 16^th Annual Open Studio will be held the first two weekends of December 2008.
Carolina Brewery (www.carolinabrewery.com ) a locally-owned brewery and restaurant, has drawn international attention for its handcrafted beers. Carolina Brewery is equally dedicated to food and its expanding menu, which raises the bar on traditional bar fare. Both the Chapel Hill and Pittsboro kitchens feature Culinary Institute of America graduates. The Chatham Brewery and Grill is located on route 15/501 just north of Pittsboro.
“I love dogs. I love their beauty, energy, silliness, optimism and intensity,” Bueker says. “Living with dogs in a rural country setting has been filled with joys and punctuated by sorrows. I have learned over and over that dogs are predators. It's great to let them run in the woods, but they definitely do not always tread lightly on their paths,” she continues.
“I care for all animals, so in my years of dog ownership, I leashed up my dogs more and more. That way, I could look the other animals in the eye without guilt. We are all tangled up together in nature, each of us affecting the others we live with and alongside.”
“Every one of Shannon’s paintings tells a story of dogs intersecting with Chatham’s rural nature,” notes Forrest Greenslade, Guild President. “In one painting, squirrels and foxes scamper in all directions just ahead of curious dogs. In another, an opossum scrambles to the top of a tree just in time to escape a night time pack of mischief.”
Bueker’s use of line and spare color pallet give these paintings an earthy feel full of action.
“For me, the most compelling puzzle artistically continues to be orchestrating line and color, she explains. “The process of my painting is layering color and line, keeping wispy lines of charcoal, describing movement and strengths, and developing a rich, varied surface. I see my work as trying to expose the grace, reveal the density of it, unfolding the layers of interactions, interconnections and the surprising overlaps.”
Bueker has lived in Chatham for 15 years. Her studio is in her basement, where she and the paintings vie for space and light like plants.
“This life we have is a gift. It is a wonder to me that it comes in so many shapes, sizes and forms,” she asserts. “My drawing and painting have long been motivated by the need to respond to the beauty I see around me -- the amazing grace of trees and plants, the fluidity of animals, the outrageous colors of the earth.”
The Chatham Artists Guild is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each year, Guild members open their studios to the public through the Chatham Open Studio Tour. Visitors travel throughout lovely rural Chatham County to meet artists in their own work spaces, and share their ideas on art and the creative process.
Carolina Brewery a locally-owned brewery and restaurant, has drawn international attention for its handcrafted beers, all brewed in-house by Brewmaster Jon Connolly and his team.
Carolina Brewery is equally dedicated to food and its expanding menu, which raises the bar on traditional bar fare. Both the Chapel Hill and Pittsboro kitchens feature Culinary Institute of America graduates.
Carolina Brewery & Grill Pittsboro feature the same award-winning beer and great food as the Chapel Hill location. Brewmaster Connolly oversees brewing operations in Pittsboro, and the new facility produces all beer for Carolina Brewery’s expanding restaurant, grocery, and direct to consumer sales. In the kitchen, Head Chef and Culinary Institute of America graduate Andrew Forster has moved from Chapel Hill to run the Pittsboro restaurant.
Read the Chapel HIll Herald story
Chatham Studio Tour
covered in local publications
The Chatham Journal
The Carrboro Citizen
Photos by Guild graphic designer Maggie Wilson
The December/January Chatham Artists Guild show at the new Carolina Brewery and Grill on route 15/501 in Chatham County features six unique visions of what surrounds us.
*Jeff Christian* draws on a lifetime of venturing into the “everyday wilds” of North Carolina to create realistic yet painterly images of wildlife and waterscapes. Angler/Artist JK Christian paints fish and fishing scenes as a way of combining passions, to make his avocation and vocation one in the same. Born and raised in North Carolina in a family of fishermen, Jeff spent much of his summers catching bass and bluegills in ponds and lakes, & flounder and speckled trout on the Carolina coast.
Jeff Christian, Scales as Big as Dinner Plates
As an adult, Jeff has sought to experience all of the traditions and techniques of angling and to catch and record as paintings as many species as possible. It is only natural to try to capture the beauty just as we try to capture the fish. Finding that there is knowledge gained through experimentation with the different media, Jeff rotates between alkyd oils and watercolors primarily, depending on the project. Besides grand seascapes and authentic fishing scenes, Jeff also paints portraits of clients' trophy fish as a catch and release alternative to taxidermy.
Jeff Christian, Deep River Rocks
A Chatham County native, *Beth Goldston* paints what she sees and experiences everyday. Her award winning pastels, watercolors and oils capture an elusive sense of time and place. In a style ranging from crisp realism to soft impressionism, Goldston’s paintings reflect her love of native and a quiet life. She also travels to the coast and mountains to gather subject matter for her work.
Beth Goldston, Chatham Hay Bales
“The subjects for my paintings are images that comprise some of my earliest childhood memories,” Goldston recalls. “For me, freshly plowed fields, bales of hay lying in sun-baked pastures, the long shadows of cedars and tall pines, misty-eyed calves and grazing cattle evoke a sense of continuity and well-being. Like many artists before me, I am intrigued with the effects of light and atmospheric conditions on the landscape. My goal is to express my responses to the various times of day and the changing seasons.”
Geth Goldston, North Carolina Sound
*Katherine Ladd* loves to create beautiful artwork in the houses of her clients. Each project is unique to the environment it is designed for. She works in homes in and around Chatham County, North Carolina.
Katherine Ladd, Faux painting on Mantel
Floorcloths by the Blue Heron Studio are being enjoyed by clients all across the country. Each is custom designed for the room it will enhance, based on wall treatments, fabrics, and the furniture and use of the room. Katherine is also a painter and loves to paint picture of places she has been, places she has imagined and pictures of interesting buildings.
Katherine Ladd, Compass Floor Cloth
Finding form and order in parts of larger things, *Claire Levitt’s* architectural photographs often contain strongly abstract compositions. Other images are of oxidized metal found in scrap yards, richly sensual in a widely ranging color palette resembling paintings. Once pulled in, the viewer is confronted with the reality of what we are seeing. With a sensitive eye, Claire deciphers the striking image that emerges out of the larger, often overlooked, whole.
Claire Levitt, Photo
Claire’s photographs are printed using the Cibachrome, now Ilfachrome, printing process. Claire describes art as being everywhere when the time is taken to truly see.
“I have photographed sections of dumpsters, oil barrels, gas tanks, and camouflaged army trucks, subjects thought to be too mundane to be worthy of consideration. Not so!” she stresses.
Claire Levitt, Photo
*Jeff McFall* creates oil paintings, vibrant landscapes and still life.
Jeff McFall, Apple
“My paintings go through lots of changes during their construction. These changes build upon themselves to become something more than my imagination could construct on its own,” he explains. “I've always enjoyed being outdoors and in the woods. Painting allows me to explore these places if not on location then on my canvas.”
"I believe all of my paintings are found, not conceived, and this exploration is what I enjoy about painting,” he adds.
McFall’s early interest in painting led him to pursue an art degree. His professional career has been mostly based on digital image creation and animation. He has produced work for computer games, broadcast commercials and instructional material.
Jeff McFall, Sunlit Morning
*Joan Sommer’s* work reflects her immersion in the cultures where she has lived abroad, particularly those of China and Southeast Asia. Her current concentration is on abstract, non-objective work, exploring space and movement while seeking ordered balance within the disciplines of painting, collage and water color.
Joan Sommers, Bamboo in the Rain
Sommers was recently awarded the Paul Schwartz Memorial Prize for her entry in the Sumi-e Society of America's 44th Annual Juried Exhibition now at the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hill, NY.
Joan Sommers' award-winning painting Bamboo with Enso
Monnda Welch (Studio 27) just loves working in metal. She has studied and observed jewelry-making in Ireland, England, China, Peru, Korea, and of course North Carolina. Welch creates original one of a kind jewelry and a few production pieces.
“I can't do a lot of production work,” she says, “because the production work somehow changes into one of a kind jewelry. It is a good thing that I never had to work on an auto assembly line!”
She combines gold, silver, bronze, copper, and steel with precious and semi-precious stones, bone and glass to make unusual pieces of jewelry.
Pendant by Monnda Welch
Monnda Welch is just one of over 50 artists who will open their studios for the 15th Annual Chatham Open Studio Tour December 1st & 2nd and 7th & 8th.
“The Tour is a great opportunity for visitors to see how original jewelry and other art-works are created and produced,” explains Maggie Zwilling, Executive Director of the Chatham Artists Guild.
The Tour also features *Anne Bigelow* (Studio 35), a former Humanities teacher and silver smith, who brings her love of all things artistic into dramatic, organic jewelry.
Necklace by Anne Bigelow
*Roberta Marasca* (Studio 14) fabricates jewelry with precious metals, some with stones, mostly one of a kind, all hand-wrought.
Bracelet by Roberta Marasca
“There are some wonderful holiday gifts just waiting to be found in our artists’ studios” adds Zwilling. “Paintings, glass art, fabric art sculpture, pottery, photography and mixed media creations will all be on display” A brochure with a map to all the studios will be available at local restaurants.
Tour visitors can see an example of each artists work at the Pittsboro campus of Central Carolina Community College on December 1st and 2nd . They can meet the artists at a free Opening Reception at CCCC on Friday, November 30th from 7 to 9PM. Jane Tyndall, of Chapel Hill’s Tyndall Gallery will serve as judge for the opening show. Each artist will also exhibit a sample of their art at The Art Center in Carrboro from November 13th to December 12th .
The Chatham Open Studio Tour was founded in 1992 as one of the many programs of the Chatham County Arts Council (ChathamArts). The Chatham Tour is one of the oldest in North Carolina, a prototype for other area studio tours, and a highly respected art venue. Since its inception participation in the Studio Tour has grown from 32 artists to nearly 60 in recent years. Now, the juried, nationally and regionally recognized, visual artists of Chatham County conducting the Tour comprise The Chatham Artists Guild, a nonprofit member organization. The Guild provides educational opportunities for its members and the general public through exhibit opportunities, demonstrations, and teaching workshops. In addition to the annual, In addition to the attributes of the actual tour, many visitors are attracted to the Studio Tour by the scenic beauty that inspires many of its local artists. Rural Chatham County is a delight to the senses, adorned by luminous lakes and rivers that meander through stands of Piedmont pine and rolling farmland.
Featured in The Southern Neighbor, November 2007 issue:
"Chatham Moonlight" by
Chatham Artists Guild Painter, Sally Sutton
Patrons of the new Carolina Brewery and Grill on route 15/501 in Chatham County will have a feast for the eyes, as well as delicious food and brew.
Painter Sally Sutton is the featured Chatham Artist Guild exhibitor for October and November.
There will be an artist’s reception on Sunday, November 4th from 3-4:30.
“Nationally recognized artist, Sally Sutton captures light in way that seems to dance on the canvas," states Leslie Palmer, Guild President. “Her new paintings fill the canvas with passion and vitality, but retain the same captured beauty found in her Chatham inspired landscapes.” Sally Sutton grew up with Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Bonnard, Gauguin, and Munch. “As a child I would get out the large heavy book of paintings and spend hours going through it until I was living in visions of great works of art,” she adds. Sutton was previously attracted to the impressionistic style, but recently her work has been gravitating more towards Impressionism and bordering at times on Expressionism and abstraction. “I am passionate about bold brushstrokes and thicker paint application. I enjoy the challenge of capturing light and experimenting with richer and brighter color combinations, contrasting them with deep shadows,” she elaborates.
This Brewery show includes Suttons landscapes, gardenscapes and one of her favorite subjects, koi ponds. /Chatham Moonlight/, featured in the entrance to the dining room, depicts a house in beautiful downtown Pittsboro on a moonlit night. “I was interested in capturing a moonlit scene where the moon comes through the trees and casts shadows, Sutton says. The house is painted with lights on and glowing from within. I wanted the house to be welcoming as though there was a party going on inside,” Sutton explains.
The Chatham Artists Guild is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each year, Guild members open their studios to the public through the Chatham Open Studio Tour. Visitors travel throughout lovely rural Chatham County to meet artists in their own work spaces, and share their ideas on art and the creative process. The 15th Annual Open Studio will be held December 1&2 and 8&9 2007.
This sounds like a geologist’s description of the formation of some ancient world, but it is what happens right now in the studio of Chatham Artists Guild glass blower *Sally Resnik Rockriver*. Echoing the birth of planets and capturing the life inside them, Rockriver generates chemical reactions in blown glass and ceramics.
While she is creating blown glass objects, Rockriver uses use ceramic glazes and glass rocks to grow geological worlds on the interior of the hot glass vessel. These moments of chemical reaction become imaginary planets and frozen thermal formations.
Due to safety issues inherent in the process, there will be no live demonstrations; the work that will be shown at the studio will already be cool.
Center of a Planet, a glass art piece by Sally Resnik
Visitors to the 15th Annual Chatham Open Studio Tour the first two weekends of December will experience these other worlds at Rockriver’s studio (number 17) in the northern corner of scenic rural Chatham County. Art-lovers will enter the high temperature moment at which these phenomena were created and marvel at the explosive interior of a crystalline birth. “I infuse blown glass forms with ceramic glazes that react and bubble at very high temperature,” states Rockriver. “The expessive energy in the work comes from the fact that it has grown at these temperatures and the instant of its creation is now frozen in time,” she continues. “Each day, I am harvesting jewels from a cave and each precious formation has a voice that speaks to me from under its cooled surface.”
Prior to establishing her studio and school in North Carolina, she taught as Head of Ceramics at Moorhead State University, in Minnesota. She received an MFA from Hunter College in New York City, a BFA from UNC-Chapel Hill, and has studied Glass and Ceramics at Penland and Corning. She has conducted seminars on the intersection of art and science and her work is internationally published, featuring this pioneering combination of science and art. Rockriver’s piece /Center of a Planet /was selected to appear in the book, /Best of American Glass/.
In the southern corner of the county, In Moncure, metal sculptor *Kevin Eichner*, his students, and friends will excite visitors with a demonstration of metal casting at the Moncure Mechanism of Art (MMoA) studio. Sculptors from all around the region will gather at studio number 45 on Saturday, December 8th to pour molten iron into resin-bonded sand molds, producing a variety of metal art objects.
Sculpture by Kevin Eichner
“This is a thrilling experience,” notes Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) metal sculpture student Andrew Dixon. “It takes a coordinated team and a lot of energy, but we end up with exciting pieces.” Several of Eichner’s CCCC students are among the artists participating in the metal pour. “We first work together to crush up a bunch of old cast iron home radiators,” describes CCCC student Lisa Wichalonis. “Then we stoke up a special furnace called a cuppolette to melt it down,” she continues. “The molten iron is then poured, sparks flying, into large sand molds to harden into our sculptures.”
Eichner leads students in a Chatham iron pour.
Eichner is a graduate of State University of New York at Buffalo, and holds a MFA from East Carolina University. He has been the metal sculpture professor at CCCC since 2003and artist in residence at MMoA since 2002. “the mission of the MMoA has evolved from a mission to a mchanaism or vehicle for the creation of contemporary art.” Eichner states. “The MMoA has given me the space and opportunity to create and exhibit my work,” he adds. “I wish to open that door to others.” Students from a MMoA metal casting workshop will be among the participants at the December 8 iron pour. Preparations will begin early, and the iron will be flowing from 4 to 7 PM.
A number of artists will participate in the Chatham Open Studio Tour for the first time this year.
*Rita Baldwin* paints landscapes in oil, primarily on location. “Although each painting is planned, I especially enjoy the surprises which often emerge, she says.
*Anne Bigelow*/, a /former humanities teacher and silver smith, brings her love of all things artistic into dramatic, organic jewelry./
*Eric Davis* produces mosaic tiles & oil painting, blown & sculpted glass/. /*Jonathan Davis*,/ /at his/ //Locally Grown Art Studio/ offers unique glass creations, glassblowing classes and demonstrations.
*Eamon Kennedy*/ /shows original black & white & color photographs shot on film and processed and printed by hand to archival standards.
*Roy Lindholm*,/ /before retiring to Chatham County, taught geology at the George Washington University. He used photography in research and teaching. Now, his favorite subjects include dragonflies, butterflies, flowers and medieval European towns./ /
*Roger Person* is an award-winning artist whose pieces are often combinations of many media. His art has been described as profoundly inspiring, unique in design and often blatantly humorous./ /
*James Smith* produces/ /custom Japanese-style woodworking including shoji, tansu (chests), tatami rooms, lamps, cabinets and garden fixtures./ /
*Daryl Tracy’s* work expresses the relationship between Nature and man portrayed as tree and house. Each sculpture is hand-built from clay; some are constructed as night-lights and lamps./ /
*Natalie Worthington*/ /paints colorful, impressionistic, light-infused images of nature, both realistic and imagined.
Tour visitors can see an example of each artists work at the Pittsboro campus of Central Carolina Community College on December 1st and 2nd . They can meet the artists at a free Opening Reception at CCCC on Friday, November 30th from 7 to 9PM.
Guests enjoy the art and food at the 2006 Artists Reception.
Jane Tyndall, of Chapel Hill’s Tyndall Gallery will serve as judge for the opening show. Each artist will also exhibit a sample of their art at The Art Center in Carrboro from November 12th to December 12th.
The Chatham Open Studio Tour was founded in 1992 as one of the many programs of the Chatham County Arts Council (ChathamArts). The Chatham Tour is one of the oldest in North Carolina, a prototype for other area studio tours, and a highly respected art venue. Since its inception participation in the Studio Tour has grown from 32 artists to nearly 60 in recent years. Now, the juried, nationally and regionally recognized, visual artists of Chatham County conducting the Tour comprise The Chatham Artists Guild, a nonprofit member organization. The Guild provides educational opportunities for its members and the general public through exhibit opportunities, demonstrations, and teaching workshops. In addition to the annual, In addition to the attributes of the actual tour, many visitors are attracted to the Studio Tour by the scenic beauty that inspires many of its local artists. Rural Chatham County is a delight to the senses, adorned by luminous lakes and rivers that meander through stands of Piedmont pine and rolling farmland.
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Forrest Greenslade opens his Blog with these words:
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