Featured Artists of the Month
JULY 2019
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Eleanor McArver,
Paintings A native of North Carolina, Eleanor earned a BFA in the visual arts from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She describes her work as "most influenced by the Hawthorne-Hensche principle," an approach of seeing and painting color and light in an impressionistic way. "Now I am a 'Coastal Carolina Colorist,'" Eleanor says, "inspired by what nature provides and loving the practice of continuing to study and progress as a painter in the oil and pastel mediums." She is an associate member of the American Impressionist Society, and belongs to the Arts Council of Carteret County, Coastal Carolina Plein Air Painters, and North Carolina Plein Air Painters. She also has served on the board of Carolina Artists Gallery in Morehead City, NC, for years.
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Brenda Gear,
Mixed Media As featured artist, Brenda Gear introduces a new body of work at the Gallery: "Contemporary Fusion--Batik.Acrylic.Collage." This assortment of mixed media works incorporates original images by the artist derived from nature, individually worked into abstract compositions in watercolor batik.
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Wendy Dawn Johnson, Glass and Jewelry
Wendy is an award-winning lampworker. She enjoys adding metal elements along with glass to her designs to create unique jewelry and other functional pieces. She has attended workshops with Corina Tettinger, Kristina Logan, Leah Fairbanks, Heather Trimlett and Patti Walston. Wendy recently studied with Davide Penso on a trip to Murano, Italy.
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