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Bay3 Artisan Gallery, located in the Anderson Arts Center Warehouse, features the original artwork of Marion Harvey Carroll, Amy Kuhl Cox, Nathan Cox, Liz Cox-Smith, John Davis, Lynn Felts, Ann Heard, Ruth Hopkins, Deane King, Kate Krause, Stacey McAdams, Rosemary Moore, Johnny Nutt, Nancy Perry, Diann Simms, Chris Troy, and Armi Tuorila.
Marion Harvey Carroll • Photographer
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Amy Kuhl Cox
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I am drawing to working with a number of creative processes,including jewelry-making, knitting, felting, photography, and painting. To create unique scarfs, hats and other knitted and felted accessories, I travel the country to acquire exotic fibers from around the world. I began making beads and jewelry in 1998 and have taught jewelry-making studios to children as well. I enjoy lampworking, the process of making beads from melted glass, and also using doming resin to suspend eclectic imagery in bezels to make pendants and earrings. Most recently, I have combined my love for knitting and jewelry-making, by knitting sterling silver wire and suspending beads on each lifted stitch. The uninhibited creativity of the children I teach has inspired me to design whimsical scarves and jewelry with fun, bold colors. I hope that my creations appeal to the child in every adult.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Amy Kuhl Cox received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Therapy and Photography from Milliken University in Illinois, and a Masters degree in Modern and ContemporaryArt History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amy has served as an artist-in-residence at Hope Montessori in St. Louis, an adjunct instructor in Modern Art History at Anderson University, as well as the Education Director at the Anderson County Arts Center.
Amy received her American Montessori Society Primary certification from Lander University in Greenwood, SC and served as a Primary Directress for three years at Five Oaks Academy in Simpsonville, SC.
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Nathan Cox
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Liz Cox-Smith • Painter
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John Davis
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 Lynn Felts • Mosaic Artist
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The interplay between texture, color, and light is what really inspires me. The way sunlight flashes off the leaves of a tree, the intricate patterns on a lizard's body, and the complex colors of the natural world all take my breath away. I want my art to capture, in some small way, the way I feel when I'm in awe of creation.
Between 2001 and 2006, I lived in Australia. While there I experienced an eclectic array of art that was itself inspired by the jaw-dropping beauty of the surrounding land. From the dot-art of the Aborigines to the quirky mosaics found in small bush towns, the texture-loving art I enjoyed there really pushed me to try my hand at mosaics.
Mosaics have provided me with the perfect medium for exploring the three elements so well. The arrangement of pattern, color, and texture, often combined with natural elements such as metals, stone, opens up infinite possibilities for me. It's my wish that my art will inspire viewers to look more closely at the complexities in the natural world around them.
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Ann Heard
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For me, the greater my personal response to a seen image, the easier it is to paint, not technically, but with the heart as the motivating force. I have a love for trees and nature. Most of my paintings are landscapes and lake scenes which border on abstraction. Lighting effects, strong colors and shape provide inspiration and become the most important elements in my paintings. I want to capture the viewer's attention using these elements.
Each of my art pieces is started with a warm, bright under painting on paper or canvas. From there, I paint in a variety of media including acrylic and watercolor. I usually work from a photograph taken locally, from an adventure or an idea lifted from my imagination.
Since early retirement from a career in laboratory medicine, I have fulfilled my lifelong dream of painting. I have studied at Anderson College, the Greenville Museum of Art and have attended workshops with many prominent instructors.
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Ruth Hopkins
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Deane King
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Kate Krause
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Stacey McAdams
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History is seen every day. These objects are such a major part of our society but usually go unnoticed. They all, at one point in time, had a great significance on lives. I try to enhance these objects and make them seen again. These historical elements visually interest me in two ways: what the world once was and the uniqueness it has achieved over time. To enhance their importance, I show details of them with intensified color. I try to bring out the uniqueness in each object. I hope that through my paintings people will be able to see a world that they usually pass by, a world that exists and is incredibly interesting; that whomever really looks at my paintings, may never see the world in the same way again.
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Rosemary Moore
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Johnny Nutt
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Johnny Nutt grew up in Chapin, SC, and attended Furman University in Greenville, SC as well as USC in Columbia, SC. He currently lives in Easley, SC, and is married with one daughter. He maintains a private studio out in the back yard, and is currently the Education Director at the Anderson Arts Center in Anderson, SC.
"My work is, at it's most basic, all about contrasts: busy and spare, glossy and flat, light and dark, smooth and rough, round and angular, mechanical and organic, sustantive and superficial."
"I employ the turned vessel as a means of relating to a long standing art tradition, but also as a retreat from a more contemporary use of two-dimensional space. Most of my vessels are created in an improvisational manner, realey employing pre-conceived notions of size and shape, as well as being fully divorced from their ultimate surface treatment. I tend to work in long series, first producing a studio full of forms, stoppig only when I have either run out of clay or adequate shelf-space for more pieces. At that point the potter's wheel is essentially hidden away so I can turn my attention completely to the task of addressing the surfaces of the vessels. While I occasionally use some source imagery for my designs, such as sub-cellular structures, seed and pollen forms, satellite-sourced geographic details, and fluit-systems, I tend to abstract that imagery to the point of non-objectivity. I also take great delight in indulging my need to create what I like to call 'Juvenile Poetry' for the titles of my work. These titles serve no illustrative purpose though. They simply satisfy the conventional need for titles, as well as an effective disarmament against the accidental perception on the part of the viewer that there might be a deeper meaning to my work than there actually is."
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Nancy Perry
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Diann Simms
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The process of creating a watercolor painting is a fulfilling experience. The pale colors of the under painting coming slowly out of the white paper flowing toward the finished painting was after wash is extremely exciting, stimulating and relaxing - and all at the same time. With my paintings I find that by incorporating ink with watercolor my subjects are more clearly defined, and then as a bonus the harmonies, shapes and rhythms found in nature, and even architectural subjects, become more emphasized.
Although I do use conventional themes in my paintings, I endeavor to make the presentation unusual. Many times humor or the non-traditional interpretation of a particular subject inspires me; at other times it may simply be that my personality makes me look at a scene somewhat differently. I work almost exclusively from photographs that I have taken. Because of this, I have learned to carry a camera. Some of the best photo opportunities happen when you least expect them - from weeds growing in a ditch, to elegant gardens, plain and fancy subjects are begging to be painted!
Member of the Anderson Artist Guild; South Carolina Watermedia Society; Bay3 Artisan Gallery
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Chris Troy
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In the mid 1990's I found myself at one of those maddening crossroads of life. My "Chosen Path" of business management was soon to become a dead end due to corporate downsizing while my newly found passion for clay building was exerting increased demans of my time and energy. The "Path Less Taken" was made easier with support from family and friends and I found myself rushing headlong into the world of clay. I now create objects from clay with textures, shapes and forms of the natural landscapes surrounding my home-based studio. I see myself as a handler of clay, one who is a partner in the passage of clay through its life stages. I expect to always derive pleasure from the touch of a pot and from the comfort of its surface.
I currently work in midrange stoneware, firing my pieces to 2150°F in an electric kiln. I enjoy incorporating hand built elements in and on wheel thrown and slab built forms. Functionality is important in my life and my choice of forms reflects this.
In the last few years I have had the pleasure of participating in several anagama kiln wood firings. These community firings of hundreds of pots is a continuation of centuries of tradition. The fuel source is wood, delivered by hand over a period of hours and days. Temperatures reached are in access of 2400°F and the results are like no other.
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Armi Tuorila
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