Dan Murphy
I work in sculpture using mainly metal… sometimes bent acrylic. I like the permanence of metal and the 3D nature of sculpture.
William Neville
Caseworks – Chapel Hill This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. What is your medium? Why do you love it? How did you get interested in it? As a young man I was making oil paintings, and the fine arts were my first love. The decorative Arts came later. In my…
Susan Brubaker Knapp
Blue Moon River – Chapel Hill This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. "What Remains" What is your medium? Why do you love it? How did you get interested in it? I'm a fiber artist. I started out as a traditional quilter, making bed quilts, when I was in my twenties,…
Nadine Zenobi
Skyrivers Studio - Jewelry & Painting - Chapel Hill This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. What is your medium? I have been working as a jeweler for the past 48 years. I was traveling in Europe when I began to know that I wanted to work in silver. When I…
Becky Broun
Book arts/Mixed media - Carrboro This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. What is your medium? I make handcrafted boxes and books, and my medium falls under the label "book arts." My passion for this art began with a weeklong book-making class at Penland School of Crafts and I was immediately…
Bernadette Januska
brnburn Studio - pottery - Hillsborough This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. What is your medium? Why do you love it? How did you get interested in it? I have always been interested in pottery and ceramics and decided that it should consume my life. I love it so much…
Nature Sparks My Imagination by Heather Washburn
Early this spring I came upon these marsh grasses and loved how they danced in the breezes along the path. I tend to look to nature for inspiration and these colors and sounds sparked my imagination into suggesting a new series of pieces inspired by acoustic guitar or bluegrass while the grasses inspired the colors. Pulling out my favorite travel…
A walk among nature’s gifts by Maya Barton
As I become more aware of native plants especially with an enormous wildlife value, I tread carefully in my unmanicured backyard discovering precious gems. I have learned to observe and document them carefully in watercolor. This is blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) which actually belongs in the Iris family. It stands about 10” tall with bright blue flowers attracting hummingbirds,…
Cicadas on the Brain by Betsy Vaden
For the past few weeks, we have been experiencing the constant whirring of cicadas, as they break through their exoskeletons and emerge in their adult forms to take to the air. For some of us this cacophony is annoying, but it is music to my ears as it signals the availability of cicada sheds - that exoskeleton part that is left…
Annatasia as Photographic Art by David Annis
I’ve photographed many things that are objectively beautiful - birds, flowers, landscapes - but I strongly believe that humans are some of the most beautiful, interesting things that exist. When I photograph people I can create art that I believe is innovative. So that is what I frequently shoot. Then, I take that image and work with it to bring…