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Hand Weaver, Rug Maker

Rugs and other items can be purchased here at the Depot in Kings Mountain, the Museum of York County, Buffalo Creek Gallery, and throughout the year at various local art shows in York, Lancaster and Cleveland counties. Commissions welcome.

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... creates decorative & functional pottery. She likes to make elegant pieces for decorating and entertaining in your home. Her stoneware pieces are fired in an Electric Kiln to Cone 5. She currently has five regular lines of glazes which are poured, dipped and/or sprayed on. All vases are unique and you should not find any two alike. Judy shows her work at select gallery’s and at shows around North Carolina. To find out more about New Day Pottery check out her blog at New Day Pottery or “like” New Day Pottery on Facebook

Ray is a visual artist using Photography and enhancements available from the computer. Some of his images are computer generated, others pure photography, and others a combination of the two. For most of his life he's had an interest in many forms of art. Clemmer shoots in a variety of styles, from nature and natural abstracts, to enviromental portrature. Also he ventures into the digital age with computer generated imagery as well.

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I first fell in love with drawing at the early age of eleven. At that time, my family was living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I was able to take lessons from a neighborhood class. Later, I began studying with a local teacher whose training was more advanced. She taught me a lot about shading and especially how to draw faces. Later, she started me working in oil and teaching me how to mix colors and how to apply them to the canvas. My studies with Doña Quela V. de Mantz lasted about three years. I worked on my own for many years until a cousin, also an artist, introduced me to watercolors. Since then, I've devoted most of my time to this interesting medium. After moving from Asheville, NC to Kings Mountain I had the privilege of learning more about the whole field of art from artist John Brady of Statesville. He taught me more than anyone and being a member of the Southern Arts Society in Kings Mountain has broaden my appreciation of the many mediums available. And now, in the sunset years of my life, my art is on a lower key but has not diminished my love for it and those who share this love with me.

was born in Georgia and grew up an Air Force "brat". She counts that time as a learning experience having been able to live in different parts of the United States and England. Pat is married, has 2 daughters, 5 grandaughters and lives in Mooresboro with her husband Roger. She retired in 2004 from the childcare profession after 14 years. She enjoys camping, spending with her family and expressing herself thru her art, a meaningful part of her life for the past 20 years. She is vice-president of the Southern Arts Society in Kings Mtn. where she continues to learn from classes, workshops and encouragement from other artists in the group, all necessary and important parts of growth.

One of the first people I met after moving to Shelby in 1960 was artist Nancy Carter. She motivated many people, including me, to pick up a brush. After a few years, family and work took most of my time and I did little painting until the early 90's. Almost ten years ago I enrolled in Hal Bryant's drawing and painting classes to improve my skills and learn more about creating art. This has been a wonderful journey even though the process has not always been steadily "upward". As an adult painter, I was anxious to cram in everything I could. I began with classes at Cleveland Community College, as well as Central Piedmont Community College. During the mid to late 90's, I completed several workshops with Frank Covino in the classical approach to portrait painting and other workshops which explored Impressionist, Colorist painting techniques and Plein Air painting methods. In 1997 I did a tour of Museums, Cathedrals and Gardens in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. During 2002-2003 I attended an Open Studio class at the Andrew Braitman Studio in Charlotte. Since the fall of 2000 I have taught two oil painting class offered through the Continuing Education Department at Cleveland Community College. This has been a great experience for me and has kept me painting. I am also encouraged by the words of Sir Winston Churchill, a self-described "Sunday Painter", who said he hoped when he got to Heaven to spend the first million years getting to the "bottom of painting".

Jack Greenfield was born in Ohio but has spent the past 50 years living in the South. After graduating from the University of Akron and completing his military service as an officer in the army, he taught US History at Wilson Jr. High in Tampa, Florida. He is now enjoying retirement after a 30-year career with the Internal Revenue Service. Although he had always had an interest in art he did not have any formal training until in his forties, he began night classes at the Memphis Academy of Art and then later association with various student art groups. However, he describes himself as basically self-taught, learning techniques mainly through trial and error. After brief and unsuccessful experimentation in oils and pastels, it was an exposure to works by artists such as Andrew Wyeth that awakened the possibilities of watercolors. That was an epiphany making him realize the potential of the medium to create textures, close detail but with soft out-of-focus backgrounds. Even though living the major part of his life as a "big-city" person, it his views of the beauty of the rural South that have influenced much of his subject matter. In addition, his many trips to New England and Maine in particular have provided the interest for his harbor scenes and seascapes. He considers himself only as an amateur artist with painting as a satisfying but fulfilling hobby. Jack presently lives in Kings Mountain, North Carolina with his wife the former Helen Lancaster.