Greenslade's Garden GoblinFest

In October 2011, artist Forrest Greenslade worked with the staff of the North Carolina Botanical Garden at GoblinFest. Dr. Greenslade and his Goblin Munchkins taught 20 kids, aged 4 to 10, and their parents to create Goblin masks from concrete, found natural materials, and recycled stuff. The kids made some amazing artwork, which was exhibited in the Wonder Garden, a place where kids of all ages can explore and imagine at the Botanical Garden. For more about our Botanical Garden visi:t http://www.ncbg.unc.edu/. For photos of the kids in action, visit: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2585123680473.129570.1625955537&type=3


Caption: Forrest teaching kids to create goblins from glop. Photo by Elisha Taylor, NC Bot Gdn

No Partridge In A Pear Tree

Visitors to the Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro in December won’t see traditional holiday decorations. Rather, they will be treated with a serendipitous mix of colors and textures created by members of the Chatham Artists Guild, the organization offering the 19^th Annual Chatham Studio Tour the first two weekends in December. This show runs through February 4^th. There will be a Meet the Artists reception on January 8^th from 4 to 6 PM.

The Brewery show was organized by nationally recognized Chatham artist Shannon Bueker, whose nature inspired abstract paintings are featured in the assemblage of works. Bueker is well known for layering color and line, keeping wispy lines of charcoal, describing movement and strengths, and developing a rich, varied surface. Her work reveals nature‘s grace and unfolds its layers of interactions, interconnections and the surprising overlaps. “This exhibit has an interesting mix of media with subject matter ranging from non-objective to nature themes -- space, ocean, leaves, forests, line, pattern, texture.” Bueker explains, “I like the predominant colors -- pink, purple, bronze.” Another featured artist, Joey Howell, is displaying some of his Galaxy Series paintings interpreting what we might see peering out into space through a powerful telescope. Paintings by Cindy Bainbridge, Vidabeth Bensen, Phyllis Burns, Vangie Cathcart, Forrest Greenslade, Kate Ladd, Leslie Palmer, Rita Spina, sculpted gourds by Carol Tinsky, fabric art by Karen Tiede and photographs by Thomas Boone round out the show.

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. 

Carolina Brewery (www.carolinabrewery.com) a locally-owned brewery and restaurant, has drawn international attention for its handcrafted beers and traditional bar fare in its Chapel Hill and new Pittsboro locations. 

Caption: Lantana, a 48 x 60 inch painting by Shannon Bueker at the Carolina Brewery.

Fearrington Arts Scene Featured

Fearrington artist and writer Forrest C. Greenslade has published a story “Fearrington’s Vibrant Scene: Behind every studio door, there is a unique life story” in the November online issue of Chatham County Line. Greenslade chronicles the roots of Fearrington’s visual arts community, and highlights the life pathways of several artists who live and create in this rural North Carolina village. To read the story, visit: http://chathamcountyline.org/shtmls/FearringtonsVibrantArtScene.shtml

Caption: A watercolor painting of an old barn, by Florence Johnson, one of the artists featured in the article.

Art in the Village, Sunday October 9th 10 AM to 4:30 PM

Members of Artist Studios in Fearrington Village are busy readying for their inaugural event, Art in the Village, a celebration of the visual arts in the Village Center. On Sunday , October 9th, more that 30 artists who live and create in Fearrington will display their works. If you like paintings, pottery, sculpture, photography jewelry, fabrics and all sorts of mixed media works, please join us on Sunday.from 10 AM until 4:30 PM. Enjoy the beautiful gardens, the great restaurants and experience our creativity. We will have demonstrations and lovely art for sale. The show is family friendly and free to the public.

For information on the participating artists go to: http://fearringtonartists.blogspot.com/2011/09/fearrington-village-art-show-update.html

Art imitates nature at the Botanical Garden

The Best is Yet to Come By Anna Norris, Chapel Hill Magazine, September/October , 2011

Although he has always loved art, Forrest Greenslade says that his right brain – considered to be the creative and innovated side – has aleays been a little suppressed. Educated as a molecular biologist, Greenslade intended to spend his retirement writing books and lecturing. But a massive heart attack ended what had become a stressful lifestyle. New inspiration began to strike after his wife took him on a private tour at Fearrington. Coming home for lunch with images of Zen Palkowski’s wood sculpture still in his head, Greenslade turned on the TV to find Martha Stewart creating a pot of concrete.
“”I didn’t even finish my sandwich – I went to the potting shed, and I threw some peat moss and concrete together and put it on some chicken wire, and I looked up at it and someone was looking back at me.
Today, Greenslade is known for his nature-based sculpture and acrylic and relief paintings, often enhanced with any number of materials, such as clay, concrete, metal and wood.
“This is clearly the best part of my life,” says Greenslade. “When I wake up in the morning – I cannot wait to get to my studio.”

Greenslade is just one of the Fearrington artists who will exhibit works at Art in the Village on October 9th at the Village Center. See: http://fearringtonartists.blogspot.com/2011/09/art-in-village-fearrington-village.html

Caption: Fearrington artist Forrest Greenslade with his metal and concrete sculpture, “Horus – Guardian of the Garden” Photo by Briana Brough, Chapel Hill Magazine

Nature Recaptured: Real and Surreal

Visitors to the Carolina Brewery and Grill in Pittsboro during September will have three visions of the natural world by Chatham Artist Guild members, Kate Ladd, Rita Baldwin and Forrest Greenslade. You can meet the artists at a free reception on Sunday, September 11th from 4 to 6 PM.

Despite their distinct artistic styles and life journeys, Kate, Rita and Forrest tap into a common inspiration – love of the natural world around us. “I create landscapes based on my garden and travels, or just my imagination,” states Ladd. “My recent work is a series of abstract landscapes, mostly themed on the changes in the weather due to global warming,” she adds. Baldwin asserts, “I am a life-long tree-hugger, and am particularly inspired by vanishing places in Chatham County.” Greenslade notes, “I am recapturing what had my interest as a boy of 8 or 10 years old. I spent my working life as a scientist and executive, but now in my dotage, I am sculpting and painting the birds, trees and butterflies that were my best friends as a kid.”

Katherine Ladd (http://www.etsy.com/shop/heronkate) has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Cincinnati. She has shown and sold her work in Chicago,

Boston, Santa Fe, and in the Triangle area of North Carolina where she now resides. She is a member of the Chatham Artists Guild and has participated in their annual Studio Tour for over 10 years. She paints with acrylics on canvas and she also has a business in which she does murals, faux finishing and floorcloths.

Rita Baldwin (http://faso.com/artists/ritabaldwin.html) has been a member of Chatham Arts Guild since 2007 and serves on its board. A converted horse barn has

become her studio and gallery. Each of her landscape paintings takes a direction of its own. One day it is influenced mainly by the overriding mood of the scene, another calls for bold palette knife strokes, and still another for a dreamlike softness that captures nature's transience. She is especially drawn to environments in rural areas, remote coastal and river locations. Many of her paintings are done in plein air.

Dr. Forrest Greenslade’s (www.forrestgreenslade.com) organic sculptures and paintings, derived from a life-long love of nature and mythology, have a new look and feel. Greenslade’s work is highly stylized yet clearly grounded in the natural

world. His relief paintings are sculptural, built up with inches of thick acrylics and modeling paste to the point that they nearly jump off the canvas. His sculptures are enhanced with innovative coatings and patinas producing color, texture and an illusion of movement. His computer enhanced watercolors are soft and luminous. Greenslade’s use of materials is eclectic. “Because of my scientific training, I tend to be experimental in my choice of media,” he explains. “I use metal, concrete, clay, acrylics, wood, found-objects – whatever tells the best story.” Greenslade is a Past President of the Guild.

Ladd, Baldwin and Greenslade are members of the artist’s community at the Joyful Jewell (http://www.joyfuljewel.com/) in downtown Pittsboro.

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 19th Annual Open Studio will be held the first two weekends of December 2011

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 Pittaboro.

New show at the Carolina Brewery

Blues and Other Colors at The Joyful Jewel

Take a pictorial tour of the Forrest Dweller Sculpture Garden in Fearrington Village

Many artists live and work in North Carolina's Fearrington Village. One Fearrington sculptor and painter, Dr. Forrest Greenslade, displays his work in the family's garden. Take a pictorial tour of the Forrest Dweller Sculpture Garden.

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On Gossamer Wings

Luna Moth by Forrest C. Greenslade, PhD

Male Cardinal

Computer augmented watercolor by Forrest C. Greenslade, PhD

From: North Carolina Arts Council

Artist Opportunities
The North Carolina Arts Council is pleased to share the latest listing of artist opportunities. Our listings can now be found under Arts News at NCArtsEveryday.org. Opportunities for artists will be posted on this site every other Wednesday, and previous posts are also available for artists to search.
We hope you will take a moment to check out NCArtsEveryday.org and visit often. It is a comprehensive resource for arts news, trends and highlights. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter to get all of the latest information about the arts in our state.

Beer Garden Party

Hello folks:

As you may already know, I serve as a volunteer at Chatham County Together
in their Graduation Project program. I get so much satisfaction from working
with high school students in accomplishing a quite daunting task for them.
You can see a photo of one of my students with his horse sculpture on the
home page of the CCT website:
http://chathamcountytogether.org/ Chatham County Together is a critically
important resource for our communities.

Accordingly, Carol-Ann and I are holding a fund raising party in our garden
in Fearrington Village on Sunday May 22nd from 2 to 5 PM. Our garden has
been featured in Caroilina Gardener magazine:
http://www.forrestgreenslade.com/ND08_FG.pdf It will be great fun. It will
be a Beer Garden Party. Carolina Brewery has donated one of its wonderful
spring beers. Harris Teeter and several CCT volunteers have donated tasty
German style snacks. Please join us in support of CCT, stroll through our
sculpture garden and gallery, sip some brew and enjoy a good time with
friends.

We are suggesting a donation of at least $15 per person. Checks should be
made payable to Chatham County Together. Please RSVP to
sculptor@forrestgreenslade.com so we can have an estimate of attendance.

I hope to see you at our party,
Forrest

Artist Studios at Fearrington Village

Artist Studios at Fearrington Village is an informal group of visual artists who live and work in Fearrington Village, a lovely country community near Chapel Hill with many creative and productive residents. Our mission is to:
Attract visitors to our studios to experience the creative process;
Facilitate opportunities to exhibit and sell our artwork;
Enhance the lives of all in our community through the arts;
Promote Fearrington Village as an arts destination;
Support one another in our professional lives.
We welcome all Fearrington residents interested in creating art and fine crafts.

For more information, visit: http://www.fearringtonfha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=239

Caption: Pottery by Co-founder Stan Pomeranz

Organic Forrestry at the Joyful Jewel

Chatham County sculptor and painter Forrest Greenslade has joined the artists community at The Joyful Jewel in downtown Pittsboro. "This is a wonderful opportunity for me to display my nature inspired works along with a very talented group of artists and creators of fine crafts," Greenslade said. We are delighted to have Forrest in our community notes Mariah Wheeler, The Joyful Jewels proprietor and well known jewelery creator.

New visions inhabit the mind of Dr. Forrest Greenslade. His organic sculptures and paintings, derived from a life-long love of nature and mythology, have a new look and feel. Greenslade’s work is highly stylized yet clearly grounded in the natural world. His relief paintings are sculptural, built up with inches of thick acrylics and modeling paste to the point that they nearly jump off the canvas. His sculptures are enhanced with innovative coatings and patinas producing color, texture and an illusion of movement. His computer enhanced watercolors are soft and luminous. “I want people to experience motion and emotion in my art,” Greenslade asserts, “so my faces are seldom symmetrical and my figures just can’t stand still.” Greenslade’s use of materials is eclectic. “Because of my scientific training, I tend to be experimental in my choice of media,” he explains. “I use metal, concrete, clay, acrylics, wood, found-objects – whatever tells the best story.”

The Joyful Jewel lives up to its motto of "local art fresh from the heart." It is a Community of ~75 local artists who create with care and soul. :You'll find artisan jewelry, stained glass, silk & woolen scarves, pottery, paintings, basketry, spirit tools, woodwork, music, books and cards imbued with meaning," says Wheeler. "These treasures take time and require inspired processes as well as skill, she adds.

The Joyful Jewel
44-A Hillsboro St.
Pittsboro, NC 27312
(919) 883-2775

Caption: Bluebirds and Cherry Blossoms, a watercolor by Forrest C. Greenslade, PhD

Empty Bowls -- April 8th

Towhees and Vinca

Mister and Missus Towhee


Dining among in the Vinca


Formally attired

Organic Forrestry at CCCC Siler City Center

I have a new exhibit of selected artworks at the new Siler City Campus of Central Carolina Community College. Please stop by the main entrance to see some of my paintings, sculpture and prints.
Forrest

Summer afternoon in February

Bluebirds and cherry blossoms

Goldfinches

Cute and smart kids...