Viceroy and Helianthus

Here is my computer composition from three original watercolor and colored pencil paintings. A metallic print will be on display at Galloway Ridge in Fearrington Village beginning in January.

Holiday Greetings from Carol-Ann and Forrest

Watercolor and colored pencil by Forrest

 

Helebores blooming
A Carolina winter’s
Joyful jewelry



Art students take The Tour



Students with Ms Harrington and Chatham

Artists Guild member Forrest Greenslade

 in the Forrest Dweller Sculpture Garden.

Photo by Kelly Butler, Eagle Eye Photography, Pittsboro.

 

 

 

 

Art students from the Haw River Christian Academy in Pittsboro visited a number of studios at the 20^th Chatham Studio Tour. Their art teacher, Lisa Harrington guided the 4^th through 7^th graders in their special tour, linking the educational experiences of local artists to what they are learning in their classes. They enjoyed seeing the work of Dmitri and Janet Resnick, Emma Skurnick, Mark Hewitt and Forrest Greenslade.



Second weekend of the Chatham Studion Tour coming up

The first weekend of the Tour was blessed with perfect weather. Some very nice folks visited our studios, gallery and sculpture garden. Suzanne Edney from Custom Landscapes took this photo in our garden.

Weather for the second weekend, December 8th and 9th, looks to be pretty nice as well.

Carol-Ann and I hope to see you,
Forrest

Caption: Savannah Surprise, a sculpture in cedar wood and concrete

Fearrington Artists Exhibit at Chatham Studio Tour

Graphic by photographer Roy Lindholm

For a map, click on: http://www.chathamartistsguild.org/google-map/

Beauty at the End of the Line at Pittsboro's Bell House

Beginning December 2^nd, Chatham photographer Horty Jacobs will exhibit a collection of her arresting photographs at the Spa at Bell House, 74 East Salisbury Street in historic Pittsboro, NC. In the many photographs, Jacobs calls “Beauty at the End of the Line,” she has captured abstract images of color, texture and composition that she sees in ageing surfaces of abandoned vehicles. “I find beauty in the faded, cracked, rusted surfaces transformed by the relentless power of time and the elements,” Jacobs observes. “I am drawn to abandoned places and things – junkyards -- derelict buildings -- railroad graveyards. I love the relentless effects of time and the elements -- Slowly, inexorably painted surfaces, fade, crack, peel, succumbing as rust steals in.”  Jacobs captures exactly what she sees through the camera’s lens, an image without any embellishment. She employs no supplemental illumination, reflectors, nothing to alter the natural light. “I shoot 35 mm color exclusively, mostly slide film,” she explains.

A new comer to Chatham County, Jacobs’ photography and paintings have been displayed in many galleries and juried shows, including: The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburgh, N. Y.; the Port O’Call Gallery, Warwick, N. Y.; the Gallant Gallery, Salem, Mass.; the Essex Fine Art Gallery and the Colonnade Gallery, both in Montclair, N. J. Also, the renowned Peters Valley Colony’s Annual Arts & Craft Fair. Ten of her photographs were selected to decorate the set in the HBO movie “Brooklyn, U.S.A.”

Horty Jacobs is a member of the Artist Studios at Fearrington Village, a group of visual artists living and creating in Fearrington.

Creating with concrete at Natural Learning Institute

Photo by Jesse Turner NLI

In October, Chatham County painter, sculptor and writer Forrest Greenslade conducted an outdoor workshop at NC State's 10th Annual Natural Learning Design Institute at the NC Botantical Garden. The Design Institute offered presentations from experts in the fields of childcare, outdoor learning design and the environment, particularly in childcare settings.

Photo by Jesse Turner NLI

Greenslade worked with a group of students and early childhood professionals from around North Carolina to learn techniques of concrete sculpture. Participants dug holes in the wondergarden, a space for kids to explore nature and play at The Garden. They then mixed a concrete composite that Greenslade uses to create sculpture, and poured the mixture into the holes. Pieces of cedar wood were inserted into the concrete material to produce toadstool stems.

After allowing a couple of weeks for the concrete to cure, the Botanical Garden Staff dug up the pieces, and assembled them into a whymsical Toadstool Town.


Photo by Forrest

It tweeks the imagination to think what kids will do in Toadstool Town over the next months.

Stay tuned!