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What's New
We have received lots of new work from our artists. Here are a few examples
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About Town
May is a busy month in Beaufort.
In addition to Mother's Day and Memorial Day we have two annual festivals.
The 35th Annual Wooden Boat Show was held April 26 to May 3. For information about the wooden boat show, click here.
The 21st annual Beaufort Music Festival will be held May 8 & 9, 2009.
This year's festival features
Richie Havens
as well as many other bands.
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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925 |
| Furry Friends
No, we don't actully have camels in Beaufort, but Alison fell in love with the camels when she visited Egypt recently. They have a reputation for being mean, but these camels were as pleasant as they look ..... and pretty pleasant to ride, as well. | |
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This month we would like to introduce you to Donna Robertson, a wonderful local painter, and Joyce Fritz, whose colorful polymer clay bugs seem so appropriate for Spring. |
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Donna Robertson
 Donna Robertson began her art career in Kansas City in 1979, where she was an active member in the Greater Kansas City Art Association and received numerous awards and purchase prizes in regional and local shows. She moved to North Carolina in 1989 and, with her daughter who is also an artist, owned a gallery in Wilmington until 1994. Donna now lives in Beaufort, NC.
Until 2002, she worked almost exclusively in watercolor and collage. A non-credit course in the French impressionists led to an interest in oils, which is her current focus.
She has had work accepted in the North Carolina
Watercolor Society shows, and in the show for women
artists of North Carolina - Through Women's Eyes, By
Women's Hands at Chapel Hill. She has also been
represented in the Wilmington exhibition, Artists of
Southeastern North Carolina. In addition, she is represented in numerous coastal galleries.
On creativity..."I love paint...watercolor, oil, pastel...the whole process of creating! I love the effects of light on color and the constant challenge to grow in any art medium. Art connects me with the deepest aspects of myself and, when it succeeds, it connects me with others..."
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Joyce Fritz
 Joyce Fritz fell in love with clay in college. During that time, she experimented with putting colorants directly into porcelain clay. She created slab-built sculptural vessels and multi-section wall pieces. Upon graduation, she created, exhibited and sold her work regionally and nationally. During that time, she also made jewelry, mainly pins from leftover scraps of clay from the sculptures. In time, the reality of needing to make a living set in. Joyce found that she was selling more jewelry from the scraps of her sculpture. By 1986, Joyce was making porcelain jewelry full time. Her work soon outgrew her home, facilitating the construction of the studio behind the house.
In 1988, attracted by the range of color possibilities and convenience of polymer clay, she began to experiment with it. Her first "bugs" appeared in 1993 as a unique promotional item for a local museum's garden-themed exhibit. When a local distributor took samples of the bugs to a New York Gift Show, it immediately generated $10,000 in nationwide orders. The critters were an instant hit, and the Yipes! line was born. Since then, Joyce has continued to design new species of insects and other creatures each year. Some are based on real insects, while others are her own invented species.
Besides creating and marketing her work, Joyce occasionally teaches workshops. In 1996, she traveled to Iceland to teach workshops for adults and children.
Joyce is ably assisted by Joan Berkopec, who helps with fabrication and assembly. Joan also happens to be a trained naturalist, and has contributed much valuable information and feedback about real insects
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Hours
Monday thru Saturday
10am to 6pm
Sunday 12pm to 5pm
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We hope you enjoyed our newsletter and hope you will come and see us....enjoy the view from our back porch.
All the best from
Alison, Jill, Kate, Linda, Sharon, Ann, and Betty |
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Handscapes Gallery, 410 Front Street, Beaufort, NC 28516
252 728 6805
www.handscapesgallery.com |
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