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Featured artists
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September 2008 - Susan Yager |
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| The “soft slab” technique allows Susan Yager to use flowing lines, tucks and twists in unexpected ways. It can be pillowy, slouched, sensuous or even humorous. Starting with a formless lump she creates a work of art with both function and beauty. | |
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August 2008 - Veronica Gray |
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| Veronica Gray, originally
born in France and immigrated at the ripe old age of 6 to the US with
her family, she has always been exposed to many different cultures and
ways of life. Not one to be easily
bored, she often finds ways to make art out of anything and everything,
hence her love for mixed media too. Finally finishing
her formal art education at Old Dominion University in 2005 with
a BFA in Studio Painting, after many sidetracks into other careers.
She is now content to maintain a mixed media approach to life
and yet always making art. |
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July 2008 - Bill Hobler |
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Morning Light |
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A romantic at heart, Bill Hobler’s watercolors are filled with light. He enjoys painting from poetry, capturing the mood of the poem or of his subject. Bill studied drawing and watercolor at the Alexandria Art League School. He has been a juried member of Blue Skies Gallery since 2002. Hobler says about his painting, "I believe in expressing more than beauty or ugliness through my work. Beyond either of these is its meaning in my and my viewer's lives. The brilliant colors of homes in Burano, Italy express the individualism of the people. They comment on the confined culture of many American neighbors who would be shocked if a house on their street were painted a bright red." |
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| April 2008 - Kathy Wooldridge
"Starburst" |
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In 2007, Kathy Wooldridge was commissioned to execute a design of sandblasted stained glass on a set of doors for the American Embassy in Germany. |
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| Ms Wooldridge has received over 55 awards for her stained glass. In addition, in 2002 she was selected to represent the State of Virginia by designing an ornament for the White House Christmas Tree. In 2003 she was selected to design a set of three ornaments for the Virginia Governor's Mansion Christmas Tree. | |
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May 2008- Jean Harrison "Fabricating Beauty" |
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| Blue Skies Gallery is pleased to announce our featured artist for the month of May, 2008. Textile artist, Jean Harrison, fabricates beauty in her intricate and colorful works of art. |
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Jean is a self-taught artist, who works out of instinct, with the fabric and embellishment dictating what the piece, a purse, clothing, or wall hanging, will be. Her wall pieces are usually theme-based or sewn in an improvisational manner, creating a work in progress. The outcome is often surprising and fun for her. Working out of a bedroom studio, Jean resides in Williamsburg with husband, who is constantly hopping around pins and needles and thread on the floor, a fact of life with a fiber artist. Jean has exhibited at Blue Skies Gallery, This Century, Red Thread Studio, Charles H. Taylor Fine Arts Center, and Peninsula Fine Arts Center and won many ribbons for her work. |
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Exhibitions
January 9 – 31
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