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Doris DurbinDoris Durbin finds inspiration in the beauty of nature, especially the way light plays on trees, flowers, and weathered wood. She finds that transparent watercolor is the perfect medium for expressing the beauty of light, because the white of the paper reflects natural light through the colors of the paint. Doris is married to Ed Durbin, and they live in the mountains of North Georgia, where there is always something beautiful to paint. Whenever they travel, Doris keeps a camera handy to record scenes for future paintings. |
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Amanda Fullerton828-835-7294 • Afullerton1@gmail.com • AmandaFullerton.info Amanda restarted her career as an artist after 20 years as a professional geologist. As a teenager, Amanda was an artist at Walt Disney World and Sea World, in Orlando, FL. She currently exhibits and sells her work at various shops and galleries in the area, including the Brasstown Valley Resort Art Gallery, Young Harris, GA, Phillips and Lloyd, Hayesville, NC, The Artist Common, Murphy, NC, Tsartistry Gallery, Franklin, NC and Van Arkel's Art Gallery in Hiawassee, GA. |
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Bailey Jackbaileyjackart@hotmail.com • baileyjackart.blogspot.com Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Bailey paints on wood with frames made of salvaged wood. Old bead board, flooring, siding or de-screened doors and windows become perfect frames for bailey’s quirky style. Self-taught in painting, Bailey learned to enjoy the immediate pleasure of fast drying acrylic paints. She has painted floor cloths, pillows, furniture and even dog houses. Concentrating on using wood as her ‘canvas’, Bailey found her niche with salvaged wood frames to complete the ‘look’. |
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Verlee Dowd Jones706-896-1783 • verlee@brmemc.net • verleetheartist.com Verlee Dowd Jones, a graduate of Stetson University, retired business teacher-turned-artist. Verlee works with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints. She specializes in watercolor painting on various froms of Japanese Rice Paper and shares that in her watercolor classes. She also enjoys decorative painting on wood, masonite, glass, and metal. |
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J. Patrick Mahon404-375-4737 • josephm382@yahoo.com Pat is a retired Georgia educator who moved to Young Harris in 2003. He is also an amateur photographer who enjoys travel photography and photography of scenes in the Georgia Mountains. He has exhibited in Mountain Arts Associations Galleries twice and is teaching a course in the summer of 2011 on "The Zen of Photography." |
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Billie Mathisbilliefmathis@comcast.net • www.artshow.com/mathis Billie f. Mathis has been painting for 37 years and has been a resident for the last seven years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Waleska, Georgia. She has illustrated two children’s poetry books, “The Break of Day” and “Looking Through My Window”. She has been included in many publications and featured on the cover of an international magazine as well as many solo exhibits. Billie teaches classes in her studio bi-weekly. She also holds watercolor workshops in the South and Southeast. |
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Candi ManciniCandi’s love of fiber began as a member of the Kansas City Weaver’s Guild. With many classes and workshops on weaving, I began creating custom wallhangings for designers consisting of modular panels that hung dimensionally. Upon moving to Atlanta, I became a member of the Chattahoochee Weaver’s guild but switched my interest to knitting and felting. Felting allows the yarn to blend like paint and knitting, shapes the bag so it retains the shape even after shrinking. I love doing bags and hope everyone will want to “Be a Bag Lady”! |
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Eleanore McDadeAccomplished artist, her career spans a lifetime. Prior to settling in Blairsville, Georgia, her career was in advertising and marketing. Eleanore completed (with honors) a three year course in graphic art in 1991. Since then, she has studied under noted artists around the country. She has appeared in numerous juried shows and received many awards. Her works appear from Maine to California. She has been commissioned on both the corporate and private level. Her architectural renderings include homes, churches and public buildings. |
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Zoe SchumakerA lifelong outdoor enthusiast, Zoe paints to express her love of nature. She primarily works in pastel. “Pastel is a brilliant and versatile medium, and it is portable enough to take on a hike. I love to paint in quiet places, off the beaten path.” |
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Estelle Schwartz
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Chiu-Tung SuChiu-Tung Su, renowned artist immigrated to Long Island, NY and became US citizen in 1973. He graduate from Taipei Normal College in 1930. He had a long successful career as a Teacher, a Chief Accountant at Taipei Tech, and CFO of a Medical College. Art was his hobby and his passion, his art teacher was a renowned Japanese artist in 1920’s. Mr. Su won several awards as well as a Gold Medal Award from Japan’s most honorable Asahi News in 1936. He was a co-founder of an Art Association and an Art Club in 1938, and had numerous art exhibitions in Taiwan by Cultural Centers and Art Galleries over the years. Mr. Su and his wife moved to Georgia and lived with their youngest daughter Jackie Su West. Chiu-Tung Su continued to paint until he was 94. Today he is 102 and lives in a nursing home. He was a member of many fine art associations in Taiwan, as well as a member of the Long Island Fine Arts Association of New York. His paintings can be seen in: 20th Century Taiwan Paintings (12”x15” Hard Covered), his Remembrances of “My Home Town and Oil Paintings by Chiu-Tung Su.” |
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Bill SuttlesBillSuttles.com • bill@billsuttles.com • 706- 400-9764 Bill graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Exposure to the great Impressionist Collection at Chicago’s Art Institute while at school was instrumental. He also credits study with Wolf Kahn, Irwin Greenberg, and Coralie Tweed. Bill is currently teaching Illustration at the Atlanta School of Art. Bill has maintained studios in Atlanta and recently in the Appalachian foothills of North Georgia – in Blairsville where he finds a visual feast available to him just outside his door. He uses oils, pastel, and acrylics in creating landscapes and figurative work, and while painting plein air. |
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Barbara Terrell828-361-1226 • bterrell65@gmail.com Barbara Terrell is President of the Mountain Arts Association and is currently represented at the Brasstown Valley Resort and Spa Art Gallery in Young Harris, GA. She has been active in the visual arts her entire life. She studied at the Norton Museum and School of Art in West Palm Beach, FL; the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota,, FL; and at New York's Art Students League. Her education continues in workshops with internationally renowned artists. Barbara's teaching experience includes "The Natural Way to Draw", a recent course she offered at Young Harris College's ICL program. "I love observing design and color within the natural world; however, that does not mean I wish to copy it. Power of observation is my strength and I enjoy working in many mediums." |
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Jackie Su West404-422-0130 • Jackiesu2000@yahoo.com Jackie Su West is an exceptional artist born in Taipei, Taiwan and now living in Hiawassee, Georgia. She is the youngest child of Chiu-Tung Su, the well-known 102 year old Chinese impressionist. Jackie believes she inherited her father’s priceless talent. Educated in Christian boarding high school in Taiwan, Jackie studied at Tamkang Art and Science College. |
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