Welcome to the Artist Page.

We would like to present the local and regional artists that are members
of the Mountain Arts Association, Inc.

If you are a current member and would like to have your information posted
please contact us at info@themountainartsassociation.org.

We will need two current jpeg format photos of your work (only 72 dpi jpegs will be accepted),
description of artistic medium, contact information & website.
(also let us know if you teach classes, have open studio hours or exhibit in any local galleries)

Artist:
Pat Aube Gray
The Carriage House

Medium:
oil, watercolor, pastel, egg-tempera, casein, graphite and charcoal

About: Pat is a self-taught artist working in a representational manner in oil, watercolor, pastel, egg-tempera, casein, graphite and charcoal. She holds many classes and workshops at Carriage House Art Center and other venues. Her work is on exhibit there in the gallery as well.

Contact info:
706-745-9735
patzg@aol.com
Website: www.pat-aube-gray.com
www.carriagehouseartcenter.com

Artist:
Holly Hartman Williams

Lardworks Studio

Medium:
Flameworked glass beads, jewelry & fiber arts.

About: Glass Fiber & Jewelry Artist, Holly Hartman Williams invites you to her studio at Lasso the Moon Alpaca Farm where she hosts felting classes, bead making classes and a gallery full of uniquely fun jewelry, fiber art and fiber art supplies and alpaca products. Gifts for all occasions.

Contact info:
(706) 835-1837
info@alpacamoon.com
Website: www.lardworksstudio.com
www.alpacamoon.com

Artist:
Linda Relis

Linda Relis Studio

Medium:
Oil Painter

About: The painting style of Linda Relis was born of her love of nature and her concerns for the fast disappearing habitats of animals. Linda says, "painting wild birds and other animals in idyllic settings is my way of preserving their habitats and pristine landscapes because they re-emerge on my canvas." Many of Linda's oil paintings are in the permanent collection of the State of Florida through their Art in Public Places Program as well as numerous private and corporate collections. She is a native New Yorker transplanted to Port St. Lucie, Florida where she maintains her working and teaching studio. Linda Relis would like to announce her new art studio in Brasstown is now open to the public from mid April to mid October. visit www.relisart.com or call 828/837-3659 for an appointment.

Contact info:
North Carolina Studio: 828/837-3659
Florida Studio: 772 340-5154
relisart@bellsouth.net
Website: www.relisart.com

Artist:
Amanda Shearer-Fullerton

Medium:
Watercolor, acrylic

About: 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, and Longmont Gallery, Longmont, GA.

Contact info:
h: 828-835-7294
c: 828-557-8714
afullerton1@gmail.com
Website: www.amandafullerton.info

Artist:
Barbara Bussolari

Medium:
Mixed media, fiber, handmade papers

About: Barbara Bussolari is a mixed media artist living in the mountains of western NC. She is predominately known for her hand-woven doll sculptures but has been experimenting with paper making for the last 11 years, including Joomchi and has even traveled to Madagascar to learn the art of Antaimoro paper. The inevitable jump to book arts occurred about the same time. Her award winning work can be found in many publications, including 500 Handmade Books and in galleries in the Southeast as well as having pieces in private collections in Japan, Europe and the U.U.

Contact info:
828-389-4168
bussolari2@hotmail.com
Website: www.barbarabussolari.com

Artist:
Bill Suttles

Medium:
Pastel and oil

About: It is mysterious and pleasurable when, in the course of looking at the world, you find something that suddenly seems significant. That field -- or street --or person. That light!

The challenge then, is to do the work – with a controlled sense of heightened awareness – quickly in the field, more deliberately in the studio, and hope that the finished piece will reflect back to you some of what you felt at the time and that some other viewers might feel something which stirs a similar response. Sometimes, when it works, a viewer will seem to feel this and say so, then the effort is particularly satisfying.

Bill’s bio and current gallery showings are available on BillSuttles.Com

Contact info:
706-379-4039
bill@billsuttles.com
Website: www.BillSuttles.com

Artist:
Carol Moore Demme, Blairsville, Georgia

Medium:
Hand painted pet portraits and wildlife

About: Now nationally known, Carol's works are owned by such notable people as Oprah Winfrey, George Steinbrenner, and Madeline and Alan Paulson (owners of all time top money earning racehorse CIGAR) Her open edition and limited edition Giclee' prints are available at some of the finest cabin furnishing stores in N. Georgia and North Carolina including Moose Hollow in Murphy, NC, Out of The Woodworks and Cabin Fervor in Blue Ridge, Ga., Doo Dads in Cumming, Ga, Lakota Cove in Jasper, Ga. and in several "horsey giftshops" in Ocala, Fl.

Contact info:
706-835-2176
gifthorse@windstream.net
Website: www.carolmooredemme.com

Artist:
Tim Queen

Medium:
Fine Art Photography

About: Tim is a traditional photographer who believes only film can give that unsurpassed depth that makes a true fine art photograph. “I like to describe my photography as painting with light.” His love of Appalachia, its views, colors, and architecture are what inspire him. Tim has been a working photographer for over 35 years and now lives in Young Harris, GA.

Contact info:
770-380-3006
tim@twqphotography.com
Website: www.twqphotograpy.com
www.naturesfocusphotography.com