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25 West Park Square, Marietta, GA 30060 · Bringing contemporary fine art to Historic Downtown Marietta. Paintings. Sculpture. Only Originals.

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Patricia Beggins Magers

Patricia Beggins Magers / Inspired by extensive time spent in India and my ongoing exploration and experience of Eastern meditation practice, I allow my work to take whatever unpredictable twists and turns it will. On the way from unformed idea through physical reality, I may incorporate torn paper, wax, the written word, fabric, found objects, or recycled parts of old canvases. It often reminds me of child's play, like making mud pies or dollhouses.

Ginger Birdsey / My ceramics and paintings are concerned with a personal need to preserve a lost moment in time, an emotionally charged memory fragment to be reorganized, transformed, and protected as it rapidly moves away from us.

Clara Blalock / I don’t ever want to quit growing and changing the way I work. I want my story to be one of evolution. I am always on a quest for that perfect piece of art. Until then I will enjoy the adventure.

Gena Brodie Robbins

Gena Brodie Robbins / The effects of time, loss, and the transformation that follows is central to the content of my work. Change is constant, and the metamorphosis involved is filled with transitional elements that serve as both direct and indirect means of transportation into new states of existence. These elements are explored through responsive mark-making; the result of moments spent in contemplation and query concerning the effects of time, life cycles, and various states of flux within these circles of being.

Julia Burns / The paradox of life is much the same as the paradox of ceramics; the clay has a mind of its own and my goal is to collaborate with it, to express one moment.

Susan Easton Burns

Susan Easton Burns / As a painter, Susan’s environment, and a desire to make some simple connection with the viewer influence her paintings.

Kevin Chambers / Artist or the inspiration? For Kevin Chambers, the artist was intrinsic, but inspiration came at age 12. That is when he started formal art training in Blairsville, Georgia with famed artist Colleen Sterling. Today, his works and collaborations are widely exhibited and displayed in public, national, international, corporate and private collections around the world.

Elizabeth Chapman

Elizabeth Chapman / I find the force and beauty of the creative process to be compelling. It is vital to my existence. While creating a mixed-media painting or sculpture, spirit and intuition guide while my hands mindfully follow. This is an intensely satisfying experience, thus my studio is my favorite place to be. I’ve always been curious and creative.

Steve Dininno / Dininno’s beautifully painted illustrations exhibit stunningly luminous, impressionistic colors, as well as a conceptual ability that is among the finest in his field.

Terrence Gasca / I am regularly inspired by people and objects in everyday settings. Calling attention to the subtle beauty found in “ordinary” subjects excites me because it is generally perceived as commonplace and is so often overlooked. If I can influence a viewer’s awareness or perception of something so ordinary through the use of color, light, and composition, then I feel I have found success.

David Goldhagen

David Goldhagen / David Goldhagen’s sculptural forms and massive handblown sculptures are distinguished by his unique style of layering color and form. His painterly approach to art glass marries bold colors to brilliant, clear crystal
in a clean, modern style. Using traditional glassblowing methods thousands of years old, David Goldhagen creates each piece of art glass at the end of a blowpipe.

Erika Guillory Page

Erika Guillory Page

Ana Guzman / I work very fast and furiously capturing images with quick impressions and turning them into finished pieces. My paint application is similar to Abstract Expressionist techniques with using realistic subject matters, applying the paint loosely and abundantly.

Holly Irwin / My new figurative work is a passionate journey through feelings, identities and relationships, focusing on the language of gesture. I traveled through various stages of abstraction, exploring some new materials and seeking a deeper level of expression in this body of work. Some of my figures started with sketches of live models which were then re-created on canvas or paper. Many of the figures are
whimsical and intuitive based more on emotion than reality.

Lorra Kurtz / My work has many layers. I begin a painting with a palette of colors in gouache or acrylic. If something moves me in the initial layer, it can dictate the direction or subject matter of the piece. As the work progresses, I incorporate line with graphite pencil, charcoal, watercolor pencils, pen and oil pastels. The composition can change throughout the layering process. Since a realistic object is not present, it takes soul searching to finish each piece.

Shellie Lewis / My work is a direct reflection of my mood and emotional state. The Act of creating is also a struggle for me that opens a new conversation and awareness within myself. The process of my paintings begins with writing, sketching randomly and rhythmically, applying various marks and splotches of paint, then I apply and remove paint to reveal images, developing them to my liking. I seek to explore my humanness through my art in hopes to connect to others. My work is a struggle.

Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn

Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn / My paintings are a combination of beeswax & demar medium, oil paints, coldwax and photography. I make the encaustic medium in order to control the mixing of colors. My work is physical as well as spontaneous to create.

Born in Montreal, raised in Connecticut, Deborah started her artistic career with a full scholarship to Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in NYC before moving on to commercial photography.

Alberto Mier / “It all comes down to a love for art as well as for the process of creating it. It’s important as breathing, producing art brings balance and without it, I feel incomplete.”

Barbara Nerenz-Kelley

Barbara Nerenz-Kelley / Chaos, destruction and reconstruction comprised an essential experience of my childhood in Germany during and after WW II. This caused a deep longing in me to bring order into disorder, clarity into confusion, stillness to quiet the inside and outside noise. Art for me is a spiritual language, it is a way to come in touch with the invisible and give it color and shape, mark and line.

Catie Radney / Catie Radney is a professional artist educated at the University of Alabama. Born and reared in Brewton, Alabama, Catie’s home and studio is now in Alexander City. Since 2005 Catie has commusted weekly to apprentice with 2009 Alabama Artist of the Year, Hugh Williams. Catie is an active member of the Alabama Art Colony, a diligent supporter of the arts and a serious life-long practitioner of the visual process.

Jennifer Rivera

Jennifer Rivera / Jennifer Rivera is an abstract expressionist painter who works primarily with acrylics on canvas. Known for edgy and emotionally evocative abstract paintings, she often employs the use of texture, bold strokes, and rich colors in her work.

Connie Karleta Sales

Connie Karleta Sales / Drawing is the love of paper. Fragile and strong, paper echoes the vulnerability and resilience of the human soul. It slips between the thin spaces in our lives and emerges as beauty out of ash. There is no, one story within my work. Line quality is created out of experience. Composition emerges as the woven motions of a heart’s beat.

Jenny Schultz / I try not to take myself or my work too seriously. I have a humorous and somewhat whimsical outlook on both life and creation. Painting is a need for me, a required part of living. If I am not creating, then I am not breathing. It really is that simple.

Roos Schuring / Roos Schuring is an award winning contemporary plein air artist living in The Netherlands. “In the last 30 years of painting I found what makes me most happy. Outdoor painting is a synergy between nature and painting resulting in surprise and fast forward learning. This keeps it all very interesting to me.” “I witness the changes of each season in detail and I love each. I paint plein air all year round.”

Brooke Shaden / Brooke works to capture fantastic realities within her photographic frame. By using painterly techniques as well as the square format, traditional photographic properties are replaced by otherworldly elements.

Adam Thomas / Nature inspires my work and most recently Monet's water lily paintings. The journey to my current work simply started out painting trees and clouds. As I became more confident, my pieces became more and more realistic. Today, I am on a new path of abstracting nature with the same goals of creating depth with high contrasts.

Dirk Walker / I once read “Art is a delicate balance between the visual concept and each artist’s technique”. After years of chasing that artistic balance, it is the anticipation of the struggle that keeps me coming back to the canvas.

Wyanne Thompson

Wyanne Thompson

Ashley Wingo / Ashley Wingo is a 2-D mixed media artist native to
Birmingham, Al. For the last five years she has been honing her skills in 21st Street Studios, where she paints alongside 8 other local artists. In most of her work you will find found objects - anything from photographs to old scraps of carpet. Working with materials that have history brings a nostalgic presence to her pieces. Her primary focus is color and how to problem solve until a successful color scheme is accomplished.

Amy Cobb / Art is a reflective and meditative activity that I do to work through my thoughts and form my perspective on all that surrounds me. We were all created for greatness and relationship, and we have lost both. Paradise is lost.
As a result mankind travels life with FEAR, GUILT, SHAME. You will find a symbol of each one of these in my work because I
have found each one in the depths of my soul. WE have fallen. But. There is hope for the one who experiences these tireless and relentless taskmasters.

Jon Davenport / With his background in advertising, skills in digital art and passion for photography, Jon mixes it all
together with a confident use of the paintbrush, enabling him to explore the process of deconstructing iconic imagery from the past and present.

Erin Henry / Most of my inspiration to create comes from nature, the human figure, and a sense of ambiguity. By composing a narrative in an expressive and slightly surrealistic way, the goal of my art is to not only bring a unique beauty to seemingly insignificant things, but to give a physical exhibition of my daily observations on objects, behaviors, and other abstract moments.

Jodie Hutchens / Careful consideration of color palette, medium and brush stroke weighs heavily on my process. I try to capture curious moments; seizing on a situation or evocative light that elevates the mundane to the fantastic, and reveals a projection of myself through my subject matter. I watch and listen carefully, sometimes to my inner voice, sometimes to others, absorbing and capturing the subtlety and overtness of human emotions. I bring these secret truths to life with light, form, and color.

Dean Kube / I view the work I create as collaborative self-reflection. By channeling and capturing the experiential humanness of the people and places that have impacted my life – those honest, raw, uncertain, and intimately vulnerable moments – I discover more about myself and am able to connect with others on emotional level that I could never convey with words alone.

Bruce Marion / Artwork touches us on a personal, primitive level- this is why people are so passionate about art. When a piece resonates with you, you feel it in your soul, and it changes you with every viewing. Many people think of art as something to look at, but it's so much more than that. It's really a very interactive, and experiential, medium.

Ginger Oglesby / I use the canvas to tell the bold and sometimes very subtle abstract stories of movement. Beginning with a loose composition and adding layer on layer, my paintings naturally unfold and expose an intuitive dance. These images capture the vibrant attitudes of the human heart. Soaring Leaping Turning!

Lauren Pallotta-Stumberg

Lauren Pallotta-Stumberg / My mission is to honor and explore the human experience through creative offerings that fuse portraiture and symbology as an act of storytelling. The abstracted magpies often seen in my work exist to unravel common perceptions about our environment and to challenge traditionally accepted norms. I like the idea of not defining something in a singular way, so I believe the magpie to be an appropriate symbol for tolerance and perspective.

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