Folk artists are usually ordinary people expressing themselves through their creation and construction of utilitarian objects that convey meaning and value to themselves or others within their culture. Typically the patterns, motifs, techniques and materials have special significance and can reveal a great deal about a cultural society.
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A graphic designer by day, Abby Mcmillen makes her home in beautiful Bozeman, Montana, where she knows more animals named Abby than people named Abby. She's a self-taught painter whose love of dogs and folk art encouraged her to start pushing paint around on canvases.
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Gray was born and raised in (Snake Hollow) Paint Rock, Tennessee. In this place he developed a sense of curiosity, discovery and imagination which he still pursues through his art and music. His work is rich in southern imagery, for example, from his song Brushy Mountain, Gray painted a convict, transformed into a blackbird, flying away from the remote East Tennessee prison with the lyrics of the murder ballad written across the sky.
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C. E. Harrison is a self taught southern Folk Artist from Georgia. Her work has been collected all over the United States. She lives a quiet life with her husband, son, 2 dogs, over 80 chickens, Taylor Turkey, and a couple of geese - Lucy Goosey and Zander Gander. The chickens number the most, and so Harrison became the "Mama Hen"!
Harrison says, " My animals give me a lot of my inspiration,but I also rely on my Southern heritage and the many stories I grew up listening to, to come up with my creations!"
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Kyle Carpenter was born and raised in the Raleigh, NC area. He attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2000. Also in 2000, Kyle married and settled down in west Asheville. In 2002, Kyle Carpenter built a salt-kiln and made a studio at his home. Since then, he has been working as a studio potter, selling his wares at craft fairs and galleries.
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Elaine Frenett graduated in 1991 from San Jose State University with a BS in Graphic Design, focusing in Illustration. As an Illustrator, she has been published from New York to San Francisco. In between illustration jobs, she began to paint things she loved and received such strong response from her audience, she knew her direction had begun to change. Eventually, Elaine's interest shifted to fine art, where she now finds more personal satisfaction. Ms. Frenett has taught private classes as well as, done presentations at Universities and various art clubs. Her art pieces are currently in collections private, corporate, museum and international. And while her wanderings do continue, worldly and creatively, she has happily relocated to the Rogue Valley where beauty and discovery spark her artistic spirit.
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Do you need a confectionery fix? Then you must check out the delicious art of Catherine Holman! Enough to make your mouth water, her fun paintings are a great nonfat way to satisfy your sweet tooth!
Holman is the author of four instructional decorative painting books and a video. She has been a contributor to several decorative painting magazines and had her work featured in wall decor magazines.
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Mystele Kirkeeng is a self-taught artist who grew up in a little town in northwest Texas. She had plenty of room to "GROW" in ways so necessary to nurture a creative soul. BUT, before she knew it, some of those little girl joys were packed away in “yesterday”.According to Mystele;
"basically depression helped get me here today. isn't life strange??? I don't have a whole lot to tell except that I am more alive than I've ever been before!"
Call her a painter, a wood worker, a lover of obscure blues music; Miz Thang is all of these things. She honors those obscure (and not-so-obscure) musicians by recreating their images as whimsical and colorful painted wood cutouts. Each one is unique, vibrant, and fun—you can almost hear the music of B.B. King, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey and Captain Beefheart.
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Cher Shaffer was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1947 on a small farm. She spent her youth surrounded by earth, sky and the whistling pines of the American South. Her mother, who was of Native American decent, accompanied Cher on many of her long walks and taught her about the woods and lands that they both cherished. Cher's mother shared with her young daughter the beliefs and customs of her Native American heritage. Her father was German and a descendant of Martin Luther as well as a practicing Baptist. Through this parental combination Cher developed a deep respect and appreciation for nature and it's Creator. She began painting shortly after the death of her gifted mother. As Cher explains this event opened a "Pandora's box" of emotions and memories. Painting these memories seemed the best way to express and preserve her cherished childhood.
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Gabriel Shaffer lives and works in Asheville, NC. The son of nationally known folk/visionary artist Cher Shaffer (most notable for her appearance in tour/book "O' Appalachia"), Gabriel was raised within the self taught medium and had contact with many folk and self taught masters as a young boy.
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Jim Lambert is a Folk Artist from Northfield, New Hampshire. He creates unique and colorful sculptures from found and cast-off materials. Like the old saying "Waste not - want not," Jim carves, sews, paints, and assembles wood, natural materials, plastic, and metal "junk" parts to create these truly one-of-a-kind pieces.
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Paulo J. Mendes is a a self-taught watercolor painter from Matosinhos, Portugal. He paints lovely landscapes and cityscapes that reflect the everyday life of the people and villages around the artist's home town.
His paintings are full of details and each one has it's own story to tell. You can't help but get swept up in each painting and becoming part of the community yourself. You can hear the sounds, meet the people and feel the warmth of the sun.
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Raised in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania where traces of Early Americana and bucolic landscapes were interwoven into her life experiences, Donna majored in painting & illustration at Philadelphia College of Art. An eventual move to Maine coupled with her love of the natural world inspired her soft New England pastel landscapes and folk images.
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