AGTV hosts monthly meetings September to May, either in person or via Zoom. These meetings feature artists who share their art and artistic journeys.
Our in-person meetings are held on the top floor of the Tellico Village Yacht Club. Coffee and Tea will be available at 9:45 am. Our meetings start at 10:00 am.
Our Zoom meeting invites are sent to AGTV Members the week prior to the meeting.
Join us to hear an Carl give us an overview of how (and why) he makes big sparkly mixed media mandalas! A mandala is typically composed of circles with repeating symmetrical shapes. They often symbolize balance, harmony, or unity and represent that everything in the universe is connected.
Carl Gombert was born in Brimfield, Ohio in 1959. He started taking painting lessons at the age of 14 with money he earned delivering newspapers. He completed a BFA in Drawing from the University of Akron and an MFA in Painting from Kent State University. He worked as a stagehand before earning a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at Texas Tech University. He has exhibited in more than 350 exhibitions across the US and abroad and his work is in numerous museum and university collections. Since 1993 he has taught painting, drawing, and art history at Maryville College in Tennessee.
Website: gombertart.com/
Join us to hear Debbie Alley share her journey as a textile artist, a look into the art of eco-printing and how the process works, and samples of her work.
Debbie is a fiber artist living in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her passion for painting and eco-printing on silk and paper moves her to experiment with color and texture and she finds that her favorite place to create is where nature, science, and artistic expression come together.
Debbie fell in love with fiber arts as a young girl while learning to sew under the artistic eye of my grandmother. She learned to experiment and embrace creativity and push the boundaries with design. She spent many hours selecting fabrics and patterns and putting them together for a design that was unique and beautiful.
Her former creative textile endeavors have included silk painting, quilt design and construction, longarm machine quilting, fabric dyeing, eco-printing, mixed media collage, watercolor, and simple bookbinding. She has professional experience in HR with a focus on digital content development, graphic design, and marketing.
Debbie recently launched her Lifestyle Textiles Collection of beautiful 100% Kona Cotton eco printed and hand dyed. This is the first step in the expansion of her brand into the home interior space and will be including her textile designs for art for home decor.
Her work can be found at:
Website: www.debbiealley.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debzmcalley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debzmcalley_ (debzmcalley_)
Debbie is a member of the Silk Painters International, Tennessee Artists Association, The Interior Design Society.
Have you ever wanted to see what Photoshop is all about? Or maybe you’ve tried Photoshop and threw your hands up in the air?
Join us to see a wide variety of what Adobe Photoshop has to offer. This high-level overview will show examples from watercolor, oil, and impressionistic painting to professionally retouching photographs and combining digital assets to make a masterpiece — all with an unlimited supply of paint and never having to clean a brush!
Future class offerings will be discussed for the Art Guild from Beginning to Intermediate Photoshop, Advanced Photoshop for Artists and Photographers, and Photoshop Fabric and Fashion Design.
Artist Bio: Dan is a member of Professional Photographers of America, Nature First: The Alliance for Responsible Nature Photography, and the Tellico Village Art Guild.
Described as “the Van Gogh of Beach Art” Dan’s lifelong passion has developed with decades of travel, family, and nature photography. His skills have been refined with education by leading photographers from National Geographic Magazine and digital editing techniques by leading instructors, built on hours of experience in the darkroom spanning as far back as the 1970s.
Sharing the inspiration from the intro of Jimmy Buffett’s One Particular Harbor, “La ora te nature” (Long Live Nature), Dan and Tracey support the Sea Turtle Conservancy with their art as sea turtles are one of the leading indicators of the health of our oceans.
Dan’s works have been selected for showings in the southeastern US, ranging from his hometown of Knoxville to Tampa with collectors spanning Seattle to San Francisco, and New York to Key West.
Website: islandhoppersart.com
Join us as Marianne Woodside shares her photographs each illustrative of specific subjects, techniques, and creative contexts of her photography. She will introduce topics that include photographing glass, manipulating images, and capturing images during travel. She will also discuss learning in a workshop setting, establishing a body of work (e.g. home place, wildlife, and birds), and establishing partnerships.
Marianne is known for her use of color and light, and her emphasis on creative approaches to digital photography. Embedded throughout the presentation will be themes of surprise, joy, creativity, and learning as Marianne traces the evolution of her work from its beginning to the present date.
Artist Bio: Marianne Woodside was born in 1948. She spent her early years in Orange, Texas. At the age of 17, she moved with her family to the Kuwait City and graduated from the International School of Kuwait in 1966. She then left to attend college at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Subsequently, she received a University Fellowship to study at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, graduating with her Masters in Counseling and Curriculum Studies. This graduation was followed by a move to Blacksburg, Virginia where she studied Counselor Education and graduated with an Ed.D. in 1974. While in Blacksburg, Marianne worked as a school counselor and then assumed an Assistant Professor position in Teacher Education.
Marianne spent the remainder of her professional career holding professorships in Teacher Education, Human Services, and Counselor Education at Virginia Tech, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She also held various administrative positions as Coordinator of Advising and First Year Studies, Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, and Program Coordinator in Human Services and Counselor Education. During Marianne’s career as an academic, she was recognized as an outstanding teacher and researcher. Areas of expertise include human services, case management, supervision, and counselor development. She continues her writing in human services and counseling today.
It was during Marianne’s years in Wyoming that she developed an interest in photography. There, she developed a love for the wide open spaces of the plains and the rugged Rocky Mountain vistas. After her move to Knoxville, she was mystified as how to photograph the flora and fauna of East Tennessee, especially the dense wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains. Today the perplexity has turned to a deep appreciation of the East Tennessee landscape and the photographic opportunities it offers.
During the last ten years, with the encouragement from family and friends, especially photographer Tom Owens, Marianne has expanded her interest in photography and her ideas of artistic expression. Opportunities for travel to such venues as Central America, South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Iceland have offered time to capture exotic photographs beyond her daily experiences. And, because of her husband Phil’s willingness to make time for photography (stopping the car at a moment’s notice), Marianne is able to find intriguing subjects close to home. An interest in photographing glass has provided Marianne an additional way of expressing the relationship between man-made objects, nature, light, and color.
Marianne has been fortunate to find support from the Arts and Cultural Alliance and has shown her work at the Emporium Center. Her art has been selected for McGhee Tyson Arts and the Airport exhibit, the Arts & Cultural Alliance National Juried Exhibit, the Knoxville Photo Exhibition, and the Oak Ridge Art Center. She has also shown her work at the Knoxville Golden Roast Coffee Shop, the Knoxville Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Gallery, the Westminster Presbyterian Art Gallery, and Maryville’s Asbury Place.
Photography is an important part of her life. Marianne also spends time writing, playing the guitar, hiking, and traveling. She is devoted to her husband Phil, their three children, Michael, Cathy, and Donna Lee and their respective spouses and significant other and grandchildren. And then, there is, of course, their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Clyde, who resides with Marianne and Phil at Asbury Place in Maryville, Tennessee.
Website: mariannewoodsidephotography.com
Join us to hear Jonathan Howe talk about how to develop a creative process in generating successful paintings. How do you overcome creative blocks and continue to espand your skills as an artist? Jonathan wants to share some of his process in achieving paintings that grab people’s attention.
Artist Bio: I am a professional visual artist, continually developing my skills as a painter. In 2007, I graduated from Maryville College with a Bachelors of Art and soon launched into a full-time art career painting portraits and landscapes. Beginning with several portrait commissions, I soon discovered the joy of landscape painting as a way to communicate a story with moody light, color and expressive brushwork.
I have received much influence from historical as well as contemporary painters. In the development of my love of portraits, I poured over artists like Rembrandt and John Singer Sargent for their use of light and bold brushstrokes yet accurate portrayals. As I developed my landscapes, the works of George Inness and Edgar Payne became alive to me. Inness’ use of tonal and light and Payne’s dynamic compositions and thick paint are the two chief inspirations that effect my work. Contemporary artists such as Richard Schmid and Scott Christensen have given me incredible insight into painting technique and also into the reality of making painting a way of life.
My passion lies in the intimate details that form a true likeness in oil portraits and the subtle lighting of rolling landscapes. My portraits show brilliant color and dramatic lighting that capture the personality and display the very soul of his subject in a unique masterpiece. My landscapes reveal my love for the outdoors developed by many years of hiking the trails of the Great Smoky Mountains and other national parks across the country.
I have had the privilege of creating works for private and corporate collectors across the southeast, with clients including Clayton Homes, the University of Tennessee Medical Center, Kroger, Gaylord Texan Resort, and many others. With the belief that true fine art is the result of a healthy soul coupled with a passion for excellence, my goal is that my paintings warm the heart and delight the eye.
Each day at the easel is a new adventure in creating beauty. My goal as a painter is to capture dynamic compositions with compelling, moody light. I love the life conveyed in Plein Air painting because each work is not just a moment in time but an experience put to canvas. I enjoy a diversity of brushwork to convey color the way that our eyes see, with a variation of soft and sharp edges. Each painting is a story to be told. I use mostly brushes to work with on the canvas but also employ the pallet knife to give thick accents of impasto paint where needed.
In 2010 I married Sarah Atchley-Howe who together as a team manage Jonathan Howe Fine Art. She and I live urban-artistically in the heart of Knoxville, Tennessee. Committed to merging art and faith in Jesus Christ, Sarah and I are active in our local church, combining our talents for art and music and our heart to see others come to a saving knowledge of Christ. Other than our work, we enjoy hospitality, the outdoors and taking care of our two daughters Aidyn and Susanna and our rambunctious little Maltipoo, Amber.
Website: www.jonathanhowefineart.com
Through examples of her work, Judy Lavoie will explore the differences, advantages, and unique working procedures for using transparent watercolors on both the smooth surface of Claybord and the similar, but slightly textured surface of Aquabord. Judy will also cover the option of using scratchboarding techniques on the white clay surfaces once color is added. Her presentation will show how she approaches this media combination with step by step examples as well as with her finished artwork. Judy will also have samples of Claybord and Aquabord panels, free to any AGTV members who want to try them out.
Award-winning artist Judy Lavoie creates paintings with intricate detail in a highly representational style. She works in watercolors, inks, and acrylics, on paper, canvas and scratchboard surfaces. Judy has a strong sense of design and composition, with a talent for leading the viewer’s eye to the focal point.
Not content to stick with any one subject, Judy is known for depicting rural scenes, animals, interesting characters, old vehicles, wildflowers, still lifes, and a wide variety of other subjects. Her paintings are rich with textures, colors, and a wide range of values. She feels there is always more to learn about art and enjoys pushing herself beyond her comfort zone.
Website: https://judylavoieart.com
Metal clay sounds like a oxymoron, but it is actually a versatile medium made up of fine metal pieces, an organic binder, and a small amount of water. You can sculpt with it like a polymer clay, then fire in a kiln to produce a piece of solid metal. Judi will discuss the properties and possibilities for use in jewelry and sculpture, as well as provide examples from raw clay to finished pieces.
Judi Talley is an East TN native and active member of the Foothills Craft Guild. She has worked with metal clay since 2011 and juried into the Foothills Guild in 2016 in the jewelry category. Her love of the Smokey Mountains fuels her creative drive, and regular hikes in and around the mountains provide plenty of inspiration.
Eightmoons Creations is her one-woman jewelry studio set up in her home in Knoxville. Her husband, sister, and four cats all graciously put up with the mess.
Website: www.eightmoons.com
AGTV Member Lil Clinard began to pursue art and painting full time after her 30 year career in research and technical management. Upon retirement she took art classes and workshops and began to paint in earnest, teaching herself through practice. Attracted to the elusive quality of light and the wonderful colors that emerge, she began to try different media, surfaces and techniques. Lil discovered that while fear will hold you back, trying new things can create great results and be a lot of fun!
In 2008, Lil began to exhibit and was encouraged by awards and sales of her artwork. Today, she considers herself a professional artist who paints realistically with a nod to impressionism. Her work is available through her website, her studio and the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee. She is active in several art organizations including the National Watercolor Society and American Watercolor Society and is current President of the Tennessee Watercolor Society.
Come hear about her journey as an artist who is willing to experiment with no fear!
Website: https://www.watercolorsbylil.com/about
Join us as Cheri Jorgenson talks about her discovery of wildlife and her realistic depiction of them in her art. “My recent artwork began during our initial Covid isolation, when I finally noticed the wildlife around our acreage in South Knoxville. The animals have always been there, but I had not been aware of them. I became an observer of our animal residents. To honor them, I wanted to depict them as O’Keeffe did the flowers, so the viewer would truly see them and would appreciate their tender beauty. Since then I’ve been doing drawings and paintings of animals in a variety of media: mostly color pencil with mixed media pieces, on a variety of surfaces: toned or black paper, or painted canvas. “Blessed Are the Meek” is my title for this evolving series of works honoring our local wildlife.”
Cheri has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alabama and a Masters of Science in Art Education from the University of Tennessee. Originally she was a graphic designer, working for the International Energy Exposition (The 1982 World’s Fair), Tennessee Valley Authority, and in her own design firm, among others. After earning her graduate degree, she was an art teacher for Knox County Schools for 20 years, and retired from the L&N STEM Academy in 2020. She was the 2012 Tennessee Art Educator of the Year, the 2020 Tennessee National Art Honor Society Sponsor of the Year, and the 2021 National Sponsor. Cheri co-founded COMMA, a plein air group that meets weekly at UT Gardens since 2004 and exhibits together regularly. She lives in South Knoxville with her husband in their 100+ year-old farmhouse.
Email: cherjorg@bellsouth.net
Join us as Julie Fawn Boisseau-Craig, a contemporary glass artist, talks about her experience as a full-time artist. Photos of her art will show the evolution of her work from being strictly a glass artist to one who combines clay, metal and/or wood with her glass. Today, her work directly responds to the contradictions of life using her wide range of skills with a mix of materials to create unique art.
Julie works in glass and porcelain primarily but utilizes metals and wood as necessary to create her sculptural pieces. She designs and creates many functional and wearable works at Wild Pony Studio, her personal studio in Rockford, Tennessee and does hot shop glass works at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, North Carolina. She has shown nationally and participated in many workshops and demonstrations. Her work directly responds to the contradictions of life.
Julie received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in December of 2012, after which, she taught at Western Carolina University and Southwestern Community College in North Carolina. Julie is currently the President of the East Chapter of Tennessee Craft and Vice President for the Art Market Gallery in downtown Knoxville. Julie now concentrates on her studio work, art shows and teaching workshops.
Email: talimah@aol.com
Website: www.wildponystudio.com
Jerry’s Artarama Materials Presentation
Members and guests love this opportunity to learn about new art products, see demonstrations, get free samples and a coupon from the best art store in Knoxville, TN. Go to yourartsupplies.com to learn about their store and art classes.
Jerry’s Artarama is Knoxville’s premiere fine art supply store, carrying a wide selection of professional art supplies, materials, fine artist brands and framing.
Website: yourartsupplies.com
Lidwina Bekman paints transparent watercolor with a main subject of ocean life. She creates surrealist representations of fish, crustaceans, coral and more. Lidwina will present an overview of her last 30 plus years as a watercolorist.
Lidwina has shown her work in many solo exhibitions in the United States, the Bahamas, and Europe. Solo exhibitions include the prestigious Pulchri Studio in The Hague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, Brickell Square Gallery in Miami, the World Trade Center in New Orleans, and invitations from the Netherlands Government and other locations and galleries.
She has won numerous awards including the coveted National Watercolor Society 1st place award and many other 1st place awards in cities around the United States. She was chosen for a group exhibit with 5 five major U.S. artists in Houston, Texas. In 1998, Liduine was the featured artist for the City of Houston Bayou City Art Festival.
Lidwina has been featured in published articles in the Pulchri quarterly magazine (the Netherlands), the Palm Beach Daily News (Palm Beach, Florida), the Seafood Leader (US), the Artist’s Magazine (US), the Oklahoma City Newspaper (US), the Houston Post (US) and was featured on television in Houston (Channel 8) and local television in Naples, Fl. Her work is in many of the major collections in the US, amongst which the Jean Jacques Cousteau (of the Cousteau Foundation), the City of Houston, hotel chains including Hilton, Marriott and Wyndham. Company collections include IBM, Exxon, various banks, designers, hospitals and many others.
Email: liduine@liduinebekman.com
Website: liduinebekman.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on February 16. You may join the Zoom call from your home OR join us at the Yacht Club to watch it there.
Linda Kemp – One Artist’s Journey
Linda Kemp is internationally recognized for her unique contemporary watercolors and acrylics. Her innovative use of negative painting is the focus of her two best-selling books, Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines and Simplifying Design and Color For Artists. Linda is featured in art publications, video and internet forums, with over 1.5 million YouTube views.
She is honoured to be a Life Member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC), the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) and a Life Member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SAC). Her award-winning paintings are in collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, U.K.
In 2008, Linda was awarded the A.J. Casson Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Water Colour, the top award for the CSPWC National Exhibition, Open Waters. In 2005, she was awarded Woman of the Year for Arts and Culture.
Linda instructs at symposiums and workshops throughout Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France and now online. She has served as juror for numerous national and international exhibitions, including the 2020 Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition and 2022 Transparent Watercolor Society of America.
Email: studio@lindakemp.com
Website: www.lindakemp.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on January 19. You may join the Zoom call from your home OR join us at the Yacht Club to watch it there.
Reflecting light and the world around us, glass provides a window to the world and inspires reflection in our souls.
Fusing glass offers wonderful possibilities for creating functional pieces, such as plates and bowls, as well as artwork, by using color and form. This presentation will introduce you to Fused Glass Art. What is it? How is it made? How is fused glass different from Blown Glass and Stained Glass? KC will introduce you to the process and show examples of different styles of art glass.
About the Artist: KC Babb has been working with glass for over 15 years, focusing primarily on Fused Glass. KC started her fused glass journey primarily making plates and bowls, but more recently has been making clocks and a few landscapes.
Email: babb.kc@gmail.com
Lisa Bell & Timberly Guffey at Fuller’s Frame Shop and Print Studio in Athens will be sharing top tips for framing your artwork for the best impact, including when to use a pre-made frame versus a custom frame, how to pick a frame color that works with your art, and the impact of matting.
They also work closely with artists to provide professional fine art reproductions featuring the artist’s own artwork. The process begins with high resolution scanning and expert editing. High quality archival prints can then be done on a variety of substrates including papers, canvas, metal, and fabrics. In addition, artwork can be reproduced on notecards, t-shirts, signs, banners, table runners, ornaments, flags, magnets and much more.
About the Artist: Fuller’s Frame Shop and Print Studio in Athens has been serving the area for over 35 years offering a perfect combination of fine art printing and professional framing. They love working with artists!
Find us on FaceBook: facebook.com/fullersframeshop
Email: lisa.bell.studios@gmail.com
Emotion in Your Art – Digging Deep
Sometimes great rendering in art is not enough. You need to make an emotional connection with your viewers.
This presentation will explore how to make that connection, first inside yourself, then adding it to your work so others can explore it with you.
About the Artist: A devoted watercolorist for over 40 years and a great lover of people and portraiture, Kate Aubrey began drawing while sprawled on the living room floor at age six. Since then, she has graduated to easels, studying with such notable artists as Charles Reid, John Salminen, Stephen Quiller, Ted Nuttall, Don Andrews, Jeannie McGuire, and Lian Quan Zhen.
Life has taken her to six states across the USA from Anchorage, Alaska where she picked up her first watercolor brush to the deep, rich artist’s culture of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While in Alaska, she worked as one of the first women in the oil field at Prudhoe Bay, painting in her spare time. It all shows up in her work.
Arriving in Tennessee’s Knoxville area in 2014 to settle (she fervently hopes) for good, Kate teaches watercolor workshops inside and outside of Tennessee. She is a past Vice President of the Knoxville Watercolor Society, as well as a member of the Arts Alliance of Knoxville, the Art Guild of Tellico Village, and the Oak Ridge Art Center. Farther afield, she is a member of the National Watercolor Society with signature memberships in the Northwest Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Watercolor Society of Alabama, and the Tennessee Watercolor Society. She is also a Master Artist at the Cape Cod Art Center in Massachusetts.
Her work has earned many awards in multiple national and international exhibitions and has appeared in “Watercolor Artist Magazine”, “American Art Collector Magazine”, Artist’s Magazine’s “The Best of Watercolor” (Splash 21 and Splash 22), and the “American Watercolor Weekly” e-zine.
When she is not teaching, she and her very large standard poodle can be found in her studio concentrating on her figure and floral paintings with a dash of still life or Apples thrown in. Although, truth be told, the poodle prefers bones….
Kate’s Website: https://www.kateaubrey.com/
Jerry’s Artarama Materials Presentation
Members and guests love this opportunity to learn about new art products, see demonstrations, get free samples and a coupon from the best art store in Knoxville, TN. Go to yourartsupplies.com to learn about their store and art classes.
Jerry’s Artarama is Knoxville’s premiere fine art supply store, carrying a wide selection of professional art supplies, materials, fine artist brands and framing.
Website: yourartsupplies.com
Photography: Evolution of Ideas
Join us as Marianne Woodside shares her photographs each illustrative of specific subjects, techniques, and creative contexts of her photography. She will introduce topics that include photographing glass, manipulating images, and capturing images during travel. She will also discuss learning in a workshop setting, establishing a body of work (e.g. home place, wildlife, and birds), and establishing partnerships.
Marianne is known for her use of color and light, and her emphasis on creative approaches to digital photography. Embedded throughout the presentation will be themes of surprise, joy, creativity, and learning as Marianne traces the evolution of her work from its beginning to the present date.
About the Artist: Marianne Woodside spent her early years in Orange, Texas. At the age of 17, she moved with her family to Kuwait City graduating from the International School of Kuwait in 1966. She then left to attend college at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Subsequently, she earned a a Masters in Counseling and Curriculum Studies at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She then moved to Blacksburg, Virginia where she studied Counselor Education and graduated with an Ed.D. in 1974. Marianne’s long professional career has included professorships in Teacher Education, Human Services, and Counselor Education at Virginia Tech, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
It was during Marianne’s years in Wyoming that she developed an interest in photography. There, she developed a love for the wide-open spaces of the plains and the rugged Rocky Mountain vistas. After her move to Knoxville about 10 years ago, she was mystified as to how to photograph the flora and fauna of East Tennessee, especially the dense wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains. Today the perplexity has turned to a deep appreciation of the East Tennessee landscape and the photographic opportunities it offers. Travel to Central America, South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Iceland have offered additional opportunities to capture exotic photographs beyond her daily experiences. More recently, an interest in photographing glass has provided Marianne another way of expressing the relationship between man-made objects, nature, light, and color.
Artist Website: mariannewoodsidephotography.com
Live On Zoom from North Carolina
From Passion to Purpose
Contemporary artist Nancy Hilliard Joyce joins us for our Monthly Meeting on zoom this month from Concord, North Carolina.
Her paintings are generally intricate in form and filled with layers of color, perspective, gestures, and expression. Within her mixed media pieces, you may notice touches of gold leaf, elements of collage, and details of hand-painted images in both oils and acrylic. Nancy will sometimes sand or wipe down layers to reveal layers underneath while building up other sections to create texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in just a day.
Known for creating paintings with unusual perspectives of women, architecture and nature, Nancy transforms them with angles and views you wouldn’t necessarily see in life. Her recurrent themes of flowers gone to seed, wheels, women with umbrellas, and the flight patterns of birds illuminate her fascination with the observation of circles and time.
Her recent artwork of abstracted and untrammeled garden settings peppered with botanicals and her aesthetic appeal of bird imagery have been widely admired. Her work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the world in many homes, hotels, corporate offices, and airports.
Introspective, philanthropic and deeply passionate about leaving a mark on the world, she uses her art as a platform to raise money for charity and non-profit organizations giving back to the environment, women, and children in need.
Information About the Artist
Nancy Hilliard Joyce is a Greenville, SC native. At the age of sixteen, she attended the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She earned her BA in Art History from Wofford College and her MA in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. For over 10 years she lived in Manhattan and New Jersey as a working artist. From 2012 – 2017, she served on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and was an active member of the River Arts District Association in Asheville, NC.
Nancy is a board member of The Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation as well as The Cabarrus Arts Council board. She is the art curator for boutique hotels located throughout the southeast.
Nancy regularly produces large-scale commission work for public spaces including a permanent installation at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport
Also an author, she penned a memoir for her son entitled: The Education of Little Me: A Short Memoir of Connecting Passion with Purpose
To follow Nancy’s daily art feed, visit Instagram or Facebook @NancyJoyceArt.
Artist’s Website: https://www.nancyjoycegallery.com/
Important Note: We will not be meeting at the Yacht Club in February. The Zoom meeting invitation will be sent to all AGTV members a few days prior to the presentation.
The Pastel Cityscape
Mike Berry creates high color, expressively interpreted cityscape paintings. He will be presenting the works and influences that were the foundation to his working style and his history and explanations of current subjects and styles in his personal art practice.
Information about the Artist
Mike C. Berry is a versatile painter who works in pastels, oils and acrylics. His colorful and vibrant compositions often bending and twisting the cityscape have become his easily identifiable style. With his use of pure color and gestural brushstrokes, he credits Wolf Kahn, James Stagg, Chaim Soutine, Edward Hopper, Joseph Delaney and many modern painters have influenced his work. Further examination of Mike’s biography and his sources of influences behind his oeuvre, reveal an artist who works with passion and solid technique to create a genuinely original body of work.
Mike is originally from the Midwest and studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art & Design, where he holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art. He has exhibited regionally over the past decade and is currently represented by the District Gallery in Knoxville and the River Gallery in Chattanooga, TN. Mike’s interests have led him to explore the restlessness of city life, which has developed his signature artistic theme: movement of the cityscape.
As Mike discovered, pastel lends itself to being an excellent medium for quickly expressing layers of different colors and laying down a rough composition. These smaller works are often used as studies for larger works, which are further developments of his theme of movement through the landscape. Application of the pastel is done on a sanded archival paper that’s mounted to rigid panel. The larger works, with the compositions already achieved in the studies, are translated into oils or acrylics that have been applied to a medium toned canvas very rapidly, usually completing the work “alla prima.”
“My works are personal views of modern day experiences, combined with my fascination with drawing and curving perspectives along with dramatic lighting which lends itself, stylistically to the use of vivid color and bold bravado brushwork. My goal is to present fresh perspectives with the use of gestural and expressive brushwork to capture the essence of movement or activity through vibrant color application.”
Mike currently manages the UT Downtown Gallery and maintains a private studio in his home where he creates commissioned works for clients. Mike has been selected to serve as the 2021 co-chair of the Dogwood Arts Festival and currently serves on the board of Knox Heritage. He and his family have lived in Knoxville since 1999.
Artist Website: mikecberry.com
Jennifer will share her story as an artist and her passion for painting Animals.
Jennifer Gennari is a classically trained artist. She graduated in 2005 from Ringling College of Art and Design and in 2008 left for Italy to study at the Florence Academy of Art where she spent three years abroad studying classical realism under Daniel Graves.
Jennifer has been painting animals since 2014 and is driven by a deeply rooted passion to elevate and legitimize the life we have with them. Jennifer is one of the first contemporary artists to focus entirely on animal painting, and the first to spotlight the Alla Prima method centered on capturing animals with the life, drama, and integrity of a traditional human portrait. There is a breath of individual emotion and personality inside each portrait as if their soul was captured within the paint. Her work is the definition of Labor of Love.
Jennifer has also written a book on drawing the human figure, has hosted an online class through Craftsy that instructs beginners on the techniques used in creating a traditional portrait in charcoal, and is presently teaching an ever growing class on animal portraiture through Drawing America.
Jennifer’s work has been used in television shows and movies, and has received multiple awards and honors.
Artist Website: www.jennifergennari.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on November 18.
Chico Osten will be the guest artist speaking at our monthly meeting on October 21, 2021. The meeting is on the top floor of the Yacht Club; Coffee begins at 9:45 am, Meeting at 10:00 am. You don’t have to be an Art Guild Member to attend; visitors are invited!
Chico will share examples of his previous work in watercolor and oils. Then he will explain precious metal clay, the process of working with it, and examples of finished works.
Chico is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, earning both an undergraduate and graduate degree in art education with a minor in fine arts.
Chico studied at Arrowmont and with numerous regional and national artists.
He taught many years for Knox Co. Schools, grades K-12. He developed the art program at Austin-East Magnet High School. After retiring, he worked for several years as a Distinguished Professional for Knox Co. Schools. For seventeen years he also taught two classes as an adjunct professor with Tusculum University.
Chico has exhibited in numerous juried regional shows, earning several awards. His work is most recently shown in The Art in the Airport exhibit.
Currently, he teaches a painting class at the Oak Ridge Art Center and is a member of The Foothills Craft Guild. For more information about Chico and his work: CharlesOstenJewelry.com
Bill Capshaw, Professional Potter, will be the guest artist speaking at our monthly meeting on September 16th, 2021. The meeting is on the top floor of the Yacht Club; Coffee begins at 9:45 am, Meeting at 10:00 am. You don’t have to be an Art Guild Member to attend; visitors are invited!
Bill will share the story of his contemporary ceramic pieces, discussing their design, texture and color combinations.
“The works are representative of my life. As an artist, we focus on the piece on which we are working and try not to get to the end until the end reveals itself. At that time, you know it is complete, and the next piece now demands your full attention.”
Bill earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics in 1971 and a Master of Fine Arts in Printing Processes in 1974 from East Tennessee State University.
In 1977 Bill began teaching painting, drawing and pottery at the Oak Ridge Art Center. For more than 30 years, he has served as Pottery Chair and Instructor and has served as President of Board of Directors of the Oak Ridge Art Center.
Bill volunteered with the Tennessee Arts Commission 1987 to 2001 having served as grants application reviewer for At Risk Youth grants and was named Artist of the Year in 1998 by the Arts Council of Greater Knoxville.
Bill was selected to create the 2017 Tennessee Governor’s Arts Award. Each award was a one-of-a-kind hand-crafted piece of Raku pottery created by Bill. View this brief video here.
Bill lectures, consults, and conducts workshops and private lessons in ceramic processes at all levels. He has conducted workshops at the Appalachian Center for Craft, Arrowmont School, Vanderbilt University, Virginia Intermont College, Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, and various area middle and high schools.
Bill’s professional works are in permanent collections of the Tennessee Arts Commission, Huntsville Museum of Art, and East Tennessee State University’s Slocum Gallery. Works are with many private collectors, including the mayor of Naka Machi, Japan; former Mayor Victor Ashe of Knoxville; former Mayor David Bradshaw of Oak Ridge; Hank Stoner, Dr. & Mrs. R. Campbell, Margaret Young, Robert & Dot Hightower, Dr. Richard & Wendy Ferrin, and David & Pat Coffey, and many more.
Spring Art Show Gallery Talk
Join us for a celebration of our Spring Art Show! Kimberly Winkle, Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University will present a “Gallery Talk”. Kimberly, who was juror of the 2020 Oak Ridge Open Show, will choose artwork from our online show to highlight the artist’s mastery of subject and/or medium.
Information about the Presenter:
Kimberly Winkle is a maker who creates furniture and objects using wood and paint; her work displays a balance of form, color and surface pattern. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA Chicago, Wanted Design NYC and the Architectural Digest Home Show.
Kimberly Winkle is a Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramics from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Fine Art in Furniture Design from San Diego State University. Her workshop teaching experience includes Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Anderson Ranch Art Center, The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, John C. Campbell Folk School and the Appalachian Center for Craft.
Learn more about Kimberly Winkle and her art: kimberlywinkle.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on May 20.
Tips For Painting Beautiful Wildflowers
Karen will share her tips for painting beautiful wildflowers through a demonstration and sharing some of her paintings.
Information about the Artist:
Karen Margulis is a full time artist and art educator. She lives in Atlanta Georgia with her husband Michael. Karen received her BA in Education from the University of Florida. She currently teaches painting workshops around the world.
Karen is a contemporary landscape painter. She works in most painting media but has achieved recognition for her pastel paintings. She has exhibited her award winning work around the world and has been reviewed by Pastel Journal for her wildflower paintings. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and a Masters Circle recipient of the International Association of Pastel Societies. She was recently a faculty member at the prestigious IAPS Convention.
Karen has a passion for travel and painting while on location. She enjoys the opportunity to share her techniques and approach to making art in her workshops. She is known for her ability to make art simple, accessible to all and fun.
Karen is also an avid Daily Painter and blogger. She paints everyday and shares her work, art tips and inspiration in her daily posts on her blog ‘Painting My World’.
Karen is delighted to be able to be a pastel instructor. She is excited to share her love of art and help students experience the joy of painting. As Degas said “Art is not what you see. It’s what you make others see”.
Karen looks forward to helping others share their own artistic vision.
Here are several of Karen’s paintings:
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on April 15.
Update Your Game with Graphite
Laurie will present her path to creativity, the phases of creative development and the benefits of sketching, including a few graphite exercises.
Laurie Szilvagyi is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the International Guild of Realism and Signature Member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society. Laurie’s work includes drawing, composition, watercolor and oil painting. Her watercolors have been recognized in national and international watercolor exhibits where she has received numerous awards including the Grumbacher Gold Medallion. She currently studies oil painting under the mentorship of Anthony Waichulis of ANI Academy. Most recently, Laurie’s ” Gentleman Jack” painting has been juried into the International Guild of Realism’s upcoming Spring Exhibition. For more details see our Member Highlights page.
Laurie was the President of the Tellico Art Guild for two years where she shared her STRETCH philosophy through Learning Labs and a variety of workshops. Over the past twelve years, Laurie has been teaching drawing, oil painting and watercolor workshops in Tennessee since retiring from a fifteen-year business career. Laurie’s teaching style is fun and expressive with written exercises and a formal presentation. Laurie demonstrates the same professionalism in her art workshops as she did as a Certified Management Consultant leading large system change projects for a major utility in Michigan.
Website: Laurie’s artwork is held in private collections and can be viewed on her Webpage: szilvagyiart.com, Facebook and Instagram.
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on March 18.
A Family of Painters in Poland
Travel with us to Poland where Roch Urbaniak, joined by his parents, Maciej & Alicja will show us photos of their art studios in Krakow, their three different styles of artwork, and discuss how they each handle similar themes differently.
All three are graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and active painters. Maciej & Alicja have been well known on the Polish art scene for over 30 years. Roch has been working as an artist since graduation in 2011. In addition to being an acrylic painter he is also a comic book creator and author of two books for children.
Alicja creates lively landscapes and still life paintings using a flattened and simplified style with a diversity of colors, shapes and textures.
Maciej’s paintings are decorative, figurative and provocative often in a color palette inspired by Tuscany and Provence
Roch, inspired by myth and legends, uses the language of magic realism to create intricate and elaborate paintings in the style of illustration.
AGTV Members will receive a Zoom invitation a few days prior to the event.
Alicja & Maciej’s website: http://urbaniak.krakow.pl/en/
Roch’s website http://rochurbaniak.com/
David Fadden is an artist from Onchiota, New York. He is a member of the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Tribe, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Dave is known for his semi-abstract portraiture of Native Americans using a mosaic technique.
Dave also operates The Six Nations Museum in Onchiota, New York founded by his grandfather, Ray Fadden in 1954. Its design reflects the architecture of a traditional Haudenosaunee (Six Iroquois Nations Confederacy) bark house. The museum has over 3,000 artifacts with an emphasis on the Six Nations tribes.
This Youtube video featuring Dave’s father John Fadden provides an overview of why his father, Ray Fadden focused his life to sharing the history of the Iroquois Nation: https://youtu.be/r1gVVB8Ocyg
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on January 21.
For our Thursday, December 17th meeting, we are very proud to feature one of our members, Claire Payne.
Claire discovered and explored her passion for art through her own personal life-journeys. As often happens, the journeys took her through good times as well as bad, and art gave her a means to survive, conquer, and rejoice in the celebration and joy of life. During the 2020 COVID pandemic, Claire focused her artistic talent to develop “Agnes and Her Escapades”, delivering an often-humorous outlook on a challenging time.
Watercolor is Claire’s favorite medium, but she also enjoys trying her hand at collage and abstract textures.
Claire’s work has been accepted into international juried shows as well as the International Society of Experimental Art. She has been recognized at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston, and she has won numerous 1st-place awards in local art-league shows.
“I love the vibrant colors and the exciting freedom of painting in watercolor. My work is impressionistic, although representational for the most part. I also enjoy abstract mixed media. I paint for pure pleasure and the fun of the art.” Claire Payne
Website: www.payntings.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on December 17.
Soon Y. Warren is a full time artist, teacher and workshop instructor nationally and internationally. She has an Associate degree in commercial art. Soon Y. had numerous exhibitions and earned numerous awards. Soon Y. is a signature member of National Watercolor Society (NWS), American Watercolor Society (AWS), Southern Watercolor Artist (SW), Texas Watercolor Society, Purple Sage Brush (TWS), Transparent Watercolor Society (TWSA) and more.
Her paintings and articles have been published in many times in Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic Magazine, North Light Book, Southwest Art Magazine, Watercolor Artist Magazine, International Artist Magazine, The Art of Watercolour, and Pratique des Arts.
Also, her paintings were included in Splash: The Best of Watercolor 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 18 and 19, and published in Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing of 3 and 4. She published in two watercolor instructional books; “Vibrant Flowers in Watercolor” with F&W Publication, (North Light Book); “Painting Vibrant Watercolor: Discover the Magic of Light, Color and Contrast (North Light Book); Participated in the book, “Watercolor Secret,” with one chapter, “Create Drama with Bold Composition.” She also created 7 DVDs; Top Vibrant Watercolor Techniques; Vibrant Watercolor Techniques Painting Glass; Vibrant Watercolor Techniques Painting Water; Painting Silver; Painting Flowers; Color Effects; Marbles and Reflections.
Her paintings are in permanent collections of private, corporate and educational institution in national and internationally. She is represented by Your Private Collection Art Gallery Granbury, Texas and Southwest Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Website: www.soonwarren.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on November 19.
After studying art through High School, Doug went on to college where he applied his passion for art & architecture culminating in graduation in 1971 in Architectural Technology. For the next 30 years he enjoyed a successful business career in the Hamilton, Ontario area until early retirement in 2002. Throughout his business career he studied with several well-known Canadian and American watercolourists, which laid the groundwork for his second and current career as a watercolour artist and instructor.
Doug’s painting approach is uniquely ‘loose and impressionistic’ and he was influenced early on by the colour and compositions of John Singer Sargent and the design philosophy of Edgar Whitney. Today he follows a Whitney-like instructional style for his workshops with proven results. His daily demonstrations, lessons and critiques utilize the Design Elements and the Principles of Design, all of which form the basis for his workshops.Doug is an elected member of the prestigious – Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC) and he is Past-President of the Central Ontario Art Association (COAA). His enthusiasm for the watercolour medium along with his pragmatic and light-hearted approach, all lead to a stress-free and enjoyable experience.
Website: www.arrowsinthequiver.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on October 15.
During Doug’s presentation, he will refer to the following images:
Here is the watercolor that Doug painted during his demonstration
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