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.
AGTV recommends a face mask when social distancing isn’t possible.
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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