By PAT NEWMAN
pnewman@TheCitizenNews.com

Painting without brushes?

Area artists will have the chance to stretch their creativity when Anne Bagby, a nationally recognized watercolor and experimental artist comes to town Sept. 9 and 10 for a weekend workshop.

The upcoming presentation has already received great response from the Atlanta metro area art community, according to workshop coordinator Catherine Moore of Peachtree City, a mixed media artist.

Participation will be limited to no more than 25 artists, Moore said, allowing attendees adequate space in the old art room at LaFayette Education Center, and plenty of attention and input from Bagby.

Moore said the workshop is open to professional artists seeking new energy as well as creative people interested in new art forms. Bagby is known for creating traditional paintings through nontraditional methods such as rubber stamping, masking/stencilling and relief printing. Using pattern and texture in bold new ways is one focus of the workshop.

Bagby’s work has been highlighted in art publications such as Somerset Studio. Her richly colored designs of flowers and household items such as quilts and teapots transcend the predictable and become elegant interpretations of the ordinary.

“My paintings celebrate the household arts. They try to find meaning in simple things... the tea pot, the potted plant or the quilt. At the core of my concern is the timeless quality of rituals: permanence by repetition and tradition: the bed made, the table set, the dishes washed, the garden planted, hospitality and celebration,” Bagby said.

This is the second workshop set up by Moore, who engaged Jonathan Talbot, an internationally recognized collage artist from New York, to come to Fayette County in April. Moore is planning another hands-on art collage weekend in February. She and another Peachtree City mixed media artist, Helena Marette, recognized for her metal and glass creations, will lead the seminar.

Moore describes “mixed media” as anything and everything. “Glass, metal, wax, found materials, paint, items from nature...,” she said. Moore has spent the last three years dedicating her full attention to art work, furthering her art education at the Atlanta College of Art, associated with the High Museum, and experimenting in her home studio with different formats.

Some of her finished works include the female form and tiny photographs worked into collage with found treasures such as keys, bits of sheet music and insects molded from clay.

Art to Moore is how you “translate your vision.”
For information on the September or February workshop phone Moore at 770-632-9570 or e-mail PostoDelSol@aol.com.

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