Workshop artist
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.
Bagbys 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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