This Saturday there will be two artists doing demonstrations at Fragrant Mushroom Gallery (see bios below), and also a sale on coffee mugs from both our production potters, Thor McNeil and Patrick Andrew Green - buy one coffee mug and get one half off.
Thom Eckert has been painting for over forty years - since the day his five-year-old daughter asked him to play with her new set of watercolors with her. He is now an award-winning watercolorist and member of Tennessee Watercolor Society, and has branched into other media, including pencil, acrylic and mixed media. A look at a gallery full of Thom's paintings makes it clear that he is constantly discovering himself in his art. This weekend he will be demonstrating his craft at the Gallery.
Deanna Lack has been creating things from wire for two and a half years, since taking a metalsmithing class at Appalachian Center for Craft. Also deeply interested in history, particularly medieval and Renaissance, she seeks to bring historical designs into a modern context, creating chainmaille jewelry in the same patterns that protected knights hundreds of years ago, but now in colorful aluminum, sterling silver and other metals, as well as wire jewelry designs, some reminiscent of bygone eras and some thoroughly modern. This weekend she will have examples of chainmaille as armor and purely decorative pieces in modern weaves, as well as wirework.
Come for the mugs, stay for the artisans!
We are hoping to have artists demonstrating their craft regularly on the third Saturday of every month.
Thom Eckert has been painting for over forty years - since the day his five-year-old daughter asked him to play with her new set of watercolors with her. He is now an award-winning watercolorist and member of Tennessee Watercolor Society, and has branched into other media, including pencil, acrylic and mixed media. A look at a gallery full of Thom's paintings makes it clear that he is constantly discovering himself in his art. This weekend he will be demonstrating his craft at the Gallery.
Deanna Lack has been creating things from wire for two and a half years, since taking a metalsmithing class at Appalachian Center for Craft. Also deeply interested in history, particularly medieval and Renaissance, she seeks to bring historical designs into a modern context, creating chainmaille jewelry in the same patterns that protected knights hundreds of years ago, but now in colorful aluminum, sterling silver and other metals, as well as wire jewelry designs, some reminiscent of bygone eras and some thoroughly modern. This weekend she will have examples of chainmaille as armor and purely decorative pieces in modern weaves, as well as wirework.
Come for the mugs, stay for the artisans!
We are hoping to have artists demonstrating their craft regularly on the third Saturday of every month.
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