Mary has lived in NC, SC and GA all her life. The southern landscape has influenced her perspective in art making. For over twenty years Mary taught public school in GA, finally finishing her career teaching art in an elementary setting. She has created art and commission pieces, participated in numerous juried shows and published illustrations in books and magazines. Mary has memberships in regional and national arts organizations.
Mary’s art practice is a reflection of how she views the world, past and present. Working mainly in contemporary landscapes inspired by poems, prayers or memories; bright colors and textures convey an abstracted scene that could be anywhere. Mary loves collage combined with painting; using blocks and layers of colors to create interruptions and movement in a piece. Future goals are to incorporate the figure, explore different collage techniques and present art in new venues.
I am a self-taught artist and produced my first work in 2002 "#1 Bill", a portrait of my husband. Daisy Grubbs' book: "Modeling a Likeness in Clay", purchased at Brookgreen Gardens, was my guide.
An accomplished printmaker and painter as well as sculptor, Maidy Morhous was born in New York and currently creates out of her studio thirty minutes north of San Diego. Morhous received her Master of Fine Arts degree while studying at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris in the mid-1970s. Before returning to the States, she traveled to Italy to further her studies in casting techniques at the Fonderia Artistica–Marinelli Foundry in Florence.
Morhous expresses herself through the medium of bronze, which allows her to portray extremes, from the soft flow of water to the harsh asphalt pavement of our world. Her work encompasses the pop art concept of presenting commonplace objects as fine art in a very permanent medium.
A hapa who grew up in Philadelphia, I attended Syracuse University and received my MFA from Boston University. Art and being an artist are therapy for me physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Mine NOW reflects my dual Buddhist-Catholic heritage. My work frequently explores the relationship between humans, nature, and objects. I think of art as an objective homage to my Eastern and Western traditions and the raw architecture and sounds of the city—adding conflict, balance, and harmony to shape my work’s form and energy in my constant search for new noise and passion.
Growing up in Brooklyn, NY was wonderful. I hold a BS in Accounting and worked as an auditor and an accountant. It was not until retiring and moving to beautiful Bluffton, SC that I was able to pursue art. I enrolled in my first oil workshop in 2019 and have continued to expand my knowledge ever since. I occasionally work in acrylics and love photographing the areas I visit and people I meet. I am a member of the Art League of Hilton Head and the Society of Bluffton Artists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Every artist was once an amateur.” Beaufort-based artist Lisa Gilyard-Rivers seems to defy this sentiment. When art enthusiasts gaze upon her paintings, stroked with emotions of love and pain, stories of yesterday and today.
Although my career as an artist did not begin until the age of 52. Her children were overjoyed on Christmas day, overwhelmed with awe and emotion. And her career as an artist began.
You can find paintings of the legacy heritage Gullah. Mediums include abstract oil, and multi media. What will catch your attention are the vibrant colors that shine boldly off each canvas. And what you will feel is love. Lisa paints with love and it is felt in her home, on her brushes, in her paint strokes and in each finished piece.
A native New Yorker, Patti has a BA from American University and an MA from Johns Hopkins University. She pursued her artistic studies at the Atlanta College of Art and the Art Student’s League of NYC. Her family moved to the central coast in 1999.
Patti’s work has been shown in prestigious exhibits around the country including: Noho Gallery LA, The Salmagundi Art Club, NYC, Monterey Museum of Art, The Haggin Museum, The Alexandria Museum of Art, Belskie Museum of Art, The Karpeles Library Museum, and Red Dot Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe. Her first solo museum exhibit was spring of 2018 at The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art,
She has been juried into the National Association of Women Artists and Women Painters West. She was a signature member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters.
I exhibit both locally and around the country. I am in private collections in homes and offices as well. My images have won various awards both internationally and locally. Magazines have included my work both on covers and interior spreads.
Emi Sisk is a juried artist whose work embodies the beauty of the natural world and the complexities of the human mind. With a diverse background in mental health, neuroscience, and nutrition, Emi brings a unique perspective to her art. Her watercolor paintings showcase the vibrant colors and intricate details of marine creatures, while her digital art transforms nature photographs into captivating abstract compositions.
Emi is a member of the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Cambridge Art Association. She holds coaching and Hawaii tourism certifications and is a member of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School affiliate.
Self-Taught Gullah Folk Artist
June 2007 - Present
Owner of Gullah Art By Renee, LLC.
Member of the National Association of Women Artist-2018
Listed in Guide to American Artist “Self-Taught, Outsider and Folk Art” by Betty-Carol Sellen
Art on permanent exhibit at Brook Green Gardens, “Gullah Geechee Garden” entrance at Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary has a love of the landscape, and seeks to interpret the feeling of a place within her work. She works primarily in oils on either canvas, or most recently on wood panels. Mary creates sketches in watercolors, colored pencil, pastels, or collage. She also incorporates her own photography to work from within the studio. Mary takes her sketches and photos and melds them together on the computer to work out a sketch to develop into a painting. Her color palette is strong and bright, yet often mysterious. Mary has been a member of NAWA since 2004. Mary joined the South Carolina Chapter in 2019 and currently serves on the Board as Treasurer and Web Manager.
I am originally from South River, New Jersey and have a B.S. in Design. My husband and I lived in New Jersey, Illinois and California before settling in New Hampshire in 1976 where we raised our two sons. We are now enjoying the life of snowbirds so I currently have an art studio in Hillsborough Center, New Hampshire and also a studio in Hardeeville, South Carolina. The picturesque villages and ever-changing seasons of New England have been the inspiration for my "Contemporary Primitive Americana" paintings while living in New Hampshire. Since coming to the Low Country of South Carolina, I have been inspired to paint the beautiful marshlands, coast, birds and wildlife of the South. My artwork has been sold in select galleries and shops throughout the U.S.and is also found in many private collections in the U.S. and abroad. I am an exhibiting member of the New Hampshire Art Association, the Society of Bluffton Artists, the National Association of Women Artists and the Monadnock Area Art Association.
Much of my work exists where tradition meets personal. As I create, I’m reminded that there is a long familial tradition of women who came before me, stitching and creating. From their whispers, I find the very foundations of my art.
I began my career as a textile designer in the home furnishings industry and today my work "reinterprets the patterns and textures found in function-driven objects such as quilts and baskets as dreamscape imagery that straddles the line between figurative and abstract." My work is exhibited at many galleries across the Southeast.
I am a juried member of the NAWA and a Certified GOLDEN Artist Educator. My book, Acrylic Expressions, and 4 instructional painting videos published by Random House are available at major retailers and online at Amazon.
Bernice Mitchell Tate was born in Sheldon, South Carolina, March 27, 1943 - an authentic Gullah native daughter, where all of her early years were spent on an isolated self-contained family farm. She was raised along with eight siblings and attended local segregated schools in Beaufort, South Carolina. After High School graduation in 1960 she moved on to pursue a nursing education and career in New York. Bernice has been married for fifty years to Andy Tate, a retired global finance technology executive. They have one son, a private practicing psychiatrist in New York City. Upon retiring and relocating to Bluffton, SC in 2006, Bernice revisited her earlier autodidactic interests in the arts, displaying her amazing talent as an installation, mixed media collage, and assemblage sculptural artist. The art of Bernice Mitchell Tate is deep-rooted in personal spirituality, cultural relativism, and a sacred combination of many different connected parts where life, death, history, culture, spirituality, material culture, realia and veneration of the dead intersect. Her belief that ideas such as "ancestor worship," right or wrong, are not absolute but change from culture to culture and circumstances. Bernice’s art form is uniquely termed Ancestrialism, a sacred amalgam of connected parts. Ancestrialism is a curious blend of traditional beliefs and contemporary thought, ingrained and inspired by her Gullah-GeeChee heritage southern tradition where spiritual practices and relationships continue with those who are no longer living beings. The dead have a continued existence possessing the ability to influence the living.
Brittany Taylor-Driggers received her BFA in Drawing with a minor in Art History from the University of South Carolina (2006) and her MFA in Visual Arts from Union Institute and University, Vermont College of Fine Arts (2009). A native of South Carolina, she lives and works in Lancaster, SC with her husband and three sons. She teaches art and art history as an Assistant professor, and Director of Campus Collections and Galleries at the University of South Carolina Lancaster.
Melinda Welker is a wildlife and nature photographer with a passion for photographing the wonder of birds in their natural habitats, where she captures artistic images of bird personality, behavior and beauty. Welker studied photography at Savannah College of Art and Design. She is a founding member of the NAWA SC Chapter, a member of the the Aiken Artist Guild, the Aiken Center for the Arts, and the Midlands Chapter of the Carolinas' Nature Photography Association.
Born and raised in New York City, Zalisko was encouraged by her parents to pursue a career and practiced law in the northeast after graduating from Fordham University School of Law until moving to Florida in 2004. Zalisko remained immersed in NYC’s rich visual and performing arts, studying art whenever possible at several NYC and Florida universities, and in private study or workshops. She continues to enrich her artistic practice in university classes, travel, residencies and fellowships.
Zalisko’s work is regularly included in exhibitions and private and public collections in the US and abroad, and numerous museum exhibitions.
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