Lost in the Moment

Lost in the Moment

Painter’s mountain and coastal scenes are the work of intense absorption  The standard job description for a landscape painter involves close observation, trial sketching,…

Turning the Page

Turning the Page

Workshop shows how to turn an invasive grass into paper Where gardeners and landscapers see a menace, Alyssa Sacora sees opportunity. Rather than do…

Summer Reading with Shadows

Summer Reading with Shadows

Illustrator leans toward the moody and the Gothic Southern Gothic fiction is often a shadowy blend of the everyday and the otherworldly. Similarly, the…

A New Leaf

A New Leaf

Potter quickly propagated a hobby into an art business Sydney Broach had dabbled in crafts before. “But nothing ever stuck,” she says, “until I…

A Handle on Heritage

A Handle on Heritage

Second-generation broommaker reveals his meticulous process There’s an old Appalachian housewarming tradition that involves three gifts to be given to a newlywed couple setting…

The Individual Talent

The Individual Talent

Brilliant paper baskets are former IT executive’s take on tradition  When Asheville artist Robin Daugherty left for Europe some years ago, it seemed that…