Aiming for Infinity
byBorn at the foot of The Priest in Virginia, Galen Frost Bernard is trying to paint his way back to the place he calls…
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Lighten Up
byChandeliers don’t have to be stately or ponderous to be admired, believes Mark Peyton. They can be as full of color as they are…
Capturing the Moment
byIt’s very likely you’ve seen Dave Allen’s photography and did not know it. The 40-year-old Hendersonville resident’s fairytale depictions of Carolina sunsets and waterfalls…
Family Portrait
byThe career of the Tryon-based painter Margaret Curtis can be divided into two halves, separated by the major life change that came with the…
Serious Whimsy
byFour years ago, Angelique Tassistro hit bottom. “The ceramics thing was not working, and I was just over it,” she says. Sure, the Asheville-based…
Shadow Show
by“I have a twisted view of things,” says S. Tucker Cooke. “If I had to choose between lightness and darkness, I would choose darkness.”…
A Cosmic Connection
bySelinde Lanier still has the photograph that changed her life. It’s a page from a decorating magazine, now a bit tattered with age —…
Let the Circle be Broken
byDespite his spiritual and environmentalist worldviews, Brad Stroman is hardly a didactic painter; in fact, what makes his paintings so powerful is the sheer…
Artist Janet Green Jacobson Finds Nature’s Drama
byOn the surface, all is pastoral serenity — rolling hills, fields, creeks and forests. But Janet Green Jacobson looks for nature’s secrets — the…
The Peculiarity of Knowledge
by“A lot of who I am is where I came from,” says Jessica Stoddart, 32, who grew up in rural Tennessee, the daughter of…