about .......  our guest painters

                    Margaret Warfield:                       

                      Lady Wisdom (Sold)

 A resident of Oxford, GA, Margaret's art emphasizes delicate movement and gentle grace.
"I think of my art as art that touches the soul," Margaret says. She uses bright vivid colors to enhance the movement and joy of her art. Acrylic paints on watercolor paper or canvas are her chosen media. She enjoys the fact that acrylic paints are fluid, opaque and are produced in a large variety of brilliant colors. In the past she has also used pastels and oil paints.  Margaret has just fallen in love with creating clay sculptures which she studied briefly while on a visit to Venice, CA. and has now started producing with enthusiasim. Art is a language, it's purpose is to open a dialogue between the art and the viewer, touching an emotion, remembering a moment from their past or simply bringing a smile to the faces of the audience. Margaret adds that all her creations contain elements of hope and love.

Peter Muzyka:

After moving to Georgia in 1982 from Pennsylvania, Pete began painting in egg tempera which he'd studied in the 70’s. Georgia’s landscape, with its deteriorating farm houses, old plantations, colorful earth and plant life became his chief interest. Painting the vanishing old farmhouses, cotton mills and other representative structures which reflect the colors and textures of nature has moved me to represent natures way of reclaiming what man has put on
the earth. In most of his work, he tries to achieve a sense of proportion between nature and man made structures. Peter also works in oils, India ink with a crow quill pen and occasionally in watercolor.

                    Jan Whyllson:                                

Jan Whyllson of Greensboro is a folk artist, poet, singer and writer. Jan says she has the eye of an old master and the hand of a Grandma Moses. Her subject matter ranges all over the place but she does a lot of old Union Point scenes. Jan also painted the mural of Union Point's hisory on the Rhodes store Wall on Scott St.

                    Leonard Jones:   

       AH! the aroma                                                                                        BBQ (Sold)

Leonard Jones is a well-known Georgia folk artist. He is self-taught but a naturally gifted artist. He paints vibrant, colorful scenes of everyday life. His canvas is old tin roofing and his brush is his finger - he only uses a house painting brush occassionally to paint the background and he uses a twig to do detail or sign his work. He uses limited but bright colors to great affect.
His work is in collections all over the world but his gentle humor and humble demeanor is unchanged with fame. He continues to live in his rural home near Lincolton, Ga and paints scenes of everyday life and rural scenes.

 Laura Connely:

(Both paintings are sold) 

The daughter of artists, Laura is a natural talent - painting, composing songs, playing guitar and more... Laura lives in a loft overlooking downtown historic Washington, GA., which she likens to Mayberry. She tends towrads figurative work with an etherial mood and images which spark the imagination.