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Bio - I have loved to draw and paint most of my life, and now that my children are grown, I can devote more time to my watercolors. I am a member of both the North Georgia Arts Guild, and the Highlands Art Guild. I have displayed my paintings at many Georgia galleries in Highlands, Clayton, Sky Valley, Lake Rabun, and Columbus, Georgia.

Watercolorist for ten years, and oil painter for 30 years, Ann paints watercolor, mixed media, and oils. Winner of awards at Habersham Arts Council shows, Louisiana Watercolor Society's International Exhibition, and North Georgia Arts Guild. Summer's Palette (left) was accepted at the South Cobb Arts Alliance Exhibition, in July 2003.

Shown on the right, "Spring Basket."

Native American Subjects incorporating beads, leather and feathers in the same symbolic manner as the people did. I consider my work a tribute to all tribes, but I lean towards the Plains Indians. 

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PO Box 440, Mt. City, Georgia 30562
Website: www.woodhollow.net
woodturner@alltel.net

Paul's fascination with wood goes back to childhood days. Quite by chance, a friend gave him a book on turning wood "the way it likes to be turned." The rest is history. 

The Face (right) attempts to show the beauty and ugliness that occurs in both man and nature. The turned outside, the polished inside, and the top hints at the beauty man can create. Perhaps the rusty iron that pierces, the bowl, and the wood fibers crushed and torn by the bulldozer shows the base and careless side of man.

The patterned walnut speaks of the beauty found in nature but sometimes hidden, here by the rough root, that has a beauty of its own. Click on the images for a closer view.

Gloria Weiss was born in Parma, Ohio and now resides in Aquone, NC. 

Her work has been featured in several group shows in Highlands, Cashiers, and Blue Ridge.  She has also shown her work at the Lightwater Grill in Cashiers, NC, Uptown Gallery in Franklin NC, and Andrews Artists and Gallery in Andrews, NC.  In addition, her work is in public collections, including the Stecoah Historical Society, Glenmary Guild, and Holy Redeemer.  The Murphy, NC  newspaper has featured her in an article.  She has taught acrylic painting at Tri County Community College and privately.

Ms. Weiss has been in many juried shows including The Biltmore Estates, Autumn Jubilee, Dillard’s Art in the Park, John Campbell Folk School, and Western North Carolina University.

She is a self-taught artist and gives credit to her creative successes to God and lots of perseverance and the dedication to staying with it. 

Jon Whiddon is a self taught artist. He began painting in the summer of 1999, while taking the summer off and living in Athens Georgia. He started to paint in earnest later that fall after moving to South Georgia to care for his father. His first works concerned the tragic events of Waco and depicted the horrors of that awful event. 

Jon soon began to experiment with paintings of the South Georgia landscape which surrounded him on his family's farm. Taking in the big sky and lost horizons of pastures and roads were a good antidote to the intensity of the Waco series. His paintings soon became enchanting expressions of vibrant lines and intense light. Many collectors were thrilled by his use of intense colors and decisive, painterly brushwork.

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Butterfly houses, painted tables, watercolors, oils

Bette has been an artist for 20 years. She enjoys all media art. Past president of North Georgia Arts Guild, Founder and Chairman of Sky Valley Art Festival for the last five years.

Alan Zarter, a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, lives in Lawrenceville, Georgia with his wife, Susan. He enjoyed photography for nearly 35 years before enrolling in the professional program at the New York Institute of Photography. Most significantly he credits the program with awakening his artistic vision. "Never before had I perceived my work as art. Ironically, it was then that I felt the desire to paint the subjects I had photographed."

Alan is a working artist at Art 101 in Atlanta and at the Olde Hotel in Ellijay, Georgia. He is Editor of the North Georgia Arts Guild newsletter, and also a member of the Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Association, the Georgia Heritage Association, and the Decatur Arts Alliance.

Alan is available for commissined work. His work can be found at Seven Oaks Gallery near Clayton, Georgia and The Burton Gallery at Lake Burton, Georgia. You can also find Alan at a number of shows throughout the Southeast. For gallery locations, show schedules or more information visit Alan's website at www.azfineart.com, email Alan at alan@azfineart.com or call 770-513-8408.