Meet the Artist - Darius Hill

I caught my neighbor, artist Darius Hill biking recently at Avondale Park's Bike Parade. Darius is the Chairman of the Visual Arts Department at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and exhibits his work throughout the southeast. It's an artistic family. Darius' wife is the talented artist, Bethanne Hill and they have three of the greatest kids I know! 

Arthur Price

 

Birmingham artist Arthur Price's work is showing at Gallery 1930,  One of my favorite artist,  and one of my favorite galleries in Birmingham!

Hand Made By Wade

This week I received a wonderful Christmas gift....... a piece of Wade Oliver's pottery. I met Wade years ago at Cahaba Clayworks and featured him on my blog. What fun to be given another piece of his pottery to use and enjoy!

Meet Nabeel

Last Monday I visited Cahaba Clayworks in Leeds for second time.  I had entered a giveaway on Facebook and WON!  Tena Payne's nationally known Earthborn Pottery is crafted right there and I was thrilled to receive a beautiful plate from Tena herself.  She graciously allowed us to photograph the work space and I honed in on Nabeel back in the corner hard at work.  He told us he'd been working there since last January and proved an interesting subject to photograph. I will share more photographs in the coming days.

Very Véro!

 Véronique Vanblaere is the owner of Naked Art Gallery on Clairmont Avenue in the Forest Park neighborhood. I"m a lucky girl, because I just have to walk

 a block from my home to pop in and see what's new!  This is one delightfully fun and funky art gallery,  and she features 60 artists from all over the South.  She's a talented artist herself,  so be sure and have a look at her work.  Today, a few shots but I have more to share.

You can follow them on Facebook here. 

Naked Art Gallery

3831 Clairmont Avenue

Birmingham 

I will be teaching FROM SNAPSHOTS TO PHOTOGRAPHS at Samford After Sundown beginning Oct. 16th for 5 weeks.  Join us if you are in the Birmingham area.

Meet Lila Graves!

I have been a huge fan of Lila's wonderful artwork for years! I finally met her in person last night at Monty Stabler Gallery in Homewood. Lila hails from Alexander City, Alabama (Alex City to the locals) and was in town for a reception and exhibit of her paintings and the dearest ceramic nativity figures. Her inspirational book, White Wings, chronicles her miraculous journey as a cancer survivor through photographs, artwork and verse. Yet another Alabama artist I have been fortunate to meet and photograph!

Go visit her website !

Meet the Artist - Art Bacon

Since when did art and science go hand in hand?  Ask Art Bacon.  Art has always been his passion , and he studied it while he earned his AB in Biology from Talladega College, a Ph.D. from Howard University and completed a postdoctural from the University of Miami.  He returned to Talladega College as chair of biology but began showing and winning.  Now he teaches art classes as well.  His bio says it all, "I realized that without art , my science would suffer."

I met Art at the Lite Box Gallery at the Pepper Place.  His work is so very interesting.  I especially admired the photo behind him and a vibrant abstract full of red, oh and a watermelon still life.   Actually I liked them all!  I'd like to spend more time with Art Bacon.

I've met a new blog friend today. Our friend Selim's, ( Izmir, Turkey Daily Photo)  daughter has her very own photoblog.  I've been a fan of  Selim's fabulous photographs for quite some time. I am thrilled to see he has passed  his passion for photography on to his 10 year old daughter Alim.  Give her a visit!