Caseworks – Chapel Hill This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. What is your medium? Why do you love it? How did you get interested in it? As a young man I was making oil paintings, and the fine arts were my first love. The decorative Arts came later. In my junior year of collage while working on a Fine Arts major, my mother handed me one thousand dollars, instructing me to "Take the summer off and go to the Louvre in Paris." An amazing gesture for a woman who was…

Blue Moon River – Chapel Hill This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. "What Remains" What is your medium? Why do you love it? How did you get interested in it? I'm a fiber artist. I started out as a traditional quilter, making bed quilts, when I was in my twenties, and moved toward art quilts and fiber art about 2005. While my core materials — cloth and thread — are those used in traditional quilting, I often employ substances such as acrylic fabric paints, dyes, Tyvek, Angelina fibers, and water-soluble…

Skyrivers Studio - Jewelry & Painting - Chapel Hill This is one in a series of posts about artists in the Orange County Artists Guild. What is your medium? I have been working as a jeweler for the past 48 years. I was traveling in Europe when I began to know that I wanted to work in silver. When I moved back to the U.S. after four years, it was like magic that happened and I knew it was my pathway to make silver jewelry. I moved into a room where the woman had a small jewelry setup and I…