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Fiber Art

Tour Stop 8: Whimsy

Deirdre creates fiber art handmade pieces that are unique, colorful and joyful. Items range from rug hooked pillows, to painted needle punched stools, mats, and wall art.



Paintings, Ceramics, and Jewelry

Tour Stop 3: Clay-Ward Studio

Carol works in a variety of mediums: oils, acrylic, watercolor, and clay. Whatever the medium, she captures the soul, personality, and innate spark of the subject matter. "My surroundings inspire me. Someone telling me a story can pique my interest and the brain starts creating compositions and designs."



Ceramics

Tour Stop 5: Creek Hollow Forge

Geoff works with functional forms, primarily on the wheel. He likes to alter some of the forms by pushing, pressing, and cutting. A simple manipulation can transform surface and shape. His intent is to have the interactions with his work be visual, physical, and functional.



Jewelry

Tour Stop 5: Creek Hollow Forge

Lori's work is inspired from designs and textures found in nature that are a part of our everyday life. She uses hammering and embossing to create pieces in silver, brass, and copper embellished with glass beads, stoneware or porcelain clay. Her ceramic jewelry is hand pressed to create one-of-a-kind designs.



Prints & Paintings

Tour Stop 2: Garden Corner Studios

A painter, printmaker, instructor and designer in Morrisonville, Virginia, Jill creates bold block prints as well as oil paintings and mixed media work.



Blown Glass

Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut

Bruce started blowing glass more than 20 years ago and it quickly became a hobby/passion that continues to fascinate, frustrate, and reward him.



Woodturning

Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut

Juan's goal is to expose nature’s work through woodturning.


Paintings

Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut

Ute's goal is to create paintings that show her love of nature and animals and express the essence and emotions of the subject.


Jewelry

Tour Stop 4: Silverwood Farm & Studio

Liz's work combines precious metals, polymer clay, stones, plastics, glass or whatever shiny object catches her eye to create unique wearable art and other functional pieces. The designs are contemporary, merging organic and geometric forms. Her award winning jewelry has been featured in many exhibits and publications.



Textiles

Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut

Marilyn creates wearable art with designs that are intriguing from a distance as well as close up.



Pewter, Baskets, and Carved Wooden Spoons

Tour Stop 9: Taylorstown Pottery

Karen has been creating heirloom pewter pieces with her husband for over 40 years, using the traditional methods of hammering, casting and spinning. She will also have a selection of her woven baskets and hand carved wooden spoons and scoops.



Jewelry

Tour Stop 6: White House Ceramics

Teresa fuses nearly three decades of art expertise in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and ceramics with the use of the metal clay to create the jewelry of Zia Design.



Paintings & More

Caitlin's fondest memories were created in her grandmother's art studio. The smell of oil paint and bright colorful paintings cemented a love of art and the creative process.



Fiber Art & Jewelry

Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut

Mary makes "ma su ke" fiberarts and adornments inspired by Asian aesthetics and multicultural artifacts.



Ceramics

Tour Stop 1: Ravenhawk Hill Farm & Studio

Yousung's work is wheel thrown stoneware with some hand building and armature work. Her beautifully painted motifs are meticulously brushed by hand using vibrant and carefully selected tones of under-glaze.



Ceramics

Tour Stop 9: Taylorstown Pottery

Bryan began teaching art in Loudoun County in 1994. In 1997, he retired from teaching to further his education in ceramics. He moved to Boston to work in an area studio and then on to Vermont for an apprenticeship on wood firing techniques.



Paintings & More

Tour Stop 1: RavenHawk Hill Farm & Studio

Christiane focuses on animal portraiture and has received many commissions over the 30 years she has been painting. At Christmas time, her glass ornament portraits done in acrylic are in great demand.



Metalwork

Tour Stop 5: Creek Hollow Forge

Creek Hollow Forge is Greg's traditional blacksmith shop specializing in architectural and decorative metal work.


Paintings

Tour Stop 8: Whimsy

According to Kaarin, her artwork is an expression and reflection of the joy that comes from doing what she loves.



Ceramics

Tour Stop 2: Garden Corner Studios

Amy likes her pots to tell stories. She uses stoneware clay, slip and glaze to accomplish this while keeping the pots food safe and functional.



Paintings

Tour Stop 4: Silverwood Farm & Studio

Nancy approaches art as an exploration and investigates various ways to represent nature, man-made structures and the human form in her abstract paintings. She builds up and cuts into layers of paint material as she melds the images in her world with those in her mind to create a satisfying finished product. The resulting abstract paintings are vibrant and complex, featuring familiar elements alongside others that are more abstract.



Ceramics

Tour Stop 6: White House Ceramics

Kristen, a studio artist and educator, has had her hands in clay since 1991.



Photography

Tour Stop 3: Clay-Ward Studio

Amie is a nature photographer who focuses on Loudoun County where she lives with her husband, Mark, in the house where they raised their two boys.


Beaded Jewelry

Tour Stop 8: Whimsy

Stitching one bead or gemstone at a time onto a felt-like base, Robin creates one-of-a-kind bead embroidered jewelry and accessories. Robin draws her inspiration from the shapes, colors and textures found in Swarovski crystal, gemstones, pearls, and found objects. Each item is a unique piece of wearable art.