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Fiber Art
Tour Stop 10: 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. |
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Paintings, Ceramics, and Jewelry
Tour Stop 4: 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." |
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Ceramics
Tour Stop 8: 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. |
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Jewelry
Tour Stop 8: 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Jewelry
Tour Stop 5: 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. |
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Textiles
Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut
Marilyn creates wearable art with designs that are intriguing from a distance as well as close up. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fiber Art & Jewelry
Tour Stop 7: Blikken Hut
Mary makes "ma su ke" fiberarts and adornments inspired by Asian aesthetics and multicultural artifacts. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Metalwork
Tour Stop 8: Creek Hollow Forge
Creek Hollow Forge is Greg's traditional blacksmith shop specializing in architectural and decorative metal work. |
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Paintings
Tour Stop 10: Whimsy
According to Kaarin, her artwork is an expression and reflection of the joy that comes from doing what she loves. |
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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. |
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Paintings
Tour Stop 3: Nancy Ramsey 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. |
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Ceramics
Tour Stop 3: Nancy Ramsey Studio
I have always been an eclectic artist who enjoys exploring different mediums. I first discovered my passion for ceramics at a community center class in Fairfax 23 years ago. When we moved to Lovettsville in 2011, I began taking classes with Kristen Swanson at White House Ceramics. I have since been influenced and instructed by many other local ceramic artists, and I now teach classes at two other studios in Loudoun County. Over the years I have developed my own style and decorative techniques, which involve carving designs and patterns into the clay after throwing and trimming on the wheel. My pottery is practical enough for everyday use and beautiful enough for special occasions. I'm excited to join the other CHAT artists on the tour this November after years of participating as a customer. |
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Photography
Tour Stop 4: 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. |
