The Sisyphean Struggle in Bronze
Sometimes the creative impulse has to bide its time. Fred McMullen waited until the last of his four children had graduated from high school…
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Art of the Horse steps up to acknowledge a banner equestrian year
Since 1947, Polk County has hosted the Block House Steeplechase — a sterling series of races first organized by legendary horseman Austin Brown. This…
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Mixed-media artist still feels the pull of classical European influences
As a young girl, Cathryn Cooper was already a collector of odd bits of paper, leaves, ribbons — anything that caught her eye. “I…
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A Word with the Alchemist
Some painters find a theme or medium and stick to it; others decide to widen their horizon line (to borrow a term from the…
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Watercolorist finds a way to distinguish a common subject
It may have been just coincidence that Simone Wood’s late father-in-law, an ornithologist at Cornell, liked to paint birds as a hobby. He passed…
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“Art of Life” at TC Arts
A compelling new exhibit curated by Transylvania Vocational Services, a nonprofit that provides career-development opportunities for those with disabilities, opens the year at Transylvania…
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Unloading Dreams
For Hendersonville artist Ed Weaver, dreaming is believing. “Most of my paintings come to me in dreams,” he says. And not the long, convoluted…
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“Artists Exposed” at Gallery at Flat Rock
No one’s got time to add a driving-intensive studio tour to their holiday agenda, so the Gallery at Flat Rock flipped the notion. Their…
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Two Visionary Artists Share a Show
Bold Life has featured Bobbie Polizzi’s quirky assemblage pieces at various times in the past; and speaking of the past, the more recent version,…
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Mountain Industries Was Here First
It’s not a fraction as well known as Biltmore Industries, an early professional-craft hub that still hums with life as Grovewood Village and Gallery…
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