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Retro Art
Tour Stop 3: RAM Design
Denise Berg creates whimisical paintings on canvas and furniture. Her passion for painting started with more of a holiday flair. Her work has evolved into creating colorful retro art with a focus on florals. |
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Fiber Art
Tour Stop 2: 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 6: Clay-Ward Studio
Carol Clay-Ward 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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Prints & Paintings
Tour Stop 7: 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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Blown Glass
Tour Stop 5: Blikken Hut
Bruce Ferguson started blowing glass more than 20 years ago and it quickly became a hobby/passion that continues to fascinate, frustrate, and reward him. |
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Pewter, Baskets, and Spoons
Tour Stop 1: Taylorstown Pottery
Plain and simple... working with her hands makes Karen happy. She especially enjoys carving molds for her pewter castings and weaving. She has been creating pewter pieces for 40 years with her husband and weaving baskets for 30 years. |
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Jewelry
Tour Stop 4: White House Ceramics
Teresa Jardines 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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Fiber Art & Jewelry
Tour Stop 5: Blikken Hut
Mary Kenesson makes "ma su ke" fiberarts and adornments inspired by Asian aesthetics and multicultural artifacts. |
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Ceramics
Tour Stop 7: Garden Corner Studios
Amy's passion is working with clay — a soft malleable substance — throwing, forming, and urging it into an object of both beauty and function. An object, which can be admired, touched, held, and used in daily life. |
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Ceramics
Tour Stop 1: Taylorstown Pottery
Bryan Mattraw 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 8: RavenHawk Hill Farm & Studio
Christiane Meister 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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Paintings
Tour Stop 5: Blikken Hut
Alice Mullen has been painting in oils since she first chose to stay home to raise her children and feels that painting helped maintain her sanity. Her three kids are now all teens, and while her sanity is questionable, she’s still painting. |
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Sculpture & Paintings
Tour Stop 2: 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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Fiber Art Wearables
Tour Stop 5: Blikken Hut
Needleworking in some form from the age of 9, Ayala has amassed a wide variety of fibers, textiles, and found objects with which she creates knit and felted scarves, shawls, bags, jewelry, lap blankets, and wall art. |
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Pastel & Oil Paintings
Tour Stop 5: Blikken Hut
Libby Stevens is a painter working in oil and soft pastel. Her works reflect local subjects of scenic farms and back country roads in Loudoun county. |
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