HENRY CHEVES Henry is a priest at Trinity Episcopal Church on Edisto Island, SC. He was raised in Charleston, SC. He is married with 4 children and 8 grandchildren. He is a retired Naval officer who started painting seriously in 1998 under David Clow, Kansas City, MO. He is largely self taught.
He describes himself as semi-realistic, meaning he works towards loose images rather than photographic detail.
This is what he has to say:"The looseness of watercolors and the luninosity available in this medium are why I choose watercolor. The sea and nature are my primary subjects becauseof the spiritual connection with God found in these areas. The more I paint the more aware I am of life - people, places and things. I teach Watercolor and Spirituality classes at Trinity."
He has received numerous awards including, SC State Fair Purchase Award, 2007 Merit Award Jubilee Arts Festival, Bennettsville, SC, 2001 1st Place Marlborough City Purchase.
He has been inspired by Winslow Homer, David Clow, Don Andrews, Eric Wiegardt and Bruce Nellsmith.
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JANAE DAVIS Janae Davis was born on January 6, 1980 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. At seven years of age, she was given her first camera as a reward for raising a substantial amount of funds for her school. This simple camera allowed her to capture the beauty of the natural world and express her profound appreciation for all creations on Earth. From that time, she knew she wanted to be a photographer. Though a number of circumstances led her to follow different path, she ultimately returned to her first love.
Combining her deep affection for the nature and a spiritual outlook, Janae seeks and highlights the beauty of all things in their natural state. Her role as artist and activist fulfills her desire to help improve the lives of all Earth’s inhabitants. As a conservation photographer, she raises awareness regarding the fragile state of the our environment and the importance of developing more sustainable ways of living.
Janae is a self-taught artist, healer and lover of nature. She honors her spirit by promoting the balance, growth and harmony of all.
Collecting beautiful prints is a wonderful way to admire nature’s abundance, gain inspiration and aid in saving our planet. Janae will donate a portion of the sale from each of her prints to the Nature Conservancy. Please support conservation and sustainable living. You can make a difference.
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LILLIE HOWARD Lillie Howard has been weaving sweetgrass baskets formore than 44 years. She resides in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The art of making sweetgrass baskets is over 300 years old and has been passed on from generation to generation.
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BONNIE LEE Retiring in 2002 from a career as a successful business woman and entrepreneur, Bonnie has turned her attention back to becoming the "Artist" she always planned on being. She has gone from a "Sunday Painter" to a full time artist. Devoting the same fire and passion that she put forward in the business world, she has turned her attentions to her true loves, drawing, painting and color.
Over the years, Bonnie has had the opportunity to study with the likes of Jean and Paul Ulen, Milford Zornes, Colleen Newport Stevens, Harvey Begay, tony Couch and Veryl Goodnight. Workshops in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, Gibbis Studio in cCarleston, SC, The Penland School in craft, NC, the Art School of the Aegean, Sculpture in Taos, New Mexico and Cortez, Colorado and Printmaking with the Ringling School of Art at Wild Acres, NC have added to her expertise. Her travels have taken her to China, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Greece, France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, The Caribbean, South America, Costa Rica, and the American southwest. With each trip, Bonnie produces a Travel Journal in watercolors, pen and inl. Her jounal on Ireland won a major "Travel Journal" contest.
The Edisto Historical Society chose her watercolors of Seaside Plantation for their 2002 poster and of Middleton Plantation for its 2005 poster. Bonnie's paintings are also featured on posters in 2007 for the 2nd Annual Tomato Festival and the Wildlife poster, Endangered Painting Painted Bunting Campaign. Her monoprints were shown at the 2007 Moja Festival in Charleston, SC. Best of show, Peoples Choice Award, Awards of Merit and Honorable Mention Ribbons grace the walls of her studio on Edisto Island, SC.
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BILL SANDER Bill Sander is a retired chiropractor living in Columbia, SC. As writer, he loves the way art goes beyond words to communicate directly, essence to essence. Good art simultaneously excites the brain's most civilized center and its most primitive core. There is a whole world created within a frame, one that tweaks and hints and tilts. Beauty erupts. Meaning peaks around a corner. And both the floor and the ceiling vanish. It is about seeking—and finding—something new.
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WENDIE SMITH Wendie is a current member and former president of the Edisto Art Guild. She has awards spanning over 30 years. Most recently, for 3 years running, she has received the Jenny gowan Merit Award; 6th place cash reward at the Colleton County, 1989 Ansel Adams Show: and the Jerry Uelsmann 6 week show at the dock Street Theater in Charleston, SC.
She began in 1973 with medical, scientific instrumentation (lazer microscopy/electron microscopy) and documentary photography in a research environment at NNMC Bethesda, MD and University of Florida Shriners Hospital in Tampa, Fl. She began working in the darkroom first, but was always an artist (drawing in particular). so fine photography was a natural follow. She has been shooting weddings and portraits since 1975 and did the fine art and gallery circuit in Florida throught the 80's.
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FRANK & BERNADETTE STRANGE Frank and Bernadette are originally from New England, where they worked many years in banking and finance. Not being fans of air travel, vacations were spent driving to various destinations, mainly touring the east coast. Charleston became very special, and so in 2002, the move was made to Mt. Pleasant, SC, just across the fabulous Ravenel Bridge. the historic Charleston area has provided many opportunities for photographic design. Favorite subjects include the local landscapes and structures. Many other images from various locations have provided them with a diverse collections. Indidviduals, as well as local area businesses have purchased and displayed their work.
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NICOLE JUSTIN WELCOME I was born in Michigan 1972, traveled the United States as a young adult. Like most people, turmoil in life brought me to a bad place where relationships were not working and happiness was not an option. I was blessed with a gift I can only thank my friends for making me pursue. Art is my passion and I get to release all the stress from the past and share it with the world, a world that can definitely relate. Each piece represents a part of my past, a story if you will and this art is not something you glance at, it reaches out. My heart sought out shelter for many years and now it has finally found refuge in my husband, let the new series of my life and art begin. I have been inspired by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. She received “Honorable Mention” with Best of Artists and Artisans Florida 2006 and was published in their catalog.
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