A bright sunny day inside and outside the studio yesterday !!! Thanks to all my friends, collectors, neighbors, fellow RAD artists and visitors for showing up to help reopen the Asheville Cotton Mill studios. Amazing conversations and lots of hugs too. Asheville is an amazing community ! Thank you!!
Sharing this studio space with my friend Diane is a delight! I enjoy watching and learning more about her jewelry making and creative process too. We have fun, that is for sure! Thanks for all who came out to the soft launch; and visit us anytime here at Studio 22 !
This painting has found a new home with local Ashevillians at today’s open launch day ! So glad they found their special art to display in their home. Thankful ! #ashevilleartist #ashevilleartscene
Yay! Looks of folks coming through already… stop on by here for live and music, open studios, chair massages, art making, hot dog vendor, mimosas! @ashevillecottonmill@frog_spell_
The building wide soft launch is tomorrow: 4 fine art studios/galleries featuring 6 local painters, a health-wellness space, handmade jewelry studio, art workshop, photography studio … all will be open to welcome you and share our creativity. Stop by and see his amazingly and lovingly restored 1887 brick building. Local musicians will be here too ; playing on our bright patio overlooking the RAD pathways and French Broad River views! Along with a food vendor, we will light refreshments in our spaces. Come by and support WNC creatives as the Cotton Mill returns to the RAD! #ashevilleartscene #ashevilleartists
Another in my smaller painting series of original abstracted landscapes. Cool greens provide a calming view of an imaginary mountain vista. This is the style of painting I will be teaching at my upcoming June workshop @artplaystudionc see my bio for a link to find out more and sign up ! #abstractart #abstractlandscape #artworkshop
Excited to show you the new studio space! Its light filled, facing the French Broad River and the walking trails of the RAD- all makes for great people watching too as I paint away ! My neighbors are all so amazingly talented and welcoming. Happy to be here and share it with everyone! #riverartsdistrictartists #riverartsdistrictasheville
Join us this Saturday, May 16th for our Soft Opening!! Cotton Mill Studios in the River Arts District is buzzing with creative energy once again ✨
Our visual and healing arts studios are all moved in and ready to welcome you for an official first look at our beautifully restored building and creative hub.
Come celebrate the beginning of this new chapter with us on Saturday, May 16th from 10am - 7pm and enjoy studio tours, live demonstrations, collaborative community art making hosted by @artplaystudionc , and massage chair and spine checks from @alignasheville , plus live music, coffee and food vendors, and light refreshments throughout the day.
And while you’re here, take a peek at the progress on @guajiroavl ’s highly anticipated new spot!
📍122 Riverside Drive in Asheville
📅 Saturday, May 16 • 10am - 7pm
There’s plenty of free parking on site and along the street
Individual studio schedules will vary, so be sure to follow each one of us for more details 🥂
@ashevillefineartgallery@jonathan_bidwell@amandamclenon@kelceyloomer@elizabetharthouse@linseygraycreative@alignasheville@alisonpress@bleupansy@luxehousephotographic@artplaystudionc
#AshevilleArtists #RiverArtsDistrict #RiverArtsDistrictAsheville #ArtStudios #Asheville @ashevillecottonmill@riverartsdistrictasheville
This freely formed, expressive painting came so easily; I was inspired by a single pussywillow branch that was in a bigger bouquet of flowers. I made it my own by selecting purples, oranges and other colors not present in the original buds. Small accents of charcoal interplay as well. This painting is smaller in size ( 12” x 12 ”) but big in abstracted personality. Meet “ Willow Buds”. Now available in my studio or if you DM me!
Here I’m showing you a glimpse of the progress and not just the finished “ pretty “; as most paintings I create change, evolve and have many other “ paintings “ under them until it feels whole, complete. The act of creating, and then redoing the layers, changing the colors, adjusting the composition and even turning around the orientation of the canvas are all as important as picking up the paint brush initially. That first mark gets me going but rarely seen in the final result. That is my way to work. Art is messy ! #abstractartwork #abstractartist#riverartsdistrictartists #riverartsdistrictasheville #riverartsdistrict
