Jenna has been creating art in multiple mediums since she was a child.
The Divine Feminine is her first solo visual art show.
She is excited to share her vision of how the feminine is reflected both in nature and the world around us.
Tickets required for this event - April 5, 2019 5-8pm
Please join us as we welcome the talented artist, Tess Darling.
There will be light refreshments and 20% of the profits or art sold during the opening and while is up at the clinic for the next three months will be donated to the Veterans Healing Farm in Hendersonville, NC
ADVANCE FREE TICKETS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT - SEE BUTTON BELOW
Tess Darling
Wildlife Sketches
Tess Darling's creative pastime developed into a career when she attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville from 2008-2013. She sacrificed an 11-year competitive tennis vocation to pursue her Bachelor in Fine Arts, acquiring the Tucker S. Cooke Scholarship for Studio Drawing and a Minor in Psychology as well. With a psychological mindset, Tess focused on figurative work, creating portraits and nudes that emphasized isolation, which continues to be a recurring theme throughout her career.
While attending the university, Tess became a River Arts District Artist for WhiteSPACE Gallery where she sold pieces from her series Mud. Each painting was full of color and movement, as the nude figures blended in to their environment, representing the mesh of personae that blend into our virtual world.
In 2015, Tess took a road trip around the American Southwest. The unique landscape inspired a series of acrylic paintings entitled Awe, which were showcased at the Grovewood Gallery. Her paintings depicted locations in Pisgah National Forest and the French Broad River, each piece painted with colorful, gestural movement and pockets of tight detail.
Her current series Fauna portrays wildlife inspired by her road trip, as well as animals from Western North Carolina. She retains an abstract modality, creating sketch-like paintings. The subjects are painted with a certain realism, but with quick and efficient proportions to give them a study aesthetic.
Tess continues to work on her drawings and paintings in Asheville, NC. Her most recent wildlife paintings and drawings are on display at the Mark Bettis Studio and Gallery, located in the River Arts District. She's a member of the River Arts Distrtict Artists and of a local, charity artist group called The Saints of Paint.
FAUNA
Wildlife Sketches in Acrylic and Ink
By Tess Darling
The artist renders her encounters with wildlife in a linear feel. Interactions with different species are recorded in sketches to capture the observed moment. The energy of the animal is mirrored in visible traces, accentuated by a minimalist setting. In transferring the subject outside its natural realm, the artist uses her self-constructed, artistic impression to represent the human condition. Balancing this condition with the animal form, the effect is a visual interpretation of the coexistence between a living animal and the human who painted it.
There will be light refreshments and libations.
Artist, writer, and spiritual development coach, Desiree DeMars will be showing a collection of work that touches on the diversity of life and her creative expression at Epione Integrated Clinic May 11th through July.
“Everything is connected and this entire planet is evolving through the process of integration. Contrast provides the diversity needed to expand and spark new life. Science is proving what the ancient wisdom teachings of indigenous people have known for centuries is that we are all interdependent.
My vision is simple: Bring beauty and truth into the world through creative discovery. The exhibit will touch on shamanic tools for ceremony and healing, vision boards, visual journals and encaustic paintings which use the ancient alchemical process of beeswax and tree resin as a medium.” – Desiree DeMars
Other related websites: desireedemars.com
Social Media: Facebook
There will be light refreshments and libations.
Please use the West Entrance at the back of the building and come up to the third floor.
“I’ve drawn pictures since I was six years old and I still feel like I’m just getting started. I’ve been making art for the past six years surrounded by the sweet smells and sounds of the woods in Asheville, North Carolina. I’ve illustrated for over thirty years and it’s from that profession that I’ve learned to do what I do today. My art? I want to make it beautiful. I want to make well crafted art that has more to see every time one looks at it. That’s about it. I would love if my paintings find a spot where people would be happy to see them everyday.
John Nebraska has been an illustrator, painter and teacher for more than thirty years. His work has been featured in many of America’s most respected publications such as: Forbes, The N.Y. Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, U.S News and World Report, and Scholastic. His drawings and paintings are in public and private collections all over the world.
He has designed a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service to raise awareness about organ transplants and has been honored on Capitol Hill during the unveiling. He has received numerous awards including: Excellence in Magazine Illustration from the New York Art Director’s Club and a Gold medal for work exhibited at Los Angeles Art Association. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show discussing his cutting edge techniques for using the computer as a creative tool. Graphic Arts Magazine did a feature article on his paintings and theories of taking an idea and putting it on paper.
He has worked in a variety of media and styles throughout his career specializing in technical illustration, photo-realism, symbolic painting, cartooning and portraiture. John is an expert in the use of acrylics, watercolor, pastel, collage, charcoal, ink and computer-assisted art. He is a extremely proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator, not only for creating art and illustrations, but also doing graphic design and typography.
John Nebraska has taught art at The School of Visual Arts and The Fashion Institute of Technology in N.Y.C. and numerous private schools throughout the country. He has also designed art programs for the YMCA, working with children from kindergarden to high-school age. Adults have assisted and apprenticed in his studio for twenty-five years.
His education includes a BFA from the California College of the Arts, Cranbrook Art Institute, Interlochen Arts Academy, and The Center for Art and Crafts at The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Other related websites: JohnNebraska.com & AstoriaArtCenter.com
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