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Crossroads Art Center Artists in Residence D - H

The Crossroads Art Center has included information about artists in residence on this page. You may click on an image of the art work to enlarge it.

Ronda Dandliker

I enjoy the commonality of human experience and enjoy discoveries and adventures in art, music, and reading. I get a feeling of satisfaction in the process of creating something and a sense of pride if it accomplishes a mood, idea, or feeling.

I completed a degree in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and continue to take classes and workshops. I believe in never being static but pursue exploration as a mean of change, growth, and development.

Although I have painted mostly in oils, I find watercolors and mixed media to hold new challenges for me.

Chase Spillman Decker

Chase Spillman Decker was raised in Richmond and attended the public schools there. Professor Decker earned a B. F. A. and M. F. A. from the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and he has earned a Certificate from the Academia De Belli Arti in Rome. He now lives and works in a pre-Revolutionary home near Aylett.

Chase Spillman Decker won every grant. prize and scholarship the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts has to offer. In the states, he has shown in one person shows in Chicago Illinois, Racine Wisconsin, and Woodstock New York. In Europe he has had one person shows in Florence and Rome. His last one man show was in Greenwich Village in 2001.

Please visit his web site at: http://staff.jsr.cc.va.us/CDecker

Milica Decker

I’m Milica Decker, a Fiber Artist/Mixed Media Artist. I take a board loom, warp it and then fill in the warp with my imagination. Sometimes I use a structured pattern, that I have designed, sometimes I just “wing it”, to see how the colors, textures and patterns turn out. Fiber weaving allows me to use color, texture, beads, design, and any vision that comes, when I have found a center focal item or a special fiber that intrigues me. It is calming to the soul, as I work, but exciting to see it completed. Once pulled off the loom, I then get to finish the design, by edging the piece with beads and designing the type of necklace, so that it can be worn. Very rarely, do I pick the ending bead design, at the start of the necklace. I have found the inspiration to finish the piece, comes from the finished woven product not the original design.

Being a self- taught artist, who has also worked in other mediums, I combine the knowledge from those arts into the one I am presently working in. I also believe in the trial and error method, as that keeps you honest and challenges you beyond the confines of book learning. Every rule is sometimes made to be broken. Every piece becomes a lesson, and a work of art. Welcome to my world.

Sylvia deShazo

I love to paint. I doubt I can ever capture the true beauty and romance of nature, but I tend to paint scenes or images that make me happy, many of them are reminiscent of my life in England. I was born in London, England and have traveled extensively, but I now count Richmond, Virginia as my home.

I painted as a child and after World War II when supplies were non-existent, I salvaged charcoal from the garden bonfire and tore out the plain front pages of old books to use the paper to draw. There was a price to pay when my Mother and Grandmother found out what I had done. Now that my own family is grown and work pressures reduced, I now have time to do what I love – paint!

I use both acrylic and water color as a medium, but I really enjoy acrylic on yupo paper. I am an exhibiting member of Bon Air Artists Association for both acrylics and water color. My paintings have been accepted in juried shows in Richmond, Petersburg and Wakefield. I have shown my paintings at Uptown Gallery, General Assembly, St. Michaels Episcopal Church, Glen Allen Cultural Center, Henrico Libraries, James Center, Sun Trust, St. Mary’s Hospital, General Francis Marion Hotel in Marion and Omni Hotel. My paintings are in residences in London, Surrey, England, Adelaide and Melbourne Australia.

You can view my paintings at Crossroads Art Center or go to: http://tinyurl.com/WNPGdeShazo

Gayle Ennis

Welcome to Red Chicken Pottery and Gayle Ennis!

Details first : I was born and raised in Richmond, VA. Degree in Business, VCU, 1969. Yes, I’m “mature”. I enjoyed a long career in the business world before retiring in 2007. I love nature. I love the water. I love to travel. I admire imagination, creativity, organization, laughter, love and a caring heart.

On to what brings me joy . . . my pottery. My work is high energy organic, using a combination of texture, torn edges and cascading colors. I often use crushed glass in my pieces to enhance the energy. Each piece is hand built making them uniquely fluid and sculptural. I use white stoneware fired to cone 6, cone 10 and raku. My pieces are all one of a kind.

I begin each piece with an idea but many times my heart and my hands overrule my mind. My work is about experimentation, always in the moment, a joining of thought and action. I truly hope it reflects the whimsical spirit and joy with which it is created.

“Art” is hard to articulate but it’s a language we all understand in our own way.

Enjoy! Please visit the artist’s website at www.redchickenpottery.com

David L. Everette

Please visit the artist's website at www.abetteri.com

Elisabeth-Flynn Chapman

Please visit the artist's website at www.chapflynphoto.com

Marti Franks

For many years I had wanted to try painting with watercolors, but two young daughters kept me so busy. In 1996 with both girls in high school, I signed up for watercolor classes with Ellie Cox. I was hooked!

I think what excited me the most was all the possibilities with color, and I loved the transparency of watercolor. Color is so fundamentally important in everything I do.

The reason I love to paint flowers is the wonderful array of colors nature provides, and I love the shapes. I also enjoy painting the landscapes and cityscapes and find that most of the scenes I am attracted to often contain colorful flowers.

Kazuko Fuller

J. Gail Geer

G Gail teaches sculpting classes for children and adults at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, as well as after school programs in the Roanoke City and County schools. She also teaches one-day workshops in August County, Virginia, and a class on stone carving for art teachers at the annual convention of the Virginia Arts Educators Association.

In 2007 she won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts to support an Artist in Residence program at Allegheny High School.

Her work can be seen at Gallery 108 and Signature 9 Gallery in Roanoke, at Crossroads Art Center in Richmond, and the Allegheny Highlands Arts and Crafts Center in Clifton Forge, VA.

J. Gail Geer
540-774-4905
gail@geerscreations.com
www.geerscreations.com

Sherwin Ghaphery

Sherwin Ghaphery’s travels inspire her to capture the people and places she visits. “I enjoy letting the paint flow over the canvas – giving life again to what I have experienced.”
Beginning drawing at the age of nine, she continued her formal education earning a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Sherwin is a resident of Richmond, Virginia, where she is a member of the Bon Air Artists Association and the University Painters. Her award-winning work can be seen at various exhibits throughout Richmond and at the Uptown Gallery.

Bill Gilmore

I have always loved sunrises! They mean I get to say "hello" to the world again and have another opportunity to grab that next photograph wherever I am. My photographs remind me where I've been and where I need to go next. Like the song, Moon River, I'm a drifter off to see the world-there's such a lot to the world to see".

My philosophy of photography is that I want you to mentally step into my photos and look around as if you are really there. You should emotionally experience what is happening in the photo. It should arouse either feelings of anger, sadness, joy, memories of past experiences or anticipation of future activities. Don't be afraid, step into my photographs and enjoy the experience. Since I travel the world, my photographs are from different places and cultures. Based on my photos, I hope you will enjoy my adventures as much as much as I do. Don't forget to visit my website: www.travelingwithbill.com.

Traveling Will Bill Photography--Bill Gilmore

Glittermoon Cards
Cackie Trippe McCarty

I love greeting cards. I love looking at them, picking out the perfect one to send to someone. I have a stash of cards that I love so much I am shame-faced to admit I cannot bear to part with them. And I love getting a card in the mail. Who does not?

Glittermoon Cards all begin with my photographs and offer my images of our wondrous world. America, Europe, animals, oceans, rivers, trees: the natural world all around us. An all-embracing focus on what a wonderful world we share.

I was born and raised on the bucolic Eastern Shore of Maryland and had the great good fortune to grow up in a home which had the best of two worlds: the woods and the water. As a child, the natural world became a powerful source of inspiration, comfort, and awe. Without being conscious of it at the time, I inherently became a visually driven soul.

By the time I got to college, art was what I wanted to pursue. While studying for my degree in art history, I was able to take what had been an early spark of attraction to photography and transform it into a passion. A lifelong introvert, I am able to turn my natural penchant for being an observer to good use; for me a picture tells my story without having to summon the words to do so.

After college, I moved to Richmond and immediately went to work in the photography/camera business for almost 25 years. This was followed by an incredibly fun 10 years in the antiques business.

My love affair with cards goes back to childhood. My Aunt Marnie had a shop in my small hometown which had a great variety of greeting cards. I spent many happy hours over the years at the Wayside Gift Shop. In my teens, I arranged and stocked the cards, helped Marnie with the buying, and assisted customers in choosing just the right one for their occasion.

I have been making my own cards for my friends and family for many years. People kept saying: “You should sell your cards.” And thus, Glittermoon Cards was born.

Please visit the Glittermoon Cards website: www.glittermooncards.com.

Feel free to contact me. Email: glittermoon@me.com. Phone: 804-358-5999.

Jan Goldberg

About the Artist
Jan Goldberg is new to the Richmond area. Originally from New York, she has participated in shows at the Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center, the National Arts Club, the Lever House, the Jacob Javits Federal Plaza and the Interchurch Center in New York City, as well as in various museums and galleries in New Jersey.

While living in South Florida, her work was viewed at the Palm Beach International Airport, the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. As a member of the Boca Museum Artists Guild, she regularly exhibited in their successful gallery in Boca Raton.

A former dancer, Jan feels her work must reflect movement. “When I’m painting, I’m choreographing, and I feel as if I’m actually executing a series of dance combinations. I love working abstractly, letting my emotions carry me into an unknown world. Moving and balancing shapes of color around paper or canvas without a specific vision is exciting to me.”

She studied at the Art Students League in N.Y.C. with Mario Cooper and John Groth, the Art Center of Northern New Jersey and in various workshops.

Jan is pleased to be exhibiting at the Crossroads Art Center, and has won several awards in its juried shows.

During her theatrical career, she met her husband Jerry, a conductor, pianist and composer. Her son Michael is well known as a local TV and radio meteorologist and is also an accomplished clarinetist.

Ben Greenberg

Ben Greenberg Photography
About the Photographer

Ben Greenberg is a lifelong resident of Virginia who grew up and lived in Richmond most of his life. In 2002 he moved to Charlottesville where he currently resides. He has photographed scenic vistas in Virginia, the mid-Atlantic area and many locations in the United States for more than thirty years, the last twenty-five as a freelance professional photographer. His carefully crafted images have won local and national awards and competitions and have been exhibited in numerous individual and group shows. They have been featured in diverse publications and purchased for scores of private collections. Ben’s photographs are currently featured in four galleries in Virginia.

Ben takes great pride in creating photographic images of the highest quality in color and black and white. He uses the best of traditional and cutting edge photographic technology, seeking to create and print his medium format photographs honestly to provide the discriminating viewer with an accurate rendition portraying the natural beauty of the subject. His photographic prints and all materials used in their presentation are prepared to meet the highest archival quality standards for maximum longevity (75-100 years and more) and a lifetime of enjoyment.

Ben’s primary subjects are the scenic landscapes including mountains, lakes, rivers and shorelines of Virginia and the nation. These locations include the University of Virginia and the surrounding areas of central Virginia, the James River flowing through Richmond, the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Tangier Island and the Eastern Shore, and North Carolina, including the Outer Banks and the southwestern portion of the state. He has also focused his cameras on national locations that include New York City and state, Washington, D.C., Maine, the Black Hills and Badlands of South Dakota, Florida, Colorado and Rocky Mountain National Park.

Ben’s images are available for purchase in many sizes alone, matted, matted and framed or on notecards. Contact Ben for more information:

Ben Greenberg, P.O. Box 1046, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: 434-971-5700; Mobile Phone: 804-467-8212; E-mail: ben@bengreenberg.com
Web Site: www.BenGreenberg.com

Pauli Hagan

BIO
Born in Mexico, raised in Virginia Pauli has many diverse influences in her watercolor. Many trips to various countries have influenced her watercolor paintings.

She began taking watercolor classes and art workshops in 1998. She is a member of Virginia Watercolor Soceity and Bon Air Artists. She has exhibited at the James Center, Bank of Virginia, Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center, Riverfront Plaza, Uptown Gallery and currently displays at Crossroads Art Center.

STATEMENT
Magenta, purple, orange sunset. Gray misty rainy day on the shore. Concrete steel arching over the river. Colors brighten. Shadows captivate. Images evoke. All paint life.

Watercolor invites a new way of seeing and feeling the world. Fostering an appreciation of the simple and the complex in life's visual moments. Painting enriches life experiences of the artist and the viewer with beauty and emotions around and within.

You may visit the artist's website at www.paulihaganart.com

Kathleen Hall

Color, texture and contrast. If I had to sum up my paintings in a few words, it would be these.

I have great fun mixing my own colors, discovering exciting new combinations and using complementary colors to make my paintings pop. Last year I began experimenting with a palette knife and fell in love with this technique. Now, my paintings are almost exclusive executed with a knife, and develop over the course of multiple layers of color.

In addition to showing my work in Richmond, I am a summer Artist in Residence in Bar Harbor, Maine, near Acadia National Park-my very favorite place to be. My gallery and studio looks out over the boats and islands in Frenchman's Bay. Talk about a stimulating creative environment! Many of my paintings reflect the breathtaking scenery in Maine.

Please visit the artist's website at www.kathleenhallart.com.

Janet Hammer

Visit the artist's website at http://tinyurl.com/WNPGJanet.

Kay Hansell

Kay Hansell was born and raised in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York State. Art was her favorite subject all through school and at summer camps. Kay was not able to pursue art as a high school or college student. She has a BA degree in Art History from Dickinson College, a MEd in Elementary Education from Goucher College, and an Associate’s Degree in Architectural Drafting and Interior Design from a local Community College. Raising two sons, being an active volunteer, and work consumed all of Kay’s time for many years so, like many other people, it was when retirement arrived that it was time to get serious and do what she had always said she wanted to do in her “old age”: paint with watercolors. While still working, she began to “dabble” in watercolors, but it was only three years ago that she started to “get serious” and began taking classes. Kay loves gardening and this is reflected in her many works of flowers and plants. Detail is another of her strong suits, again reflected in her paintings. She exhibits at Crossroads Art Center and has had some of her botanicals on display at Lewis Ginter . Kay lives in Manakin Sabot with her husband and two cats. She has two married sons and three grandsons.

I have always loved anything related to art. As a child, if you gave me a box of crayons, scissors, and glue, I was a happy camper. I was not able to pursue art in high school or college, and then was busy with children and work for many years. It was only about 6 years ago that I began to dabble in watercolor. I only got “serious” three years ago when I retired. I have worked with several watercolor instructors both here in the Richmond area and in Ohio before that. Currently I take one watercolor class each week and paint with a group one evening a week.

Visit the artist's website at http://tinyurl.com/WNPGKay.

Hugh Townsend Harris

Hugh Townsend Harris, Artist
Watermedia Creations & More! Inc.
P O Box 36548
Richmond, VA 23235

STUDIO: 1106 Tiller’s Ridge Drive, Richmond, VA 23235

TELEPHONE: 804-387-0776

EMAIL:
bayart876@msn.com

WEBSITES:
www.husart08.net
www.yessy.com/bayart
www.ebsqart.com Artists Directory under “H”
www.Fineartamerica.com Artists Directory under “H”

GALLERIES EXHIBITING HUGH’S ART WORK:
Riverview Gallery, 1 High St., Portsmouth, VA
Harbor Gallery, 1508 Colley Ave, Norfolk, VA
Rappahannock Hang-Ups, Kilmarnock, VA
Crossroads Art Center, 2016 Staples Mill Rd., Richmond, VA

BIO:

Born Cincinnati, Ohio; moved to Shenandoah Valley in Virginia in1951 First art interest was through children’s’ classes at Cincinnati Art Museum, and summer children’s programs at University of Cincinnati.
Education:
BA, Sociology, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA 1964
DMin, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC 1968
Certificate in Watercolor, Blue Ridge Community College, 1994

When Hugh retired from full-time ministry with the Virginia United Methodist Conference in 1999, he formed Watermedia Creations & More! Inc. as a way to market and sell his art work. Over the years he has worked at times as a resident artist at the former Shockoe Bottom Art Center, and Art Works, Inc. in Richmond. He currently works from a studio in his home, and can be found at various art shows in Richmond, the Northern Neck, and Tidewater Virginia.

In recent years Hugh exhibited extensively out-of-state and elsewhere in Virginia, and within the last few years has begun to center more in the Richmond area, Tidewater, and the Northern Neck. He is a member of the Mathews Art Group in Mathews County, Virginia.

Hugh Townsend Harris, Artist Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, and watercolor on 300lb paper, Hugh’s focus is still strongly nautical, with other subjects such as abstract images centered on man-made objects, as well as urban scenes, rural barns, mills and more. He has amplified his color pallet and uses color to express positive emotion and add zest to the scenes he paints. In some of his recent work the subject, while strongly representational, is secondary to the color and feeling the scene or subject evokes.

In addition to his paintings, Hugh does some work in pen an ink, and has a limited number of giclee prints available, as well as photo prints from his work, and note cards.

In November 2008 Hugh led a one-day workshop on “Turning Up the Color” for members of the Chesapeake Bay Artists Association at Riverview Gallery in Portsmouth, VA.

Linda Holland

"Following a dream and having the passion to make it a reality"

Linda followed her passion and made painting a reality later in her life. She has studied watercolor with several local talented artists as well as numerous workshops with nationally known artists. Linda enjoys painting with a strong color statement in a creative and interpretive style in water media. Extensive travel, raising a family and retirement from the business world has produced vivid memories of happiness and beauty.

Linda exhibits and sells her art in Richmond area businesses and art exhibits; as well as a studio in the Crossroads Art Gallery. She is an active member of the Bon Air Artists' Association and the Virginia Watercolor Society. Linda also enjoys the challenge of commission work.

Linda Hollett-Bazouzi

In the past ten years my painting has taken me from the other side of the world to my own neighborhood. I began painting Persian miniatures with acrylics, then expanded to scenes taken from slides made while traveling to Europe and the Middle East. The last miniatures I worked on were in a series of very small “portraits” of Persian(esque) trees in 2004. After finishing this series, hunched over my work with special glasses, I began to feel life was passing me by. So, on the first warm day of spring I packed up an easel, oil paints, and headed outdoors. What an exhilarating experience! This helped me get back to a passion I have always had with trees. I began with small landscapes, and then explored the unique way leaves “sit” on the surface of trees. This fascination with pattern has expanded to capturing the movement of shadow and light, as well as atmospheric conditions and cyclical change. I have begun seeing how far I can push into the canvas with deep landscapes that beckon you into them. My works are always created in a series, always telling a story. I push myself to work larger, and then withdraw to intimate studies. I use oils for atmosphere, acrylics for boldness and then switch. It is a constant ebb and flow of contrasts as I celebrate what most people never notice in their own back yards.

Whenever possible I paint en plein air, usually with a paint knife and water-based oils. Occasionally, I may use a brush, or acrylics. When you look at my paintings, realize that many of them represent views that have already changed, and not for the better, as the bulldozers encroach. Tick, tock, tick, tock…

You may visit the artist's website at www.lindahollett.net.

Harry Howell - Classic Woodturning

Harry’s interest in woodturning began at age 16. A friend’s grandfather had a lathe which was unused. As kids will, the two boys mounted a piece of wood on the lathe and Harry turned his first bowl. The bowl was probably only pretty to the two boys, but Harry was hooked on woodturning.

Among Harry’s loves have been cars. His first car was the dream of many young men, a ’57 Chevy. It was in the ’57 Chevy that Harry brought home the first lathe he bought. His shop was a small wooden shed at the back of the yard at the house where he grew up, and still lives. The lathe was only a hopeful pretender to the lathes Harry uses now, but it was a treasure. Harry began to learn the craft and art of woodturning.

Over the next 25 or 30 years Harry did many types of woodworking including country crafts, furniture building and cabinet work. Always, Harry found himself returning to the lathe. He turned bowls for family and friends, an occasional porch spindle for a neighbor, and decorative pieces which were designed by a combination of his head, and what his hands felt in working the wood.

Harry retired in 1998 and began turning wood in earnest. He bought a more precise and substantial lathe. In a couple of years his skills had outgrown that lathe. He bought a professional quality lathe which he now uses daily. Other lathes have found homes in his shop, which is a far cry from the wooden shed of 40 years ago, and is a wonderful place to work.

Harry turns high quality objects, from highly functional items, to art pieces whose sole purpose is to be looked at and touched. It is exotic woods from mountain forests, dry deserts, and tropical jungles that Harry most enjoys turning. The woods are of colors from red to black, and all between. Many contain contrasting grain, or highly developed figuring. Some of these woods are not easy to work with, but you would never know it to see Harry turning the pieces, or in observing the finished pieces. After lots of years of turning wood, Harry is still looking forward to the next piece. “What will I turn next?” Or, “What piece of wood am I going to put on the lathe now?”

Harry is very generous with his time and enjoys teaching woodturners who are just beginning to enter the hobby. At the other end of the spectrum, turners of skill and advanced ability often come to Harry for his advice on what to do with a piece of wood, or what method should be used in cutting a type of wood. His shop is as much his living room, office, entertainment center, and snack bar, as it is a working area. He entertains friends in his shop nearly daily. And every day, Harry is eager to get to the next log, or piece of exotic wood he has purchased, to see what shape will develop in his head and with his hands.

Harry sells turned wood objects under the name of Classic Woodturning. The name is wonderfully appropriate, as Harry is truly a classic.

Kim Hutchinson

I am a native of Virginia and reside in Midlothian, Virginia with my son, Zachary. I have just recently started painting and love the time that I spend with a brush in my hand. My artwork is a reflection of my love of color and the beauty I see in nature. I find great joy in painting and this emotion is clearly reflected in my work. I am an abstract freestyle painter and I predominately paint landscapes, utilizing vibrant color and multiple textures to portray the beauty of the scene. I work in oils because I love the manipulation of wet on wet and the surprise that awaits when the painting is complete. I have taken classes with Vicki Foster and Marti Fann and am a member of Bon Air Artists Association. I display my work at Crossroads Art Gallery and I hope you will enjoy my work as much as I enjoyed painting it!

Visit the artist's website at http://tinyurl.com/WNPGKim.