Art Market Gallery is featuring two artists during September with a First Friday reception from 5:30-9 p.m. Sept. 2. The gallery is at 422 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Regular hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sundays 1-6.
Snake by woodworker Ed Lewis
After moving to Tennessee, Ed Lewis was able to have a woodworking shop and decided to try woodturning. He discovered he had a natural ability in using a lathe.
After making the usual bowls, vases and platters, he started experimenting with segmented pieces, especially “dizzy” bowls. He enjoys the process of making unique patterns that people will be proud to display.
Ed volunteers at the Wears Valley Ranch where he teaches woodturning to students ranging in age from 10-17. He was accepted to be part of the 20th Master Woodworker’s Show in Knoxville, hosted by the East Tennessee Woodworker’s Guild, where two of his pieces were on display.
Carole Stoiber is a two-dimensional artist who expresses herself in watercolors, oils and acrylic paints. Her two-dimensional works are presently on display and for sale at the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville. To express three-dimensional ideas, Carole works in clay.
Obstacles by Carole Stoiber
When living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Carole began painting original watercolor portraits of homes on commission. She called her business, “A Different Kind of House Painting.” Images of these watercolors and her amazing original oils can be viewed on her website.
Patrons marvel at her talent to create beautiful images with skillful techniques, vibrant colors and imaginative designs that evoke emotions and memories with familiar, yet unique visions.
Carole received a fine arts degree with a ceramic concentration from Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina. She continues to learn and create every day in all watercolor, oil painting and ceramics.
She taught art to children for over 20 years. She lives and works in Dandridge, Tennessee, and her philosophy to stay young is to create something every day.
She writes: “We had been planning our retirement in Boquete, Panama, for two years and the move did not involve our furniture, but the Panamanian borders closed due to the virus.
“Where to go? What to do? Fortunately, my aunt had unfurnished rental property available and we moved in, putting half of our furnishing in storage as we downsize.
“This move was a difficult one because we were forced to accept something that we did not want or plan on, but doesn’t everyone have these frustrations during a pandemic?
“We have landed on our feet in a beautiful little house by Douglas Lake. As we explored our new territory, we noticed a large tree that had been beached there on our shore. It was snarled, pale and worn; just like me. And so, the drifted tree is my first painting in our new home, PLAN B.”