Mark your calendars, June 1st from 9 to 3 pm at the Artisan Depot! There will be something for everyone . Bring your friends, your neighbors and your friends neighbors!
Yard Sale & Art in a Trunk Sale – June 1st!
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Oh yes, and there’s TURTLES!
The Turtle Show opens Thursday, April 25 and closes Saturday, June 8th. This is a must see show as I have already gotten a glimpse of these amazing turtles and they are unbelievable! 26 talented artists of different mediums have … Continue reading
The Healing Arts Project
One of the next art shows that will be debuting at the Artisan Depot in May is called the Healing Arts Project. It opens May 9th and will have it’s reception on May 10th from 5 to 7:00 pm. The Healing Arts … Continue reading
Mary Patton Priestley: Solo Show: March 28 – May 4
Botanist and nature journaler, Mary gravitates toward natural subjects in her artwork. She works in pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor, both singly and in combination. Mary is editor and illustrator of The Sewanee Plant Press, the quarterly newsletter … Continue reading
“World Class Technology Comes to Cowan”
Franklin County Arts Guild member Tom Knowles will be speaking about the history of the CTC building, “World Class Technology Comes to Cowan” Sunday, March 24 at 4:00 PM at the Cowan Center for the Arts Training Center. Come and hear Tom’s lecture, he knows his stuff and is a very entertaining speaker 
. Bring your friends!
Motlow College Art Exhibit Opens on March 21; Ayers, Grealis and Krause are Featured Artists
Artwork by Motlow College non-traditional students Linda Ayers, Judy Grealis and Kurt Krause will be featured in an exhibit in the Eoff Hall Art Gallery on Motlow’s Moore County campus this month, said Brian Robinson, an associate professor of art … Continue reading
Vote for your favorite rooster!
Vote for your favorite ROOSTER! Come in to the Artisan Depot and vote for your favorite Rooster painting, wood carving, or book. You may vote one time per visit. The Peoples Choice Rooster will hang in a place of honor … Continue reading
Roosters, roosters everywhere…
I can tell you, come last Friday, that the turnout for the rooster show was great! Lots of familiar faces and actually, lots of unfamiliar, too. Cameras were a’clickin’ like the paparazzi at those several dozen feathery paintings hanging on … Continue reading
Rooster show!
This is a show that can’t be missed! Not only will you see roosters of many colors, but they will be rendered by MANY different talented artists! Come see the show, come see the construction on the gallery, yes, changes are a happening!! Lots of new and exciting things are going on with the gallery! Come celebrate the art of the rooster, be with friends, mingle with fellow artists and love ART!!
Art opening for Linda Overton!
I am very pleased to announce that Linda Overton Heath, one of our own members, will be having an art opening at the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center along side watercolorist Kay Foote this coming Saturday, February 9th from 6 to 8 pm. Linda is a pen and ink artist and her work is exquisite! This would be a great opportunity for us all to not only show some support for a fellow member and artist but to also check out the TFAC and all the fantastic updates they have made to the gallery last year. It really is a gorgeous place and we could learn a few things that maybe we could take back and attribute to our very own gallery in Cowan . Here is a shot of the show card and a bit about Linda. Lets make an outing of this event! You really should see Linda’s latest pieces, they will take your breath away!! Hope to see you all there!
About Linda
Linda Overton Heath was born in Hasings Kent, the site of the Battle of the Roses. Her family moved to Brighton when she was two months old, and her childhood was spent in this seaside community on the English Channel. Her father was a solicitor and later an accountant who spoke five languages. A talented amateur landscape painter and lover of art and music, Ms. Overton
Heath refers to her father as her best friend and credits him with fostering her interests in music and art. Mr. Overton frequently took his child to the Royal Pavillion and the Library in Brighton, where she became entranced with Asian wood block prints, textiles and ceramics. When she was seven, her father took her to a performance of Madame Butterfly in London, which began her lifelong love of opera.
The Overton household was a stimulating environment for a child, for Mr. and Mrs. Overton filled their lives with many creative, intellectual and multinational friends and relatives. In particular, Ms. Overton Heath recalls the influence of two of her uncles: Jack Fell, a british Ambassador to Argentina and later Spain, and James Fell, a poet who worked with Sir Lawrence Olivier. By the age of five, she had already begun to exhibit a remarkable artistic talent, recognized when she was asked to paint a Crucifixion themed panel to be exhibited at St. Martin Church which was blessed by the Archbishop of Sussex.
Two years later, while enrolled at the Elm Grove School for Girls, one of her drawings was collected and exhibited by the London Art Gallery. The Brighton College of Art accepted Ms. Overton Heath when she was fourteen years old; her father passed away three months later, an event which devastated her. She studied at Brighton College of Art for four years, focusing on applied technique and developing an interest in portrature. After her graduation, she studied for six months in Frankfurt, Germany. Shortly after she returned to Britain, she emigrated to the United States. She married and turned her creative energies to raising her two daughters and volunteer work.
In 2005, Ms. Overton Heath returned to artwork for her own pleasure and sanity, as a form of catharsis during a difficult time in her life. Her style, which she calls “Oriental Contemporary”, is very different than her work prior to her marriage. While she has very little knowledge of art history, she believes that her trips to the Royal Pavilion with her father many years ago planted the seeds for her current body of work.
Ms. Overton Heath has only recently begun publicly exhibiting her work. She did not realize there would be an interest in her work until friends pressed her to enter an art show in Huntsville, Alabama where she won an award. That coupled with an overwhelmingly positive public response convinced her to give her work a broader audience.
