I have just begun to find my path among the languages that best define my artistic interpretations of the natural world.  I started with small metal sculpture and mobiles influenced by Calder. I use found objects that resemble natures creations and then mix materials in a process called assemblage.

“Art on wood inspired by nature. Rustic. Whimsical at times.
Happy. Every Painting has a story.”

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Anne Hempel creates all her work on hand-crafted wood panels that her husband, a biologist, builds for her.  The perfect surface for using a palette knife and various tools to carve into the wet paint creating a kind of three-dimensional sculptural rendering. Seven or eight layers of thickened acrylic paint are applied creating an impasto style that reflects light and adds expressiveness to the painting.

Lanny Brewster

Lanny Brewster is a painter, collagist and creator of found object constructions. For many years, the mainstay of his artistic life was creating complex and intimate constructions from found and recycled objects. He later took up a more immediate and spontaneous form of expression in sea and skyscape paintings that capture Southern coasts. This work led to his being named the 2010 Resident Artist for Sapelo Island, Georgia, where he explored and painted this historic wilderness.

Most recently, he has turned his attention to crafting elaborate and highly detailed map collages, inventing unknown, uncharted and impossible locations. These unique, award-winning works display a sense of humor, curiosity and a compelling sense of place and time.

Lanny’s work has been seen in numerous group shows throughout the U.S. and is in private collections throughout the world, including China.

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Rob Nixon

Rob Nixon’s digital and photographic art generally falls into two categories, not mutually exclusive. Related to his years as a writer, much of his work displays narrative or thematic elements often leaning toward satire and social/cultural/political critique. In these pieces, he combines his original photography with found and collected images and objects that carry a range of cultural and historical references for the viewer.

He also works with images in a non-narrative way, isolating and redefining visual elements into new contexts and associations. Work of this type is derived not only from the images themselves but sometimes from the medium of the original image object, such as damages, deterioration and flaws in the paper.

Rob’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Atlanta, Tallahassee and coastal Georgia and numerous group shows in New York City, Knoxville, Atlanta, Tallahassee and Rome, Italy.

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