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featuring the oil paintings of TRaderCarolina Creations Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Gallery features oil paintings by Tim Hergenrader (a.k.a. T Rader) for Art Walk - Downtown New Bern in July. The opening reception for this show and other Art Walk events at area shops and galleries will be Friday, July 14 from 5-8 pm.
Tim is a relative newcomer to Eastern North Carolina. Raised in Nebraska, he quit his job there and moved to New Bern to paint seascapes. “I have always had an affinity for the ocean, beaches, marshes and the rest of what coastal areas have to offer.”
Mostly self trained, he has taken art courses at Craven Community College and in Nebraska. He works exclusively in oils - “I like the smell of oil paint and besides, it ruins clothes, carpets, walls, everything.”
In addition to his representation at Carolina Creations for the past two years TRader has been a featured artist at the Noyes Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska and the Gallery at Racine in Wilmington. He is a member of the Craven Arts Council.
He works from photographs that he takes. “I might take a hundred photos and get one or two paintings from those photos. The photos are substitutes for sketching trips. I guess I’m a photographer who paints.”
Hergenrader works part time for US Airways, which affords him an opportunity to travel. He is planning a trip to Barcelona this year. “I hope the trip will produce a couple of paintings of the Costa Brava area of Spain.”
But, he says, a trip to Lowland is just as much fun if the result is a painting. Cape Lookout and Bear Island are two favorite haunts. “There you can still find a part of Coastal North Carolina’s unspoiled natural environment. Those are the places I really like to paint.”
The Art Walks will be held every other month from March through November each year, on the second Friday of the Month.
The Art Walks for the rest of the year will be September 8, and November 10. The 2007 schedule begins with March.
For more information contact Janet Francoeur at Carolina Creations Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Gallery 317A Pollock St, New Bern, NC 28560 252-633-4369 - info@carolinacreations.com or on the web www.carolinacreations.com.
Carolina Creations Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Gallery will host "Impressions of New Bern" a show featuring painitngs and art on clay by New Bern artist Janet Francoeur.
Janet is the artist of the painting used on the advertising for this years Home and Garden Tour.
Included in this show are tiles of all the buildings on the tour, oils and acrylics of scenes around town, including Gull Harbour, the waterfront, various gardens and street scenes.
Pollock St - watercolor
Janet graduated from Siena Heights College in Adrian Michigan with a BA in Drawing and Printmaking. For many years she worked in the Commercial Printing industry and as a graphic Designer.
Her drawings and paintings are widely collected and she has an extensive series of prints of her work. She has been in shows throughout North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Michigan and Ohio.
She was awarded an emerging artist grant from the North Carolina Arts Council and Entrepreneur of the Year from the New Bern Chamber of Commerce.
Just arrived! Carolina Comfort II. A new book by NC native, Karen Dodd - she continues her stories of growing up in the 1950's.
Her stories describe living on the coast and aboard her boat, as she cruised the waters between Baltimore and Marathon. Brief glances at her strong family, loss of parents and sister, and finding joy in grandchildren and herself after cancer. A collection of short stories about the coast is included.
Dodd has won awards for several of the stories in this collection. A successful columnist and feature writer for boating magazines, she currently writes for Our State and Rambler Magazine.
We have started representing Sticks in our gallery! Right now we have a love seat, lazy susans, mirrors, lamps, a chest and a foot stool. Each piece is one of a kind. For those of you that are familiar with Sarah’s work you know that custom orders are a large part of what she does.
The pieces available range from coat racks, to beds, to chairs and dining room tables. We can help you design your piece - the possibilities are endless!
New art & artists at Carolina Creations!
This is just a taste of what & who we have new!
Glass panels with fish & palm trees by Stan Harmon.
New rings, pendants and earrings in 14kt with colored gemstones and diamonds by Craig Hagstrom.
Raku and stoneware wall hangings by Janine Sopp.
Stoneware tiles by Matthew Patton.
Downtown New Bern
There is so much going on downtown! The Galley store and gas station should open soon on East Front.
Michael and I will be starting on our new house and studio soon on the corner of Pollock & East Front. (NO Carolina Creations will not be moving there, Carolina Creations will stay at 317 Pollock where it is right now).
The downtown arts community will be starting art walks again, watch for the schedule, they will be every other month generally with a few special ones in between, the 2nd Friday of the month. Sign up for our email newsletter to keep informed on this.
New developments are coming that will put a lot more people on our sidewalks. At least 6 renovation projects are going on as I write this which will bring more retail and people living in Downtown New Bern. Yeah!