Artists I
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Artists snapshots:

The Artists of Gallery Eleven are dedicated to their art and like most artists they like to try many media besides their avowed ones.

This is a listing of these fine West Virginia artists plus a little glimpse into their lives.

Sonja Adkins
Kathy Boland

KATHY BOLAND

ARTIST and PRINTMAKER

E-Mail: birdlip@suddenlink.net or kathrynwboland@yahoo.com

Kathy Boland (born1939, Indianapolis, Indiana) is a painter and printmaker from Charleston, WV. Ms Boland received her BFA from Marymount College (Tarrytown, NY) in 1961 and studied at the Kingston School of Art (London, UK) during 1958.

In 2001, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in printing making. Last year Ms. Boland received an award for artistic merit at the Renaissance National Miniatures Exhibit.

Ms. Boland is known for her sketches (oil, watercolor, pastel, mixed media) and prints (etching, woodcut, monotype, dry point) of the colorful gardens and parlor of the Greenbrier Resort.

Her presentation of the West Virginia scenery is a recurrent theme known as "the Road Home."

Joe Ann Crawford
Clyda Edelman

E-Mail: edelman01@msn.com

Clyde Likes to work primarily in acrylics with a preference to realistic painting .

One of his more famous paintings " This is my Home"  a depiction of Aqualung, a well known homeless man in Charleston on whom the character of Nick Nolte in "Down and out in Beverly Hills was based.

The original was accuired by Mr. Nolte but Clyde retains copy rights and does sell copies of it.

You  can see more of his work at the Gallery  and in St Fracis Hospital Waiting Rooms.