Artists I

	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.
Mayssan Shora Farra (304) 345-9199 mayssan@clayvillepottery.com www.clayvillepottery.com "Creativity has been always a major force in my life; I have always had a need to express myself through art, and a willingness to try new venues and see how far I can go with a certain medium or idea. With our house built and the children in college and leading their own lives, I had a yearning for explorations of new horizons. Pottery seemed to fit my needs with its sculptural qualities and the way it encompassed everything that moves my soul. Feel, Shape, Color, and the Surprise at the effects of the fire. After beginning to study it more intently, I realized that in pottery I had found home; it became a passion and a must, entering my dreams at night and my thoughts in the morning and turning into an all consuming occupation or preoccupation."