Art for everyone
Find traditional and not-so-traditional pieces at event
BY RAGAN ROBINSON
Record Staff Writer
Friday, October 5, 2007
TAYLORSVILLE -- A 30-minute drive from Hickory puts you in wonderland this weekend.
Saturday’s Art in the Shop fills a wildflower-dotted, rock-sculpted meadow with whimsical metal statues, natural knotty woodcarvings, peculiar pottery, atypical trinkets and a long list of other traditional and nontraditional art pieces.
Richard and Barbara Sinclair host the event near their Taylorsville home - and in front of featured artist Richard Sinclair’s workshop. It is his toy box, where he stores the rusty bicycles, fan blades and other bits of metal he transforms into quirky outsider art - pieces like the bigger-than-life fish he envisioned when he found a buggy seat spring that looked like a bass’ big mouth or the “Hot Rocker” with a radiator chest and horseshoe feet.
His work sells for between $25 and $2,600.
Organizers say you don’t have to spend a fortune at Saturday’s show - unless you just want to.
WANT TO GO?
What: Art in the Shop
When: 2008 Oct 4th Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: 274 Bobby Godfrey Lane, Taylorsville
Why go: Live music, an eclectic mix of artwork, food, fun for the kids, a raffle and handicap parking
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
From Hickory, go north on N.C. 127 toward Bethlehem
• Go through stoplights in Bethlehem, one at Lowes Foods and one at Bojangles
• Turn RIGHT onto Devils Track Road
• Turn LEFT onto Blankenship Road
• Turn RIGHT onto Bobby Godfrey Lane
• Follow signs
WHO'S COMING 2008
• Richard Sinclair, metal sculpture
• Phill Bowman, wood sculpture
• Kathy Blackwelder, pottery
• Eric Bruton, metal sculpture
• Madame Pamela, tarot card readings and belly dancing
• Alison Mackie, hand-built pottery
• Anne Marie Prater, leather goods
• Ironwood Estate Orchids
• Suzanne Hamric, pottery
• Ellen Ball, jewelry
• Bobbi G, author and painter
• Sally Rojzman, pottery
• Jerry Stafford, canes
• Tammy Leigh, pottery
• P. L. Rhodes, jewelry and small sculpture
• Bill and Jeanette Reed, handmade soaps
• Caron Banks-Wike, pottery and on-site demonstrations of raku pottery firing
• Heather Friday, paintings
• Robert Chapman, iron works
More to be added as the time nears!
Richard's work can be seen at The Shop by appointment.
Please e-mail
or call 828 632 0106 for an appointment
and driving instructions
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Art In The Shop 2008 Oct 4th
Art In The Shop Oct 4th 2008
