RCCAC Artist Registry
If you would like to become an artist member, please download the 2012-2013 Artist Registry form and return to us by email to info@randolpharts.org.
Below is a list of member artists and their bios. Right-click their work to view a larger version.
Lauren Adams
Media: Oil Painting
Lauren Adams is an oil painter who resides in West Virginia. She focuses on capturing the pure, authentic feeling and nature of the state’s terrain. Her works are not images of sweeping vistas, but the views found exploring the true character and beauty of West Virginia. Lauren’s landscapes are created en plein aire – painted rapidly on location with various palette knives. Working in this traditional mode, she emphasizes the importance of experience and invites the viewer to come along on her journey through the hills.
Email Lauren Adams
Website: www.laurenadamsart.com
Phone: 304-534-8231/304-657-7794
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Clara Avellaneda
Media: Oil Painting
Clara lives in Bogota, Colombia. She studied at Jaueriana University in History of the Art and Sabana University in Plastic Arts. Her workshops include: Oils Workshop with Esther Gomez, Workshop with Maria Helena Salazar, Workshop with Ivan Villa, Courses and seminars of palette knife techniques, Mixed, muralist, and acrylic technique under Esther Gomez, Ceramic Workshop “El Obrador” with Charlie Rojas. Clara's exhibitions include: Exhibition Citroën workshop with Maria Elena Salazar in 2000, Art Gallery Michelangelo in 2001, Art Gallery Raffaello in 2003, Colombian-Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in 2005, Country Club of Randro in 2006, Country Club of Los Arrayanes in 2006.
Email Clara Avellaneda
Phone: 57-1-8618190
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Jo Ann Post Barlow
Media: Pastel Painting
Jo Ann Barlow has been working in pastels in the Baltimore area since the early 1990’s. She shows her work at the Howard County Art Center, the Howard County Decorator Show House and the Recreation and Park Show in Maryland. She currently works at Moonstruck Studios in Highland, Maryland.
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Brad Basil
Media: Painting and Sculpture
Brad Basil is the owner of The Art Medium Co., which provides creative graphics, t-shirts and signs, with a touch of fine art. He is located near Elkins, WV, and his favorite subjects include the Holy Bible, as well as nature. He will do custom illustration, cartooning, painting and sculpture in a variety of media, and has completed murals for The Bishop Hodges Pastoral Center and the Cranberry Glades Visitor Center. Brad may be contacted at artmediumwv@gmail.com.
Contact Brad Basil at Rt. 1 Box 98, Montrose, WV 26283
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Jack Basil
Media: Oil Painting, Musician
A self-taught artist, Jack Basil has been painting with oils since he was ten years old. An avid hunter and fisherman, his interest in painting was inevitably drawn from his love of the outdoors. Basil is a musician by profession, directing many award winning bands during his thirty-two years of teaching in Elkins. He also directed a church choir for forty-nine years. Since retiring from teaching, Jack has maintained his interest in music by playing in a local dance band, directing the Gloryland Band and playing bagpipes with the West Virginia Highlanders.
Email Jack Basil
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Anne F. Beardslee
Media: Basketry
Anne Beardslee has woven rattan baskets for sixteen years. She began to weave pine needle baskets sixteen months ago. She prefers to work with natural materials.
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Paul Bellotte
Media: Painting, Drawing, Photography, Poetry
Paul 's multiple interest include painting, drawing, photography, poetry, colorist, texture oriented, abstract compositions mixed with introspective self portraits. Paul lives in Wheeling, WV. Hea has a B.A. degree fine art studio from WV Wesleyan College. Singular and collaborative efforts. Philosophy or art: The inspiration comes. Accept it. The spirit witnesses itself aesthetically.
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Andrea Burke
Media: Watercolor
Andrea took her first watercolor class in 2000 and has been hooked ever since. "It's an exciting medium with so much variety!" she states. Andrea participates in many juried shows in WV, VA and MD. Recently, she has been accepted as a juried member of the West Virginia Watercolor Society. Her work is on permanent display at the Washington Street Artist's Co-op in Charles Town, WV.
Website: WatercolorsByAndreaBurke.com
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Shannon Bennett Campbell
Media: Ventriloquism, Photography
According to Bennett “Through the magical exchange of thoughts, ideas, and humor, I am able to share fundamental truths of living life in harmony with others. ‘Anderson’, my colleague, is never without a remark that strikes at life’s essence.” Shannon hold degrees in Bachelor of Science (Comp. Social Studies) and Master of Arts (Counseling and Guidance) from WVU; Doctor of Education, (Personnel Administration); Post-Graduate Studies at Union Theological Seminary, New York City; and Union-Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, Virginia. For 32 years, she's been the Director of Personnel and Public Relations/School Counselor, Randolph County Schools. She is an Associate Member of West Virginia University’s College of Human Resources and Education Graduate Faculty for nine years.
Contact Shannon Bennett Campbell at P.O. Box 1771, Elkins, WV 26241
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Kadra Kramer Casseday
Media: Oil Painting, Printmaking
Kadra Kramer Casseday, an Elkins native and graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, studied painting and monotype under Carol Pelletier. Along with creating watercolor and oil paintings, monotypes, and intaglio prints, Kadra has been teaching various art workshops and classes in Randolph and Upshur Counties for the past five years. She currently instructs at the RCCAC as well as The Mountain Institute’s Outdoor Education Program for Randolph County elementary students. Specializing in creating oil monotypes, Kadra was one of the few recipients of the Mollohan Foundation’s Mary Olive Eddy Jones Scholarship for excellence in art and has exhibited at the Mollohan Innovation Center in Fairmont, WV. Kadra is a member of the Seneca Trail Art Guild and regularly contributes to the ArtsBank program. She recently opened The Blue Door Studio in downtown Elkins and displays her work at Artists at Work.
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Wendy J. Clark, MFA
Media: Watercolor and Oil Painting, Weaving, Installation Fibers
I am an interdisciplinary artist. Painting, weaving and textile structural sculpture are the elements of my creative practice. I make art that is rooted in a "listening self" that attempts to cultivate an intertwining of self and other. My hope is to give attention to places of deep spiritual presence.
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Kristen Colebank
Media: Watercolor Painting
Primarily self-taught, Kristen Colebank iof Wardensville, WV was drawn to watercolor because of the challenges paper and pigment presented. The West Virginia native has lived in the shadow of the Great North Mountain near Wardensville since 1997. She finds the play of sunlight and shade within landscapes and around architectural elements especially attractive.
Email Kristen Colebank
Website: www.waitesrunstudios.com
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Margo Blevin Denton
Media: Portrait Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
My work is based largely on face and form, both realistic as well as abstract organic works. I enjoy seeing the abstract in parts of the body, and the personality in a portrait. In recent years I have concentrated on portrait sculpture using clay, and two-dimensional works in acrylic, watercolor, and colored pencil, and have lately been exploring doing commissioned portrait sculpture from photographs.
BFA in Sculpture and Printmaking , Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple U.; MAT from WV Wesleyan U. Also studied at Art Students League, NY, Pratt Graphic Arts Center, and Instituto Allende, Mexico. Exhibited widely, including the WV Juried Exhibition; the Montclair (NJ) Art Museum; group shows at West Virginia U., D&E College, and Wesleyan U., Connecticut. Solo shows at WV Wesleyan College, Randolph Co. Community Arts Center, and more than 15 other libraries, colleges, and galleries from North Carolina to Texas. Awards include prizes at exhibits in New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, and the Portrait Society of America 8th Annual Competition. Former adjunct Art Faculty, Davis & Elkins College; past member Artists At Work Co-op Gallery.
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Michael Doig
Media: Oil, Acrylic, Encaustic, Mixed Media Painting
Mike works in oil, acrylic, encaustic, and mixed media. He received a BFA from WVU. Much of his artwork reflects a deep appreciation and respect for the interrelated and complex systems of nature and society. "My upbringing in the hills of West Virginia has greatly influenced my work, and has led to a general recurring theme of 'Appalachia' and the relationship of humans to a changing landscape and environment."
Email Michael Doig
Rt 3 Box 126, Elkins, WV 26241
Phone: (716) 361-1630
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Jackie Forcucci
Media: Charcoal, Pastel and Oil Painting
Jackie Forcucci is a portrait artist, working in charcoal, pastel and oil. She has studied with many well-known portrait artists, including twelve workshops with Daniel Greene. She has done portraits at the Stonewall Jackson Jubilee for twenty-two years.
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Don Hall
Media: Oil Painting
Don Hall, a native West Virginian, is a professional artist who began to paint when he was 33 years old. His work has been greatly influenced by French Impressionism and the Hudson River school of painting. He paints a variety of subjects, concentrating primarily on landscapes. For many years he combined his interest in painting with a career as a motion picture director and editor, spending most of his time doing studio painting. After retiring in 2000, he has concentrated on his love of painting en plein air. He paints exclusively in oils on linen, canvas and artist board, capturing lovely mid-Atlantic, New England and western landscapes in a style that reflects both realism and impressionism. He is a member of Oil Painters of America, the Tucson (AZ) Plein Air Painters’ Society and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association.
Website: www.donhallart.com
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Wayne C. Hart
Media: Oil Painting
From turning a promising sketch into his high school art teacher, to using used books from old art masters and learning from trial and error, Wayne Hart has amassed a nearly thirty year history of work. He has been featured in West Virginia and Wonderful Magazine, selected to participate in gallery exhibits all over the state including Tamarack. He has 23 limited edition lithographs to his credit. In 2008, Wayne’s “Winter Colors” was selected for the exclusive Tamarack Christmas card.
Contact Wayne Hart at 99 Kerens Hill, Elkins, WV 26241
Phone: 304-636-6807
Website: www.waynehartstudio.com
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Brenda House
Media: Photography
Brenda House is an Elkins resident. Owner of the QBH Frame Shop, she says she likes going out in the wild, backroads, or bike-trails - with her children who often select the scenes for her photographs.
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Joan Toy Kefover
Media: Ceramics
Joan Kefover is a potter. She holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has done advanced study at Mains and San Diego College, California and has studied with various ceramic instructors.
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Alain Kieny
Media: Pastel Painting
Alain Kieny, a pastel artist, is a 20 year resident of Parsons in Tucker County. Originally from France, he worked as an engineering draftsman in the pre-computer world of the 1970’s. According to Kieny “Although I have always liked to draw, I’ve been trying to break free of the straight and perpendicular lines, as well as adding a bit of color to my world. As a self-taught artist, I have an enduring fascination with the impressionist painters of the late 19th century.”
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Sandra King
Media: Pastels and Mixed Media
Sandra King is a juried member of Tamarack, Maryland Pastel Society, Allied Artists of West Virginia, and West Virginia Arts & Crafts Guild. Her latest awards include: QUEENS CHOICE, The Mountain State Forest Festival; FIRST PLACE, Mountain Color Show; FIRST PLACE, Season’s of Color, SPECIAL MERIT Southern Juried Exhibitin, and West Virginia Juried Exhibition. Her works are on permanent exhibit at the Erma C. Byrd Gallery, University of Charleston, Women Artists of West Virginia, Marshall University, and WV University, Tech. Sandra is a full time professional artist. She holds a Masters Degree in Arts from Marshall University, plus 48 additional postgraduate hours from West Virginia University and West Virginia Center og Graduate Studies. Her work is marketed by Art Emporium and Tamarack in West Virginia, and Topanga Canyon Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Email Sanda King
Website: sandrakingart.com
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Fran Kordek
Media: Textiles / Quilt Making
Fran Kordek has been making and designing quilts since 1974. She has been teaching quiltmaking since 1983, judging quilts since 1994, and is both a National Quilting Association Certified Teacher (2003 Teacher of the Year) and Certified Judge. Her work has been exhibited and has won awards on the regional and national level, and has been published in several quilting magazines. Fran Has been actively involved with local and state guilds and the documentation project of West Virginia’s pre-1940 quilts.
Website: www.SubtleEndeavors.com
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J. Michael Ledden
Medium: Oil and Watercolor Painting
Mike Ledden is a self-taught painter who has developed his painting techniques through a variety of workshops, as well as trial and error, since his retirement in 1997. He paints a variety of subjects from landscapes to portraits and has won many awards in competitions. He has had several paintings chosen for the DNR Wildlife calendars; his most recent wildlife painting is of a bird and chicks in the 2008 calendar. Ledden enjoys painting on location for his landscape works in addition to portraiture and wildlife painting.
Contact J. Michael Ledden at 313 Walnut St., Parsons, WV 26287
Phone: 304-478-2303
Website: www.leddenart.com
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Carolyn McCauley
Media: Pastel and Watercolor Painting
Carolyn McCauley enjoys working with many different subjects, especially floral. Her preferred media are pastel and watercolor. She has had some concentrated study in composition and design. Teaching beginning art to children and seniors has been a motivating experience for her.
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Robin McClintock
Media: Painting
Robin McClintock was born in White Plains, New York and moved from lower Manhattan to rural Tucker County in 1998. She has a BFA from the State University of New York. She is an abstract painter influenced by time, weather, landscape and politics. Her work has been in numerous exhibitions in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York.
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Donell McCoy
Media: Watercolor Painting
A West Virginia native, Donell’s interest in art was piqued at a very early age by her mother who was also an artist and educator. along the way to becoming more involved in art, she has studied with local artists Kay Gillispie and Lotus McDowell as well as nationally known artists Bill Vrscak (PA), Joseph Bohler (CO), and Betty Carr (AZ). “My goal in painting has always been to convey my passion for art and love of the watercolor medium by producing art that is fun, well-executed, and will encourage the viewer to stop, look, and enjoy the painting. My paintings have been in the annual Forest Festival Art Show, Seneca Trail Artists Spring Show, RCCAC show, and juried into MountainMade gallery in Thomas, WV, as well as one-person shows at Barnes and Noble in Harrisonburg, VA and the library on the campus of Davis & Elkins College.”
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Kenton L. McCoy
Media: Photography
Kenton L. McCoy is a Photographer from Parsons, WV. According to Ken, “I’ve had an interest in photography since my teenage years. Early in my interest I worked strictly with black and white and had my own darkroom from which I produced my own prints. As with many photographers I have now switched to digital equipment. At the same time, I am dedicated to producing work that has not been digitally enhanced via a computer program. My goal is to take a photo and to be able to produced a print that is representative of what I saw and photographed.”
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Joe McInroy
Media: Oil Painting and Pastel Drawing
Joe was at one time a high school English teacher and, for a longer time, a woodworker. He resides in Helvetia, West Virginia. Joe likes to paint landscapes of scenes from the woods and farms near his home. He is especially drawn to course textures and rugged surfaces. Joe also does figure drawings and an occasional portrait.
Email Joe McInroy
Website: joemcinroy.helvetiawv.com
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William McWhorter
Media: Oil and Pastel Painting
Bill McWhorter graduated from California State University with a degree in fine art. He paints in oil and pastel. Galleries in San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston represent his work. His art comes from his love of the land and the spirit and light of the West Virginia environment.
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Marjory Moses
Media: Printmaking, Stained Glass, Painting, Photography
Marjory Moses has a degree in art and has explored printmaking, stained glass, weaving, painting and photography. Her works are in various collections including the State of West Virginia permanent collection.
Website: www.moondanceartanddesign.com
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Bob Musick
Media: Oil & Acrylic Painting
Bob Musick is a self-taught artist who lives in Morgantown, WV. Bob has always been involved with some form of art work as a hobby. Sign painting, silk screen art, cartoonist for local paper, and some cartoon contributions for national publications. "When Bill Alexander and Bob Ross made their appearance on PBS my painting career began."
Email Bob Musick
Phone: (304) 282-0161
Website: www.wva-art.com
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Lisa L. Nelson
Media: Photography
Lisa is a self-taught landscape and outdoors photographer. She loves hiking with her husband, during which she gathers many of her outdoor photographic scenes. She loves capturing God's beauty and creation in pictures. Seeing and taking pictures of wildlife and landscapes is her passion.
Phone: (304) 940-9960
Website: www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-L-Nelson-Photography/221529161209767
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Lisbet Okun
Media: Weaving, Quilting
Lisbet has been a resident of Elkins, West Virginia for twenty-five years. She is a member of the Artists at Work Co-op, and a contributor to Mountain Made, Tamarack, and Appalachian Piecework. Lisbet belongs to the Mountain Weavers’ Guild and has been twice selected as Master Artist by the West Virginia Folk Arts Panel at Augusta Heritage Center, where she also has taught a Folk Arts for Children workshop. Lisbet’s fascination with string began at an early age, and she continually seeks new ways to tie the strings of her current life to her roots. Learning to know at the age of six in her native Denmark; learning to weave in her twenties while living in New Mexico; learning to spin, dye yarn, and quilt fabric after moving to West Virginia; each technique reflects another stage of the journey, and each new stitch helps tie it all together.
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Derek Overfield
Media: Painting
Derek Overfield is a semi-abstract realist painter focusing the figure. Working directly from life with a fast and loose approach, he gives vitality and honesty to his figures. Elements of simplicity, energy, contrast and a sense of the heroic are prevalent in his work. Derek holds a bachelors in art from Fairmont State University.
Website: www.derekoverfield.com
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Maggi Rhudy
Media: Painting, Printmaking, Paper Cut, Crafts
Since my childhood in Germany I have always loved art and making things. As a teacher and artist in residence for ArtsBank, I have had the wonderful opportunity of introducing young people to the may ways of artful impressions. I am inspired by nature and my work is an eclectic collection connected somehow by subject matter, the elements of art and beauty.
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Linda Walker Roberts
Media: Watercolor Painting
Linda Walker Roberts, a native of Summersville, WV and an ordained American Baptist minister, is primarily a self-taught artist. She has chosen the medium of watercolor because of the bright, clear colors and the element of surprise and unpredictability one can achieve with watercolor. She exhibits her work in numerous juried watercolor exhibitions throughout the United States. Linda feels that watercolor painting adds an exciting and satisfying dimension to her life.
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Pam Roberts
Media: Jewelry, Painting, Musician
Pam has been drawing and painting since 1972. She has done watercolor, oil, and is now doing pen drawings. She studied with various art professors at Marshall University and Glenville State College and has taken watercolor workshops from various local artists. She apprenticed with a thirty year experienced jewelry maker. She has taught jewelry making, wild flower drawing, and song writing in the local school system and for local organizations. She continues to draw and make jewelry and displays them at Poplar Forest in Flatwoods, WV and at Artists at Work in Elkins, WV.
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Ruth Blackwell Rogers
Media: Oil Painting
Ruth Blackwell Rogers has lived and painted in Randolph County, West Virginia, for over thirty years. She received her BA in Studio Art from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and her MFA in Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has exhibited in more than three dozen solo shows and numerous group shows in museums, colleges, galleries and conferences in the U.S. and abroad. "Why do I paint? For the sheer joy of it. To make visible what I see in my head. To nudge us into using all our faculties to see, perceive, understand. To record the life-force within and around everything. To contribute to the making-whole of the community. To put in physical form my gratitude and prayers for all beings. Because it is what I know how to do." She has been a presenter or keynote speaker at a dozen social work, psychology, and art therapy conferences here and abroad. Since 1992, she and her husband Hugh Rogers have toured her re-telling of the Hopi creation story, entitled “Four Worlds So Far,” in the form of a long scroll. Rogers has taught English as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea, and art at Dana Hall School in Massachusetts. She designed and helped build her studio and the family’s passive solar home. Since the early 1990’s she has been involved in environmental activism. She and her husband have three children and three grandchildren.
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Jeannine M. Romano
Media: Painting
Jeannine Romano enjoys creating portraits that capture a moment in time. The emotions expressed through the subject’s eyes can immediately show what he/she is feeling. She states, “I love to paint ‘ornery’ characters!”
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Thaddeus J. Snodgrass
"Hank", left; "Misty Morning", right
Website: www.thaddeussnodgrass.com
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Dave Shombert
Media: Wood
Dave Shombert is a woodturner who lives in Elkins. His specialty for the past ten years or so has been segmented woodturning, in which the object is first constructed in rough form of many individual pieces of wood, then turned to its final form on the lathe. This allows the use of different species of wood and control of grain orientation, thus adding color and geometric figure to the object. The segmented vase shown here is made of approximately 200 segments. Dave learned the segmented technique from Paul Weinberger of Weston, WV, and enjoys the challenge of achieving the precision that this work requires. Recently, his interests have expanded to include decorative techniques on woodturnings and the use of the lathe as a sculptural tool. He is a member of Tamarack, a gallery for West Virginia artisans, and the Southern Highland Craft Guild, Ashville, NC.
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Debbie Sorensen
Media: Photography
“I’m always on the lookout for something new to photograph four times. After 15 years in business I’m always looking for a new 4 Seasons subject. 2008 brings 2 new collections: (1) Cass, WV Main Street and (2) Valley Falls. So far I have photographed over 18 sites and I’m still looking. “
Email Debbie Sorensen
HC 73 Box 26A, Valley Head, WV 26294
Phone: (304) 339-4239
Website: golddomewv@meer.net
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Brad Stalnaker
Media: Painting & Animation
"Since the age of 4, inspired by his granddad, Brad Stalnaker has been in the art world. A native of Elkins, Stalnaker works as a Motion Graphics Artists at West Virginia University, as well as teaching Digital Filmmaking at The Douglas Educational Center in Monessen, Pennsylvania. After graduating from WVU, he worked at WV Public Broadcasting for 15 years. Stalnaker’s work has been seen in various multi-media outlets (both print and video) in the US and Europe, he has had 4 limited edition prints and was nominated for a 2002 Regional Emmy Award for his animated children’s program THE GRIFFIN AND THE MINOR CANON (which includes an all-star WV cast). Stalnaker enjoys all forms of art and says, “Using pen and ink, a paint brush, a camera, sculpting, writing, directing, working on a monitor or looking through a lens is all the same to me.”
Email Brad Stalknaker
Morgantown, WV
Phone: (304) 672-1009
Websites: bradstalnaker.wordpress.com and www.ropeandboney.com
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Wendy Thurston
Media: Photography
Wendy developed a fascination for photography early in life; compelled to stop hiking, driving or riding her motorcycle to catch that perfect angle or light fall on a mountain. Things from a mud puddle or a twig to vistas of ranges and distance horizons, her passion for recording feelings and thoughts in photographs has only increased. "We have been given such joy to perceive," she said, "and the ability to enjoy it. The world is so big, and so is what is inside each of us. The natural world is a reflection of us, and we of it." Particularly fascinated with nature, it is also the shapes and textures of civilization which catches her eye. She has a BS and MEd from the University of Georgia, has taught Agriculture Education since 1992 and is Nationally Board Certified. She is currently teaching in the Randolph County Public School System.
Email Wendy Thurston
Elkins, WV 26241
Phone: (304) 636-2502
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Vincent James Trimboli
Media: Mixed Medium
Vince is an Elkins local who takes inspiration from local and state wide sky and landscapes. His work strives to show the sky and land's movement through time using specific brush and pencil strokes, and is always interested in visually changing the way the viewer thinks about the traditional horizon line. Vince holds a BA in Theatre Arts from West Virginia Wesleyan, and studied painting and drawing during his studies there. "I continue to attempt new mediums every day, as I feel limiting my artistic journey is comparable to limiting my own breath."
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Doug Van Gundy
Media: Photography, Musician, Writer
While he is best known for his appearance on ABC-TV’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Doug Van Gundy has been writing poems since he was five years old and leading poetry and writing workshops for the past seven years. His poems rooted in his West Virginia heritage while retaining a wide appeal, never veering into the provincial. Doug has presented a paper at the annual Associated Writing Programs (AWP) conference, taught composition to inmates, helped high school teachers integrate writing into their classrooms, led creative writing weekends for university students and worked with poets from age 5 to 75. He also organized and hosted the Augusta Poets Gathering for five years. His work has been published in numerous regional literary magazines and has won second place in both the Eve of Saint Agnes and Lullwater Review competitions. His poems have been included in the anthologies xconnect: Writers of the Information Age, and Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry. He has given readings throughout the East and has appeared on Grace Caveleri’s The Poet and the Poem program on Pacifica radio. A portion of one of his poems has appeared in an ad for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Doug is a tireless teacher of and advocate for poetry. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in poetry from Goddard College in Vermont. Doug has been taking photos since his early teens. He feels that the best photography creates a visual poetry out of the ordinary moments of life and is rooted in the irreproduceableness of a given moment.
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Kenneth D. Waddell
Media: Watercolor Painting
Ken is a twenty-nine year resident of Barbour County. His vocational interests, though now retired, are in the field of education and currently is an adjunct teacher/lecturer of mathematics at Alderson Broaddus College. A member and treasurer of the Seneca Trail Artist Guild, he has participated, helped plan and produce numerous shows for the Mountain State Forest Festival. For the past twelve years he has received Awards of Merit for his oils and watercolors. In 2006 he received the Best of Show Award in the Seneca Trails Spring Art Show and the Purchase Award at the 2003 MS Forest Festival Art Show. In 2005 and 2007 his paintings received Awards of Excellence and Merit in the WV Watercolor Society Shows. His painting, Light, Shadow and Reflection was awarded Best of Show in the All Member Show at the Morgantown Art Association. He is a Juried member of the West Virginia Watercolor Society. Currently, his paintings may be viewed and purchased at Mountain Treasures on Main Street in Philippi. He has produced three one-man shows in cooperation with the Philippi Blue and Grey Reunion, the Belington Laurel Mountain Reenactment and Adaland Historical Preservation site. Each of these shows contained over thirty-five works. His painting, “Wild Flowers of West Virginia”, was selected by the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources to promote its 2004 Operation Wildflower Program of high way beautification. His 16 x 20 inch watercolor was made into an art print, sold and distributed through this agency.
Kenneth D. Waddell
RR 03 One David Avenue
Belington, WV 26250
Phone: (304) 823-1863
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Laurie Warren
Media: Watercolor Painting
Laurie Warren is originally from New York, living in West Virginia since 1999. She has been painting for six years. She lives in Buckhannon with her husband Lee and two children, Jessica and Sky. Laurie believes that in art all avenues should be explored: different techniques, teachers, subject matter, etc. Although she has explored various art media, her favorite is watercolor.
Website: www.warrenwatercolors.com
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Kevin M. Woodcock
Kevin M. Woodcock was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City. After high school, he traveled to West Virginia to visit a friend and was attracted to the area natural beauty. Kevin moved to Morgantown where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University. He met his wife, Mel, in Elkins through mutual friends. Kevin and Mel moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking at Louisiana State University. They moved back to West Virginia in 1989 and currently live in Elkins with their son, Keyder. Kevin was involved in the Artsbank program in its first year and has taught workshops in area elementary schools. Kevin creates his visual artworks in his Elkins studio while also working as print shop manager and assistant to Brad Basil at the Art Medium Company. “When I was young the wilderness seemed like a place of mystery and adventure. This sense of mystery and adventure is still with me when I am creating artwork.”
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Charles Yeater
Media: Painting, Photography
Charles Yeater of Wheeling, WV is a self taught landscape, skyscape artist whose works emphasize texture. Strong investments in process generating near automatic work emotional experiences of the works are primary focus.
