Artist Stories

Selden Lamoureux grew up in Whippany, New Jersey not far from NYC and had a circuitous route to her Bynum, NC pottery studio. After receiving a degree in anthropology at Boston University, she continued her studies in archaeology in Mexico. “After that, I had my back-to-the-land period, living in the Virginia and Carolina mountains, raising bees and doing occasional […]

“I have always felt compelled to create,” stresses Andrew Wilson. “It gives me energy to create objects for aesthetic and functional use.”  This desire came early. When he was a student at Chatham’s Northwood High, Andrew accessorized with macramé and began to practice photography. Wooden art is now the center of his creative life in […]

Janet Resnik has been in Chatham County since 1967. Her husband took a job with UNC and they moved to a farm with horses. “Our road (Collins Mountain) and Crawford Dairy were dirt roads back then. Ours was not paved until 1992”, says Janet. “I started making pottery and went to a lot of crafts […]

Michael Thompson made the natural transition from managing forests to working with wood grown in them. “I have a degree in forestry. My career focused on teaching people how to recognize what is in their forest and how to better manage it. I spent 31 years in my forestry career here in NC. When I […]

After retiring from a job in New Jersey, Jeff relocated to the area and moved 2 planers, 4 lathes, 2 band saws, a table saw, a jointer and more into a new building housing a 1,500 square foot shop dedicated to woodworking. “I really got going when I moved here. Colleague and fellow guild member […]

Whether her work of art is inspired from a personal photo, a patron’s photo, or as a form of play thru geometric design, Gretchen Niver receives great pleasure creating and sharing her paintings made of glass. “I grew up doing various crafts with my mom, went into Graphic Design in college, and continued doing crafts […]

Doug took his first pottery class while working as a Software Developer after moving to the Triangle area from Florida. And that was when his obsession with clay began. Starting with selling pottery at street fairs, he moved on to rent a pottery studio space from one of his teachers in Durham. Then, after a […]

Beginning in second grade, William Moore made a clay lion. He immediately realized that if he drew a picture, he could make it better out of clay. And so it began– digging clay up in the back yard and “cooking” it in the household oven. He started taking lots of summer classes, riding his bike […]

The first time Colleen worked with clay on a wheel was in 1989 at Pottery 7 in San Francisco, located near Golden Gate Park. Her earliest clay memory was as a child making a mold of her horse’s footprint from the earth in the dug out. “I’ve come a long way from those early mold-making […]

Annabelle Stein started out making little clothes out of felt for her troll dolls in pre -school.  By junior high, she was sewing all her own clothes. She went to art school in Oakland, California, then moved to Oregon and continued her work there. Eventually returning to California, she earned a BFA in Textile Studio […]

“Artists seem to like my work more than photographers do,” quips Eric Saunders, who lives and creates in Fearrington Village. Saunders’ images appear to represent the literal meaning of photography – drawing with light. “My studio is actually wherever I am taking pictures,” he notes. “I am trying to create compositions that are calming and […]