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Welcome to my newly revised website and blog! I will be keeping up with my website with a bit more frequency this year. Let me know what you think of the changes to my site, and whether you are having any difficulty viewing any of the pages.

2008 is shaping up to be a busy year for me. I will be showing with several new galleries beginning in the spring. In New York City, I will be represented by An American Craftsman Gallery, with locations in the Sheraton Manhattan Hotel at 52d Street and 7th Avenue, and also in Rockefeller Center at 60 West 50th Street, and also in An American Craftsman Gallery on Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachussetts.

Additionally, I will be showing at the Ann Jacob Gallery in Highlands, North Carolina beginning in March, 2008.

In July, I will be exhibiting in a two person show at the Artists' House Gallery, in Bryson City, North Carolina. In this show, I plan to create and showcase new works that will celebrate the conservation easement my husband and I recently placed on our 100 acre mountain farm up in Big Ridge, North Carolina. Hopefully, the easement will spur on other landowners in our area to consider placing their land in conservation. For more information on these easements, and on the Land Trust we have been working with, go to the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee.

Also in July, the new season of HGTV's daytime show, That's Clever!, will premiere. I will be in one of the new episodes this season. See HGTV for more information. HGTV is also using the footage of my shoot in another one of its shows, "Design Club with Matt and Shari," which will air somethime this year. More on this later - I will find out the date of the episodes about one month in advance.

In October, I am opening a solo exhibition at Gallery Espresso in Savannah, Georgia. In this show, new works will spolight the plight of the wildlife up in Big Ridge, North Carolina. The overdevelopment of forested lands by large corporations has left the wildlife of the North Carolina mountains few areas in which to live. I will be focusing my work on the places the animals choose to make their dens and nests.

So, needless to say, I am excited about 2008! Thank you for viewing my site - enjoy the pictures!


I am attaching a few photographs and videos of our land up in Big Ridge so you can enjoy scenes that inspire my artwork.



Videos of our waterfalls on Big Laurel Branch and on Robinson Creek


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View of old cabin and pond on our farm at Slatten Creek


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view of Slatten Creek farm from the top of our property on Big Knob


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Bee Balm and Apple Tree on Slatten Pond