Elemental Forms Creating Artwork
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HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - ncarol.com -- Artists Nell Chandler, Ellie Reinhold, and Evelyn Ward chose the title, Elemental Form, for their show, connecting the lines, shapes, and textures in Ward's pottery, the designs etched into the metals of Chandler's jewelry, and the visual inspiration from nature for Reinhold's paintings.

Nell Chandler began as a painter and printmaker. With the gift of a beginning class in jewelry making, she fell in love with metal in her very first class. Eventually Chandler integrated her painting, printmaking and jewelry fabrication into the work she creates today. Over the years she has been exploring new techniques and combines them into her work. Her "narrative" work tells stories filled with recurring figures and symbols. Often the wearer of a piece of her jewelry will share with her a story of their own. Those special moments affirm her choice of medium to share her art with the world.

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Ellie Reinhold's approach to painting is very loose and organic. The spark might be something very small and elemental, a particular color combination, a feeling of distance, of contrast. Reinhold seeks through painting, taking a leap of faith. A painting really develops from the act itself – application of color and line. With each blank canvas, she starts from nowhere with nothing, first adding random color, then random marks. The title of the show – usually chosen long before the work begins – can also be a guiding force.  As she paints, words or phrases come to mind, and she finds her title in these words. For Reinhold the process is one of clarifying. Canvases begin chaotically, unformed, and she seeks the final image through the practice of painting.

This winter Evelyn Ward spent time experimenting with a new palette. Drawn to photos of abandoned factories, with their intersecting and overlapping colors, her new work references lines of the built environment. Loving what the passage of time and effects of weather do to surfaces, Ward is using a technique called mono-print transferring to decorate the surfaces.  She paints slip onto cut pieces of paper and then transfers them onto the pot to create the design. She loves the imperfections that this process leaves on the surface of the pot with the underlying dark clay body showing through, as well as the clean lines she can get from the process.

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Elemental Form, May 27 - June 22, Opening reception May 30, 6-9:00 p.m.

About the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts: Owned and operated by 20 local artists, HGA's offerings include painting, sculpture, pottery, weaving, jewelry, glass, scratchboard, and handcrafted furniture. 121 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278. Phone: (919) 732-5001. The gallery is open 10am-6pm Monday - Saturday, and 12pm-4pm on Sunday. More information can be found on the HGA website: http://www.HillsboroughGallery.com