New from Joy Cafaro

Just in from Joy Cafaro, a local fabric artist - a lovely quilted wall hanging.  This beautiful piece is hand stitched and is about two feet wide by three feet long.  A wonderful accent for your home or office.

New from Jude Stuecker

The Gallery has added some vibrantly colors large coin purses by local fabric artist Jude Stuecker.  These are handy for coins, makeup, cash or the odds and ends in your purse. Colorful designs include dogs, lady bugs, trees and more.

George Bagnall

George learned the art and craft of furniture making as an apprentice to furniture maker/designer Jeffrey Greene in New Hope, PA.  After his apprenticeship he returned to Texas where he works in a one-man shop as a wood turner and funriture maker.

His heirloom baby rattles are handcrafted from a single piece of wood with a safe mineral oil/bees wax finish.  Kernals of Indian corn create the soothing sound of the rattle.  George uses American hard maple, black cherry or black walnut for the wood.

Babies love this organic rattle, designed to be activley used and to display the natural beauty of wood.  The passing of time will only enhance its natural beauty.  The rattle can be a cherished heirloom to be lovingly passed from one generation to the next.

Laura Norris

Laura is a native of Greenville, South Carolina and attended University of Georgia where she recieved a BFA in painting. Feeling passionate about her lifelong love of the arts, she attended Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, completing her Masters in Art Education. After spending summers in Wyoming, Colorado and a year in Montana, Laura was pulled back to the southern mountains of her youth settling in the nationally recognized craft town of Asheville, NC.

Now a full time artisit and mother of three, Laura paints on canvas and wood, sculpts in clay and creates silk screened note cards from hand carved linoleum blocks. When not at home, Laura spends her time in her art studio just a few minutes from downtown Asheville.

The Gallery carries her notecards and small bird paintings on canvas.

Pat Foeller

A native of Connecticut, Pat Foeller moved to the mountains of North Carolina in 1966. She had been an art major as a student and resumed her interest in working with clay in her new home state.

After studying the techniques used in hand building with clay, Pat began creating picture frames and mirrors but the Yankee in her could not let the clay from the openings in her frames go to waste, therefore - pins, boxes, small cylinders and buttons. All her pieces are RAKU fired - an ancient Japanese process.

She shares a a working studio with her husband who is a stained glass artist. Since retireing in 2008, increased studio time has been a joy and she has expanded the types of pieces she makes.

The Gallery carries her lovely frames, buttons and pins.

Mickey Dye-Ishikawa

Mickey's business began accidently with a desire to create a special gift that would express her love, joy and blessings to her son and his wife for their wedding day.  In the testing process, she found out  that everyone could feel the special care and the quality ingredients that went into this creation. Thus began her journey to offer this as her gift to anyone with the desire to feel special and to give something special to someone else.

Mickey's mission is to create products with natural and organic ingredients that will clean the skin and appeal to the senses, made with the highest quality, fair trade, and cruelty free ingredients available. The combination of essential oils and base ingredients produce a great lather and a wonderful aroma with beneficial properties from each ingredient.

She feels her soaps are the finest all-natural and organic fresh goat's milk soaps. Users of her products feel the difference and reap the therapeutic and aromatherapy benefits of the essential oils and quality ingredients used in her products.

Mickey has more than 10 years of knowledge that she has developed from studying natural and organic products and clients needs. She produces all natural and organic, fresh goat's milk soap. These soaps are created with high-quality ingredients that both nourish the skin and provide the benefits of aromatherapy. The soaps contain a vegetable glycerin base, local fresh goat's milk, essential oils, and raw unrefined Shea butter. These soap’s also contain other extracts and oils to soften the skin, protect from the sun, heal and regenerate skin, provide a creamy lather, or to simply prolong the shelf life of the product.