New Home + Art Tour - Featured Artists

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The New Home + Art Tour is proudly brought to you by

about the tour The Linda Matney Gallery is dedicated to hosting exhibitions of innovative emerging artists, as well as displaying the work of more established national and international artists, including works of painting, installation, video, photography, sculpture and performance.

The primary concern of The Linda Matney Gallery is to exhibit the work and ideas of the most significant artists of our time.

Liz Moore and Associates is not your average real estate company.

Our mission is to deliver an extraordinary experience to our clients, and we do that by hiring the best and the brightest agents and support staff, training relentlessly, and committing to constantly reinvent our company to insure the highest level of service.

Why new homes and art you may ask? Artists throughout our community are always searching for venues in which to display their talent. The bare walls of new homes offer the perfect venue for them to do so. And in many ways, these beautiful newly constructed masterpieces are in themselves a work of art.

We invite you to enjoy each stop. Take advantage of the opportunity to meet and learn more about the talented craftspeople who are your neighbors. Explore each home and feel free to ask questions of the real estate professionals who are hosting. Sample wonderful wines and light refreshments along the way.

Liz Moore

John Lee Matney

President Liz Moore & Associates

Owner & Principal Linda Matney Fine Art Gallery

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109 Fords colony drive Stunning 3540 square foot design is exclusive for Southern Living by Gary/Ragsdale Architects and was built as a Showcase Home by Wayne Harbin, Builder. Offered for sale as you see it for $875,000. Wayne Harbin Builder could build this home on your lot, without all the bells and whistles for around $605,000. Other plans are also available.

Hosted by

Rebekah Brewster REALTOR速

757-272-8981 rebekahbrewster@lizmoore.com

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153 Fords Colony Drive Spectacular new construction by Stephen Alexander Homes. The Blue River Cottage showcases early 1900’s Colonial Revival architecture paired with an open, bright, exciting floor plan featuring a first floor master suite, gourmet kitchen, 3 season rear porch with EZ Breeze window system and fabulous custom trim work throughout. Offered at $773,900.

Hosted by

Susan Krancer REALTORÂŽ

757-784-0363 golfproperties@cox.net

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104 Eaglescliffe This brand new 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 3124 square foot home was constructed by award winning Marquee Builders. The spectacular open floor plan offers first floor living with a second floor bonus room. Upgraded appliances and custom features can be found throughout. Located in the Eaglescliffe neighborhood. Offered at $625,000.

Hosted by

Deelyn Donnelly Neilson REALTOR速

757-503-1999 deelyn@lizmoore.com

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100 Edenbridge Beautifully appointed 4 bedroom, 2 full & 2 half bath all brick home features a spectacular open plan with over 2000 square feet on the main level including a first floor master. Elegant custom details including coffered ceilings & trim by local master craftsman. Energy efficient 2x6 exterior wall construction & EnviroDri weather barrier system. Offered at $618,000.

Hosted by

Dave Grech REALTOR速

757-345-8881 davegrech@lizmoore.com

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117 Seminole 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2858 square foot home by award winning Hallmark Builders. Spectacular open floor plan offering first floor living with a second floor bonus room. Home features upgraded appliances and custom features throughout! Covered front porch and low maintenance back deck overlook private, wooded setting. Offered at $589,200.

Hosted by

John Womeldorf REALTOR速

757-254-8136 John@MrWilliamsburg.com

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158 Blackheath Brand new 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, 3410 square foot home by award winning Hallmark Builders. Spectacular open floor plan offering first floor living with a second floor bonus room. Home features upgraded appliances and custom features throughout. Screened porch and low maintenance back deck overlook the golf course in Killarney. Offered at $749,000.

Hosted by

Jennifer Brown REALTOR速

757-876-2496 jenniferbrown@lizmoore.com

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

Bob Carlson Bob has been a practicing artist for over 40 years, exhibiting throughout the mid-Atlantic region. He enjoys the directness and process of easel painting, choosing images to paint as much for their formal qualities as their subject matter. A common element in his work is the exploration of the effects of light, particularly as it plays upon and through water or glass, and on various surfaces. He enjoys the process of creating, the production of an object that may bring satisfaction or a new perspective to its viewer, and sharing his work with others. This provides his motivation to paint. His art opens him up to those who see it, and he hopes that revelation is both a pleasurable and expanding one. His work is primarily in oil, although he also paints in acrylic, when he ventures out of the studio to do plein air paintings on an inviting day.

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

Gloria Coker

Gloria Coker was an illustrator for the Daily Press newsroom for twelve years before pursuing her career as a professional fine artist. Her loose and vivid acrylics and oils capture her feelings about people of all ages as they engage in their passions and everyday activities. She displays her art in galleries in Virginia, North Carolina and California. Ms. Coker’s art is in many collections throughout the US and Europe, including Ernie Els, JoAnn Falletta, Tom Clancy and Fuzzie Zoeller. She has taught classes in watercolor at CNU, TNCC, and Peninsula Fine Art Center and through UV continuing education. Her awards are numerous. Although her academic background includes a BA in psychology and a Masters in Counseling from William and Mary, she now devotes full time to her art.

She has two grown children and lives in Virginia with her husband.

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TOM FRANCIS

Wisconsin born artist Tom Francis is a Professor of Painting at SCAD-Atlanta. He received his B.S., M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Painting from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Francis’ paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The High Museum of Art in Atlanta; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art in Alabama; the Georgia Museum of Fine Art in Athens; the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina; the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi; Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta; Sylvia Schmidt Gallery in New Orleans; KLIM Galleries in Toronto, Canada; and the Chapelle de la Sorbonne in Paris; Refectoire des Jacobins in Toulouse, France; and Palazzo Venezia in Rome. In addition, his work is in numerous private, public and corporate collections.

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

Christi Harris

In these works, I am exploring imagery about domesticity through traditional “women’s work”.

I am incorporating sewing and embroidery in addition to traditional collage and mixed media work. I am fascinated by vintage women’s magazines and their representation of women. There is always a ring on her finger, and she is always smiling while pontificating on the gloriousness of a new cleaning product or household invention. The historical placement of these ads contradicts many social issues, such as women in the workplace, harassment, birth control, children conceived out of wedlock, spousal abuse, incest, and rape. I am interested in the inherent contradictions of a “happy housewife” in any era and especially the continuity of these expectations within our society. It seems no matter how much things change, they stay the same.

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

Rob Hunter Rob Hunter has over 30 years of professional experience in prehistoric and historical archaeology. He was a founding partner in the business PERIOD DESIGNS, an innovative firm specializing in the reproduction of 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts. Since 2001, he has been editor of the annual journal, Ceramics in America. Mr. Hunter lectures widely and has written for a variety of antique and historical publications. Although he has been involved in photography since childhood, it was not until 2010 that he purchased an SLR digital camera (Canon 5d Mark IIi) and a Leica d-lux 3 pocket camera. Since then he has won several awards, most notably the annual Scenic Virginia Landscape contest. His photos are regularly published by local newspapers. He has had several exhibits of his photography.

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Martha Jones Martha T. Jones, a resident of Williamsburg, VA, became a full-time artist after a career as a university instructor teaching courses in Greek and Roman language and culture at the College of William and Mary and elsewhere.

Jones’ artwork seeks to be fundamentally modern and at the same time draws on an understanding of the classical art of the ancient Mediterranean region. Jones’ paintings are abstract and tend toward the large-scale; the color schemes that stress a pink form and a red line, the comic tone and the monumental scale of the work show the influence of the late work of the New York school painter Philip Guston.

In her sculptures, Jones is interested in seeing what results when she puts together objects that refer to antiquity, to nature, to personal memory and to childhood in the context of newly antiquated technologies.

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

Tobin Karicher Tobin Garth Karicher produces fine art paintings and drawings out of his studio in Union Hill within the city of Richmond, VA. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1979.

Tobin has exhibited work in London, New York City, Middleburg, VA, and Washington, DC, and received awards in shows at VCU, Crossroads Art and Art Works - all in Richmond. His work is held in private collections in Virginia, New York City, and Washington, DC. “I began working with the idea of atmospheric painting around 2000. They were a departure from the traditional landscape paintings that I had been doing. I felt there was more freedom to actually work and experiment with the paint without the constrictive nature of structural references. I also feel that they are far more nuanced and have an ethereal element due to lighting, mist allusions and a selective palette.�

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katherine KNOWLES “I have always enjoyed getting lost. Painting gives me the opportunity to go on an adventure and drive down unknown roads. I am interested in capturing a moment in a landscape. I relish in the sounds and smells around me. My recent work is influenced by my love of the water.�

Katherine Mitchell Knowles grew up outside of Atlanta and spent many years in Savannah and Athens. She received a BFA in Painting from SCAD in 1999 and an MAT in Art Education from Piedmont College in 2004. She has been teaching art for 10 years. She has traveled across the county and throughout Europe. She spends her summers along the Florida and North Carolina coasts. Katherine enjoys spending time with her husband and two super children. She is currently living in North Georgia.

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KENT KNOWLES Kent Knowles was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 5, 1975. The son of an Air Force Chaplain, he grew up traveling around the world, exhibiting an interest in art at an early age.

While attending high school in Europe, Kent was introduced to the large-scale figurative paintings of the Old Masters. His current work reflects an interest in the technical aspects of traditional painting as well as the expressive qualities of figure, pattern and design in contemporary art.

In addition to working as a visual artist, Kent is a screenwriter, filmmaker and author of the children’s book Lucius and the Storm (Red Cygnet Press, 2007). His current work reflects an interest in the technical aspects of traditional painting as well as the expressive qualities of figure, pattern and design in contemporary art. Kent Knowles’ creations can only be described as mesmerizing.

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Paul Light Jr Abstract artist Paul Light Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Before earning his MFA in painting at SCAD-Atlanta in 2012, Light had an extensive business career as a graphic artist and product designer. It was in these years that he met and was mentored and greatly influenced

by Paul Chelko, a well-respected artist and philosopher. Light earned a BFA in Animation and opened a small painting studio at Tula Art Center in Atlanta. Upon earning his MFA in Painting at SCAD Atlanta, Light returned to Tula Art Center and opened a new studio. Light’s work is currently shown at Mason Murer Fine Art and Besharat Contemporary – both in Atlanta. He has been in a number of group and solo exhibitions in and around Metro Atlanta. Light’s work is held in private collections in Atlanta, Virginia and New York City and in and in public collections such as the SCAD Permanent Collection.

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Helen Lowery The painting process itself is largely intuitive with each decision being made, at least in part, as a response to the decision that came before it.

Painting is a way to share my unique perspective as informed by life experience. Through painting, I aspire to engage others through the subject of children, through the pattern of the brushwork, and through the selection of color. I aspire to communicate movement, growth, change, transition, vibrancy, youth and newness. I depict experiences and scenarios that anyone can identify with and reflect upon. I look for moments that will resonate with many ideas: childhood, parenthood, womanhood, innocence, mischief, chaos, and life in or out of balance. I am drawn to images that tell a story about the person depicted - a narrative that pushes the image beyond portraiture.

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JAYSON LOWERY

Much of my work is about form and structure as metaphor for contemplating the human experience. I enjoy looking at how things are put together. Observing the anatomy, construction, or constitution of an object gives insight into how it functions and how it influences our lives. A city’s overall form, its larger buildings and infrastructure especially, are indicators of what is important to a society.

I often think about how these structures could be interpreted, or misinterpreted, if our culture were being excavated like Pompeii or Herculaneum. We attribute much of what we unearth of ancient cities as having to do with the spiritual lives of the people who built and occupied them. If our large industrial complexes are looked at as temples, who or what are our gods?

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John Lee Matney

Lee has experience with curation and consulting for investment art, business forensics as it applies to programs management, and consulting for editorial fashion and art business in addition to his work as a photography professional, fine art photographer and multimedia artist.

Standout projects in Williamsburg include 2013’s Art House on City Square which featured 22 contemporary Southern artists at the Stryker Building, “Lost Horseshoes” 2014 at the Municipal Building, and various exhibits at Linda Matney Gallery featuring contemporary artists and professors from William and Mary and elsewhere. Also noteworthy is the X-Radiance exhibition curated by WM’s Lita Tirak, which Matney facilitated, that featured works by internationally recognized artists who use X-Ray technology in their process.

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LINDA MITCHELL

Mitchell received an MFA in painting from the University of Georgia in 1990, and an MFA in sculpture from Georgia State University in 1994.

A collage class that Mitchell took near the end of graduate school became a real impetus in her developing a personal visual language.

Collage allowed her to combine her impulse for image-making with her sculptural facility. Linda Mitchell has exhibited her paintings extensively with her solo exhibitions including those at Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, Radford University Museum, Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City, FL, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, The Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK, Tinney + Cannon Contemporary, Nashville, Mason Murer Fine Art and One Twelve non-profit Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Georgia State University, and the Metropolitan Arts Council, Birmingham, AL.

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

bob oller Williamsburg based artist Bob Oller creates in water colors, acrylics, graphite and vector paintings.

His creative mind and prolific energy has filled his studio, art galleries and collector’s walls with art from Williamsburg, Paris, the Caribbean, Cuba.... Bob Oller, born in Western Kentucky, raised in Central Florida, and a resident of Williamsburg, Virginia for over 30 years was trained in fine arts, graphic design and illustration at the University of Central Florida. He has spent his life focused on creating images for the commercial and fine arts world .… A sense of color and a passion for engaging art is his signature. ”It’s not the media but the creative mind that draws your eye... My hope is that my art tells a story you love and engages your imagination, allowing you to add creative details...connecting you to the art. I hope you enjoy.”

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KRISTEN LIED PEYTON I grew up in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA and began creating art at a very young age. In fact, it was my nanny, Agnus, who first had the inclination that I would grow up to be an artist. She told my parents that I had the natural knack for color and innate artistic talent.

Throughout my childhood and formative years, I learned the fundamentals of painting at an after-school art studio and there, I fell in love with art from observation. I further developed my body of work at the College of William and Mary where I studied Studio Art and Latin American Studies. Now, I live in Williamsburg, splitting my time between creating art and serving teens with special needs through a ministry called Capernaum. I hope the moments captured in my work, encourage you to pause and consider the nuance of beauty found in our world.

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Neil Rough

The recipient of multiple Canada Council and New Brunswick Arts grants, Neil Rough lives and works in Halifax Nova Scotia and Sackville New Brunswick. His photographs are part of The Canada Council Art Bank collection, and he exhibits regularly throughout Canada. �I photograph so that I may learn something that perhaps I didn’t know before, a means of articulating a feeling or a hunch; an opportunity to look at something a little longer, to hold time in my hands. I have no agenda other than to understand the world I live in and the desire to have my voice be part of that dialog. I believe less in photographs than in the role photographers have, like any other artist, in shaping a vision that is both personal and universal.�

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Art Rosenbaum Art Rosenbaum, born in 1938 in Ogdensberg, NY, is a painter, muralist, and illustrator. He earned his MFA in Painting at Columbia University and has worked in France on a Fulbright in Painting; he also has a Fulbright Senior Professorship in Germany. Among his exhibitions was the Corcoran’s 41st Biennial of American Painting, and his works are in many collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Columbus (GA) Museum. He has executed mural commissions at the UCLA School of Law and the Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia. His solo show in 2000 at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York was reviewed in Art in America. He is Wheatley Professor in Fine Arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia and in 2003 was a recipient of a Governor of Georgia’s Award in the Humanities.

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BOB SPEELMAN Bob is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ending up in Northern Virginia where he retired. He discovered photography when he purchased a Nikon F at a “swap meet� in Pennsylvania and became engaged by the technique and mechanics of the camera, a perfect combination of mechanical and artistic endeavor. Digital photography has since become his focus with trips across the country to experience different light and form.

Landscapes and objects started to have a more abstract quality, taking on more surreal qualities than the object itself presented, and becoming another statement. Black and white photography is his main love, but nature always amazes him with her colors and shapes, especially in Montana and New Mexico as shown by his photos taken in those locations.

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Jeff Surace The nature around me is an Appalachian landscape. There is a deep mystery to the mountains that keeps me connected. It’s face seems simple but shows true depth through constant contact. It’s challenged me more than most subjects I’ve explored. After creating art about this area for over seven years, I still see something new with every painting. This comes from seeing the ground as a narrative. I believe from this view is how to experience and interpret this terrain. I create large canvases in my studio where I manipulate images to increase feeling of an area.

I also travel and paint on location at times. The pieces from locations reveal an intimate reality to the subject being painted allowing insight into my studio works. In the end, the thing I seek is drama from an area I know and love.

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ANIL THAMBAI Anil did his graduation in painting from Trivandrum College of Art, Kerala University, and Master’s from the Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda, MS University. Taking recourse to historic imageries, his painterly framework and video art creations- constructed, and deconstructedattempt to transcend conflicts of time, space, and social stratification. The young artist, whose work has already been collected and exhibited in several shows across India, lives and works in Baroda. “Images of reversal twist my creative energy of ‘a carnival sense of world’. In my works, the images of reversal symbolize ideal of rethinking: finding multiple levels of meaning in images. The outrageous and contradictory images that make up carnival ambivalence require the activity of rethinking.”

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ATTENDING ARTIST!

Tom Wessells

I was born in Virginia in 1944. My father designed and built houses when I was a child. He was gifted at building complicated, period furniture reproductions. From this exposure, I developed a passionate interest in furniture design. We shared this interest until his death in 1982. I was fortunate to attend Penland School of Crafts. I also attended a week long course in furniture at Berea College conducted by Sam Maloof. I am a member of The American Crafts Council, The Furniture Society, The James Renwick Alliance, The Piedmont Crafts Guild, and The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, where I served on the board and as a guest curator. Since 1969 I have run Tom Wessells Furniture a business dedicated primarily to design and construction of one of a kind and limited production studio furniture. My work has been in museums and galleries annually since I began.