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June Issue 2003
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, Features Works by Ernie Howard and Steven Forbes deSoule
In the Spirit of Red is to open at Summit One Gallery, Highlands, NC, on June 28, featuring paintings by Ernie Howard and pottery by Steven Forbes deSoule. The exhibit will continue through July 23, 2003.
Ernie Howard
Ernie
Howard is a self-taught artist. Born in rural Louisiana, he later
lived in the magnificent desert and mountain regions of the American
Southwest. Those vistas provided an unending array of artistic
inspiration. His abstract and folk inspired paintings show a dramatic
fascination with Pueblo Indian and Hispanic art and religion.
Howard started his art career more than twenty years ago with
a series of pen-and-ink drawings which were mostly rendered within
the confines of a circle, a tribute to Native American ideas of
the Sacred Circle. He works primarily in acrylic, watercolor and
pastel on paper and canvas. Having lived in Asheville, NC, for
more than a decade, his abstract paintings now reflect search
for excellence, beauty and harmony. "My art ought to challenge,
to provoke, to embrace, and to break new ground - to push ever
outward the magic and wonderful circle of life."
Howard's
work has been selected for many private and corporate collections
and has been exhibited in galleries in North Carolina, Tennessee
and Georgia.
Steven Forbes deSoule
Steven Forbes deSoule worked in the corporate world for a few years, only to discover that life wasn't for him. After a weekend visit to Atlanta, GA, (that kept him there for twenty years) he found his creative self. He returned to school and received his Masters of Visual Arts, with a major in ceramics from Georgia State University. For six years he was the Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA; also having taught at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; the Odyssey Center for Ceramics, Asheville, NC; Metchosin Summer School for the Arts, Victoria, BC, Canada; Pots and Paint, Los Cabos, Mexico; John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC; Studio of the Woods, KY; East Tennessee State University and Georgia State University.
deSoule has recently developed a new, unique surface which he calls "halo/opal" glaze. Wherever light strikes this reticulated surface it seems to radiate from a point, creating a halo. Glaze expert, Robin Hopper suggested that he had created a "simulated opal", hence the name "halo/opal". He found he could duplicate this effect only if he Raku fired the ware multiple times and at different temperatures. Since the glaze contains both copper and silver, each piece is truly unique and exhibits a wide range of colors. "Philosophically," de-Soule says, "the wheel successfully requires a high degree of control. As the pieces move toward completion, however, this control over them becomes less conscious and more spontaneous. The raku firing is the ultimate test of achieving this balance, when my relationship with the pottery is caught in an intimate embrace between conscious action and the strong, yet subtle forces of the fire and smoke."
de-Soule's
work has been featured in publications: Ceramics Monthly magazine,
May 1985 and books: Ceramics Specturm, Clay and Glazes for the
Potter and Throwing on the Potter's Wheel.
For more info check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call
the gallery at 828/526-2673 or e-mail to (summitonegallery@aol.com).
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