Carolina Brewery comes to Pittsboro
and Chatham Artists Guild is there!

Chatham Artists Guild artists will be featured in an on-going series of exhibits at the new Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro.

Carolina Brewery Art Show
October - November 2010

 Conversations in Color— Two Approaches
Kathleen Jardine and Leslie Palmer


Little Goddesses - Kathleen Jardine


 Journey - Leslie Palmer

Free Meet the Artist Reception Sunday,
November 6, 2010, 4-6 PM

“Conversations in Color— Two Approaches” is the name of a new exhibit featuring artists, Kathleen Jardine and Leslie Palmer, both members of the Chatham Artist Guild. Their work, at the Carolina Brewery and Grill in Pittsboro, can be viewed Oct. 1st through Nov. 27th with a meet-the-artists reception on Sunday, Nov. 6th, from 4 to 6 p.m. The public is invited.

The title, inspired by Jardine’s observation that although she and Palmer use dissimilar approaches in their art, they are both expressing feelings through color.

Palmer agreed, “Showing together for me is uplifting, seeing it work, that we are both having conversations with the viewer and asking them to relate to our work on an emotional level is thrilling.” They agree on another point, neither feel the need to explain what a painting means. “A painting’s power”, according to Jardine, “is in its mystery and strangeness.” Jardine’s radiant realistic paintings present a chaos of details offering many possibilities of meanings. Palmer’s non-objective paintings are independent of visual and intellectual references. Both however, share a spiritual intelligence and beauty.

Kathleen Jardine has exhibited extensively in national and international competitions. Among her many awards are top prizes from jurors who curated for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirschorn Museum, and London’s Tate Gallery. Her beautiful and idiomatic paintings, made mostly from life, are in many fine private, public, and corporate collections. She is a charter member of the Watercolor USA Honor Society and a signature member of the National Watercolor Society. A Native Californian, she lives with her family and animals in the woods outside Chapel Hill, NC. She welcomes commissions and visitors to her studio.

Leslie Palmer studied art at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Art and while still a student, was included in Westminster College’s Alumni Invitational. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally, in both solo and group shows since. She has founded or supported artist groups in Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina, served on the BOD of the Chatham Arts Council, and as President of the Chatham Artists Guild. Leslie has taught drawing and painting in both private and group classes for many years. She is thrilled by the awakening of her student’s creative talent. She lives with her husband among a community of artists, in Fearrington Village, just south of Chapel Hill, NC. Her studio is open by appointment.

The Chatham Artists Guild is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each year, Guild members open their studios to the public through the Chatham Open Studio Tour. Visitors travel throughout lovely rural Chatham County to meet artists in their own workspaces, and share their ideas on art and the creative process. The 19th Annual Open Studio will be held the first two weekends of December 2011.

Carolina Brewery a locally-owned brewery and restaurant, has drawn international attention for its handcrafted beers. Carolina Brewery is equally dedicated to food and its expanding menu, which raises the bar on traditional bar fare. The Chatham Brewery and Grill is located on route 15/501 just north of Pittsboro.

The shows run two months each with an artist Reception
the afternoon of the first Sunday of the second month of the show.

Carolina Brewery is located north of Pittsboro
beside the Lowe's Home Improvement store
at the intersection of 15-501 South and Hwy 64 Bypass.


Click here to view a schedule
of future exhibits

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