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Downtown’s Gallery One to open painting, pottery exhibits
Gallery One will open two exhibits this Friday, Sept. 1, during a reception from 7 until 9 p.m.
Painter Pam Haddock and potters Joe Frank McKee, Travis Berning, Brant Barnes, Laurey-Faye Long and George Rector will be the featured artists.
Haddock’s watercolors, based on local scenes, will be at the gallery during September and October. Her impressionistic style takes advantage of the best properties of watercolor and is characterized by brilliant colors and liberal use of pigment on traditional 140-pound, cold-press watercolor paper, 300-pound watercolor paper and illustration board.
The watercolors of local artist Pam Haddock will be on display at Gallery One through October. To celebrate the exhibit’s opening, there will be a reception at the gallery on Friday, Sept. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. Ten percent of any sales of her work during the exhibit will be donated to the Community Table.
The pottery of Joe Frank McKee is part of a five-potter exhibit that opens at Gallery One on Friday, Sept. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. Entertainment at the opening event will be by string players Cathy Arps of Sylva and her mother, Mary Henigbaum.
Haddock and her family have lived in Jackson County since 1989. She has been painting exclusively in watercolor for the past 16 years.
Her work is regularly featured at the Golden Carp in Dillsboro and at the Balsam Mountain Inn. She is a member of Jackson County Visual Arts, The Highlands Art League and Blue Ridge Watermedia Society.
Haddock recently had a painting accepted into the N.C. Watercolor Society Show, which will open in Rocky Mount in October.
Along with those accolades, she has received first place and people’s choice awards through exhibits hosted by the Bascom Louise Gallery in Highlands; ribbons for people’s choice at the Highlands Art Leagues Fall Color show; and Artist’s choice at the Highlands Art League’s Summer Color show.
She has regularly donated works to raise funds for local charitable organizations participating in the Haywood County Quick draw and raffles that benefited the Jackson County Community Table and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center at Harris Regional Hospital.
Ten percent of sales generated by her work in this show will be donated to the Jackson County Community Table.
The pottery exhibition includes the craft work of five Jackson County potters. McKee, Berning, Long, Barnes and Rector demonstrate a wide variety of styles, glazes, forms and decoration in the pottery and continue a long tradition of clay pottery in Western North Carolina.
Refreshments will be served, and music will be provided by string players Cathy Arps of Sylva and her mother, Mary Henigbaum.
Friday’s reception will coincide with a downtown art stroll, also from 7 to 9 p.m. Other participaing galleries are It’s by Nature and Penumbra.
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