Three Anderson Artists Guild members had works accepted into the Hart Regional Arts Council’s 25th Annual Juried Art Show, which opened June 13 and runs through August 3 at The Art Center in Hartwell, Georgia. The members are Diana Walter, Rebecca Carruth, and Louise Bisso. Walter won the Best in Show Award in the two- and three-dimensional category for her piece View from the Bleachery (mixed media). “The inspiration was a photograph I took of a section of windows on one of

Three members of the Anderson Artists Guild are represented in the 2019 South Carolina Watermedia Society Spring Digital Show, which can be viewed at https://scwatermedia.com/scws-2019-digital-show/. Rebecca Carruth’s piece is called Dusty Ride. “My inspiration was a young man sitting beside me at a concert, Samuel Crane,” she said. “He told me he was a bull rider and he was going to be famous one day. The painting was from his profile picture on Facebook. (I contacted him an

When retirees Diane Mitchell and her husband moved from West Virginia to Pickens, South Carolina, it was the weather and the mountains that drew them. But she was also looking to recreate the artistic community she had enjoyed in Lewisburg, West Virginia. “There was so much going on in the way of art galleries and so many artists living there,” she said. “I was in a group, The Greenbrier Artists, with up to 95 people meeting weekly for socialization, free-paint days, and work

Linda Parker has witnessed a miracle. After she and her husband, Dennis, a Navy veteran, moved to South Carolina in 2001, he became so sick with pancreatic cancer that chemotherapy was not an option. They moved back to be near family in Indiana, where Dennis was in hospice with only weeks to live. Linda did some research on herbs and started giving him Essiac tea three times a day. “He started getting better and better,” she said. “The hospice nurse called me a year later and