Anderson Artist Guild member Yvonne Park wanted to share her passion for plein air painting with others. Two years ago, she posted a message on Facebook asking if anyone was interested in forming a group. “No response,” she said. But last year, in a blog post about artistic New Year’s resolutions on the AAG website, she noticed that two members wanted to explore plein air. One of them was her friend Sue West, so Yvonne called her, and from that seed grew the Tri-County Plein

A Navy brat, new Anderson Artists Guild member grew up along the East Coast of the U.S., attending 12 different schools in 12 years. “It was difficult,” she said. “I had no high school reunion, no close friends.” But after high school, she continued to travel as a TWA flight attendant. Her goal was to go every place her dad had gone in the service and to take her parents with her on buddy passes. The three of them did just that on trips throughout Europe. One abiding interest

New Anderson Artists Guild member Alison Mays was the family athlete while growing up in Rhode Island. She swam and sailed, and at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, she competed on the volleyball and tennis teams. Her major was physical therapy, a choice influenced by her own sports injury during high school as well as a touching experience attending the Special Olympics as an exchange student in Denmark. The physical therapy field, she decided, “was a combination of

Art has been a mainstay in new Anderson Artists Guild member Pam Brock’s life. As a child, she’d sit at the window in her home in Alexandria, Virginia, and draw the houses she saw across the street. After her family relocated to Greenville, S.C., for her dad’s job with Southern Railroad, she attended Furman University, majoring in art. Then she taught junior high art for four years. She also later operated a children’s boutique called Butterflies and Bullfrogs on Antrim Drive