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June Issue 2003
Waterfront Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Martha "Mott" Kornahrens
Martha
Sutcliff Kornahrens is the featured artist for June at the Waterfront
Gallery in Charleston, SC. Her current works are entitled Special
Times-Special Places. "Mott" Kornahrens has been
drawing and painting since her childhood. A former nurse practitioner,
she left her nursing career to pursue her love of art. In the
eighties, she began taking formal art lessons from various instructors.
The things she learned from her first instructor, Dong Kingman
of San Francisco, still influence her work today. As her art career
expanded, Kornahrens began taking additional instruction from
locally and nationally known artists. However, after taking collage
classes from Gerald Brommer of California and Polly Hammett of
Texas, she fell in love with the medium and began to adapt it
to her own special style. Kornahrens' subject matter is mostly
people in various situations that amuse or fascinate her and collage
seems to express this best.
Kornahrens says, "Art doesn't imitate life; it relives it. It triggers a memory of some moment in time to share, especially the good, the warm and the wonderful. My paintings elicit a smile from my audience and this is what I like."
All of Kornahrens' paintings are signed simply "Mott," the name she is most known by and that fits her whimsical style.
For more info check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/722-1155 or at (www.waterfrontartgallery.com).
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