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June Issue 2004
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, Offers Works by Pan Goodhand, Mary Ellen Suitt and Maxine Tatreau
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, is pleased to present two new artists and one that has shown previously, in a show on view from July 2, 2004. The exhibit includes works by Pan Goodhand, Mary Ellen Suitt and Maxine Tatreau.
Pan Goodhand offers a fresh, exciting twist to glass. She is not just another "stained glass craftsman". She composes her pieces using fused and slumped glass. Her work depicts everything from abstract pieces in frames that hang, to trees and birds, to funky "art house" cats. Goodhand first became interested, and thus learned the art, through her husband in 1984. She later became a student in glass fusion under Carol Mason, and sold fused glass jewelry in boutiques across central Ohio.
Goodhand has designed dozens of stained glass windows and panels for residents at the Cliffs of Glassy, and showed at the Upstairs Gallery, Simply Irresistible, and Grove Arcade Building in Asheville, NC, in past holidays.
Mary Ellen Suitt resides in Spartanburg, SC. She received formal training at Stratford College and Ringling School of Art and Design; did post graduate work through Converse College and University of Arizona. She spent 31 years as a cartographer with US Department of Soil Conservation, drawing maps of countries for the Army and Air Force. She has traveled all over the world and studied with various well-known artists across the US. Suitt is also founder, charter member, and past president of the Artist Guild of Spartanburg, SC; and is a member of the South Carolina and Georgia Watercolor Society, and various other organizations.
Suitt uses both opaque and transparent paints on painted paper, in an array of bold colors. She is famous for her "blue people series". Suitt says, "blue people are universal - they remove any identity" Her paintings are full of whimsy - people on the beach, on the water, on park benches, staring at the moon. And always, full of color, light and shadow, and incredible depth. Recently, Suitt has expanded her portfolio to include landscapes impressionistic in style and color, and abstracts, brilliant with motion and color.
Maxine Tatreau hails from Nebraska/Iowa, but moved to Hendersonville, NC, with her husband in 1997. She has studied with many nationally known instructors. Tatreau works in abstract and traditional styles, and her medium is all across the board. She works with acrylics, watercolor, oils, pen and ink., linoleum block printing, charcoal, oil pastels, and then mixes any and all of these mediums to create stunning, brilliantly colored pieces that are full of imagination.
Tatreau says, "Sometimes I just wake up with an idea and I have to go put it on paper while the thought is still with me."
Tatreau is a prolific artist, and has work on display in professional offices and several private collections in the US and other countries. Her work has been in galleries in Nebraska and Iowa, Kansas, Hendersonville and Salisbury, NC, and Conn Gallery in Landrum.
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