Feature Articles

September Issue 2002

Beaufort Art Association Gallery in Beaufort, SC, Features Works by Tina B. Fripp

Tina B. Fripp, well-known Lowcountry printmaker, will be the featured artist at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery in Beaufort, SC. Her exhibit opens Sept. 19 and continues through Nov. 1, 2002.

Fripp may be the most-displayed artist in the Lowcountry. Prints of her pen and ink renditions of historic Savannah, GA, and the Bluffton, SC, area, plus Lowcountry outdoor and wildlife scenes hang in banks, government buildings, resorts, restaurants and shops from Savannah to Charleston, SC, throughout the Carolinas and Georgia and beyond. She designed a whimsical map of Beaufort distributed by the Greater Beaufort Chamber of Commerce to tourists that many take home and frame. The Players' Club Resort on Hilton Head Island, SC, is hanging Tina Fripp art in every single room, not to mention two 4x8-foot murals in the public rooms.

In her 15-year career as a full-time artist, Fripp has sold some 7,000 pieces of art. It may take her 300 hours to finish an original, but because much of her work is distributed as prints, she can keep it affordable. Her art has found its way into serious collections, including that of the senior George Bush. The developer of etch-o-sketch, W.C. Killgallon, has a major collection of Fripps.

This exhibition will emphasize Lowcountry birds, i.e. shorebirds, and a new printing process she is using in which the "plate" is actually a large, flexible, flat piece of erasure material into which she "carves" her drawing with an exacto knife. Each print is hand-pulled and numbered. Frequently she adds color, in ink or transparent watercolor, to the black and white prints.

Born in Charlotte, NC, and raised in Savannah, Fripp's father was a history buff who took her on expeditions to "what must have been every civil war grave in the South". With the help of her father and other historians, she was able to reconstruct on paper destroyed or semi destroyed old buildings such as the old city market and union station. Although some of her early prints are sold out, the images continue to be published on note cards, which are available at the gallery.

The Beaufort Art Association Gallery represents some 75 local artists and highlights a "featured artist" in a special display area. All original art is changed every six weeks.

For additional information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the gallery at 843/379-2222.

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