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September Issue 2006
Mooresville Artist Guild in Mooresville, NC, Offers Retrospective by Cotton Ketchie
The Mooresville Artist
Guild is featuring a retrospective show by nationally known watercolorist
and Mooresville native, Cotton Ketchie, on view from Sept. 1 -
26, 2006, at the Depot Fine Arts Gallery in Mooresville, NC.
Ketchie began his career as an artist 25 years ago. At that time, he was a menswear buyer for Belk Department Store. During sales meetings, he would sketch on his sales books and co-workers would take the covers and have them framed. During this time he was also sketching original pencil drawings of friend's homes to supplement his income - the growing demand for his work soon launched his career. Today Ketchie's works can be found in collections throughout Europe, Asia, the United States, and Canada including the private collections of the former Governor of North Carolina, Jim Martin and the former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles. Ketchie was selected as the featured artist for the 2004 NC Governor's Conference on Tourism.
The Mooresville-Lake Norman Exchange Club established a "Cotton Ketchie Arts Festival" in 2004 to honor him for the contribution that he has made to the arts and to recognize other artisans and their works. The proceeds from the Festival help fund the SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now) Center of Iredell County. Ketchie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Child Abuse Prevention Center of Iredell County and a District Director for the NC District Exchange Club. He also serves on the local Wachovia Bank Board of Directors, is an active Rotarian and a Paul Harris Fellow and is a 2001 recipient of the coveted Long Leaf Pine Award bestowed on our outstanding North Carolina citizen by its Governor.
Ketchie's Landmark Galleries, Inc. is home to Ketchie's work. From the beginning he chose Landmark Galleries as the name for his gallery. "I feel an obligation to preserve our landmarks and our heritage through my paintings" he explains. His works include lighthouses of North Carolina and Maine, scenes from the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway and Appalachian Mountains of NC, local and state landmarks, as well as, beautiful florals.
For further info
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery
at 704/663-6661 or at (www.mooresvilleartistguild.com).
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