In -Town Art Gallery's 35th Anniversary Show

 

Please drop in and see the beautiful and creative artwork of fine artist Sandra Baker-Hinton. I really enjoyed a trip to her studio gallery while vacationing on Amelia Island. She kindly asked me and my wife to go with her on a sea turtle excursion which I sure wish I could’ve went on but I was leaving early that morning. Good luck with your show Sandra and thank you everyone for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art for a browse.

This is the painting I sent to represent my work which has changed considerably since I moved 7 years ago from North Georgia, just beside Chattanooga, to Amelia Island and opened a studio in Fernandina Beach. The painting represents both my life here with its brighter colors on canvas rather than watercolor, a major part of what I do now but it still has that familiar profile of Lookout Mountain which I spent 35 years looking at across the valley. I had to give up my membership in the gallery because it was a co-operative gallery and you can’t do your part if you live 8 hours away.

From this gallery I gained the experience to confidently run my own gallery on Amelia Island. My children were only little guys when I started this endeavor with some friends, some of which are no longer with us.  Vivian Hixson and Jackie Mattox I know have passed on as well as several others who joined us later. It started out as a small endeavor in a town which had very few opportunities for artists to show their work and after moving for the third time has flourished in a great part of town. I helped with making it what it is and it’s something which I am proud to have been a part.

The show opening will start at 5 pm on Friday Evening at 26A Frazier Avenue in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the In-Town Gallery and I hope to see all my dear North Georgia and Chattanooga friends there.

One of my art friends sent me a letter that fine artist Sandra Baker-Hinton sent her so I thought I would pass it along for those in the greater Chattanooga, Tennessee area to enjoy.

Friday September 11, 2009 I will be in Chattanooga for a momentous event, the 35th anniversary of In-Town Gallery, a gallery which 12 of us founded that many years ago.