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The 2016 annual Open Studio Tour of Henderson County, NC will be held the third weekend of September 17-18, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. This free, self-guided tour features 36 fine art and craft studios throughout Henderson County, Artist’s studios will be open for visits with plenty of artwork to view and to purchase. Many of the studios will host multiple artists to lend variety at those stops. Over 60 artists will offer original works in painting, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, fiber and metal arts, photography, woodworking and glass. Five art corridors fan out from the center of Hendersonville and include the towns of Flat Rock, Tuxedo, Horse Shoe, Etowah, Mills River, Laurel Park and the Kanuga/Crab Creek area. Guide brochures with directions can be found at the Henderson County Travel and Tourism Center, downtown Hendersonville, and at various outlets throughout Henderson County and online at OpenStudioTourHC.com
Returning to the tour this year is well known artist, Janet Green Jacobson. She will be in her home studio, #7 on the tour. Working primarily with oil and acrylic, her art conveys a love of the land developed from living in the mountains of North Carolina all her life. She continues to find limitless inspiration from nature and its ever changing pallet. A professional artist for over forty years, Janet’s work has evolved from detailed realism to a more contemporary, stylized art form – a creative process of imaginative concept rather than analytical observation. She creates a mood by the qualities of light and its play on objects, and finding the abstract patterns that the light creates. Through the use of rich bold colors that are softly blended and minimal use of detail, her landscapes evoke a feeling of mystery and quiet.
Janet studied at the University of South Carolina, earning a B.A. and a M.F.A. She has participated in numerous local and regional shows, and has exhibited her work in galleries in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Aspen, Scottsdale and locally in Hendersonville, Asheville, and Brevard. She currently sells exclusively from her studio.
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