Hillsborough Gallery of Arts Exhibit Previews Orange County Artists Guild Studio Tour

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - Oct. 26, 2015 - PRLog -- This marks the 21^st year that the Orange County Artists Guild will host its Annual Open Studio Tour. During the first two weekends in November, eighty-six artists located throughout Orange County, including Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and surrounding areas will be participating in this juried event and opening their studios to visitors who will discover where the creative magic happens!

Linda Carmel and Pringle Teetor will show together at Carmel's home studio, 101 Huntington Drive, Chapel Hill, #41on the tour. Carmel will showing her acrylic paintings and will be giving demonstrations of her unique painting technique that uses acrylic modeling paste. Teetor, a full time glass blower, has her studio in Creedmoor but will show a video demonstration of her glass blowing. She will exhibit a variety of pieces - both indoor and outdoor: vases, bowls, drinking glasses, decanters, garden sculpture, pumpkins, solar garden lights, and jewelry.

This is Chris Graebner’s fifth year on the tour. As a painter she most often paints landscapes in oils, but her background includes botanical art with watercolor and ink. Graebner enjoys mixing media to see what each brings to the other. Some of her recent work is a return to botanical silverpoint drawings which she colored with layers of highly diluted acrylics instead of more traditional watercolors. In addition to her landscape painting, this summer she has been exploring botanical subjects using scratchboard and colored inks. Graebner invites you to visit her in her studio, #6 on the tour map, just a couple of blocksfrom the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts in downtown Hillsborough.

Lolette Guthrie’s studio, studio #62 on the tour map, is located in her home at 113 Rhododendron Drive, Chapel Hill. This will be her seventh year on the tour. Painting largely from memory and painting both in oil and in pastel, Guthrie derives most of her inspiration from time spent on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. She will be showing both oil and pastel landscapes and abstracted landscapes that explore what it felt like to be at a particular place at a particular time.

Marcy Lansman is welcoming visitors to her home studio, #39 on the tour map, on Mt. Bolus Road close to the center of Chapel Hill. This is Lansman's eleventh year on the Studio Tour. Many neighbors drop by as well as repeat customers from previous years. It is a great time to reconnect with old friends and show them the new directions her work is taking.

Eduardo Lapetina's studio is located at 318 North Estes Drive, Chapel Hill, #52 on the tour map. This is his seventh year participating on the tour.  Lapetina will show new abstract paintings with vibrant colors and in various sizes including very large pieces. His paintings are worked in complete solitude. They represent the discoveries of the unconscious mind. In the artist's words, "They hold the promise of dreams, visions, fears, and the magic of a private, secret language."

Ellie Reinhold is joining the Tour for the third year.She is #55 on the tour and will welcome you at her studio off Roosevelt Drive in Chapel Hill, in the neighborhood across from Cafe Driade. Reinhold's figurative art has been described as “soulful,” “dreamscapes,” and “internal landscapes.”  She explores emotional experiences using color, brushwork, and iconic imagery that often draws from nature. Her small abstract works are done mostly with knives and allow her to explore elements such as texture, shadow, contrast, and color in their own right, unfettered by the demands of specific content.

OCAG’s Open Studio Tour is a rare opportunity for art lovers from Orange County and beyond to meet artists in their places of work, to view and purchase art directly from the artist and in many instances to watch as artists demonstrate how they create their pieces. Studio Tour brochures and maps of participants’ studios are available at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts and other area locations or on the Guild website: http://www.OrangeCountyArtistsGuild.com

Many of the eighty-six artists on this year’s tour will have work in the OCAG Preview Exhibit at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. Their work will be on display from October 26 through November 15, 2015. This preview show is a wonderful opportunity for a first look at the work to be offered on the tour and can help you plan your tour route.

An opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Friday, October 30th from 6-9pm in the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, located in the Mercantile Building at 121 North Churton Street in historic downtown Hillsborough, North Carolina. For more information visit the Gallery website: www.HillsboroughGallery.com.

About the Gallery
The Hillsborough Gallery of Arts is an art gallery owned and operated by 22 local artists and represents these established artists exhibiting contemporary fine art and fine craft. The Gallery's offerings include acrylic and oil paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, textiles, jewelry, glass, metals, encaustic, enamel, and wood.