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2007 Fine Arts Show
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Participants in the 2007 show will be posted in March.

Here are the 2006
Fine Arts & Original Handcrafts Show Winners
2002 fine arts show in courtcircle

2006 Best In Show - Blue Ridge Light Photography, Charlie Smith, Roanoke, VA
2006 Best in Fine Arts - Art for your Garden, Thomas Higgs, Salem, VA
2006 Best in Original Handcrafts - Bird Brains, Edwin Jett, Green  Bank, WV
2006 Fine Arts Honorable Mention - Summer Haze Pottery, Martha & Bill Hayes, Hallieford, VA
2006 Original Handcrafts Honorable Mention - Lee Griffin Studio, Hayes,  VA

2006 Participants:
101 Grampy’s Images
This landscape and nature photographer is known for his candid approach his work. His focus is primarily from the Middle Eastern states and Maine promoting the awareness of protecting our environment.
Burt Leffingwell,  Gloucester, VA  

 102 Edward Faine Books
This author’s target age range is from infant-12 years.  Titles include “The Balloon Goon,”  “How the Frog Got His Bree-Dup,” The “Little Ned Series,”  “How-to Cowboy Joke Book,”  and “Wanted How-to Cowboy.”   He will sign and inscribe his books to your child.
Edward Faine, Tacoma Park, MD

 103 Innovations in Glass
Her work includes copper foil sun catchers as well as leaded panels; dimensional pieces like lamps, birdhouses and feeders as well as cheese trays, stepping stones and garden art.  This artist is noted for her stained glass work which she has been practicing for 20 years.
Karen Sullivan, Gloucester, VA

 104 Sisters Photography
Offering quality photo gifts products.  There basic line includes matted and framed prints, note cards and book marks.  Their new line has wooden knick-knack boxes, porcelain jewelry boxes, plates and frame tile images and refrigerator magnets.
Cathy Waltaip & Sue W. Young, Williamsburg, VA

 105 Watercolors and Oil
A retired Army veteran, who has traveled extensively, was living in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Scuba diving in the Red Sea led to his passion and interest in sea life.  Watercolors and oils provide the medium for him to express that love and knowledge. Renditions of boats, fish, sea life both large and small, come to life in an exciting, joyful presentation on canvas.
Ron Shalaski, Newport News, VA

 106 Photo by Ken
This artist produces digital photography framed and ready for display of Eastern Virginia’s most beautiful wildlife in its natural settings. His primary focus is Mallards, White Egrets, Blue Herons and Swans of Beaver Dam.
Ken Gault, Newport News, VA

 107 Coachlight Press, LLC
Award-winning author with her extensive research of diaries and letters from the Civil War era, this author created her trilogy.  Her first release, “Promise of Honor” was a Foreword Magazine book of the year finalist.  This author has dabbled in a variety of short stories and articles.
Kim Murphy, Afton, VA

 108 Local Photographers
These photographers have an extensive range of art.  Check their local area park images as well as national parks, sports, wedding, and studio portraits. They are a general freelance business.
Peter Wakefield & Drew Finley, Gloucester, VA

 109 Elizabeth’s Creations
Her work includes, hand sculpted, hand painted different and unique porcelain flowers, jewelry, glassware and jewelry boxes.
Elizabeth Damato, Gloucester, VA

 110 Bohemian Photography
Winner of Honorable Mention Daffodil Festival 2005.   This photographer unveils the beauty of small bits of nature in unexpected places. His focus is on the Chesapeake Bay waters and nautical subjects.
Jim Stoecker, Yorktown, VA

 111 Quail Run Pottery
Her functional and decorative stoneware and porcelain is not only attractive to the eye, but also pleasing to the hand in everyday use. Her goal is to create treasured family pieces for many years to come.
Elizabeth Krome, Toano,VA

 112 Holden Art 
Their art of turning wooden bowls, vases, pens, pots and various forms come from domestic and exotic woods. Our wood source is from distressed woods destined for the fireplace or landfill; we never cut down live trees.  It is our desire to display the natural beauty of the wood.
Ron & Cheryl Holden, Hopewell, VA

 113 Nature Photographer
This nature photographer has captured shots of the ever changing Sandbridge in Virginia Beach.  He particularly likes demonstrating the wrath of hurricanes, as seen in his Isabel shots.  He has also produced images from old farm building in Smithfield, VA.
Bryan Barbee, Chesapeake, VA

 114 Summer Haze Pottery Fie Arts Honorable Mention
Wheel thrown and slab built functional stoneware pottery.  Items include most of the traditional functional forms- mugs, bowls, pitchers and several sizes of slab built baking dishes.  Pieces are double glazed.  Bill produces one of a kind Raku pieces.
Martha & Bill Hayes, Hallieford, VA

115 Blue Ridge Light Photography - Best in Show
This graduate of New York Institute of Photography produces nature works from VA, WV, NC and TN.  Photos are custom printed and framed by Photographer. One of a kind hand painted color and black and white photos.
Charlie Smith, Roanoke, VA

 116 Pen and Ink Drawings
Her focus is pen and ink drawings of building and natural environment. She also produces artistic quotations in calligraphy and acrylic paintings of anything dealing with the water. 
Claudia Romano, Virginia Beach,VA

 117 H 2 Optics
This photographer captures nature images underwater. Finished art is ready to be hung in sizes 6 x 9 to 10 x 15 mounted and matted.  In sizes 8 x 12 to 20 x 24, sleeved or framed. 
Chuck Botts, Monrovia, MD

 118 Art by Rachel Nuttall
This artist’s work is oil and acrylic paintings on canvas, specializing in lighthouses, shorebirds, seascapes and old buildings.  Original hand painted sand dollars.
Rachel Nuttall, Ware Neck, VA  

 119 Coles Corner JULIA DRESSLER
This artist focuses on nature and natural settings. She has created art for the Governor of Virginia’s home.   “What sets my work apart is my ‘soft focus’ or ‘painted photos.’”  She also produces ‘holographic’ sun catchers with photography. 
Julia Dressler, Clarksville, VA

 DAFFODIL FESTIVAL POSTER SALES
Featuring the 2006 Poster Contest Artist

 120 Nature’s Legacy
This artist produces ready-framed photos of exotic animals in their natural setting –where possible.  Special orders can be taken for larger prints and framing.
Sandie Smith, Luther Glen, VA

  121 Art for your Garden - Best in Fine Arts
Winner for Best in Show at the 2005 Daffodil Festival.  All of his work is hand cut and hand hammered recycled copper. Sizes range as small as 10 inches to as large as 10 feet.   Each piece is designed to interact with the slightest breeze, to create an extraordinary focal point to your yard, garden or water ponds.
Thomas Higgs, Salem, VA

 122 Highlights and Shadows
Award winning black and white and color photographer, he has exhibited in the Poquoson Library, Poquoson City Hall, On the Hill Cultural Arts Center, Endview Plantation, Williamsburg Library and the Gallery at York Hall.  A retired Naval Officer, he does his own matting and framing.
Preston O. “Chip” Petre, Poquoson, VA

  124 & 125 & 125 Art League of Gloucester
The members of this local group create paintings in oil, acrylic, pastels, watercolors and pen and ink pencil drawings.  Other creations include basket weaving, gourd art, pottery etc…  They have a wide range of styles, abstract and realistic.
Gloucester, VA

 127 Dolphin Watch Photography
This Photographer has a photographic presentation of garden scenes as well as other outdoor scenes demonstrating the beauty of our area as well other parts of the world.    His work hangs in homes, art galleries and corporate offices.
Archibald Fripp, Williamsburg, VA

128  Garden Luminary
These are oil lamps made from natural stone.  Each one is hand selected for its unique characteristics. They also sell there items on their new web site.
Kellene Gordon, Amelia, VA

 129 Kathryn Wasserman
Professional  photographer with images sized from 5x6 to 22x30 ( 8x10 to 30x40 matted size)  This photographer inspiration is nature environmental, animal and human.
Kathryn Wasserman, Newport News, VA

 130  Photo Friends
These are a group of experienced photographer friends whose work is varied and includes landscapes, macros, panoramas, abstracts and sill life.
Kay Moneymaker, Williamsburg, VA

2005 Fine Arts & Original Handcrafts Show Winners
2005 Best In Show - Thomas Higgs
2005 Best in Fine Arts - Juli Schuszler
2005 Best in Original Handcrafts - Stephen Arrington
2005 Fine Arts Honorable Mention - Jim Stoecker
2005 Original Handcrafts Honorable Mention - Doreen & Clint Campbell

Come out and give the Daffodil Festival a try,
you’ll be glad you did!

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Last Update by D. R. Carter August 07, 2008