
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1994                    TAG: 9406210165 
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON                     PAGE: 12    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: BY MARLENE FORD, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: 940622                                 LENGTH: Medium

ARTISTS COVER THE GROUND \

{LEAD} Whether or not they reap fame and fortune, artists who hit the road to follow the art show circuit are assured of a few things: cross-country travel, months away from family and studios and an ever changing parade of scrutinizing faces.

Over the weekend 400 artists from throughout the country exhibited their wares at the 39th annual Boardwalk Art Show. Thirty seven hailed from Hampton Roads.

{REST} For many of the remaining painters, sculptors, fabric artists and photographers, Virginia Beach was one stop on the circuit.

Alison McCauley, ceramics artist from Summerville, N.C., said she typically does two shows a month throughout the year and considers that she makes 90 percent of her living that way.

Placing her face between her own sculpture of gossiping heads, McCauley said, ``On the good side, things move much quicker at shows, it's refreshing coming here and I get feedback right away. But it is a lot of labor packing the van for each show and driving from four to seven hours.''

Clay sculptors Kevin Ritter and John Rymer from Youngstown, Ohio, exhibit in 30 shows a year. On this junket, they are ``vanning'' from Ohio to New York to Virginia Beach to Santa Fe, N.M.

But Paul and Donna Hayden-Hinsley, jewelers from Delray Beach, Fla., top that with 35 shows per year. Donna Hayden-Hinsley said it is easier to follow the migration of art lovers as a married couple.

Still, she added, the three uninterrupted months spent away from home each summer make her think the lifestyle has some drawbacks.

Like many artists Pat Juneau, a bronze sculptor from Lafayette, La., returns every year. The 16-year-veteran said he enjoys a fleeting, if not quirky, relationship with buyers.

``I do about 15 show a year; one indoor and no galleries,'' he said. ``If you sell in a gallery, you don't know who's buying your art. What if I don't want to sell to them,'' he laughed.

{KEYWORDS} VIRGINIA BEACH BOARDWALK ART SHOW

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