THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, June 1, 1995 TAG: 9505310159
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 20 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY FRANK ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: Medium: 51 lines
The expected - water and winter scenes, flowers and animals - mix with the unusual in the Suffolk Art League's Annual Open Members Show.
The Suffolk Museum event continues through July 9, and most of the art is for sale at prices ranging from $550 for Gail Saunders' ``Suffolk Golf Course No. 9'' to $50 for Grace Leach's photo collage of ``Family Jewels.''
Religious themes are particularly predominant. They are in Lewis Phelps' watercolor, ``Rosary,'' David Brandon Carter's acrylic,``Matthew 14:24-33,'' and John W. Fuhrmann's pen-and-ink ``Servant.''
The show includes works of six new exhibitors. ``We're pleased about that,'' said Administrator Linda Bunch.
Her whimsical clay work shows a frog ``Leavin' the Lilypad.''
The most musical offering is Betty Anglin's watercolor, ``Summertime, Sum-Sum Summertime.'' Staying with that theme, she is also exhibiting, ``Sun Worshippers.''
The longest title at the Suffolk Museum explains an acrylic by Susan Meyer - ``Ann's Tears As She Realizes That Age is a Time of Death & Isolation.''
Many of the younger artists go for deep.
``A lot of college and university students are exhibiting with us.'' They include Christine Walley, Clay McGlamory and Cynthia Herrmann, who are ``still pushing the envelope,'' Bunch said.
A more familiar theme, by an artist familiar to people in this area, is an acrylic by Suffolk artist John R. Taylor Jr., ``Queen Anne's Lace.''
``I did it in 30 minutes,'' he said. ``I usually work slowly, but (fellow artist) Barclay Sheaks challenged me to paint in that short period of time.''
Jennifer Guyer has been painting since she was four years old, but the Suffolk Art League show is only the second time she has displayed her work publicly.
She moved to the area from Virginia Beach a year ago and shares a farmhouse on the Virginia-North Carolina line with two friends and nine cats.
``Two states, so I have two mailboxes,''she said. ``I moved here because I wanted a farm in the middle of nowhere. Solitude increases my creativity.''
She prefers watercolor ``because it's supposed to be the most difficult, most challenging.''
Guyer, 27, created ``Emily,'' a watercolor depicting a little girl, who looks suspiciously like her creator.
``That's my inner child, my childlike self,'' she explains. ``It's important to have one.'' by CNB