Artists who appreciated each other’s craft, these Eastern Ohio residents are both members of Artworks. Sharon Hanse and Lynn Anderson are the featured artists of the February show opening in the Studio Gallery at Artworks Around Town on Friday, February 5, 2016.
Lynn Anderson – Early Autumn
Artworks Around Town is a cooperative of 26 artists residing in the Centre Market at 2200 Market Street. Artworks sponsors the opening of two new free art shows each month on the first Friday. The public is invited and a buffet of refreshments is part of the opening from 5:30PM to 8:00PM on Feb 5th. The featured artists will be present as will a number of artist members of Artworks.
Sharon Hanse and Lynn Anderson create art that needs concentration and attention to detail. Calligraphy, Sharon Hanse’s specialty that she displays at Artworks is only one of the many forms of art work she studied at the Cleveland Art Institute and Cleveland Community College. Furthering her love of the exquisite creation of works of art centering around letters, led Sharon to learn paper marbling, papermaking, paste paper technique, bookmaking, illuminating, and gilding. She has studied with some of the finest calligraphers in the country including Sheila Waters, Thomas Ingmire, Peter Thornton, John Stevens, Marsha Brady, Mark vanStone, Carl Rohrs and Leana Fay.
Sharon Hanse – Illuminated V
Now she teaches these various skills in classes at Artworks, a variety of art centers and various calligraphy guilds. Mrs. Hanse has won numerous prizes and accolades for her exquisite combination of lettering with other art skills. Her letter “V” was included in the into the 24th Edition of The Speedball Textbook. The Speedball Textbook has been printed in various editions since 1915 and for many people was their first source for learning calligraphy.
Lynn Anderson creates paintings, digital art, and mixed media. Somehow, someway Lynn always manages to create some dream-like or other worldly quality in each of her creations. They are romantic and dreamily rendered, but can also be precise as in creating kaleidoscopic creations. Recently retired from an editorship of a nationally circulated four-color magazine, Lynn has turned to creating more artwork. She studied art at Ohio University and has exhibited her work in a variety of galleries throughout Ohio and West Virginia. The prize winning artist sees “the act of creating art as an end in itself for me. When I am hard at work on a piece, my mind goes to a different plane, and the hours seem to fly by without my even noticing.” The discussion of art is much more tedious to Lynn than the creation of art.
She sees her work as “solving problems or puzzles” that she sets for herself. Always pleased that the viewer enjoys her finished art, Lynn realizes that what the viewers sees in her work is often not what she sees as the artist and creator of the finished piece of art work.
Lynn Anderson – O’Anita!
These women create art that is not the norm. Using skill, color, and a variety of materials their art is unusual as well as beautiful. They carefully chose their color and form to enhance what they try to present to the viewer. The beauty of the piece often doesn’t reflect all the many diligent hours of work that it has taken to create such complex pieces.
As Sharon Hanse has stated, “Nothing is more satisfying than to create a beautiful work of art using words that are inspirational, uplifting, thought provoking and comforting. And Lynn Anderson agrees, “That’s the magic of art: everyone takes something different, and individually REWARDING, from the experience.”