Artist: Jonathan Bowling

Title: Rust Painting

Date: 2011

Media: rust painting

Dimensions: 47" x 58" (Framed)

Jonathan Bowling grew up on a small farm in Kentucky, where the Appalachian Mountains melt into the rolling hills of the Bluegrass. His first sculptural efforts were the simple games of childhood--fieldstone castles, a bridle of hay twine, a driftwood armada. As a teenager in the late eighties, Bowling lived in Belgium, where he had access to the museums of Western Europe. On his return to the states he attended the University of Kentucky where he received his BFA in sculpture and a BA in art history. In 1996 he moved to Greenville, North Carolina, to pursue an MFA in sculpture at East Carolina University in 1999. He has been working out of his Greenville studio ever since. Bowling has showed extensively in the Eastern United States, which has resulted in a number of long term lease agreements and sales to municipalities and private collectors.

Artist: Terry Crowe and BJ Smith

Title: Diatom

Date: 2020

Media: mixed media, copper, slate

Dimensions: 17" x 19"

Greenville, NC artist Terry Crowe is constantly exploring new forms of creative expression and innovation. A self-proclaimed "maker of things," his creative interests reach far and wide. He enjoys experimenting with a range of materials and frequently employs natural elements in his works. Terry was a resident artist at the Art Lab in 2019-2020.

BJ is a mixed media artist specializing in hand-cut paper paintings with a street art vibe. He began cutting paper for stencils 30 years ago as a means to get paint on the material. One day he took a picture of a white paper stencil laying on a dark green mat and discovered the beauty of paper cutting. BJ focuses on finding the character in his subjects by turning the things we try to hide like fine lines and wrinkles into objects of beauty. His goals are to inspire those who see his work to look at faces and objects in a positive light and help viewers find beauty in something as simple as a piece of paper.

Artist: Gail Ritzer

Title: Canyon Sunset I

Date: 2020

Media: acrylic and found objects on canvas

Dimensions: 30" x 15"

Gail Ritzer received her B.S. in Art Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an M.F.A in Ceramics and Painting from East Carolina University. She has been exhibiting her work nationally since 1980 at such locales in New York, The University of Missouri-St. Louis, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Nebraska. Her work has appeared in several publications including: FiberArts Design Book, Art/Quilt Magazine, exhibition catalogs. Gail has been fortunate to receive a number of grants from the North Carolina Arts Council to pursue a variety of personal and community arts projects. She has been teaching surface design techniques, mixed media methods, painting, and ceramics to students of all ages for many years at workshops, as Outreach Coordinator for the Greenville Museum of Art and as an instructor at the Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge.

Artist: Gail Ritzer

Title: View of Warehouse District from GMoA

Date: 2020

Media: acrylic and found objects on canvas

Dimensions: 25" x 30" (Framed)

Gail Ritzer received her B.S. in Art Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an M.F.A in Ceramics and Painting from East Carolina University. She has been exhibiting her work nationally since 1980 at such locales in New York, The University of Missouri-St. Louis, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Nebraska. Her work has appeared in several publications including: FiberArts Design Book, Art/Quilt Magazine, exhibition catalogs. Gail has been fortunate to receive a number of grants from the North Carolina Arts Council to pursue a variety of personal and community arts projects. She has been teaching surface design techniques, mixed media methods, painting, and ceramics to students of all ages for many years at workshops, as Outreach Coordinator for the Greenville Museum of Art and as an instructor at the Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge.

Artist: BJ Smith

Title: Science

Date: 2020

Media: paper, black wood veneer, gold leaf, acrylic, epoxy resin

Dimensions: 7 1/4" x 7 1/4" (Framed)

BJ is a mixed media artist specializing in hand-cut paper paintings with a street art vibe. He began cutting paper for stencils 30 years ago as a means to get paint on the material. One day he took a picture of a white paper stencil laying on a dark green mat and discovered the beauty of paper cutting. BJ focuses on finding the character in his subjects by turning the things we try to hide like fine lines and wrinkles into objects of beauty. His goals are to inspire those who see his work to look at faces and objects in a positive light and help viewers find beauty in something as simple as a piece of paper.

Artist: Lloyd G. Nowlan

Title: Old Yarmouth Lighthouse, Nova Scotia

Date: 1970s

Media: drawing on wood

Dimensions: 12 1/2" in diameter

This romantic plaque is completely produced in the Maritimes, and all artwork is by the well known artist Lloyd G. Nowlan. The wood used is Nova Scotia pine. The rope is the actual rope used by fishermen, and is reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean.

Artist: Lloyd G. Nowlan

Title: Schooner Bluenose Built in Lonenburg, Nova Scotia in 1921

Date: c. 1970s

Media: drawing on wood

Dimensions: 12 1/2" in diameter

This romantic plaque is completely produced in the Maritimes, and all artwork is by the well known artist Lloyd G. Nowlan. The wood used is Nova Scotia pine. The rope is the actual rope used by fishermen, and is reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean.