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The Ossabaw Art Auction benefits the Ossabaw Island Foundation. Bidding ends Wednesday July 24 at 8:00 pm.
| Michael Jinkins, oil on canvas. 24” x 18” framed. This work is part of my new Southern Forests series. Although I am primarily an abstract painter, I take my cues from nature, and was frankly overwhelmed by the wild beauty of the island. The style of this painting represents a variation on that developed by Gustav Klimt for his “landscapes.” That sound just off the dirt track, that rustling in the bushes. Wild Hogs. You can see the arched backs now through the undergrowth, the spiny bristles stiff as a porcupine, and just as inviting. There's a snout, the pig's tusks pointing from the sides of its mouth aggressively. This tiny black eyes as apparently bottomless as any mine shaft. At least it's not an alligator. Ane they are legendary on Ossabaw Island. Fat and ferocious, they feed on the endless supply of wild pork. Best fed alligators in the south. Lethargic and ornery too. One day the truck transporting us from the boneyard on the Atlantic shore was stalled in the strangest traffic jam I'd ever seen: two massive alligators sunning themselves on the dirt road, hesitant to surrender their spot. Who could believe that a winderness lies on an island set like a jewel between twisting rivers and bays and the ocean just a few miles east of Savannah, Georgia, accessible by boat. Forests so dense the sunshine has to push and shove to find its way through. Rippling waters blue. Pools black as night. Still water covered in a thick green carpet. Birds that would stop a twichers twitching heart. Together with six other visual artists, I was delivered here in a flat bottomed boat. Our only agenda: to be in awe and wonder. |
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| Angie Abbott created these beautiful macrame and woven earrings and necklace. She has included beach finds from Ossabaw in her work. She created these on Ossabaw Island this spring 2024. The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Gay Gillies, bronze relief, 11”x 8” Gay is Mrs. West's (Sandy's) cousin. Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West is Ossabaw Island’s best-known and longest resident. From 1987 to May 1, 2016, Sandy lived on the island full time. Born in 1913, Sandy West first set foot on Ossabaw Island at age 11 in 1924. Her love of the island began in her childhood, shortly after her parents, Henry and Nell Torrey of Detroit, Michigan, purchased Ossabaw Island in 1924 as their winter retreat. In the early 1970’s the rising property taxes for Ossabaw Island forced Sandy, her children and her nieces and nephews to face the necessity of giving up ownership of the island. Rather than sell Ossabaw for private development, the Torreys and the Wests sought to assure that the island would remain in the unspoiled condition that they valued and had worked to preserve for nearly fifty years. After eight years of negotiations with various state and federal organizations, the Torrey/West family, in an arrangement facilitated by then-President Jimmy Carter, sold Ossabaw Island to the state in 1978, at 50% percent of its estimated market value. The sale stipulated that Ossabaw Island be declared Georgia’s first heritage preserve—set aside in perpetuity for scientific, educational, and cultural uses only. Gay Gillies has been an artist her entire life. Her art represents emotional responses and connections to her immediate environment. “My work originates from the rough sketches of my daily travels, imagination, dreams and memories. Its execution relies solely on the mind’s eye. My images focus on the soul of an impression. What has my hand observed and what does it want to say? Questions, windblown trees, the human-built environment – motion, color, mood. These are the contemplations, the lasting emotions, the sticky and raw impressions left to my mind’s inventory.” Gay draws inspiration from a broad and continually changing range of themes and works with many different mediums including fresco, oil, charcoal, paper, plaster, clay, and bronze. Much of her work melds ancient techniques using her own modern alchemy. Information about Gay Gillies |
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| This handmade woven necklace is simple elegant. It features a snadollar found on Ossabaw's beach. Angie Abbott created this on Ossabaw Island this spring 2024. The basket-weaving group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Angie Abbott created these beautiful macrame and woven earrings. She has included beach finds from Ossabaw in her work. She created these on Ossabaw Island this spring 2024. The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Janet Csadenyi, encaustic photograph, 8" x 10". Janet first visited Ossabaw Island during the 2021 Turtle Hatching overnight. She has since returned to take the "tintype", wet plate January 2022 workshop. Her favorite medium is working with photos and wax as she creates encaustic creations. This image is a chicken coop once located behind the Boarding House. She has mounted the image on board and then applied wax, creating an encaustic image. |
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| Sheryl St.Germain, fiber art, 18" x 41" This work is made of hand-dyed and some commercially dyed cotton, machine quilted and stitched. Learn more about her work, sherylstgermain.com |
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| Meredith Baker, shells and driftwood. The broken and worn shells I create with symbolize life's journey and the inner beauty that hardships can reveal. When making a piece, I consider color and balance. Then I listen to the shells. They tell me where they want to go. |
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| Cora Ennis Morris, cyanotype print: 11" x 14" framed "I’m a mixed media artist with a BFA in Painting & Printmaking. I always knew early on making art was something I needed to do. As I grew as an artist I gravitated towards the mediums of painting/photography/printmaking to share my vision. The piece I chose to donate today is reflective of an age old process of developing images with the sun. In this case, I captured this image on one of my many visits to the island and produced a negative from this image to create the piece you see today. My vision is to raise awareness of a healthy coastal ecosystem and the beauty that surrounds us. I have always lived on the coast. I look at the coast with mindful, deliberate and persistent eye. It’s my hope that world governments, corporations and communities will be responsible stewards of our oceans. We cannot continue to take from the environment and expect it to be there tomorrow. We are all so fortunate that the Torrey’s understood this and took action to preserve the awe inspiring Ossabaw Island." coraennismorris.com @coraennismorris |
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| Harry DeLorme, acrylic on panel, 12” x 16” framed. DeLorme graduated from UGA with an MFA in Studio Art, Drawing & Painting in 1985 and for the past 35 years has been employed by Telfair Museums where he serves as senior curator and director of education. |
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| Ekron "Ches" Crow, acrylic painting, 19" x 22" framed. Artist and Ossabaw descendant Ekron "Ches" Crow enjoys painting wildlife scenes especially ones in the low country. Ches has donated works of art to all 23 of our Art Auctions. Ches is a descendant of John Morel Jr. The Morel family owned all or part of Ossabaw Island from 1763 to 1916. |
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| Oil-based and Latex Paints, Unsweet Tea, Preserved Moss, Thrifted Frame 9"x 12" The grandfather clock is one of many historical artifacts from the life and times of the Torrey West family of Ossabaw Island. This depiction explores the staying power of times that passed through the objects in our lives that measure one day at a time. The artist is an amateur painter who agrees wholeheartedly with Henri Mattise, "Creativity takes courage." |
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| Iris Mack Dayoub, original pastel painting, 8' x10", framed. The work is passepartout framed with anti-reflective glass, Ultra Vue UV 70. Retirement for Iris did not mean that she would discontinue her pursuit of something new and exciting. After two careers – teaching mathematics and creating a successful financial planning firm -- and earning three degrees – BS in Mathematics Education, MS in Mathematics, PhD in Mathematics Education and many postgraduate courses in finance and business, she was not about to retire to a rocking chair. Fortunately, Georgia offers educational opportunities for seniors through the 62+ program at state colleges. Her first course – Drawing I -- at Armstrong University in 2016 revealed a hidden talent for art. After several courses and workshops, she has found that her favorites are charcoal, watercolor, and pastels. Iris creates works of art that convey her love for nature – flowers, birds, waterways, the marsh. Her interest in architecture can also be seen in her work. |
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| Oil on canvas, 11" x 14" gallery wrap Carol Austin is a Savannah artist, with a penchant for painting coastal landscapes. Having grown up on St. Simons Island, she has been inspired by the beauty of coastal Georgia's barrier islands. So, when a good friend invited her to visit Ossabaw, she jumped at the chance. The undisturbed beauty of the Ossabaw maritime forests, fields, marshes and waterways was breathtaking, and provided fuel for her paintings. "Ossabaw Color," is a play on the many shades of pink, orange, green and lavender that can be seen on the marsh plain. One often has to look close to see this myriad of colors, and an artist's challenge and joy is to pull out those colors and stretch them to create a colorful rendition of the coastal landscape. "Ossabaw Color" is Carol's attempt to do just this. It is her goal to bring a little bit of Ossabaw home, in hopes that it will allow the viewer to be present in the beauty of this majestic place, even if just for a minute. |
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| photograph, 14" x 9" France taught photography and sculpture for 34 years. He has led many student trips to Ossabaw Island over the years. The framed photograph is under conservation clear plexiglass. Taken in 2015 on Ossabaw Island. |
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| VW by Joy Dunigan, metallic duotone archival pigment, 24" x 24" framed. Ossabaw lore has it that Mrs. West transported the first six donkeys to Ossabaw in a VW bus (of course the bus was loaded onto a barge for the water crossing) In addition these VW buses were used for transport of Ossabaw Island Project members and Genesis members across the island from 1961 to 1983. Joy Dunigan is graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design. Joy is also the owner of the Photopoint Gallery in Richmond Hill, Georgia, and a member of the KOBO Gallery Artist Cooperative. She has participated in several group exhibitions at the Photopoint Gallery and Arts on The Coast Gallery (Richmond Hill, Ga.), SouthxSoutheast Gallery (Modena, Ga), ArtFields (Lake City, S.C.), and the Location Gallery, Sulfur Studios and Telfair Museums (Savannah, Ga.). She is an active board member with the Ossabaw Island Foundation, Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity, The Savannah Traffic Club and Arts on the Coast. Joy is also owner and principal creative at JOY Marketing. |
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| Regina Holderness, acrylic on Gallery wrapped canvas, 11" x 14" Regina created this painting after a fall Creative Day on Ossabaw Island. Regina's landscapes and pet portraits can be found on her website |
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| Kurt Knoerl, glass and carved butternut, 14.5" x 6". Kurt is a professor at Georgia Southern whose teaching interests are Digital History, Public History, Maritime History, Maritime Archaeology, Material Culture, Native American History, and Environmental History. Dr. Knoerl started learning watercolor painting and woodworking during the pandemic. He also loves woodworking and now carving. Dr. Knoerl serves on the Ossabaw Island Foundation Board of Trustees. |
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| Angie Abbott created these beautiful macrame and woven earrings and necklace. She has included beach finds from Ossabaw in her work. She created these on Ossabaw Island this spring 2024. The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Marilyn Vrooman, 100% acrylic blanket, 41" x 32". An Ossabaw supporter saw this blanket and purchased it for the auction. She said she could not resist the sea turtles and star fish! Happy bidding! |
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| Ben Wells, black and white photograph, 18" x 26". Ben captures a tidal pond and the popular bone yard tree on the South End Beach. Ben is an educator, musician and a photographer. Ben has been seen playing during the past Pig Roast on Ossabaw Island or taking his class of middle schoolers to Ossabaw Island for a field trip or hosting groups on Ossabaw Island. |
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| Barbara Vaughn, basket, 14" x 21" and 8" tall This large picnic basket with a dark brown leather handle was created this spring on Ossabaw Island. It features a tile printed with the famous Ossabaw donkeys. The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Barbara Vaughn, basket, 10" x 13" and 14" tall This large backpack picnic basket with dark brown leather straps was created this spring on Ossabaw Island. It features shells from the Ossabaw beach! The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Angie Abbott, pine needles, shells and leather bottom, bowl basket, 6.5" X 3.5" tall. Oblong basket 11.5" X 5" She includes her found island objects into her work. These unique pair are created using pine needles from Ossabaw Island. Shells gathered from the Ossabaw beach are included in the design. These were created this past spring on the island. The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Firecracker #1 (long leaf pine series 2024), oil on yupo paper, shredded, 21" x 28" framed, Framing donated by Lisa Atwell. In memory of Jim Bitler I became aware of the historical vastness of the longleaf pine forests of the southeast while reading William Bartram's “Travels”, when I first moved to Savannah in the early 80’s. The book I had was Mills Lane IV’s Beehive Press’ Edition, published in 1973. It was a facsimile of the 1792 London edition. Amazingly, Bartram introduced me to my own landscape almost two hundred years after he was here. I had grown up in Alabama with deep agrarian roots and was surprised not to know about these magical forests that loomed and dominated our landscape. We knew pines, but it was the subsequent fast growing pulp mill varieties, names still familiar to us today: slash, loblolly, southern, yellow pine, shortleaf, pitch. Janisse Ray’s “Ecology of a Cracker Childhood”, published in 1999, brought a poet’s voice to the lament of the loss of this extensive habitat and ecosystem. I imagined our lost forests vividly with her words and felt her optimism that our southern forest could be regenerated and reclaimed, even by a small degree. Before he died, Jim Bitler, the On Island Coordinator for the Ossabaw Island Foundation, showed me some of the few long leaf pines on Ossabaw, a young six-foot sapling and the best of all, the grass stage firecrackers still hugging the ground in vivid green mounds. He said there were eleven long leaf pine trees on Ossabaw. I wonder what that number would be today? I hold to that experience on Ossabaw with Jim in this ongoing series celebrating this tree. Is there a collective memory for primal forests? My drawings speak to the imagined idea and memory of those pines and to the hopefulness presented by dedicated people and alliances to the regeneration of this habitat and perhaps with it, a visual regeneration of one of our own landscape archetypes. Betsy Cain |
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| Kelley R. Milburn, acrylic on canvas, 10" x 20" unframed. Kelley Milburn from Perryville, KY was inspired by photographs her friend Leah Medders has shared with her over the years. |
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| Angie Abbott created these three fish using items she collected while on the island. She created these on Ossabaw Island this spring 2024. The basket-weavers group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Laurie Cordaro, watercolor, 8" x 10" framed. Laurie painted this watercolor of this group of birds on Ossabaw Island during a fall day trip. |
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| Beth Logan, oil on birchwood panel, 12" X 12" Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Beth Logan had a career in healthcare HR and marketing. An artist and former gallery director, she serves on the board of nonprofit ARTS Southeast and has a passion for showcasing Savannah’s arts community, travel, oil painting, and cocktails! |
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| Rachel Green, oil on canvas, 20” x 24” framed Rachel visits Ossabaw Island often on our Creative Day trips. She has been coming to Ossabaw Island over the past 20 years. She is a professor of art at Georgia Southern University's Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art. |
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| Found object sculpture, 24" x 16" Ellen writes, " I have looked out my back deck in McIntosh County over the last eight years at the southern tip of Ossabaw Island. I have long admired the work Sandy West executed over the years. I love donkeys and feral hogs. |
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| Carmela Aliffi, water based oil and gesso on yupo paper with cold wax finish mounted on birch panel, 11”x 14” 2024 Artist work days at Ossabaw Island are a time to connect with nature and self. With the island as muse, I traveled from the magical Torrey House through dirt roads and trails, to the north beaches lined with a bony skeleton of trees and sandy vistas of open space and ocean, to Middle Place and tabby ruins, to rookeries with coastal birds nesting while alligators prepare to avail themselves of fallen fledglings. The island’s waving palms lulled me into their trance. I attempted to capture their dance, movement and coloring in my work. I had the opportunity to explore, experiment and experience the island while making art. The vision of Sandy West , for Ossabaw Island to be an art, science and educational resource, continues. |
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| Speckled stoneware with copper and jade glaze, 13" diameter. Bowl made with the assistance of shells found on Bradley Beach. Shaped with large heart shaped cockle shell Swirl made using a moon snail shell |
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| Tessa Parker, oil on canvas, 22.5" x 19" Tessa Parker is a painter and an educator at Savannah Arts Academy. She grew up in Savannah, spending her childhood mostly on Wilmington Island. She earned a Master’s degree from SCAD in 2009. Her oil paintings are inspired by the landscapes of the lowcountry and her use of vivid colors invite the viewer to experience the scenes as she remembers them. You can find more of her artwork and process videos on her Instagram account @tessagracepaints or her website tessaparkerart.com |
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| Peter E. Roberts, Papercut assemblage, measures 10" x 10" Peter E. Roberts is graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Video Production. Peter is also the Gallery Director of Location Gallery and was voted Runner-Up Best Artist by Savannah Magazine readers in 2023. He has had solo shows at the Drive Thru Art Box, Location Gallery, Savannah LGBT Center (Savannah, GA) Blackbird Gallery (NYC, NY) StudioSeshArts (Islamorada, FL) and 612OKC (Oklahoma City, OK). He has participated in several group exhibitions at Location Gallery, Savannah LGBT Center, Sulfur Studios, Gallery 2424, ArtStryngs Gallery, Telfair Museums, Jepson Center for the Arts (Savannah, GA) Photopoint Gallery (Richmond Hill, GA), Blackbird Gallery (NYC, NY) StudioSeshArts (Islamorada, FL) and the Mize Gallery (St. Petersburg, FL). |
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| Tile and barn wood. Images from around the Torrey West House. Fran Lapolla created these for the 2015 Art Auction. The donor is downsizing and donated these back for this auction. Fran Lapolla hosts several groups on Ossabaw Island but some folks know Fran as Captain Fran Lapolla. He is USCG licensed Master, operates small boats for the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and acts as part-time naturalist and host for The Ossabaw Island Foundation. Fran spent 35 years as a science teacher and 7 years as a marine educator/boat captain at UGA’s Marine Education Center on Skidaway Island. |
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| Tile and barn wood. Images from around the Torrey West House. Fran Lapolla created these for the 2015 Art Auction. The donor is downsizing and donated these back for this auction. Fran Lapolla hosts several groups on Ossabaw Island but some folks know Fran as Captain Fran Lapolla. He is USCG licensed Master, operates small boats for the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and acts as part-time naturalist and host for The Ossabaw Island Foundation. Fran spent 35 years as a science teacher and 7 years as a marine educator/boat captain at UGA’s Marine Education Center on Skidaway Island. |
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| Lucy Bisbing-Korn, wood panel, 12" x 32". Lucy lives in Townsend, Georgia, south of Ossabaw Island. |
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| Shirley Lindefjeld, 12 skeins of merino wool for knitting a sweater or something similar and a ticket to the 2025 Ossabaw Indigo workshop to dye the skeins yourself on Ossabaw Island at the September indigo workshops in 2025 (2024 is sold out with a long waitlist) The wool are from Shirley's sheep. |
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| Henry Hoover from White Pine, Tennessee creates these musical instruments. He has provided a canjo songbook and picks. Mr. Hoover is with the group of Tennessee educators who love Ossabaw Island. A canjo is a fretted, single string, acoustic instrument with an American-sourced hardwood body hand rubbed with boiled linseed oil and a Spam can as the resonator. The fretboard is a perfect diatonic scale with flawless dulcimer style fretting and twelve notes or finger positions. The single tuner at the head is a finely crafted Grover guitar tuner. A Spam can is used because the tonal quality and volume is unmatched - there is no finer canjo anywhere. It's bright and loud like a banjo, durable, lightweight, and the most handsome instrument around! Who knew Spam could sound so good? How to Play It is typically held like a banjo or mandolin but may also be played on a table or lap like a dulcimer. Running along the side of the Canjo neck are numbers stamped "1" through "11". This corresponds to the numbers over the words of each song in the Canjo Songbook. The musician simply moves his or her fingers to the different numbers in the song literally playing by numbers. A canjo can also be used with an amplifier to make the sound even better! |
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| Pam Bullock, basket, 8" x 6" and 8.5" tall This unique wine bottle basket with dark brown leather handles was created this spring on Ossabaw Island. Features shells from Ossabaw Island! The basket-weaving group leaders Barbara Vaughn and Gwen Morris, teachers from Tennessee, first visited Ossabaw Island in 2003 as part of a teacher training program. The group spent a week camping at the South End Campsite. Year after year the group from Tennessee attended other teacher training summer programs. About ten years ago this group of in-service and retired teachers began visiting Ossabaw Island in the spring and as an added activity they crafted baskets using some of the island's shells, grasses and branches. |
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| Kenny Nobles, color photo on aluminum, 12" x 24" Kenny Nobles is a landscape, wildlife and nature photographer who enjoys photographing the Georgia coast and coastal low-country. He retired in 2015 as a Captain with the Georgia Department of Public Safety, and since that time has devoted more time to photography. Kenny’s goal as a photographer is to make the viewer feel as if they can step into the scene of the photograph or to reach out and touch the wildlife. He hopes that while viewing his images you will feel a sense of peace, perhaps taking you back to a happy moment in your life and to see the beauty in the world around us. |
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| Lynne Daley, photograph, framed, 21" x 16" Lynn has attended many Ossabaw Island workshops from photography to indigo dyeing. She has also organized nature photography workshops on Ossabaw Island. |
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| Ruth McCully, photograph printed on canvas, 25.5" x 18" framed Ruth has particpated in Ossabaw's "Nature in Focus" nature photography workshop on Ossabaw Island. During her week on Ossabaw Island she took this image from the Torrey Landing dock. She lives in the South Carolina low country. |
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| Morey Gers, Photograph, framed, 18” x 24” "I make some variation of this scene on every visit to Ossabaw. This was from a day trip in November 2023." |
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| Nancy Marshall, archival inkjet print made 2024 from a 2011 photo, 16" x 19" matted and framed. Nancy took this photo of Paul Mitchell on Sandy West's back patio. Paul is an Ossaabaw pig that was Mrs. West's last pet pig. She named him Paul Mitchell because his "hair" was long and unruly and she thought he should use Paul Mitchell products. Among Nancy's accolades is that she is an Ossabaw Genesis member. The Genesis Project was a cooperative, semi-sustainable community operated at historic Middle Place on Ossabaw Island from 1970 to 1983. |
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| Rebecca Sipper, inkwatercolor on handmade paper with encaustic seal, 9" x 12" Rebecca Sipper, a Georgia native, is currently an active studio artist in the Savannah area and operates Retrofied, an independent handbag company. Rebecca is best known for her paintings of animals and nature. Her paintings, ceramic vessels, fibers and printmaking together and separately celebrate time and place along the Georgia Coast. |
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| Karey Walter, archival pigment print, 24" x 24" Karey has attended several photography workshops on Ossabaw Island. She has also organized many workshops, including ones for high school students. The donkeys that remain on Ossabaw Island are descended from the original 16 that were imported by Mrs. West in 1965 for her youngest son’s Christmas gift |
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| Joanna Angell, stoneware, 6.5" h x 6.5" d Joanna Angell is a fourth-generation multidisciplinary artist and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Studio Art at the University of South Carolina Beaufort where she teaches Ceramics, Printmaking, Drawing and Design. |
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| Susie Clinard, past Chair of the Ossabaw Island Foundation, is a mixed media collage artist. “Fifty Shades of Green” is a fantasy landscape depicting plants, insects, birds, a frog and alligator in shades of green that draw you into the complexity and mystery of nature. The piece starts with a moss covered decaying tree image with an overlay of large oak leaves. Plants and creatures are then added to complete the composition. A walk into the interior of Ossabaw Island can reveal these same mysteries with many shades of green. |
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