Featured Local Artisans
April Rollins
Painter & Illustrator
Central, SC
April is a painter and illustrator who uses bold and vibrant color throughout her work. April’s paintings offer an exciting approach to floral and abstract designs. Her work ranges in size from small paper studies to large paintings on canvas.
The intention behind my work is to grasp the sense of beauty and wonder that accompanies a child’s view of the world. My art is a constant pursuit to maintain our connection to beauty and wonder while also acknowledging our separation from them. I choose each photograph as the base for an encaustic piece because there is some element of the image that resonates with this feeling of separation or acknowledgment of beauty. Encaustic medium is the physical representation of it in my work. However, my goal with photo encaustic is to reach the point where the wax begins to blend into the photograph and one is drawn into the scene rather than away from it. The boundary between the viewer and the image becomes fluid and translucent. Alternatively, using oil and cold wax, I free myself from the constraints of an image and try to reach the same connections and emotions by employing complementary elements of color, shape and line. I will often connect the two mediums of encaustic and oil via diptychs that initiate a conversation between the two ideas.
For many years, I owned Pixel Point, a downtown Anderson, SC business housed in a historic building. Pixel Point served as an artisan gallery, book bindery, and graphics arts studio. After deciding to close that chapter, I embarked on a new journey, cultivating and supplying cut flowers to the local market, which I still enjoy.
The yearning to return to my roots as a maker led me to blend my bookbinding, graphic, and storytelling skills. This combination resulted in the creation of a series of illustrated books and notecards. The series draws inspiration from the many places that make up Windward Meadows, our beloved family home. Among these locations are the Blackberry Meadow, the Fairy Forest, and the Peach Orchard and Gardens.
I hope that readers will find joy in the stories and illustrations, as do the fairies and other woodland creatures that call Windward Meadows home.
Jill Breaux
Mixed Media
Anderson, SC
Jill is an artist who up-cycles vintage linens to create one of a kind greeting cards. Some cards have embroidered words while others beautifully display re-purposed fabrics such as handkerchiefs, hand towels, table runners, and more. Jill also makes hand-folded star ornaments with patterned paper.
Kathy Smith
Book Maker
Anderson, SC
During the 70’s and 80’s I was part of the Atlanta art scene with a presence throughout the Southeast. My media were woven paper and collage on canvas with pieces selling in the thousands. In 2008 we moved to Anderson. In 2019 I began creating small handmade blank books in 7” x 5” and 5” x 3” formats suitable as keepsakes for drawings, journals, photos, and mementos. With covers of either decorative papers or gessoed boards done in a reverse photography process and Coptic binding, the books are suitable for gifts and worthy of display.
Sydney Gambrell
Painter and Printmaker
Pendleton, SC
Kelly Beth Pottery
Potter
Anderson, SC
Kelly fell in love with clay while making coil pots in elementary school. Once in college, she learned the wheel and graduated with a BA in Art. She began building her pottery business after college, but life happened. Now, years later, she has returned to the wheel and could not be happier about it. Most mornings, while her kids are at school, she can be found in her garage behind the wheel. Her work is composed of beautiful, usable pieces that are meant for the average person to be able to incorporate art into their everyday life. May her pieces add beauty to your home and help create memories around the table with family and friends.
Keturah Stoltzfus
Mixed Media
Abbeville, SC
Keturah Stoltzfus, of Abbeville, SC, is a free-spirited artist inspired by natural and old-fashioned processes. She combines elements of bookbinding, leatherwork, handlettering, and earth pigment watercolors into her creative practice. You can now shop her hand-bound leather journals, leather accessories, hand-lettered products and watercolor house portraits at Indigo Custom Framing and Artisan Market in Anderson, SC. Keturah loves to inspire others to awaken their creativity. You can visit her in-person at her atelier, located upstairs at Main Street Coffee Co in Abbeville, SC.
Lucia Bishop
Acrylic Painter
Abbeville, SC
She has "dabbled" in various art forms as long as she can remember beginning with crayons as a child. In college she took a few art classes but art was not her focus. After graduating she soon married and worked in her uncles gift shop becoming the store's buyer. Then children came and life naturally revolved around them.
In 2004 she opened her own business-home/garden items, jewelry and fresh flowers which she ran for 10 years. About 3 years ago she regained interest in art and started taking various art classes-jewelry pendants using encaustic wax, clay, mixed media and painting. Acrylic became her medium of choice. She is still learning and developing as an acrylic painter, using vivid, "HAPPY" colors in her work.
Lynn Bredeson's art reveals in the beauty of all things big and small, from homey hearth gatherings, to sweeping ocean vistas to fantastic angelic beings-all in vagrant color and playful detail her audience has come to expect. Her signature boards, whimsical characters and quiet gentle moments capture both the joy and the wonder of the human experience.
In her thirty years as a career artist and illustrator, Lynn continues to believe faith is the foundation and inspiration for all of her work and she takes personal delight in sharing her unique view of the world in all its playful imagery.
Lynn has been the lead designer for a large gift manufacturer, an illustrator of trade books, and has had her work displayed in galleries from Oregon to South Carolina. She continues to add to her over six hundred original acrylic and oil paintings for others to enjoy, collect and treasure. Thoughtful art, Lynn believes, just makes life better.
A transplant from the Pacific Northwest, Lynn now resides in the South with her husband Jeff and every chance she gets seeks to find inspiration and solace in her beloved, backyard garden.
Lynn is offering custom painted ornaments for this year’s holiday season. Pre-order now to receive your original hand-painted ornament(s) by December 1st.
Paula has been pursuing art in various forms since she was ten years old. She received degrees in art education and early childhood education from Asbury University and Florida State University. She found her niche in watercolors and enjoyed painting as time would allow while raising her two children. She taught in both public and private elementary schools for 34 years before retiring. She worked for an interior designer, providing paintings for physician offices and homes.
Paula has lived in Anderson for the past 21 years, where she enjoys spending time with her family, reading, and working in her garden. Her faith is an integral part of all of her paintings, as she thanks God for this beautiful world and for blessing her with this talent.
Sydney is a painter and printmaker, and she approaches her practice in an interdisciplinary way. She studies the impact of domestic architecture, most predominantly her childhood home. Inanimate objects and their history speak to her, and she often finds herself highlighting these connections within her prints. Most recently, she has begun working with acrylic gouache on synthetic yupo paper. She eagerly layers pattern, shape, and color in these intuitive and freeing studies. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Winthrop University and following graduation, she joined the team here at Indigo.
Featured Local Authors
Allie McDade
“Dear Mac,”
Riley Sloan Powell
“Let’s un-Do This”
Taylor Henry
“The Land We Love Together”
Teresa Bauer
“He Called Her Beautiful”
