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Featured Artisans At Juried Show

The Juried Artisan and Craft Show at this year’s Hebron Harvest Fair, September 8-11, 2011, will feature over 40 artisans from the New England Region and New York. All products at the show are handmade by the exhibitors. Some of the featured artisans include Chong and Judy Lim – Island Designs, Scarborough, Maine; Don Hart, Ledyard, CT.; John Houle, Hamden, CT; Leonard and Regina Eldridge, Warrensburg, NY; Gary Elias, Woodbury, CT; Robert Zarcone, Moodus, CT; Jeanne Kent, Washington, CT and Constant Waterman, Stonington, CT.

Island Designs will be exhibiting and selling cards and pictures made from handmade papers and engravings. Owners Chong and Judy Lim reside and create their images on Great Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine. Their art is a real team effort. Chong is a graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a major in printmaking. He does the designing for most of the artwork. From the original idea he makes the working drawings and carves the design into a metal plate. Judi also studied printmaking and painting in college. She does the presswork (the actual embossing and coloring). She also makes some of the paper they use and marbles other papers as well. The Lim’s say that their “primary focus is embossed and handmade paper. We create the original design, carve metal plates and emboss each piece in our studio. We also do all our own framing and make many of the homemade papers that we use. Our images are highly representational, sometimes bordering on surreal, with a style somewhere between Eastern and Western. The emphasis is on clean, fine, and delicate detail. We believe that we are preserving centuries-old traditions of metal-plate engraving and paper embossing. We use machinery, equipment and technologies from an earlier period in our history.” Chong will be demonstrating his plate carving work at the show. The quality and fine detail of their work is a must see at this year’s show.

Don Hart Woodcrafts is a small operation based in Ledyard, CT. Don makes all of the items that you will see on sale at the fair, including kaleidoscopes, pens, pencils, key chains and bracelet assistants. Don has been a woodworker and wood turner for many years. By day, Don is a Network Operations Director for a Connecticut company. Nights and weekends Don “turns” all of his product and then sells them at selected galleries and Juried Shows. “This is my hobby,” Don will tell you, “what I do for fun and to relax.” Don never fails to mention his wife Patti. “She is a big part of what makes this all move along.” You can find Patty helping Don at all of the artisan and craft shows.

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"Gourd Mask" by Vicki Diamond is among the artworks being featured during July at Gallery 23 in Blairstown. BLAIRSTOWN — The windows at Gallery 23 will feature the work of Vicki Diamond and Susan Marie David in July. Come in...

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