In This Issue
September 2008
September 2008 | Vol. 5 No. 9
Featured Stories
- An Evening of the Arts
- Under Pressure
Employees must learn to manage stress for success - Don't Die of a Broken Heart
Featured Women
- Kim Tavino
The Secret - Lori Martin
Setting Goals and a Good Example - Ruth Halpin
You're Hired! - Lynne Anderson and Katie Girardi
Strengthening and Lengthening at Core Pilates and Yoga - Ashley Lamiroult
Daydream Believer - Barbara Fail O'Brien
- Debi Malool
Angel of Grace - Tina Bagneski
Only the Strong Survive - Sandy Baer & Company
One From the Heart - Rowena Deaton, Diane Wiggins, Terri Brashears, Trisha Campbell, Liesa Wright, Cindy Sprouse, and Maggie Luckey
Hilton Head Boot Camp Beauties Walk for the Cause - Patricia Maycumber
Less is More - Cindy Coburn-Smith
Spreading Wellness in the Community
Monthly Reads
- Ask the Plastic Surgeon
- New! - The Muse is In
The Muse of Breaking Rules and Thinking Differently - Happily Ever After
Marriage Check-up - Green Piece:
Green Godesses - Fitness:
The Fashion of Fitness - Suddenly Single
Not so Suddenly Single, But So Suddenly Alone?
ABOUT OUR COVER ARTIST:
This month’s cover art is entitled Ooh, La, La and is one, in a new collection of 12, of what Ellen Moriarty calls World Wide Women. “They came from nowhere. I just cranked the music in my studio, started with the eyes by placing them somewhere on the canvas and they just evolved.”
Ellen is no stranger to moments of artistic magic or whimsy. A native of conservative Greensboro, N.C., Ellen’s artistic talents were detected early in her childhood. She continued her study of art into college, but in her junior year she found love instead. Choosing to leave it all behind, she got married and followed her fellow to his school where no degrees in art were offered. Thus, Ellen decidedly changed her major to English Literature and graduated shortly after with a Bachelors Degree from the Quaker principled Guilford College.
But art remained her passion, only rivaled by her veracious appetite for travel. Fortunately, Ellen has found a way to meld it all together and even use that random English degree too. Her greatest passion of all is her creation of “The Traveler’s Sketchbook”. The premise of the Sketchbook is “Info-Entertainment” and her journal-like articles have been published in both magazines and newspapers. Basically, Ellen has traveled all over the world stopping all along the way to both write about her travels and illustrate them with live outdoor sketching. “I just take my backpack supplied with a cup, water, brushes, a sketchbook and paint. I set up anywhere, maybe a street corner, a sidewalk, a courtyard, and splash the color” – her terminology for painting an awesome rendition of her surroundings. “Every where I go, and every time I do it, people stop and watch. Conversations are fantastic. Art is a great [communication] leveler, like music. Even when people just smile and nod you know what they mean. One time in Guatemala a group of five little girls inched their way closer and closer to me as I sketched in the market of their village. I love market scenes! I nodded to their mothers that it was okay that they come closer. We had a delightful time. The girls would call out the names of the colors in their native language as I used them and then I would repeat it with them and tell them the color in English. We just laughed and had the best time!”
As each journey across the world adds another chapter to The Traveler’s Sketchbook look for Ellen’s most recent entry, French Lessons, which will be featured in the November edition of Pink. Then in spring, she is off to Bali and Singapore.
Ellen has called St. Simons Island, Georgia, home for the last 16 years where she enjoys walking, biking and taking in the fabulous marsh views. She is married to Bobby Rogers, has one daughter who lives in Colorado and most of all, is a self-proclaimed fantastic grandma to her three grandchildren.
View the entire World Wide Women collection in Art Downtown’s Gallery 209 located at 209 Gloucester Street in downtown Brunswick, GA. For more on Ellen and her other works visit www.ellenmoriartygallery.com or email her at moriartyellen@yahoo.com.
This month’s cover art is entitled Ooh, La, La and is one, in a new collection of 12, of what Ellen Moriarty calls World Wide Women. “They came from nowhere. I just cranked the music in my studio, started with the eyes by placing them somewhere on the canvas and they just evolved.”
Ellen is no stranger to moments of artistic magic or whimsy. A native of conservative Greensboro, N.C., Ellen’s artistic talents were detected early in her childhood. She continued her study of art into college, but in her junior year she found love instead. Choosing to leave it all behind, she got married and followed her fellow to his school where no degrees in art were offered. Thus, Ellen decidedly changed her major to English Literature and graduated shortly after with a Bachelors Degree from the Quaker principled Guilford College.
But art remained her passion, only rivaled by her veracious appetite for travel. Fortunately, Ellen has found a way to meld it all together and even use that random English degree too. Her greatest passion of all is her creation of “The Traveler’s Sketchbook”. The premise of the Sketchbook is “Info-Entertainment” and her journal-like articles have been published in both magazines and newspapers. Basically, Ellen has traveled all over the world stopping all along the way to both write about her travels and illustrate them with live outdoor sketching. “I just take my backpack supplied with a cup, water, brushes, a sketchbook and paint. I set up anywhere, maybe a street corner, a sidewalk, a courtyard, and splash the color” – her terminology for painting an awesome rendition of her surroundings. “Every where I go, and every time I do it, people stop and watch. Conversations are fantastic. Art is a great [communication] leveler, like music. Even when people just smile and nod you know what they mean. One time in Guatemala a group of five little girls inched their way closer and closer to me as I sketched in the market of their village. I love market scenes! I nodded to their mothers that it was okay that they come closer. We had a delightful time. The girls would call out the names of the colors in their native language as I used them and then I would repeat it with them and tell them the color in English. We just laughed and had the best time!”
As each journey across the world adds another chapter to The Traveler’s Sketchbook look for Ellen’s most recent entry, French Lessons, which will be featured in the November edition of Pink. Then in spring, she is off to Bali and Singapore.
Ellen has called St. Simons Island, Georgia, home for the last 16 years where she enjoys walking, biking and taking in the fabulous marsh views. She is married to Bobby Rogers, has one daughter who lives in Colorado and most of all, is a self-proclaimed fantastic grandma to her three grandchildren.
View the entire World Wide Women collection in Art Downtown’s Gallery 209 located at 209 Gloucester Street in downtown Brunswick, GA. For more on Ellen and her other works visit www.ellenmoriartygallery.com or email her at moriartyellen@yahoo.com.
