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By Michele Roldán-Shaw
EDITORS NOTE:
I have always admired Louanne LaRoche’s work every time I would walk into Four Corners Fine Art and Framing. I was always greeted by Charlene Gardner’s endearing smile. Louanne’s work is always so colorful, free and unencumbered strokes, and expressive in many ways. Well, this month I asked Michele to interview her for The Breeze. Enjoy!

Artist Louanne LaRoche sits at her easel with the salt marsh and May River at her back. Dipping her brush into acrylic color, she adds detail to the canvas, a whimsical portrait of a blue bird in a richly patterned cage. Here in the studio she’s carved out from her living room, spirits surround her. Winged dog sculptures dangle overhead ...

Mary was recently featured in the Architectural Digest as part of the Sculpture Walk.

If you are even a little interested in art, particularly painting, and have been in this part of the Lowcountry of South Carolina for any time, Joe Bowler is a name you might recognize.

Four Corners is celebrating our Sculpture show in a special way this year. As a special honor to Judy Mooney, Four Corners Gallery will donate a portion of the proceeds from the show to fund a scholarship in Judy’s name offered by the Nobis project.

“There are lots of rules in a school setting,” says Fran Kaminsky, former chief academic officer of South University. “You’re managing students and teachers and schedules, you’ve got accreditation you’ve got to think about, and whether you’re meeting standards. That’s very different than:
‘Here’s a lump of clay: What are you going to do with it?’”

... Doug is printing a book of "Bluffton Sketches." These are a mix of pieces directly out of his sketchbook - the one that you see Doug carrying around town.

Having some new artists and some of our current artists showing new pieces Four Corners should be on your art finding radar this summer. Come in and check out new vibrant textured oils of various ...

Charlene Gardner chiseled the events of her day so we could meet to discuss the “Three Palettes” exhibit now filling her May River Road gallery in Old Town Bluffton through the end of the month. The show, which opened in February, highlights three featured artists —

Who knew that when Charlene Gardener - founder, owner and director of Four Corners Fine Art and Framing on May River Road in Bluffton - took her first woodworking class in high school in the Hudson Valley that the experience would contribute to her career direction all these years later?

Four Corners is pleased to present “Marge and Friends” a group show of seven talented ladies that happen to be neighbors. Marge’s friends include Karen Dale, Nancy Dwight, Clare Ellis, Sally Hickman, Susan Tarver and Nancy Waterhouse. Each one of the ladies expresses their creativity different than the next.

“The success of our very first sculpture exhibit in Bluffton was so rewarding and popularly received that a second annual sculpture show seemed absolutely necessary,” said the gallery’s Charlene Gardner. “We have invited six of the most accomplished sculptors, all with a special interest in the South, especially the Lowcountry.