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Wendy Warren & Danielle Clark present Mother’s
Day art show
By Jeff Eason
It’s easy to love your mother, especially around Mother’s
Day. Sometimes, however, it’s harder to find things
that you and your mother both like to do.
Boone residents Wendy Warren and her daughter, Danielle Clark,
are lucky in that regard. They both enjoy expressing themselves
through the medium of visual art. And they both are quite good
at it.
Wendy Warren and Danielle Clark are currently presenting a mother/daughter
art exhibit at the Open Door of the Jones House Community and
Cultural Center. The exhibit is in commemoration of Mother’s
Day and will remain on display throughout the month of May.
Warren is well known in the downtown Boone community as one of
the co-owners of the hair salon Split Endz on King Street. The
new art exhibit is partly the result of Warren being the hair
stylist for Watauga Arts Council’s visual arts coordinator,
Jenny Schrum.
“I cut Jenny’s hair and she saw my art in the salon
and suggested I put together an art show,” said Warren. “When
the gallery was open for the month of May, I had the idea of doing
a Mother’s Day show with Danielle.”
Warren has been painting for the past 13 years since a friend
of her gave her some art supplies.
“I had a friend give me a lot of oil paints, that’s
how I got started,” said Warren. “My style was really
rough at first. It’s interesting to me how my style has softened
over the years. With oils, you can blend them and work with them
for a while. They are much more forgiving than other kinds of
paint.”
Wendy’s softer, fluid and colorful style has made her one
of the more popular new painters in the High Country. Danielle’s
style, by contrast, is more dominated by sharp lines in a modern
graphic arts manner.
“I started making art about four years ago when I was in
my freshman year at Watauga High,” said Clark. “I started
studying with Miss (Lori) Hill and she really got me interested
in it along with what my mom was doing at the time.”
Clark’s pieces in the new exhibit demonstrate a capable ability
to make art in a variety of media. In addition to paintings, her
works include pen and ink drawings and computer graphics.
“Pen and ink is my favorite but I’m starting to get
more into oils now,” said Clark. Soon to be a WHS graduate,
Clark will attend Appalachian State University in the fall with
hopes of being a graphics design major. “Ultimately, what
I’d love to do is design graphics for snowboards.”
During last Friday’s opening reception at the Open Door Gallery,
mother and daughter received compliments from area art lovers
and each other.
“I get my talent from my mom,” said Danielle.
“I’m just so proud of her,” said Wendy.
Wendy Warren and Danielle Clark’s Mother’s Day art exhibit
will remain on display at the Open Door Gallery in the Jones House
until the end of May. Other exhibits at the community center include
Shelly Hehenberger’s The Forest of the Heart in the Mazie
Jones Gallery and the Shooting Stars’ student art throughout
the Jones House stairwell and upstairs hallway.
All three exhibits are presented by the Watauga Arts Council and
sponsored in part by Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Grassroots
Funds of the North Carolina Arts Council.
For more information, contact the Watauga Arts Council at (828)
264-1789.
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