Morning Star Hosts Autumn Art Show
Blowing Rock gallery features dozens of regional artists

“Inspiration is all around us,” said glass artist Hermann Leonhardt, and seeing is believing. Mr. Leonhardt’s colorful glass bowls and vases capturing the colors of fail take center stage at Morning Star Gallery in Blowing Rock amidst painting, prints and sculpture also expressing the joys of this very special time of year.

Local painter and printmaker Wes Waugh is showing a collection of his favorite prints capturing the essence of the mountains in autumn. The brilliant display of leaves on Grandfather Mountain is aptly portrayed in his print “Grandfather Mountain, Sumi Inks,” as well as in several other prints expressing the many moods of Mother Nature during these splendid weeks of fall.

Paiter Trena McNabb is offering a collection of painting including “Seasons” that portrays Mother Nature as she traverses the seasons on canvas. In two smaller paintings, Trena shares a last look at her summer garden and an intimate moment with the beautiful winged creatures that live there. More paintings capture Trena’s unique ability to share her world with us.

Visitors to Morning Star Gallery will also see oil paintings featuring regional scenery and imaginative textural paintings on fabric from H.B. Berry as well as Roberta Nosti’s vivid silk paintings capturing the color in the mountains.

One of the autumn highlights at Morning Star Gallery is certainly the shadowboxes of real autumn leaves in all of the colorful glory we expect at this time of year. It is very hard to improve on Mother Nature, as these shadowboxes more than amply demonstrate. Design, color, depth, intensity: everything you expect from autumn is right there in these wonderfully constructed shadowboxes.

Morning Star Gallery invites the public to view the display of regional art as well as the collection of handmade items from artists throughout the United States. Morning Star Gallery has specialized in items handmade in America since 1985.

Visitors to the gallery will also find artisan jewelry and painted silk accessories as well as wooden albums, bowls, and small wooden treasures. Sparkling blown glass abounds as well as pottery and ceramic in small, unexpected whimsies.

As a special consideration for those who cannot let go of summer, Morning Star Gallery continues to offer the collection of giant flowers and garden accessories that delight the eye in every season.

Morning Star Gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery is located at 257 Sunset Drive in Blowing Rock next door to Crippens Country Inn and Restaurant. For more information, call (828) 295-6991.