Local artists Mary Holobaugh and Julie Woodrow will have their works featured in the Art Loft beginning with an opening ceremony during June’s First Friday celebration in downtown Delaware, Ohio.
Holobaugh
Capturing the essence of a scene and recreating it with paint on canvas in a realistic yet painterly way, is Holobaugh’s style. Whether painting a portrait, some long-eared owls she has stumbled upon while hiking, or out on site, painting in some rural location, she captures distance and dimension to bring a scene forward, so you feel like you are there. Mary can be found in her studio or much of the time out in the rural countryside, (her favorite) painting plein air. Mary also has been creating wax batiks since the early 80’s, starting from an experiment with a backdrop for a band. Batiking became a fun venue for color experimentation laying one dye over another, first placing hot wax as a resist, the end result often a surprise. The batik process is always a challenge, using new ideas and found metal objects as stampers to create a colorful story with a touch of whimsy. Mary has won many top awards with her colorful batiks. Mary is a charter member of Ohio Plein Air Society, her plein air work can be viewed at www.ohiopleinairsociety.com on the Gallery page. And, a plein group of painters called The Escape Artists, and she also sings in a band with her husband Clyde who is a musician.
Holobaugh painting
Woodrow’s newest body of work, is influenced by the artistic styles and philosophies of the many artists she has had the pleasure to
work with over the last three years. Her work plays between the blurry boundaries of sculpture and functional ceramics. Her experimentation with the Raku process has kept her exploring the subtleties of the many variables in the post firing process and how the variation in atmospheric condition influences the surface of her work.
The Art Loft is located at 59 1/2 North Sandusky Street in downtown Delaware, Ohio.
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