Ruth and Hoyal West

The Cherry Log Christian Church Arts Guild is proud to sponsor an exhibition of the nature paintings of Ruth West.  Ruth  West  began  painting  wildlife  after  moving  to  the  mountains  of  North Georgia  in  2004, mostly for  her  own enjoyment. Jokingly  she  says,  “I have trouble  getting  my  models  to  hold  still  for  the  paintings.”   Therefore, she resorts to painting from photographs.  Her  husband,  Hoyal,  makes  the  rustic  frames  for  the  paintings,  He makes some  from  old  weathered  wood  he  finds.

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C.W. Conner Art Exhibit
The art work of C.W. Conner was exhibited in the hallway and Fellowship Hall during May 2010.

C.W. (Claude W.) Conner is a self-taught artist who has worked with painting, drawing and wood carving over the past many years.  He began selling his work in 1996. 

C.W. was born in 1939 in Walton County, Georgia.  He spent much of his early childhood in the rural South among the simple joys of a way of life now forgotten.  His family moved to Marietta, near Atlanta, in 1943 so that his Father could find work.  As a boy and later as a teenage, C.W. ambition to become an artist grew.  As a young man, his desire to pursue a career in art was put on hold because of the need to earn a living.  So, he applied his native artistic talents outside the art world as a draftsman and in the building trades.  He has extensive experience in home design, building and landscape design.  Even though he did not any formal art instruction, over the years he continued to experiment with materials that were available to him to develop an original style of his own.