Artist Event at Interiors Marketplace!

What: Art Event featuring Wendy Bilas and Stephanie Joyce
Artist Reception:: Artist Cocktail Reception on Feb. 24th, 5pm-7pm
Opening Weekend: February 25th and 26th, 10am – 6pm
Where: Interiors Marketplace

More about the artists ...

Stephanie Joyce, Painter/Printmaker

[frame_right][/frame_right]Stephanie Joyce grew up along the Little River in Virginia. She was primarily influenced by her mother, an artist, and her father’s love of nature. Both fostered a deep rooted appreciation of the natural world. In contrast, Stephanie moved to New York City where she attended Parson’s School of Design and earned her BFA. Following studies abroad in Paris, she worked as a stylist’s assistant and later as a designer and colorist. After moving to North London, Stephanie began to focus on fine art. She set up a studio which overlooked rooftops and the Hampstead Heath and was intrigued by the misty, moody landscape of London and the English countryside. Her work began to take on an ethereal quality.

Stephanie now resides in Connecticut and lives on the Rippowam River which is a constant source of inspiration for her work. She is a guild member of Silvermine Guild Arts Center, and has exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Farum Gallery, Denmark, the Lockwood Matthews Museum, Carriage Barn Arts Center, Greenwich Arts Council, Artists Alliance of East Hampton, and New Century Artists Gallery, NY, NY.

Wendy Bilas, Painter

[frame_right][/frame_right]A native of Maryland, Wendy Bilas graduated with a BA from Duke and an MBA from Wake Forest’s Babcock School. Her formal art studies include training under nationally-acclaimed artist Andy Braitman, as well as workshops with impressionist Connie Winters and portrait artists Cedric and Jonette Egeli. In 2007, she was recognized as an Art with Heart Emerging Artist in North Carolina.

Wendy's love for the outdoors inspires landscapes in which she tries to capture the colors and light of nature as she sees it. While her subjects are always simple, she tries to use color, brushstrokes, and layering to create interest and complexity. Ultimately, it is the use of color that becomes the subject. She draws inspiration from classic impressionists, but it is her own sense of composition that gives her paintings the soulfulness to which she aspires.

Wendy works out of her home studio in Charlotte, NC, where she lives with her husband, ESPN basketball commentator Jay Bilas, and two children, Tori and Anthony.