Weekender
by Bradley Hartsell
A painting by Bill Turner, who says he tries to accompany abstruseness to simplistic pictures.
The 8th anniversary Atlanta Arts Anniversary will be hosted in Piedmont Park September 13 -13. The accident will advertise arch artists, including Newnan built-in Bill Turner.
Turner has been a able artisan for added than 30 years, alpha his career as a photographer. A self-taught painter, Turner will accompany added than 200 added artists in 12 altered mediums for the Atlanta event.
Turner credits his assignment as a columnist for the afflatus to paint.
"With photography, I wasn't able to actualize the eyes I had in my mind," said Turner. "I capital to stylize the picture, so I accomplished myself to paint. I could change the sky, add article or booty things out."
The bounded artisan describes his address as impressionistic, admitting he prefers smooth, attenuated edges and a accomplished assignment chargeless of besom strokes.
"I like bendable edges giving the paintings a abstruse and abstracted quality," Turner said. "I leave out the detail in adjustment to accomplish it a added simple, added able image."
Turner confused to Newnan in 1994 from the Little Five Points adjacency in Atlanta. He was fatigued by the rural mural and the able bounded arts community, represented over the years at the Powers' Crossroads Country Fair and Arts Festival. Turner says while he admires the abounding accomplished painters active in Coweta, he has displayed his works added nationally than locally.
"I appear mostly civic art fairs, agnate to the one at Piedmont Park," Turner said. "Most of my paintings are absolutely in added cities. I apparently accept added in Chicago than any added city, and I accept a lot in Texas."
Turner understands the address of a baby town, and why so abounding artists are fatigued to Coweta.
"I anticipate it's the admirable surroundings. Newnan is additionally low-key," he said, acquainted the county's abiding arts culture. "Powers' Crossroads Arts Festivals was a absolutely big accord 25 years ago. That was the aboriginal time I visited Coweta – back Tom Powers was active the anniversary – and acquirements about the abundant mural out here."
The arts business is harder these days, according to Turner, but he's beholden of how the Atlanta Arts Anniversary and added contest like it, encourages adolescent artists to accompany their passion.
"There's beneath of a bazaar but added artists now – not to complete like the old cynic," Turner said. " The art business today is dicey, but if you accept a affection and are determined, you should go for it."
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