Clyde Butcher is an acclaimed photographer who has made it his mission to photograph and document wild and natural places across America for the last 50 years. He grew up in California and later relocated to Florida, finding peace and his life’s mission within the Everglades. His photographs reveal wild and natural places where few humans have ventured, with images capturing remarkable solitude and -wonder. His oversized dramatic images are a valued artistic expression of what we have, and what we might lose if we do not protect our environment. Butcher is an ambassador to the arts and the environment, a diplomat of the remaining wild places, and an emissary to the hearts and minds of Americans to protect our country’s natural places.
Clyde Butcher
Leslie Peebles
Leslie Peebles is an ardent environmentalist and naturalist who connects her audience to the flora and fauna of the southern landscape. The south’s vanishing wilderness, from the Everglades to the Dismal Swamp, has become a big source of inspiration for Leslie’s work. Her primary medium is printmaking; woodcut and lino-cut relief print, letterpress and collagraph. Carved blocks, cast letters and sealed collages are inked and “impressed” into paper on an etching press or a letterpress machine. Nature serves as a living metaphor for the connectedness of all things; internal, external and universal. The atmospheric layering of the pieces evokes the multi-dimensional layering of our experience and understanding of reality.
2nd Annual Glass and Ceramic Art Invitational
Instructors and students from the Turner Center for the Arts display works.
17th Annual Valdosta People’s Choice Photo Contest
Instructors and students from the Turner Center for the Arts display works.
