Tyme Gallery, online art gallery featuring oil, watercolor, sculpture, photography, prints, reproductions, exhibition for artists, contests, juried exhibition located in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

Bette McCaron hand made & hand dyed baskets

Chris Starry weaving natural fibers

Elaine White functional stoneware

Dorothy Flanagan"You Go Girl" watercolor

Heidi Hammel wearable fiber re-claimed creations

Sarah Bourne hand made books

Doug Starry 4th generation chair maker

Tyme Gallery is proud to present “The Hometown Collective” of group of award winning artists and craftsmen with a Media Base. They will be exhibiting an eclectic range of work from hand made books, watercolor, weaving, natural fibers, chair making, wearable fiber re-claimed creations, functional stoneware, to hand made and hand dyed baskets. The opening reception is Friday July the 9th from 5:00 to 9:00 pm and the exhibition runs through August 7th.

Bette McCaron has been involved with weaving, basketry, and other fiber arts for more than thirty-five years. As a member of the Philadelphia Guild of Hand Weavers (PGHW) she has attended local and regional workshops and seminars. Participating in the PGHW’s annual exhibits, McCaron received the Hand-Dyeing Award in 2010, First Place Awards in 2005 & 2000, and a special Juror’s Award in 2000. She was included in “On the Fringe of Fiber” exhibition in the Philadelphia City Hall, 2009, juried into “Fiber Artists: Philadelphia: an exhibition of Texture and Technique at the DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pa in March, 2008 and April, 2006 and included in “Cultural Shock”, an invitational exhibit at the 1978 Maplewood Arts Center in Maplewood, N.J. in April, 2005.

McCaron has taught in the Philadelphia area for the Studios at Cannon hill, PGHW and the Sedgewick Cultural Center. She also teaches regularly at the Ocean City Arts Center and the Ocean City Community Education program in New Jersey. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for basketry and fiber arts through classes for children and/or adults. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Grenada, a certified Veterinary Technician, McCaron’s work combines influences from travel, animals and fiber arts.

Sarah Bourne, holds a degree in Studio Art. She mainly concentrates in Book Arts, Printmaking and Photography. Her work has been shown and sold in Asheville, NC, Philadelphia and Westtown, PA. You can find some examples of her Artist Journal pages in The Decorated Journal by Gwen Diehl. She has an upcoming book, Real Life Journals (expected date June 2010). She will be attending University of the Arts to obtain her MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking in the Fall.

In 1999 Dorothy Flanagan retired from being co-director and founder of Stratford Friends School and began pursuing a long held interest in color and painting. She came from a family of teachers, artists and musicians.

She began using watercolors with the encouragement of Thelma and Francis McCarthy. She studied with Jane Miluski, Nancy Barch, and Bonnie Mettler and has taken workshops with nationally known artists. Flanagan received awards in regional juried art exhibitions. She is on the board of the Philadelphia Water Color Society and a member of the Delaware Valley Art League. She travels extensively to travels to France, Italy, Mexico, Kenya and Greece inform my painting as I continue to develop my own style.

Chris Starry has been a fiber artist for over twenty years. She is a member of the Philadelphia Guild of Hand weavers and the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Her work has been exhibited at the annual Philadelphia Guild of Hand weavers’ show where she received special Juror’s awards in both 2003 and 2005. In addition she received First and Third Place in fashion accessories in the same years. At the Mannings Hand weaving School annual show she received 1st Place in fashion accessories in 2004, 2nd & 3rd Place in 2005 and 2nd Place and People’s Choice award in 2006. Starry hand-paints as well as dyes her yarns and works mainly with tencel and silk. Starry’s passion for fiber art has also found expression in the making of Temari, an ancient Japanese craft in which intricate designs are both woven and stitched on the surface of a ball.

Doug Starry started working as an apprentice for his father, a master craftsman, starting with the simple task as a chair maker. He took over the business of chair making for his father in 1985.
Starry stayed with the original design did some tweaking throughout the years both in the design as well as the woods that he uses. He found himself drawn to the beauty of walnut, cherry and ash woods in particular. Each tree, individual in nature, offers its own surprises as he transforms it into a chair. According to Starry, “I am always amazed to watch the individual grain of a tree appear as I hand rub the finish into the wood. This gives each chair its own uniqueness.” He uses no glue in constructing the chairs but instead he pressure fits the chairs together and uses only four nails. This is very like the Shaker technique of constructing a chair. His chairs have come a long way from the original porch rocker to one that enhances the beauty of the woods that he uses.

Heidi Hammel became a wool sweater addict at the impressionable age of 12, when her family traveled to Norway. She has worked with fiber ever since. Thrift and creativity prompted her to learn how to sew and decorate her own clothes. In early adulthood she designed and stitched fine embroidery on apparel and accessories, card-wove belts, made clothes and ran a commercial slipcover and re-upholstery business while earning a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Studies.

Her work reflects her twin commitments to creating beauty that serves a useful purpose in daily life and judiciously reusing the world’s resources. She sews one-of-a-kind wearable art from reclaimed materials: felt wool sweaters to create hats, mittens and scarves, lined in fleece; neckties, felted wool, silk, linen and cotton garments to shape handbags; parts of jewelry, vintage buttons, yarns, beads and lace, pompoms made on a 1940’s, 600 lb. metal lathe to embellish her work. Each item is a unique piece of functional art. By using familiar objects out of context, her work simultaneously provokes aesthetic pleasure and cognitive dissonance, which resolve into a chuckle of recognition.

Elaine White has been making functional wheel-thrown pottery for about 25 years. She uses stoneware and porcelain clay and high-fire my pieces in an electric kiln, so the pieces are dishwasher-safe. White has taken many classes at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford over the years, and is currently a member of the Advanced Potters Workshop and has been a member of the Hometown Collective for over 10 years.

White states, “I enjoy making wheel-thrown pots because I like the feel of the soft clay as it moves through my hands, and the symmetry of the forms that result. I strive for simple and classical shapes. My favorite form is the bowl, and I enjoy making variations of the shape and size.”

"Hometown Collective," a collection of fine arts and crafts. The opening reception is Friday, July 9th at Tyme Gallery from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The reception is catered with hors d' oeuvres from Antonella's Italian Kitchen in Rosemont and is free to the public. The artwork is on sale and on exhibition from July 11th through August 7th. Tyme Gallery is located at 17 W. Eagle Road in Havertown. For additional information about the exhibition, or for directions call 610-853-1215.