Beaufort Digital Corridor (BDC) will be hosting artist Earline Allen during Beaufort's Fall Artwalk on October 22.

About the Artist:

Earline Allen comes to the Lowcountry after a distinguished career as an art professor at Marshall University. While there she headed the ceramics component in the College of Fine Art. During that time, she was devoted to expanding the horizons of her students, and the development of the ceramics program. She has been academically trained and received a BFA in Art Education, an MA in Art, and an MFA in Ceramics with a minor in Painting. Professor Allen's porcelain works have been displayed nationally as well as internationally and can be viewed in The Best of Pottery, The Contemporary Potter, and 500 Teapots, Vol. II. Her work is in the collection of the American Ceramic Society's Ross C. Purdy Museum of Ceramics, the Zanesville Museum of Art, and the Huntington Museum of Art.

In recent years Earline has been expanding her involvement in painting. She believes that "art" isn't confined to any one medium, and neither is the artist. Her canvases become "life" by impulse and intuition. She allows energetic marks to guide her to a unity of mind, space, and time. Her preferred painting medium is acrylic which can mimic the thick, lushness of oil paint, as well as the fluid transparency of watercolor. Utilizing both characteristics is visible in her work. Allen doesn't feel constricted using any technique if it allows her to express the meaning that she wishes to convey. Her paintings speak of energy, the life force, and a search for understanding the ultimate mystery of life and death. Energetic, spontaneous marks eventually construct images reflecting significant personal meaning through abstract patterns. These patterns, suggested by the ritual of creation, are expressed through the placement of color, shape, and texture. The blank canvas becomes "life" by impulse and intuition, leading to a unity of mind, space, and time.

Allen has shown her paintings at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, the Coastal Discovery Museum Hilton Head, and The Vendue in Charleston, SC. She recently exhibited her paintings online in "Some Like It Hot" I and II, as well as the 130th Annual National Association of Women Artists INC, Exhibition. Currently, Allen is preparing for her second solo exhibition in November at _Atelier Off Bay _in addition to an upcoming ABT Group Exhibition at the Coastal Discovery Museum in Hilton Head, SC.

She is a member of the Art Beyond Tradition Group, the National Association of Women Artists, and an exhibiting member of the Hilton Head Art League. Allen's work can be viewed at Maye River Gallery in Old Town Bluffton and the Atelier Off Bay, in Beaufort SC. You are invited to visit her website at Earline Allen Originals LLC.

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