Driftwood Gallery

Bidding is now open!!!!

https://app.galabid.com/tbpif2022/items

thebaypointislandfoundation.org

On Dec 3 at 7pm go to:
https://app.galabid.com/tbpif2022/items
to bid on gorgeous artwork in efforts to support sea turtles and migratory birds on Bay Point Island 🏝️ Learn more about the research and register at www.thebaypointislandfoundation.org 🐢

Almost Black Friday..and do I have an idea for you! ❤️💚 Shop from the comfort of your home on Dec 3 for a live auction (GalaBid) and bid on beautiful local artwork of Beaufort County SC that supports local wildlife! What better way to give this season than through supporting local artists and their art for your loved one to enjoy while also supporting The Bay Point Island Foundation in protecting migratory birds and sea turtles! 🦅 🐢 🎨 🐬 You can also go in person at Driftwood Eatery if you do not want to attend remotely!! Go to thebaypointislansfoundation.org to learn more about the research!!

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Two of the prettiest scenes in the Gallery are also the simplest, most peaceful scenes. Holly’s wonderful use of color and shading, her intuitive brush capturing the poignant moving stillness and tranquility in these quiet places. Evoking the tranquil serene inhalation of early morning on the marsh and the peaceful privacy of the quintessential a back country road, Holly has masterfully conjured both the scene and feeling of reconciled lightness in one fell swoop. Serenity now in all her glories in oil on canvas and haloed by hand-painted gold wooden frames. Don’t let these beauties pass slip through your fingers, they will not be here long! 🖼

• Sanctuary Dirt Road // $400 USD + tax
Oil on 8x10 panel, framed in hand-painted gold wood
 
• Early Morning Light // $400 USD + tax
 Oil on 8x10 panel, framed in hand-painted gold wood
 
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Talk about a sneak preview! These Holly Bjorkstrom beauties will be available in the gallery starting today - incredible seascapes and morning mists in all of Holly’s talented glory. Watch our stories for the full installation and more sneak peeks of Holly’s exhibit! 👀🖼
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It’s March 14, which means it’s π Day! Not Pie Day but almost as good, and it’s celebrated by award-winning pie baker extraordinaire, Lauren Ko of ! Here are some incredibly, edible, dividable, artistically calculated creative delights from her kitchen. 😍🥧
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It’s International Womens Day and we’re celebrating the wonderful women in ours! We’ve had the privilege and honor of working with these incredible artists - women in our local community who have marched to the beat of their own drum and taken the world on in their stride, breaking barriers, borders and beating the odds, striving to reach their own potential and achieve their dreams, inspire the next generation of creatives and change the world.

These artists, scientists, philanthropists, writers, community activists, civil rights leaders, poets, veterans, nurses, world travelers, missionaries, healers, entrepreneurs, teachers, mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends are all in one and one in all. All these things, these achievements and lifetimes of work and inspiration and sacrifice and dedication (and more!) in just this one carousel. How many more could join this list and how many more to come? We celebrate you today and every day for your creativity and bravery and courage to share it with the world, moving and inspiring the many, and the many, many more to come. Thank you.

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Some more jewel-colored beauties from to grace your walls, and we’re swooning over here!

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“I hope you get to be with someone who is a home and an adventure, a soul who calms you and drives you wild. I hope your heart settles with a person who accepts you fully but pushes you to reach your highest potential. Someone who fights for love in the same crazy way that you do.” - Sylvester McNutt III.

Celebrating love in all forms today from some of our favorite artists! Wishing you a week full of love, friendship and endless joy. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Celebrating Michael and Dino on their success being featured on Good Morning America with Kenneth Moton, who journeyed all the way to South Carolina to learn more about the incredible history and artistry behind sweetgrass basket weaving!Michael and Dino are partners and dear friends of and , and celebrated master Sweetgrass basket weavers. These 7th-generation Sweetgrass basket artists and respected Gullah elders are dedicated and passionate in both carrying on the refined artistry in this sacred cultural tradition, and in passing their craft on to the next generation of Sweetgrass basket weavers.

Driftwood Gallery, the Bay Point Island Foundation and BPI Launch are honored and proud to have partnered with Michael and Dino to cultivate a crop of Sweetgrass on Bay Point Island for their exclusive use in order to help increase their crop and basket production, continue their educational workshops and demonstrations on BPI and to help them carry on this beautiful craft and tradition to the next generation of sweetgrass basket weavers for years to come.

The Annual Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration is a month-long showcase of the rich cultural heritage of the Gullah people and their history on Hilton Head Island throughout February. The annual Gullah Market takes place at the Coastal Discovery Museum on February 19.

View the complete GMA video here: goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/baskets-heritage-82602084
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So honored to be the featured artist for this years Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration. I invite you to “Experience the Culture and Cherish the Legacy” of the Gullah Community on Hilton Head Island throughout February. Events focus on the tremendous cultural contributions of Gullah People. From art to food, crafts and music, and history, there is something for everyone to enjoy!

Experience an all-access pass into Gullah culture during the Gullah Market at the Coastal Discovery Museum on February 19th, just one of many events scheduled during Hilton Head Island’s month-long Gullah Celebration!

Can’t make it to the Market? Artwork by Amiri Farris is available for purchase in the Museum Gift Shop. (843) 689-6767 or CoastalDiscovery.org.

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So honored to be the featured artist for this years Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration. I invite you to “Experience the Culture and Cherish the Legacy” of the Gullah Community on Hilton Head Island throughout February. Events focus on the tremendous cultural contributions of Gullah People. From art to food, crafts and music, and history, there is something for everyone to enjoy!
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Experience an all-access pass into Gullah culture during the Gullah Market at the Coastal Discovery Museum on February 19th, just one of many events scheduled during Hilton Head Island’s month-long Gullah Celebration!

Can’t make it to the Market? Artwork by Amiri Farris is available for purchase in the Museum Gift Shop. (843) 689-6767 or CoastalDiscovery.org.

If you’re from the South, you’re also celebrating Celebration Month, honoring the ancestry, history and culture of the Gullah Geechee people up and down the Gullah corridor on the East coast. We’re kicking off the celebrations on our page starting with our dear friend and prolific Gullah figure in the community, . Shining bright on the cover of the February issue of , Sonja is an artistic figurehead, activist, jewelry maker, entrepreneur and advocate for and with her community. Sonja’s pieces speak deeply to us, sharing the rich heritage and culture of the Gullah Geechee people and their journey.

A veteran and local artist, intuitive poet and story-maker, Sonja’s pieces are especially poignant and layered, often accompanied by her poetry or a story from the subjects point of view, and creating these windows into the past, weaving them into her pieces in a way that highlights our shared history in the American South while championing the journey of the Gullah Geechee community and the successes and trials they have overcome since their journey, and still even now, in a moving, very meaningful way.

We are deeply honored and proud to call this artist and human being a friend and advocate, and to celebrate her moving artistry, her Gullah heritage and history.

Sonja is a lifelong Beaufort native. Her work can be found exclusively at the in Bluffton, South Carolina.
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“Blooming through the frost…” 😍 Some inspiration for you as we get halfway there! May the rest of your week be bloomingful. 🌺

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Did you know that the 2022 color of the year is Very Peri? “A new Pantone color whose courageous presence encourages personal inventiveness and creativity.”

“Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit, inquisitive and intriguing PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we rewrite our lives.”

Carefree confidence, daring curiosity and personal inventiveness are three ways to describe these incredible pieces, (and the artist!) that completely invoke the spirit and periwinkle power of this years color. A color that was created for the first time in the history of the Pantone program, specifically because, “As society continues to recognize color as a critical form of communication, and a way to express and affect ideas and emotions and engage and connect, the complexity of this new red violet infused blue hue highlights the expansive possibilities that lay before us”.

And nothing could be truer or more ably expressed in Jenan’s pieces, than the expansive possibilities that lay before us.

DM for more information on these pieces or to purchase.
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“If I cannot do great things, i can do small things in a great way.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Blue Monday be damned, we’re making big moves this week, made up of small great moments and big great things. As I tell my 8-year old every day, “do great things today.”

Our personal favorite in the Gallery right now, this beauty is pure Heaven. “You in Me”
from the inspired whimsy of Jenan McClain has us mesmerized. Get lost in these delicate pastel pinks, twirling petals around lustrous limes and citrus-y chartreuse. Framed in gold that highlights the subtle undertones across the canvas, You in Me highlights any wall, inspiring, lending calm strength and peace.

You in Me
21” x 25”
DM to purchase or for more details.
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Merriest Christmas and Happiest Holidays from Driftwood Gallery. May your day be filled with family, joy and gratitude. Cheers to you!

You’re invited!!

Please join us for a very special evening celebrating the natural beauty of Bay Point Island!

The Bay Point Island Foundation invites you to an exciting evening of friends, food, art and culture celebrating the beauty and importance of Bay Point Island. Please join us for this event and learn all about the Bay Point Island Foundation's mission, efforts to conserve and protect its vibrant, vital ecosystems, and even secure your chance to bid on local, one-of-a kind artwork created on the island!

Hosted by Driftwood Gallery, this event is a private, invite-only exhibition and auction of the masterful artworks created on Bay Point Island for the BPI Plein Air Experience. The BPI Plein Air Experience was a specially created signature experience that took place in September 2021, specifically designed for artists who specialize in and exemplify plein air landscape painting in the Lowcountry and surrounding areas. Using the Bay Point Island landscape as their muse, artists created works that encapsulate the absolute majesty and wild natural beauty of this uninhabited barrier island.

To secure your tickets to this coveted event, please RSVP by following the link in our profile.

Snag an incredible one-of-kind, unique Lowcountry artwork, sweetgrass basket or jewelry set, help our conservation efforts and enjoy food, friends and fun with this festive event! You won't want to miss being a part of something this special.

Featured local artists and their selected works are:

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Stumped on finding the perfect something for Christmas? *ahem We have Jenan McClains in the building!! We have them! Amazon wish lists are for suckers — we have that coveted item this year and they are truly one of a kind 😉

Be everyone’s Christmas hero and get them their favorite gift that will last a lifetime, and bring joy and introspection to everyone who sees it.

DM to purchase any of these beauties or with any questions!

• Piece I: Open Hearts
• Piece II: Protective Clouds
• Piece III: Another Dreamer
• Piece 4: Patience & Strength

Jenan is also a featured as a BPI Plein Air Experience Artist, exhibiting her latest plein air pieces created on Bay Point Island during our Silent Auction benefitting the Bay Point Island Foundation tomorrow, Saturday December 11! RSVP now!
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Holy wall art, what? 😍😍 We gave you a sneak peek in our stories last week and today we’re showing the whole shebang! Peep this otherworldly sea sculpture from AllisonLuce that’s currently adorning the Gallery walls. Each one of these hand-made kiln-fired ceramic pieces is inspired by different corals and anemones, sponges, shells, and sea creatures and is hand-painted in fantasy techni-dream colors to create a swirling cascade that is her enchanted sea garden. Truly an underwater fantasy.

Allison explores the ephemeral nature of existence and the mystery of eternity through her ceramic sculptures and monoprints. An avid traveler, she has visited over twenty-five countries.

This love of travel has guided her professional career; she has been a Resident Artist in Denmark, Germany and Canada and has also served as Guest Faculty for Gordon College in Orvieto, Italy. She has served on the Board of Directors of Christians in the Visual Arts, a national faith-based arts non-profit, from 2010-2019 and has received numerous grants and awards for her artwork.

Allison's work can be found at: https://allisonluce.com.

Stop in on your next visit and check out this exquisite piece showing now through January, and stay for the amazing, dreamy waterscapes of . Truly a show worth stopping for!
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Please join us for a very special evening celebrating the natural beauty of Bay Point Island!

The Bay Point Island Foundation invites you to an exciting evening of friends, food, art and culture celebrating the beauty and importance of Bay Point Island. Please join us for this event and learn all about the Bay Point Island Foundation's mission, efforts to conserve and protect its vibrant, vital ecosystems, and even secure your chance to bid on local, one-of-a kind artwork created on the island!

Hosted by Driftwood Gallery, this event is a private, invite-only exhibition and auction of the masterful artworks created on Bay Point Island for the BPI Plein Air Experience. The BPI Plein Air Experience was a specially created signature experience that took place in September 2021, specifically designed for artists who specialize in and exemplify plein air landscape painting in the Lowcountry and surrounding areas. Using the Bay Point Island landscape as their muse, artists created works that encapsulate the absolute majesty and wild natural beauty of this uninhabited barrier island.

To secure your tickets to this coveted event, please RSVP by following the link in our profile.

Snag an incredible one-of-kind, unique Lowcountry artwork, sweetgrass basket or jewelry set, help our conservation efforts and enjoy food, friends and fun with this festive event! You won't want to miss being a part of something this special.

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Thrilled to announce that the wonderful is in the Gallery!! Through March, you’ll have the opportunity to stop in and fall in love with her beautiful waterscapes and poetic artistry and take some home for yourself! Throughout the week we’ll be debuting Jenan’s pieces and giving you a sneak peak of her latest exhibition!

Jenan’s art transcends her canvas and takes us to a place where poetry and art meet to create an experience. Her words, thoughtful and deeply moving, often accompany her artwork and bring the viewer to a place both vulnerable and inspiring. “Accompany” is the perfect word for her pieces, as with each word, often shared from personal experiences, add layers to her canvas that help bring these waterscapes to life.

Jenan will also be featured as a BPI Plein Air Experience Artist, exhibiting her latest plein air pieces created on Bay Point Island during our Silent Auction benefitting the Bay Point Island Foundation on December 11.
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