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COASTAL OBSERVER
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Vicki
Vigneault
finds a
photograph of
a baby
spectacled owl
by Reid
Watts,
who
smiles at
her reaction.
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Photos by
Tanya Ackerman/
Coastal Observer
Sue Middleton, of
Six Mile,
begins
work on
a new
sweetgrass
basket.
Atalaya keeps artisans and buyers coming back
FROM SECOND FRONT
Span’s Mediterranean coast —
with shoppers willing to buy.
Kyle Bullock, assistant park
manager, said attendance was
nearly 6,300, and rain in the
forecast never developed into
more than a sprinkle. It was
far better than last year when
showers left standing water.
James Hilliard, a Pawleys
Island area photographer,
said he tore his shop down and
moved it to Huntington Beach
State Park for the weekend. He
had a prime location, near the
gate in a spot that doesn’t flood.
“This is a real good show,
my favorite,” Hilliard said. “It
doesn’t hurt that it’s a home
show for me.”
He said that visitors are impressed by the value at Atalaya. “They find it’s worth the
price of admission,” he said, “to
weed out the sand painting.”
Murrells Inlet photographer
Sean Thompson said Atalaya is
always his best show of the year.
“Atalaya has a good reputation
as always being a good show
with a diverse collection,” he
said. “I’m really fortunate to
have attended the last eight
years, and now my customers
expect me to be here.”
The show had its usual eclectic mix.
Cat Wondergem and Rick
Steingress of Georgetown were
exhibiting a Japanese-style of
fish printing called gyotaku.
They apply oil-based paint to a
freshly caught and cleaned fish
and mold handmade paper over
its body, pressing with their
hands to get an impression.
Acrylic paint is used to embellish the image.
Pawleys Island area woodworker Glen Grant was showing furniture and wood craft.
Grant was an electrical engineer who decided he had nothing so show for 20 years of
work. He went to North Bennet Street School in Boston to
learn woodworking and started Craft-Wood Products. His
father was a woodworker in
the early-American style, and
Grant says he got into the trade
through “attrition.”
Vendors like jewelry maker
James Norton of Athens, Ga.,
and blacksmith Thomas Wooten of Todd, N.C., were at Atalaya for the first time.
“I wish I had found this place
years ago,” Wooten said. “This
is a good supportive crowd, and
I’ve made several good sales.
This is my best show in a year
or two.”
Carol Kim and her husband,
Jinsong, were selling painted
pottery.
“People here in Carolina are
so sweet,” Carol said. “They
take care of you.”
Wendy Newman of Moab,
Utah, was at Atalaya despite
a broken arm. She’s usually in
California in the fall but decided to drive east for a few shows.
“Artists talk,” she said. “It’s all
word of mouth. Who wouldn’t
want to be here?”
David Springer of Mount
Pleasant sculpts in metal and
wood. “I was at Sculpture of the
South and Spoleto, and somebody said, ‘You’ve got to do Atalaya.’ I just wish I had more
time to walk around.”
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