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Cover Artist
Each quarter we feature a local artist on the cover of High Tide's Guide to St. Simons Island.
This has been our tradition since the first High Tide was published in the Summer of 1982. We have enjoyed sharing with our readers the
many different views of island life as portrayed by so many talented artists over the years.
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Cover Artist Ellen Moriarity
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Ellen Moriarty is a professional painter and photographer who
decided after living in Atlanta for twenty-five years, she would make
St. Simons Island her permanent "base of operation". She is the
creator of "The Traveler's Sketchbook", a journal type travel article
with watercolor sketches that has been published in select newspapers
and magazines nationwide. Sketches from "The Traveler's Sketchbook"
will be the featured exhibit in Art Downtown's Gallery 209 during the
month of September. After a recent trip in to France with her
stepdaughter Andrea, she was inspired to create a series of paintings
depicting women titled "Women of the World" that has been exhibited in
Georgia and South Carolina.
The beauty of the Golden Isles kindled a passion in her for
photography leading her to develop "The Artist's Eye", a series of
sepia photography depicting local landmarks, flora and fauna, and
lifestyle in the Golden Isles.
"Painting Alla Prima and Pasta", Ellen's idea of a fun painting
workshop, has become a favorite event at Art Downtown. In one morning
Ellen will lead you to a finished masterpiece you created yourself
before you enjoy a "painters' pasta" prepared by Ellen and served with
wine, bread, and dessert.
Ellen is married to Bobby Rogers, is a "fantastic grandma", and
a voracious traveler. She loves cooking, eating, bicycling, hiking,
walking, and exploring.
"Never say it all... Suggestion allows for participation and
greater involvement of the imagination for the viewer. I like to use
gesture as it suggests movement and whimsy. Colorful vignette studies
are a favorite because they allow me to go directly to what is
personally interesting -- and the paper and watercolors pack easily
into a backpack! Even with canvas work, I am more concerned with
light and movement than realism. The essence of the subject is all
that is needed to capture a feeling. For me, that is what it is all
about - feeling. That is the artist's task, to represent feelings."
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In This Issue
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Great New Location for Glynn Art!
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Glynn Art is moving into a new gallery, new classroom, new
pottery studio, new atelier, and new gift shop, all at 529 Beachview
Drive in the former Coastal Bank of Georgia building. Since 1953
Glynn Art has been the community's visual arts hub - a center for all
things visual arts.
In July view the Big Photo Show by the Coastal Artists Guild.
August features Beach View Blues and Hues with artists Dottie Clark,
Frances Landel, Kathleen Moore, Terry Shay, Carol Jo Smidt and Kathy
Stratton. September's exhibit is New on Beachview - Juried Members'
Show. Mark your calendar now for the 41st Annual Fine Arts and Fine
Crafts Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11.
New classes and workshops and an emphasis on children's art classes
are being planned. The elegant new gallery focuses on fine artists
and craftsmen with shows that celebrate the coast. Glynn Art is very
proud of its members who contribute time to community outreach; an art
club at Burroughs-Molette, art classes for Safe Harbor, Glynn County
art teachers' continuing education and Stroke Support Group pottery
classes are a few of the outreach programs.
Glynn Art has a membership for everyone in the community and
welcomes all to come by and see the exciting events taking place in
anticipation of the grand opening in September. Check out www.
glynnart.org or call 912-638-8770 for more information.
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HIGH 5 SUMMER FESTIVALS
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Fourth of July
Sunshine Festival
at the Pier Village Juried Art Show featuring over
65 local and regional artists, good food, family fun. Best fireworks
show in Coastal Ga begins at 9pm at the Pier. St. Simons Pier &
Postell Park
Brunswick's Old-Fashioned 4th of July
Games and prizes, music,
free watermelon, fireworks at dark Mary Ross Waterfront Park,
Downtown Brunswick.
Golden Isles Arts and Humanities: 912-262-6934, goldenislesarts.org
Independence Day Festival
Family oriented festival in St. Marys with
fireworks at dusk, 5/10K races, parade, food, entertainment, arts &
crafts. www.stmaryswelcome.com. 912-882-4000.
Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day Weekend Catfish Festival
It's the largest festival in
Southeast Georgia with free concerts, arts & crafts booths, southern
fried and Cajun catfish Kingsland Welcome Center 912-729-5999 or www.VisitKingsland.com
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Annual Labor Day Weekend Arts & Crafts Show
Pottery, jewelry,
painting, sculpture garden art, and more! 10-5. Postell Park / Pier
Village. 912-262-0628.
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Explore the Majestic
Marshes of Glynn
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Georgia's salt marshes act as nurseries for shrimp, blue crabs
and other shellfish and are home to a marvelous array of birds, fish
and wildlife. You can not really understand the magic of our barrier
islands without a visit to our marshes and their inhabitants.
Herons and egrets stand like statues at the edges of the tidal
creeks while various sandpipers scurry over the mud flats. Male
fiddler crabs wave their large, pale claws in territorial
warning. As enemies approach, they retreat as one. The secretive
clapper rail, or marsh hen, also races to the cover of the cordgrass
as the green-backed heron flies up the creek, keeping her comfortable
distance from intruders. Wood Storks soar on thermals above and
marshes while other birds ride on the free lift created when winds
crossing the marsh meet the tree line and are deflected upward.
Bottle-nosed dolphins pass, breathing rhythmically as they play
their games - diving and surfacing, often with babies close behind.
Brown pelicans fold their wings and dive for fish, indicating a
successful hunt by extending their bills upward as they swallow their
catch. Small terns also dive and then fly away carrying tiny silver
fish in their bills. Farther down the creek, an osprey folds its
wings, plunges feet first into the water, and flies toward its nest, a
fish struggling in its talons.
At low tide, beds of oysters come into view. Oystercatchers with
long, powerful, deep orange bills able to open shellfish, gather to
dine on exposed beds.
Toward dusk, deer stand among the trees on high ground, or
hammocks. In the evening the birds return to their roosting areas.
Wood storks and great egrets mingle in live oak trees next to the
water while herons rest nearby in other trees, restoring themselves
after their day's labors.
The human spirit too finds peace and reflection in the serenity and
beauty of our majestic marshes. Stand still and quiet. You can not
help but feel a profound appreciation of the miracle of nature and our
oneness with it.
The Golden Isles offer many different opportunities for enjoying
our most unique natural resource - our great marshes. Refer to our Fun
Stuff To Do section to see how many fun ways you can discover. From
guided nature tours, kayaking, nature walks or biking you'll be even
more in love with the Golden Isles after experiencing our Majestic
Marshes of Glynn.
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Rumi the Red Dog:
"Dog Days of Summer"
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Hooray!!! Summer's finally here!!! Time to go running down the beach,
playing with other dogs, stealing vacated flip-flops and checking out
people's lunch baskets... or is it?
What's this I hear about new summer rules for dogs on the
beach? Can that be right?? Most of the time the beaches on St. Simons
are leash-free, but from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day
different rules apply. My friends and I can still romp on the
beaches unrestrained before 9am and after 6pm (it's too hot in
between anyway), as long as we come when called and behave ourselves
- that might mean no flip-flop stealing.
But, during the heat of the day, 9am-6pm, different
beaches have different rules. For the area south of the Old Coast
Guard Station to the St. Simons Pier, no dogs are allowed on the beach
at all. They are allowed north of the Coast Guard Station, but must be
on a 10' or shorter leash.
On Jekyll Island dogs are allowed on the beach at any time, but
they always have to be on a leash... except at the very south end,
where baby birds are sometimes nesting, can't go there.
And of course, the rule of cleaning up after yourself (or having
someone do that for you) always applies.... that's just good dog
manners!
Of course, plan B can always be to find a friend with a pool, a float
and a tennis ball!
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