Her canvases explode with wild color and she abandons the standard forms of painting in favor of painting what is in her soul. She is a maverick when it comes to her art. What Maria Carter sees first is color, then form, when it comes to her...
To the uninitiated, the icon is beautiful artwork. The colors are rich and verdant – vivid yet transparent – illuminated. Burnished gilding reflects the light back on itself; night-dark indigo and deep vermilion gently glow. Yet these depictions of saints and holy figures – these icons – are not painted; they are written. They...
Fluco girls’ basketball Coach Chad White often repeats the axiom that “everything is built off our defense.” His team plays tight and aggressive man-to-man defense most of the time. That was certainly the case on Friday (Dec. 16) when the Flying Flucos hosted the Hornets from Orange County. The Hornets also played tough defense and...
Bill Hughes, former trustee of Nassau County, N.Y., U.S. Marine corporal, chef and Fluvanna activist, died on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, at the age of 70. William “Bill” McKenna Hughes was born on Dec. 12, 1945, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to William Alexander and Naomi (Jeter) Hughes. His family members described him as a man who acquired the...
Many Lake Monticello residents have looked out across from the marina and seen a little village with a working train on a dock. Some may wonder at the unique idea, some think it’s clever, but others know it’s Tom and Kay Ellis who live there. A civil engineer in his past life – designing water and sewer systems, treatment plants...
There is a distinction between fine art and decorative art, although recently that delineation has become somewhat outdated. While fine art focuses on drawing skills, decorative arts focus more on technique. This is the only thing that separates the Painters at the Lake (PATL) from the Fluvanna Art Association (FAA). The groups have far...
Where do you live?I live at Lake Monticello, which I previously called home over 35 years ago.How long have you lived in Fluvanna?I first moved to Fluvanna in 1977, and returned to live here in 2011, with many places and states in between (32 addresses in my life, so far, in fact!).What brought you here? I came to Central Virginia as a...
Elect Ryant WashingtonThe November presidential election may be behind us, but for Fluvanna residents a very important special election takes place on Jan. 10. A vacancy in Virginia’s 22nd Senate District was created when the incumbent Tom Garrett won a seat representing Virginia’s 5th district in the U.S. House of Representatives....
