"King of Kudzu"- Mark Barnes, Weaves Innerbanks vines into visitors Hearts! -
Mark Barnes of Washington County, is an accomplished weaver using the vines of the Inner Banks to fashion beautiful, yet functional basketry and trellises. The woods of the Inner banks has become Mark's "supply market" for kudzu ,wisteria, and grape vines to build frames and jasmine for random weave. Marks passion began while he attended John C.Campbell Folk Art School, for Mark , a old North Carolina tradition became a new way to express his artistic endeavors .
His uniquely crafted baskets soon launched his work into the
heights of national basket competitions and national TV. Last September DYI network featured Mark as he gave a studio lesson to host Jennifer Perkins . Mark taught the viewers about vines they could find in their own backyard as well as the strength and malleability of vines needed to make a basket. He demonstrated how to make the main frame to the basket and taught variations such as the God's eye technique, random weave, and ribbed weave. Mark is more then your casual weaver, he is truly a educator and scholar. He has taught several classes in basketry in North Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. Although Mark was educated at UNC Chapel Hill, and previously the owner of Panini's and Oxford Catering Company, he is extremely personably and down to earth. When you engage Mark in conversation you will find he transcends his work by expounding the every history of the vine he crafts as he carefully studies the form his basket takes while he runs each vine through the carefully bent frame. What is even more facinating is how contagious Mark's love of basketry can be.
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Phillip Jarrell moved to Shanghai, in 2003. In 2004, he Co founded "5th Avenue Photography Studio" Shanghai, China.
Phillip works with a wide variety of clients, as he is photographing Fashion magazine covers (now numbering over 75), CD covers, celebrities, fashion editorials, fashion catalogues, and advertisements.
His experience in the industry includes work with clients such as Elle Magazine, Italian Cosmo Magazine, Stuff Magazine, Biba Magazine, Oggy Magazine, Can Cam Magazine, HOW Magazine, Men's Metropolis Magazine, Zink Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine Japanese Edition, Seventeen Magazine, Cosmo Girl, IMG Media, Details Magazine, America Online, Inc., G4 Media INC., Player Magazine, VH-1 Channel- New York, Prinz Magazine, Beatleg Magazine, Blender Magazine, In Tune Monthly , Process Magazine, China South Airlines In flight, many model agencies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Universal Records and Rampage Records, New York. Sony Music, Asia. Many fashion companies, for catalogue, and advertisement. Phillip has also been seen on entertainment news in China while photographing some of the most famous celebrities in China. He has been invited twice to serve as a judge, for International Modeling Contest, which were filmed for CCTV China.
In 2007 Phillip calibrated with the "Shanghai Chinese Opera Costume Institute" on a book project, which is now being used in a number of fashion universities around Chinese. Phillip is the only accredited photographer for the 160 page book, entitled, "Colorize". In 2007 Phillip also Collaborated with Sarah Foster, an extraordinarily talented art director, at Getty Images, to create a collection of dramatic, action images, some of which were targeting the topic of the 2008 Olympics. The idea was to work in colleague, making giant people, in the modern city of Shanghai, achieve impossible feats. Sometime a keen to Alice in Wonderland. These two projects gave birth to the technical skills and the creative work flow that would become, what is after 30 years of working as a photographer, Philip's first ever art exhibition. The work will show in Shanghai, China, and Sneads Ferry, N.C., simultaneously. Opening July 1, 2008
