About Us
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Art runs through our veins in alizarin crimson...
We are mother and daughter lifetime artists, writers and instructors. We strive to share our inspirations from nature and to make a difference in the way you see it. Please stay a while and be sure to stop by again as our work changes with the seasons.
Beverly holding Christy in front of her work in progress, Los Gatos, CA. circa 1970.
what we create
Our Bios
Beverly Baker
- Beverly Baker is an Atlanta based multi-media artist whose work is included in the permanent collections of Fernbank Museum of Natural History and the High Museum of Art as well as in private and public collections including several recent acquisitions by Birgit and David McQueen and by J.Rutherford Seidel, II.
Starting out as a textile designer in NYC during the late sixties when all things new and groovy were happening there, she was one of the designers who created the exotic animal print movement. A love of patterns and natural resources continues to inspire her work in drawings, paintings, photography and most recently, print making.
Terrific new developments in archival printing techniques have enabled Beverly to use the computer to invent new spins on the representation of time honored flora and fauna. This mix of traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with computer generated effects creates unique images with new natural history stories to tell.
Beverly is active in the Atlanta arts community having served as a founding member on the boards of the Atlanta Photography Group, The High Museum of Art's Photo Forum, and as former Vice President and Chairman of the board of Art Papers as well as on the advisory board of the Hambidge Center of Georgia. Beverly's current projects include writing a mystery novel steeped in art history and exhibiting at Blue Heron Nature Preserve as well as the annual Art Papers Art Auction.
Selected Collaborations
- Family Dynasties Show, Swan Coach House Gallery
- Etowah River Archaeological Site illustrations for historic preservation
- Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church Memoir Group Book, The Place Light Gets In, now available in print!
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Christy Baker Knight
- Christy writes about the emotional side of the natural world while teaching art and environmental awareness to a wide audience of all ages. She reads her WIPs aloud--accents and all--to a weekly sharp and supportive writer's group, pens award-winning environmental fiction as @talkingflowers in the Wattpad Community and writes a monthly feature for a local print magazine.
- Holding a BA with Distinction in Art from the Colorado College, Christy began her career as an Exhibit Designer for Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Her illustrations for Field & Studio Productions, Ltd. have been published by Chronicle Books, the Nature Conservancy of Georgia, and the Journal American Rhododendron Society. She’s been awarded prestigious commissions of product design, promotional art and murals by the Humboldt Field Research Institute, the Southeastern Flower Show and the Fulton County Arts Commission. Christy has exhibited and sold her work nationally in juried shows and galleries, and her meticulous yet lively botanical illustrations are in the collections of many private patrons.
- Christy enjoyed running a popular neighborhood Fine Art School for a baker's dozen of years. An Art Program Partner and fully trained Environmental Educator at Blue Heron Nature Preserve from 2015 to 2021, she is now excited to be teaching art classes for all ages and abilities at Chastain Arts Center and Abernathy Arts Center. Christy also continues to enjoy weekly private lessons with her talented students (Pen & Ink Portrait of the Art Teacher by Mary Woody) and currently teaches the Visual Arts Scholars Program for the High School at Atlanta Classical Academy.
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