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Blue Ridge Windows, the large Main Street display area of Imaging Acceptance Corporation’s headquarters in Warrenton presents “Gleanings from Rappahannock, 2001: Of and From the Forest,” the work of Rappahannock artist Jeanne Drevas.
The exhibit runs from Sept. 28 through Nov. 23.
Nature provides the materials for this installation, which features Drevas’ use pine needles, bark, honeysuckle, various grasses, sycamore and cattail fluff, scarred wood and whatever else she gleans as she wanders the forest.
This exhibit focuses on her handmade house, as well as her other, smaller works. Earlier this week Drevas began working in the actual windows, stuffing pine needles into a bird netting form, creating a large part of the exhibit.
The final product will remain unknown until right before Friday night’s opening.
Drevas’ studies of clay in Geneva, Switzerland, where she first experimented with terra sigillata and primitive wood firing with salt and sulfates, provided valuable learning, but she felt constrained by both the limits of clay and the single medium. She also spent
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