A Local Gallery’s Newest Members
Present Their Works of Art

A mixed-media collage by Lee Manners. Photo: Special to the Star

By Shawn Ryan
Star Entertainment Editor
11-01-2007

Reprinted here in its entirety.

JACKSONVILLE — It’s 10:30 a.m. and Shea O’Donnell is touching up a cloud.

On most weekdays, Julian Jenkins focuses on architecture, a fairly regimented world of linear structures, stress tolerances and physics.

So in his off-time, he wants to balance that regimen with something a bit more fluid and unpredictable — watercolors.

“It has a mind of its own and I like that, the help that you get, the unexpected accomplishments you can get from watercolors,” says Jenkins, one of the owners of Jenkins Munroe Jenkins Architecture.

Starting Friday, Jenkins and Lee Manners, former head of the Art Department at Jacksonville State University, will be displaying their works at Anniston’s ArtWorks gallery. Selected as Honorary Distinguished Members of the gallery, Jenkins will be showing his watercolors, while Manners will exhibit mixed-media collages of paper and paint. ArtWorks members also will be exhibiting their new works.

“I like the texture things,” says Manners, who taught at JSU from 1956 until 1985. “It moves around, I put things on and take things off. … I try to use the material and not destroy the texture.”

When it comes to watercolors, an artist can control them to an extent, Jenkins says, but the medium is prone to sudden bursts of unanticipated color and fluid movement.

“To me, it helps the creativity by its own direction,” he says. “You can give it a little boost and it’ll work for you. It creates some excitement that you cannot get with oils.”

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Artworks Opening Reception

What: Works by Honorary Distinguished Members Julian Jenkins and Lee Manners and ArtWorks members.
When: 5-8 p.m. Friday.
Where: Art Works Gallery, 921 Noble St.
How much: Free.
Contact: 237-1259.

About Shawn Ryan

Shawn Ryan is the travel editor and entertainment editor for The Anniston Star.

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