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Easely An Artist
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: 2016/06 - June
It’s not always been “easely” for Jeanie Edwards. She just makes it look that way.
While Highlands is her home-of-heart, with family rooted on the Plateau, she hails from Alabama.
She believes in the expression, “You need to make a life you don’t want to take a vacation from.” So in the cold and gray of winter 2016, she made the trek to the Plateau and within two months established herself and a business, Easely an Artist, in the heart of Highlands.
Her art odyssey began at age 16. The wheel of fate rolled her into three classes with the same professor her first semester of college. She was young, inexperienced, and never had a bona fide art lesson… ever.
Struggling to keep up, her professor told her, “Don’t waste your time and money, honey. You don’t have what it takes to be an artist… even a bad one.”
Most folks would have dropped out, feeling forever defeated about their ability. But not Jeanie. She hung in there.
How do you get to Carnaigie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
And that’s what she did. After college, she became so accomplished she made the local front page. An intrigued professor came back to see her to make sure it was the same student he’d flailed and failed in college.
“It was great to be able to stand toe-to-toe as his equal,” she says.
Now a veteran art instructor, Jeanie brings her estimable skills to Highlands.
“To watch an insecure beginner learn to draw and paint and sculpt– to see the wow in their eyes– makes it all worthwhile,” she says
So BYO wine for an evening of painting or crafting to Easely An Artist at 114 North Fourth Street, Unit 3, Beginning to advanced classes are 6:00 to 8:00 P.M., Tuesday through Saturday. Open studio is 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. during the day. Call (828) 526-2933 for more info or go online to facebook: easelyanartist or easelyanartist.com.
