Georgia Fine Arts Academy

promoting the arts and humanities in Georgia since 1980

Current Exhibit - please note, due to renovations no exhibits will be held at the Atlanta Peachtree Library during the summer of 2010. The current exhibit is housed at the Art Spot's sister gallery in Athens.

Georgia artist Marshall Reddoch

http://marshalllreddoch.com

the summer of 2010 at the Athens-Clarke County Library

The art of Marshall Reddoch will be on exhibit at the Top of the Stairs Gallery at the Athens-Clarke County Library at 2025 Baxter Street in Athens throughout the summer. A gardener for Tennessee Williams in Key West during the playwright's last two years, Marshall Reddoch's paintings are mostly of flowers.

Reddoch grew up in Enterprise, Alabama in the south Alabama wire grass country of Truman Capote and Harper Lee. In a lifetime as varied as extravagant, his goal was to ultimately become a painter. His travels and youthful experiences took him to the the Art Academy of Florence where he earned his MFA in painting. His background includes independent study at the Memphis Academy of Art and at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. He became a Master Gardener in Tropical Plants and Tropical Fruit Trees and lived in Key West for 15 years where he owned and operated his own gardening business.

While a gardener for Tennessee Williams, he also became his confidante, receiving 3 a.m. phone calls when the playwright was depressed, and often preparing breakfast for him. After years in Key West, Reddoch studied culinary arts where he received an associate degree in Culinary Arts at the Art Institute of Atlanta. His life is filled with charitable volunteer work including being a member of the Jr. Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce, Chaplain of The Elks Club, a Mason, a Crisis Counselor at the Crisis Foundation, a member of the Heritage Lions Club in Athens, where 89% of its members are disabled, and Multiple Choices serving the blind and disabled. Reddoch is himself disabled after losing a leg due to diabetes.

More information and view of his work can be found on his website at http://marshalllreddoch.com.