Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ f Tommy Lockhart f puts the finishing touches on a small bottle. The glass^ (Right) The Hi Street gallery and stu is the third location One Eared Cow Git The first bcation wa: a BishopviUe bam,t the second was a wo house on Pulaski Strt -- i M |||k^ mmrn A ] I One Eaf for Hand Bio irelet. y r* - $^ y ^ g>i ^ y4s & - - H \" " ,' v/ ' % + HSg !; ";,r'!'^'.' ' v/ V PVHl^HHHi^ Sw-, > m Mml^^KKm'M fij |; | B^hJ BBSeC* * "Unlike a lot of people with high-paying jobs, we enjoy coming to work everyday," says Woodham. The "work" includes more than just the artistic side. The two have learned to run a business, something they say was totally new to them. "We're art majors," says Lockhart. "We knew nothing about running a business when we started this. When we first started out, we'd pack our cars full of glass and travel as far as we could in one day. That's how we sold stuff." "Its real easy for us to just make stuff all day long," says Woodham. "If we had someone come in and sell it for us, that would be perfect." The two survived on word-ofmnn rU f;,c- f-.., l"^uui i wi uiv uioi itvv y v^ai o aiiu a it now trying to find the budget to expand by advertising. !ED COW GLAS! wn Glass Gallery Studio i|:.' JO I , V, * "<. BBHBHHEj Jro V;:-. y" PBTSl y^-f.BB Biii^,, ? ^Bp^fl IHp ; ?|^ ???* v . v^|M MI?-C a nn^ct-ir\n r\( ^ rlr-? \I;P> orK/Art-i C?> I and get our name out and hopefully get more people in here, or do we make the house payment this month?" says Woodham. Limitless Possibilities "Working with glass is so limitless," says Lockhart. "You can come in here and make something that's never been made before, and for me that's pretty exciting. Its a continuous learning process." Their artwork, though they make many vases and bottles, is decorative first and practical second. But, says Woodham, "Sometimes we have to tone it down a little. Our stuff is a little more commercial than sculptural sometimes because that's the market we're in. People <mS (Left) The pair's glass ereitions are decorative first, but ilso functional. "Sometimes we have to tone it doum a lit :le," said Lockhart. South Carolina is not quite as open X> purely sculptural pieces,as other places where One Eared Cow Glass artwork is iold, said Lockhart. here don't really click on sculpture." They consider their art to be "work in progress." Each piece they create can yield new ideas to build on. "It's an evolved work," says Lockhart. "Stuff we made two or three years ago we think, 'I can't believe I made that.'" "I don't think we'll ever be completely satisfied with the stuff we make," says Woodham. "I've always felt that's the way to be an artist....Once an artist starts to really like his work, then it goes downhill. "Our skills are evolving. Our ways of thinking are evolving. In our eyes, the stuff we make continually grows and evolves. "That's the rhallence nf olass " 0- - 0