{"id":79228,"date":"2025-04-06T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=79228"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:10:13","slug":"shop-talk-molly-courcelle-studio-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/shop-talk-molly-courcelle-studio-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Shop Talk:<\/strong> Molly Courcelle Studio &#038; Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_79230\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79230\" class=\"wp-image-79230\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Shop-Talk-1-Molly-Courcelle-Molly-Portraits-Feb-25_EFL-0232-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"403\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-79230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Molly Courcelle. Photo by Emma Frances Logan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For Asheville artist Molly Courcelle, painting is not just about creating something beautiful\u2014it\u2019s a deeply personal act of faith and reflection. \u201cAs an artist, I try to visually represent spiritual themes and Biblical truths,\u201d she says. \u201cEach of my works is associated with verses taken from Scripture. Because of the personal nature of an individual\u2019s faith and the power of God\u2019s word, I have seen how the artwork and their verses can have profound meaning beyond what I have imagined or intended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Courcelle has maintained a working studio in Wedge Studios in Asheville\u2019s River Arts District since 2008. \u201cI now have added a gallery space where I share walls with four other artists: watercolor artist Kathryn Phillips, expressive painter Andreina Bates, Fauvist artist Tessa Lang and colorscape painter Tania Dirks,\u201d she says. \u201cThe addition has added such life and vibrancy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courcelle\u2019s gallery is located on the second floor of The Wedge Studios in Studio 2A at 129 Roberts Street, Asheville. The gallery is currently open Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information about Molly\u2019s work, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/MollyCourcelle.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MollyCourcelle.com<\/a> or follow her on Instagram and Facebook at Molly Courcelle Fine Artist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Asheville artist Molly Courcelle, painting is not just about creating something beautiful\u2014it\u2019s a deeply personal act of faith and reflection. \u201cAs an artist, I try to visually represent spiritual themes and Biblical truths,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-galleries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shop Talk: Molly Courcelle Studio &amp; 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