Exploring Life & Business with Faith Tatum of Dynamic Fountains, Inc,

Today we’d like to introduce you to Faith Tatum.

Hi Faith, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Cartersville, Georgia based artist, Faith Tatum, has been honing her skills as an acrylic painter and sculpture artist for the pasted twenty years. Originally an industrial design engineer creating interactive water features and product display equipment, Faith has blended her artistic skills with her thirty years of design experience to bring together the perfect blend of her two passions. Her evolution into painting and sculpting has allowed her to extend the range of her talent and venture out into new creative and interesting endives and a style that is immediately recognizable.

She has worked with the Walt Disney Corporation creating a computer controlled water feature for the Little Mermaid show in Orlando, Florida and a memorial water feature honoring Lillian Disney in California. In addition, she has done interactive water features for the 1996 Olympics and the Martin Luther King National Park in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a design completion winner for the Savannah Georgia Airport and a four time Point-of-Purchase National Organization winner including the acclaimed Crystal award. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures have been featured in the Smithsonian rated Booth Museum and its associated gallery, the Smithsonian rated Savoy Automotive Museum, in individual art shows, and a wide selection of group shows over the years.

A list of past and present features are:

1. A large scale painting for the new Savoy Automotive Museum, permanent display.
2. Three large scale paintings for the Cartersville Public Library, permanent display.
3. Vortex Restaurant, permanent display.
4. Butterfly sculpture painting in Dillinger Park, Cartersville, Georgia.
5. Recently featured in the Cartersville Chamber of Commerce Magazine.
6. Recently featured in the Savoy Museum article in the Atlanta Magazine.
7. Featured twice in The Daily Tribune, Cartersville, Georgia.
8. Multiple shows at the Downtown Gallery, Cartersville, Georgia.
9. Individual shows:
a. Heaven Blue Rose Gallery, two occasions.
b. Marietta Art Gallery
c. Cartersville Public Library, three occasions.
d. Polk Floyd Hospital
e. Roswell Performing Arts Theater
f. Jordan Scott Salon

Artist Statement
I find that the most exciting thing about being an artist is that I am continuously amazed at the evolution of my expression. With every painting or design my goal is to capture the essence of my subject while producing a lasting, emotional impression on the viewer. My desire is that the viewer will share in my creative vision while experiencing his or her own unique impression. This unique impression is escalated by the manipulation of color, line, form, and perspective in my work. By manipulating the figure with unexpected color, shape, or placement I hope to achieve a psychological dimension that cannot be experienced through realism. If I vaguely suggest a physical characteristic the viewer is encouraged to complete the figure in his or her own personal vision, and in a sense becomes truly involved in the mysterious experience of creating the art piece. To me, life is all about the experience, and the experience of art is life.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
My biggest struggle has been that my art is not traditional, It speaks to a limited, but artist, audience,

We’ve been impressed with Dynamic Fountains, Inc,, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I was Vice President in charge of decorative water feature design and application. I was closely involved in project bids and estimating, water feature layout and design, lighting aesthetics, and company marketing, I worked with an impressive list of clients including The Rouse Company, Walt Disney World, John Burgee Architects, and RTKL Associates to name a few,

Dynamic Fountains, Inc, was a custom water feature supplier that provided pre-engineered complete high tech programmable systems that included all hydraulic and electrical design and engineering services, sculpture fabrication and design, and interactive displays.

Contact Info:

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