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50 Percent Off Sale All Originals By Danita Cole
December 9th, 2011
Charleston, SC - Local Artist Danita Cole Offers 50% off all Originals for the month of December. Join her in Marion Square, Downtown Charleston Sunday December 11 and then the following weekend both Saturday and Sunday between 10-4pm saturdays and 10-3pm on Sundays. We had a sale for Veterans Day and decided to extend the invitation to EVERYONE for the month of December. We are all feeling the financial crunch and this is my way of helping ease the squeeze!
November 22nd, 2011
Charleston, SC - Two local artists give back to their community and its people by using art to fuel life.
Art is often a solitary existence, no matter the medium. There are times of people and interaction and collaboration, but most of the hard work is alone in a room, in front of a blank canvas or a shapeless lump of clay or a blank screen.
It's easy for the artist to envelop herself in her own world i her own perception of things through the internal creative process. The greatest artists often look outside themselves, using life to fuel art; but two local artists, Danita Cole and Marjory Wentworth use art to fuel life.
Danita Cole's story is the stuff of novels. Originally holed up in the tiny English village of North Crawley, Bedfordshire, 16 years ago she escaped an abusive relationship, and a neighbor introduced her to the art of encaustics (also known as hot wax painting). He brought over the irons and waxes and showed her how to paint with them. She was...
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Ocean Artists Society And A Painter For The Blind
November 22nd, 2011
Charleston, SC - Local South Carolina Artist Danita Cole applies to the Ocean Artists Society:
I am a painter of the Ocean using an ancient technique known as Encaustics. Basically that means that I paint with colored bees wax! I use different methods to melt the wax, then while it is molten I paint. The technique dates back to over 400 a.d.; the ancient Greeks used to water tight their wooden ships with bees wax and then it was a natural progression to pigment the wax and to paint with it. It is the oldest medium still being used by artists today. I use the exact same ingredients today and have been living aboard boats my whole life; this last sailboat for the past ten years. Hence my love of the Ocean!
How I paint for the Blind: Encaustic has a translucent quality to it that makes water and the ocean really look wet, but also because it is increadibly tactile. When I do shows, I have a "do not NOT touch" policy. This stems from my work with the blind. My youngest son has...
Local Artist Waxes Up The Waves On Folly Beach, S.c.
March 6th, 2009
Charleston, SC - For Immediate Release
Contact: Danita Cole
843 735-1618
Local Artist Waxes Up The Waves For Follys' Sea & Sand Festival
Local Encaustic Artist, Danita Cole will be showing her work during the 19th Annual Sea and Sand Festival this year on Folly Beach. The Festival will be held on April 18th and Danita will be bringing her Ocean Waves and other colored wax paintings to the beach again this year.
Danita is an unusual artist because she paints exclusively with colored bees wax; a technique known as 'Encaustics'. Danita explains, "Having learned the basics of Encaustic painting, I now exclude all other mediums, mainly because there is an element to encaustics that can never really be mastered...I am deeply attracted to the freedom in that. When I work, I am watching carefully and letting the medium guide me."
Even though the medium dates back to over 400 A.D., Encaustics are now enjoying a...
August 24th, 2008
Charleston, SC - August 25, 2008 For more info contact:
For Immediate Release Danita Cole (843) 735-1618
"Sisters of the Sea"
Fine Art Exhibition
Moira Gil John & Danita Cole,
Fine Art Painters
Meet the Artists
Thursday, September, 2008
4:00pm-8:00pm
M.U.S.C.s' Harper Student Wellness Center
45 Courtenay Drive
Charleston, SC 29425
When Moira wakes up to go to work in the morning, she puts on her bathing suit and goes off surfing. When Danita wakes up, she takes her daily commute via a 10 ft. skiff across the harbour from her sailboat. These two unusual women truly live and love the Sea. They both have very unique painting styles, yet with common threads that make them true 'Sisters of the Sea'.
Moira was born in Argentina in 1975 and has been living in Charleston with her husband Chris John and two dogs for more than 6 years. Moira and her friend Jenny own the Folly Beach Shaka Surf School, and...
Sister Of The Sea Fine Art Exhibition
August 24th, 2008
Charleston, SC - August 25, 2008 For more info contact:
For Immediate Release Danita Cole (843) 735-1618
"Sisters of the Sea"
Fine Art Exhibition
Moira Gil John & Danita Cole,
Fine Art Painters
Meet the Artists
Thursday, September, 2008
4:00pm-8:00pm
M.U.S.C.s' Harper Student Wellness Center
45 Courtenay Drive
Charleston, SC 29425
When Moira wakes up to go to work in the morning, she puts on her bathing suit and goes off surfing. When Danita wakes up, she takes her daily commute via a 10 ft. skiff across the harbour from her sailboat. These two unusual women truly live and love the Sea. They both have very unique painting styles, yet with common threads that make them true 'Sisters of the Sea'.
Moira was born in Argentina in 1975 and has been living in Charleston with her husband Chris John and two dogs for more than 6 years. Moira and her friend Jenny own the Folly Beach Shaka Surf School, and...
Local Artist Helps To Brighten The Ronald Mcdonald House
August 24th, 2008
Charleston, SC - For Immediate Release
Contact: Karla Taylor
(843) 723-7957 ext. 340
Local Artist Helps to Brighten the Ronald McDonald House
Charleston, SC – The Holidays are a good time to share stories of people helping others in their time of need. The Ronald McDonald House is fortunate to have Danita Cole as one of those people.
Earlier this year Dani and her son Dolton stopped by the Ronald McDonald House to share their story with us. The knew about the Ronald McDonald House and what they do for families because they found themselves in a situation where they needed the Ronald McDonald House. Here is their story:
“We sailed into Charleston Harbor the summer of 2004 aboard a boat that was to take us around the world. After embarking on our most excellent adventure, we got as far as the Bahamas before we broke the boat and I was blessed with a baby. We came back to the states to attend to both things. Some time after arriving...
Vivid Artist Has Weekly Show In Charlestons Downtown Marion Square
May 8th, 2008
Charleston, SC - FOR IMMEDIATE For further information, call
RELEASE Danita Cole, 843-735-1618
VIVID ARTIST HAS WEEKLY SHOWINGS EVERY SATURDAY IN DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON!
Danita is an unusual fine art painter in that she paints exclusively in encaustic wax and what
a story her pictures tell!
Danita currently (and uniquely) lives on a boat in the Charleston harbor. Back in 2004, she
sold all her belongings and headed her boat for the Bahamas where she and her little family
explored and reveled in their sense of freedom. They spear fished every day and did some
boat work for a fellow cruiser. She sold her artwork around the islands in various shows and
a coffee shop in Marsh Harbour. Danita says “Others said we were crazy…but we did it,
and we learned how to feed...
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