About Our Labels

Here at Island Winery, we are very proud of our labels. They are designed around the artwork of some very accomplished and talented artists. Take a look.....

Christina Atchison, is the artist who created our logo and most of our labels. Her talents were apparent at a very young age. Christina started private art  lessons at the age of 8 and at a very young age won numerous local awards for her artwork. After graduating from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia she worked for art galleries and advertising agencies. Soon after Christina ran her own successful business, CSA Fine Art, where she sold her artwork and the artwork of others to collectors, interior designers and furniture companies. Christina is currently residing in California with here husband and two sons.

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 Ken Batelman is an award winning freelance illustrator with a studio located in Milford, Pennsylvania and has over fifteen years of experience working with major publishers, advertising agencies, and design studios all over the United States and Canada.   In addition to illustrating, Kenneth Batelman conducts courses in Illustration and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and Sussex County Community College in Newton, New Jersey. Kenneth got his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the author of Adobe Illustrator Paths and Curves, published by J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Roger Hutchison is the Canon for Children's Ministries and Director of the Trinity Center for Mission and Ministry at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, SC. Roger also enjoys creative writing, painting, photography and gardening.  Most of all, Roger enjoys spending time with his wife Kristin, daughter Riley (6), and their cockapoo, Scout.  Roger received his undergraduate degree in Humanities and Philosophy from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC and has completed some Master's
Level work at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA.

"I find joy when I move my fingers or my paint brushes through puddles of color and across a blank canvas. I am always surprised - and blessed - by the conversation that takes place. It is as if a good friend hasjoined me for glass of wine and a time of catching up. I invite you to
pull up a chair. Let's talk."

www.rogerhutchison.blogspot.com

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Arianne King Comer is a batik artist. She creates murals, quilts, paintings and wall hangings, using the deep violet-blue dye extracted from the indigo plant, once grown abundantly in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Now residing in Charleston, King Comer lived on St. Helena Island in Beaufort, SC, where she was director of the Ibile Indigo House at Penn Center.  She received a BFA from Howard University, did graduate work at the Cranbrook Art Academy and studied indigo processing in Nigeria on a United Nations grant. Her work is shown and collected throughout the southeast.