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Wayne Kim M.P. “Squeaky”

EGGLESTON CONDER SWENSON

Photographer Jewelry Designer Contemporary Landscape Painter

Like many artists, Wayne Eggleston was hooked from an Kim Conder traces her love of jewelry design back to her early teens. M.P. “Squeaky” Swenson has been painting for more
early age. Wayne started taking photos at the age of five “When I was 12 or so I’d find sand dollars and shellac or paint them than 25 years and has studied with nationally recognized
when his mother gave him a Kodak Brownie camera and he to turn them into necklaces,” says Conder. “In my 20s I’d deconstruct artists. Swenson has been fascinated by art since she
never looked back.
necklaces I’d find at yard sales and resell them, but I never really began playing hopscotch with her sisters and used
Since retiring from the U.S. Air Force, Wayne and his wife focused on jewelry.” pieces of smooth glass as tokens for the game. She was
Angie have been able to take on their second careers as After decades of painting and creating tabby installations, Conder enchanted by the colors of the glass and continues to
photographers. They’ve set their sights on showing the scaled down the tabby and shifted to her first love full-time about 10 try to reproduce those hues in her art.
beauty of the world around them, especially the little slice years ago. Under the moniker “arrogantly shabby island girl,” her line
of heaven from Pawleys Island to Murrells Inlet that they has become a mainstay of the unique art found almost exclusively Swenson says she finds inspiration in her
call home. on Pawleys Island. Most notably, Conder uses small-batch tabby physical environment on the Waccamaw Neck.
“Wherever you go, there’s gorgeous color combined with pearls, glass, shells, and stone to make pendants
and light! In the sky, ocean, creeks, ancient and crosses. She walks every day at Waverly Plantation and is
oaks, salt marsh – everywhere.” Most days, she can be found combing the beach for continually attracted to the many sources of water

“Inspiration is in no short supply here,” Wayne says. And it’s material or working on her family’s creekside dock. and the effect of light on the natural environment. She
never the same day to day, season to season. We simply take Conder’s coastal inspiration has deep roots: Her great-great expresses that inspiration by applying heavy layers of
the time to breathe and look for it.” grandparents were married on the island in the 1800s and paint in which she lifts, scrapes and scratches to create
generations of her family have called Pawleys Island home. textures and images.
Although the pair shoots everything from weddings to She’s moved away for periods of her life but has always returned
portraits to real estate, Wayne says their tastes are simple. to the beaches. While her work is in many private and corporate

“Our favorite things are our area’s unique shore birds in the Conder finds her materials on the beach and in the tidal creeks of collections in the U.S. and in Europe, it can be purchased
locally at ArtWorks, Gray Man Gallery, Sara Beth’s, and
salt marsh, the local seafood, and the people who enjoy them,” Pawleys Island. Most of what she uses – freshwater pearls, oyster
he says. “There’s so much here to take in! We’re truly blessed shells, Gullah beads, crushed shells, sea glass, and horse brass – are featured on Facebook. Swenson has been accepted
to be a part of it.” pulled directly from the environment. She produces the tabby by twice in the S.C. Watercolor Annual Show. She has won
multiple awards in the Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Show,
The Eggleston’s work can be seen in numerous local hand, plasma cuts the recycled metal, and most commonly uses the Old Santee Canal Show, and Florence Museum Show.
magazines, their website (waynesviewphotography.com), and leather to make the unique pieces.
Instagram and Facebook pages under the same name. Her jewelry is available for purchase at the Pawleys Island General
Store, and Conder loves seeing people wearing her pieces out in
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