Joanne and Bill Bell began making and selling their original creations over thirty-five years ago.  To show and sell their work, they traveled to art and crafts shows for many years throughout the eastern United States.  In 2001, however, the couple bought an old building in downtown Floyd.  A few years later, Joanne and Bill opened the Bell Gallery and Garden.

The Bell Gallery features Bill’s award-winning landscape photography.  It also features Joanne’s pressed floral artwork, as well as her handmade jewelry designs.  Bill primarily focuses his lens on the ridges and valleys of Virginia and North Carolina.  But he also favors the Appalachian Trail and the Blue Ridge Parkway.  He prints his own images and does all the processes of production in his studio.

Joanne makes assorted floral art, suncatchers, wall hangings, mirrors, and in the last few years has concentrated on pressed floral jewelry.  She grows, gathers, and presses flowers, ferns, grasses, weeds, and leaves.  She then enhances their colors with inks and paints to keep them from fading.  She makes her pendants and suncatchers using traditional stained-glass methods with lead-free solder and recycled glass.  She embellishes her pieces with semi-precious stones, and makes beaded necklaces and earrings to match.

The gallery also showcases the works of over one hundred local, regional, and national artists and craftspeople. The gallery displays jewelry, pottery, baskets, woodworking, and many other kinds of original and affordable arts and crafts.

Located just steps from downtown Floyd’s main stoplight.  So easy to drop in and visit!

Bell Gallery and Garden
112 N. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091
info@bellgalleryandgarden.com
bellgalleryandgarden.com
540.745.4494