A native of Georgia, Ethington moved to Fayetteville in 1980 and has been practicing photography for the last twenty years. She says she enjoys it because “you just kind of lose yourself when you’re taking a photograph. You lose yourself in the moment. Everything else just falls by the wayside.” Though Ethington has had no formal training, she has studied with other photographers. She finds the photographic medium appealing because “it speaks to both sides. The technical side, the side of science, deals with things like color, composition, form; and the creative side deals with how everything comes together. It speaks to balance.”
In addition to being featured at the Arts Alive Festival, Ethington’s work is displayed at the Art & Soul gallery in downtown Fayetteville and at the Sunset River Art Gallery in Calabash. Ethington is pleased with people’s responses to her work. She says, “My favorite is when they say, ‘This is like Georgia O’Keefe!’” She hopes that “people come away with whatever feeling that inspire.”
