Formerly a picture editor for Outdoor Explorer Magazine, BACKPACKER and Sports Illustrated Presents, Honor Woodard found her way home to northeast Georgia in 2001, and began devoting more time to pursuing her own photography and artwork. Honor spends as much time as possible in the woods of southern Appalachia - on the banks of the wild and scenic Chattooga river, at the local lakes, and along the nearby Bartram Trail - collecting her thoughts along with weathered objects, images and ideas for her artwork. She looks intensely at the periphery – around the lakes, on the road, along fields and valleys – and as closely at the surface details around her. She has recently been particularly drawn to edges and places where different bodies and spaces come together and converge, and is interested in what light does when it moves over, across or through objects, and what happens in the shadows where light falls past a space. Honor is inspired by the recognition in nature of those elements she connects to on a soul level.
A native of Atlanta, Honor earned her BFA in Photography at Washington University in St. Louis, studied Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and attended a summer program during high school at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She currently lives and works in her ~200 year old log cabin and studio which sit in a quiet hollow in Lakemont, Georgia. She also makes unique sterling silver jewelry.
