For today’s crafters, there’s a YouTube video on how to do just about everything. But when Lovingston artist Nicholas Bartley was growing up, he had to head to the library. While other children were looking for stories, he’d be in the arts and crafts section, researching origami patterns and woodworking plans.
Bartley’s creations stand out in the HeART of Nelson Artisan Collective in Lovingston — especially the oversized topographic model of Nelson County that hangs over the shop’s fireplace. It’s about three feet tall and took over 600 hours to 3D print.
He also sells smaller scale Nelson magnets and art pieces, in addition to nightlights and cookie cutters, out of the store on Front Street.
Bartley’s 3D printer was buzzing back and forth in a corner of the shop on Oct. 28. It was printing, layer by layer, a vertical image of a sunset from a spool of…
