Principals

GUYTON ASH

Respected within the company and industry as a 'carpenter's carpenter,' Guyton has an innate affinity for materials and master craftsmanship. A native of Connecticut, he remembers an 'aha!' moment as a teenager working for a building salvage company, when he cleared away layers of dirt and debris in an old barn to discover beautiful 16 inch-wide, quarter-sawn white oak planks. He became further interested in working with his hands by observing his friend's father who was a skilled cabinet and furniture maker.

Guyton began his career in the building arts as a stonemason, specializing in creating fieldstone walls and courtyards in New England. After moving to South Carolina, he enrolled at the American College of the Building Arts, where his interests expanded to working with wood, with a major in timber framing. When not overseeing the craftsmanship of the Artis team or teaching at the college, Guyton can be found in the workshop making furniture.

Graduate of American College of the Building Arts
Major: Timber Framing

Tim sites

Tim is one of the lucky ones. After a 20-year Washington, DC career in corporate marketing, Tim hung up his Hugo Boss suits to pursue his real passion: building. He’d long been remodeling houses on the side, but after his renovation of a dilapidated farmhouse in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains generated a bidding war, his second career took off. Others began tapping his creativity and aesthetic eye to realize their dreams.

From historic log cabins to 5,000-square-foot custom homes, Tim’s construction experience is broad, and his eye for buildings with unrealized potential is spot-on. Like his adopted hometown, Tim reveres historic buildings, and this is the basis of Artis. As the company’s co-founder and head of client relationships and business development, Tim has created an ideal home where his communication skills, gregarious nature and his love for building all can thrive.

Graduate of St. John’s University
Major: English Literature & Philosophy