Inside Out: Expressing the Inner World

July 24 - October 23, 2021

Closing day event “A Conversation with the Artists”: Saturday, October 23, 2021 @ 2pm. Due to covid restrictions, limited attendance is necessary. Reserve you spot HERE.

Expressing the Inner World is an exhibition of abstract paintings by members of the artist group Inside Outside. The exhibition includes paintings from 24 women who strive to make the inner-self visible through color, mark-making, and textures. Members of Inside Out met through participation in workshops. Artists in the group are primarily located in the Southeast, with representation from California, Chicago, Rhode Island, and Iceland. The group has exhibited previously in Charleston, Beaufort, and Valdosta.

The Expressing the Inner World exhibition will include paintings by Andrea Baetti (Georgia), Penny Beesley (South Carolina), Juanita Bellavance (Georgia), Billie Bourgeois (Louisiana), Carolyn Busenlener (Mississippi), Kathy Cousart (Georgia), Annette Crosby (Georgia), Terri Dilling (Georgia), Betty Efferson (Louisiana), Debbie Ezell (Georgia), Melinda Hoffman (South Carolina), Marcia Holmes (Louisiana), Gayle Hurley (Alabama), Suzanne Jacquot (California), Linnea Leeming, Vicki Overstreet ( Mississippi), Betty Perry, (Georgia), Nancy Perry (South Carolina), Patricia Payne (Georgia), Garnet Reardon (Georgia), Kathleen Roman (Illinois), Rhenda Saporito (Louisiana), Bjork Tryggvadottir (Iceland), and Peggy Vineyard (North Carolina).

ANDREA BAETTI

Born in Argentina, Andrea Baetti graduated from the University of Rosario with a degree in Architecture. After moving to the United States and working as an architect, studying French and Photography, she pursued her studies in the visual arts. She has studied under the direction of Chery Baird, Paul Light Jr, Cecil Touchon, Steve Aimone among others. She is a member of the Atlanta Collage Society. Andrea worked as a core artist with Louis Delsarte on the completion of the 25 panels for the Martin Luther King Jr. Mural Dreams, Visions and Change that has been on display at the MLK Center in Atlanta, Ga. Each of Andrea’s Works is original and unique, inspired by her passion for architecture, nature and traveling. She works in mixed media, acrylics, collage, graphite and ink, allowing her to create layers of discovering in her work.

Inﬂuenced by my training as an architect, my love of color and textures and my observation of the environment that surrounds us I immerse myself in challenging adventure each time I confront a white canvas. Abstract painting allows me to express my inner self. My journey is in continuous evolution. Each piece is an exploration, an expression of the moment that starts with conscious or unconscious marks. It continues with layers of paint that respond to a dialogue that have formed between the piece and myself. Color, texture, and found materials add a distinct individuality to my paintings and collages.

PENNY BEESLEY

Penny Beesley was raised in an art-loving family and her weekends were often spent at her father’s elbow in his studio. Art was a focal point during high school followed by Eastern Michigan University, attaining a BFA in ceramics and painting. Inspiration and motivation continue to come from nature’s surrounding stimulus of color, form and light, a background presence of music, man-made or natural, and the emotions brought on by them. Color, shapes, negative space deﬁnition, and the motion of abstract expressionism come from an inner spot that ﬂows and speaks for her. She also ﬁnds a mix of media opens more opportunities for chance chemistry. The argument inside the skin has always been to be abstract and spontaneous, to follow the push-pull. Collage media and monoprint papers bring chance juxtaposition and build up texture. Color and motion are essential elements. The exploration of techniques is a continuing learning experience.

Working mostly in mixed media, I begin with the looseness and motion of abstract painting layered with some collage elements and then mark making. My initial approach is spontaneous and intuitive. I begin by gathering a selection of paint colors and papers often inspired by the environment I live in. I like to work in a series of three to ﬁve structures, either canvas, panel, or paper. I will begin by energizing the surface without thought, only motion, and as shapes and design come together, I pause, listen to music, walk away for a while, then return. When something interesting happens, I interact again with other processes to bring cohesion and closure. Sometimes it takes a long time!

JUANITA BELLEVANCE

A Marietta, Georgia native, Juanita Bellavance graduated with a BA in Music Education. While teaching music she began incorporating art as visual aids to assist students in learning music concepts. She created extensive backdrops for her musicals as well. In 1994 Juanita’s entrepreneurial spirit led her from teaching into the interior decor industry where she was a faux ﬁnisher and muralist around Atlanta. Her work was featured in Atlanta Magazine during that time. In the late evenings, Juanita can be found in her studio painting in the quiet hours when all the day's busyness has ended and thoughts rise. It is a special and cherished reprieve from the day's activity.

My art-making process is similar to the process of writing music. Tone on tone, creating harmony. Mark upon mark, creating a rhythmic pattern. Shape upon shape, creating melodic contours. Striving to paint emotion, I want to create the awe, the wonder, the experience we feel in nature, in music, in special life moments. That feeling that gives us pause. There is a dialogue that develops between myself and the painting. As the layers of paint accumulate so does the meaning. Connections ﬂow and coalesce into magical and mysterious combinations. These actions renew my spirit in the act of creation.

BILLIE BOURGEOIS

Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana during WWII, the oldest of six children, each of whom are musicians or artists. Growing up with a strong experience of family created the environment for nurturing creative ﬂuency. Her spiritual upbringing planted within her a sense of the sacred and mystical and provided fertile ground for an already natural instinct for art.

For Bourgeois there must be a relationship between form and content. Relying heavily on the intuitive process, spontaneous mark making is her primary impulse to initiating imagery and composition. I am concerned with the formal aspects of art; however, my goal is response to the subject instead of pure representation. I begin my painting with gestural marks and a limited palette. Bourgeois is at ease with a variety of mediums, but Drawing with paint is my natural language from which my painting ideas spring. I had to trick myself into painting by telling myself that I was just drawing with a paintbrush.

CAROLYN BUSENLENER

Artist Carolyn Busenlener is a contemporary expressionistic painter with her studio located on a bayou in Pearlington, Mississippi. Carolyn earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a painting major from Tulane University in New Orleans. Her paintings show her love of experimentation with layering, color, and mark-making. In 2018 and in 2012 the artist received the competitive Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship. Busenlener was chosen to participate in The Mississippi 2014 Invitational at the Mississippi Museum of Art. She was awarded the Jane Crater Hiatt Fellowship to be used for travel and study to beneﬁt her art. Carolyn has attended workshops around the United States and Europe. She now participates in numerous juried art shows and has received awards. Carolyn shares her love of art in the classroom as a teacher of both children and adults. Her paintings are part of the permanent collection of Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans and the Mississippi Museum of Art.

The joy and challenge of my painting process motivates me daily. During the recent Pandemic I went almost every day to my studio. The natural environment surrounding my studio, my life experiences and my emotions influence my work. There is an urgency in the way I work. Gestural brushstrokes, mark making and scrapping through wet layers are done rapidly and intuitively. Evaluation follows, often the next day. Then refinement and changes take place. This process is repeated several times until there is a moment of satisfaction and the brush, palette knife, towels and charcoal are put down. Then the next painting is worked on. Several paintings are worked on at a time. This process, often one of obliteration and rebuilding, is to me similar to the changes I observe in nature the quiet decay that ultimately leads again to the fullness of growth. This new world emerging from my paintings gives me joy, but also a challenge when I struggle to satisfy myself and achieve the vision in my mind.

KATHY COUSART

Kathy began her art education by mentoring for years under Master Painter Jim Richards and studying under many nationally known teachers at intensive advanced workshops. Her early artistic training was focused on the classical and representational including painting plein air. Kathy's natural instinct is to depict the surroundings in abstract forms, applying many layers of her own custom mixed paint.

Painting daily from my carriage house studio surrounded by historic gardens in Athens, Georgia, my work is inspired by light, color relationships and beautiful movement. My paintings evolve as an intuitive reaction to my surroundings. My paintings are an ongoing process of addition and subtraction until everything on the canvas co-exists with depth and intensity.

ANNETTE CROSBY

From a very early age, Annette Crosby has been fascinated by and interested in art. After earning a BFA in art education from Valdosta State University, she completed her MEd in Elementary Education. Following graduate school, she was employed as as an art educator at Valdosta Middle School in 1977. Now, painting is her primary passion. She has won numerous awards and has been published in The Palette Magazine. She has shown in Valdosta, Moultrie, Bainbridge, and the Albany Museum of Art.

My work creates visual interest by using texture and subtle variations in shape and color. When beginning a piece, I texture the canvas or paper and create marks and lines with both paint and marking tools. I use gestural lines in my work to create active, energetic designs and organic shapes. Design and colors allow new and unexplored options in my layered paintings. From an aerial vantage point, the surface is manipulated by explorations of successive painting and drawing. I complete my works by using hand-stained and -painted papers, along with unexpected pieces of her palette. My works exhibit a degree of complexity in a unique and ethereal manner. While most of my artwork has no recognizable objects, it still invokes an expressive quality. Annette creates visual forms that feel strikingly familiar through unexpected textures and diverse palettes.

TERRI DILLING

Terri Dilling received a BA from Indiana University and a BFA from Georgia State University. As the child of a German mother and an American father, she grew up loving culture and travel, leading her to attend art programs in England, South Africa, Spain, and Italy. With an interest in science, she was awarded project grants to work with scientists from the Center for Chemical Evolution to learn about their research and create related exhibitions. All of these experiences continue to inﬂuence her art. Terri has served as board president of Atlanta Printmakers Studio, devotes time to non-proﬁts such as the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Burnaway, and organizes residencies for professional artists. Based in Atlanta, she lives with her husband Jon and her two dogs.

I am inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Through gestural marks and organic forms, I make reference to the landscape around us, and also the emotional landscape within. My art balances tranquil space with energetic lines and marks. While working intuitively, some elements get pushed back and covered over, while others are pulled forward, and when a painting is complete, it contains a rich history. For the viewer, I hope my art is something you can look at for a long time and always see something new. I identify with the lineage of Abstract Expressionism in America with its focus on conveying a mood or emotion. I use color, lines, and different kinds of marks to communicate those emotions.

BETTY EFFERSON

Living most of her life in Baton Rouge, LA, Betty has recently retired, and now enjoys the opportunity to paint every day. Betty is an accomplished realistic and impressionistic artist who has been recognized with national and international awards. She has shown in juried exhibitions from New York to New Mexico, and is a Pastel Society of America Signature Member and Degas Pastel Society Member. Always knowing she would be an artist, she draws inspiration from the power of nature, daily life and the beauty that surrounds us. Betty’s art captures and expresses feelings through unencumbered use of color, technique and media. She has participated in art workshops and actively served in arts organizations while running a business with her husband and raising their two children.

Art is a way to express my innermost feelings, my studio being a place to lose myself in just painting. When I go to the canvas and begin to create, it is easier to communicate through the art than in a conversation. My art depicts personal feelings through the language and expression of color, strokes, and marks instead of words. I offer the viewer the invitation to travel through the artwork, to enjoy the power and energy or sweetness and shyness of the work, with the viewer’s choosing to slow down and ﬁnd their own expression of feelings. I paint with mixed-media, pastels, oils, inks, and acrylics, with no thought as to the color or composition- resulting in authentic and intuitive work.

DEBBIE EZELL

A native of Atlanta, Debbie has spent a lifetime creating art inspired by the region rich in beauty, culture and diversity. While working in education, she dedicated time creating and illustrating curricula for individuals recognized as exceptionally gifted and talented, and in 2010 began to turn her attention towards developing a unique Non-Objective Visual Language.

The process of creating art is a meditative experience. Visual order is established through division of space, gestural marks and blind contour drawing. Shapes begin to emerge, dissolve and change; negative spaces begin a new life. Each mark and brush stroke becomes a voice in the painting dialogue, each work maintaining authentic energy resolved when the shapes, lines and passages of color are in harmony with each other. My current work evokes the natural and organic through use of acrylics, oils, and various tools for mark making to synthesize shape, line, and nuanced passages of color. The painting process is fascinating to me, allowing the real and the ideal to blend with my experiences giving each painting its own unique voice.

MELINDA HOFFMAN

Melinda Hoffman is an artist: a painter and installation artist. She paints with her left hand and sometimes with her right. She is a graduate of Indiana University and has taken course work at Clemson University’s print department as well. Her works comes from different areas of emotion. There are times when political comments are necessary and times when pure expression of the environment creates work. She writes and illustrates children’s books and continues to work on projects written for young children about the environment, love, and art. Currently she is working on a book about “dirt” the most important “person” in the world and another book about what art tool you would use to draw a tumbleweed! Art Papers from around the world are her passion and she uses mechanical pencils as her mark maker. She has been an installation artist for 4 years at the renowned ArtFields where ceilings allow for work to hang at 20 ‘. Her work is in many collections and homes in the US. She has a “Magic Brush” talk that she gives about great paint brushes and the emotional lift they can give to an artist’s work and to an artist’s soul.

As an older, female artist, I take this opportunity to talk with you about things I feel are important. I am usually talking about water, wind and sun. I use the mediums I work in as my voice. I feel we live in a bubble here on Earth- a contained environment that we have been given and been made the stewards of. What we dirty here, we will breathe, eat and drink. With my new series, I worry. I paint. I talk not only of resources but of the beauty these God given, natural landscapes offer. I worry about the use of weapons and the trajectory we, as humans, are on. I also work in 3-D with suggestions of love and sharing. This trite word, Love, seems to pop up in most of my dimensional work and writings. I believe that the pandemic may have helped focus many of us and the result may be a more attuned society. I hope my paintings give you excitement, energy, and commitment to our world, and most importantly, a desire to share your own love and gifts with others.

MARCIA HOLMES

Abstract painter Marcia Holmes celebrates her 22 Years since first making her mark in 1999 with her first Solo show on the north shore of New Orleans, where she now lives and paints in Mandeville, Louisiana. One hundred yards from the Tchefuncte River is her home studio. Her most recent works are large scale abstract paintings in oil, pastel, acrylic and mixed media on canvas.

A self-realization of the magnetic connectivity I have to life around water emerges in my abstract expressionist works and continued impressionist paintings. To express in form through the power of gestural strokes, organic forms, neutrals and my love of color, I've allowed myself a new freedom-improvisation, that resonates from within, something close to my true nature.

GAYLE HURLEY

Gayle Dunn Hurley was born in Memphis Tennessee and has spent most of her life in the southeastern United States. She received her B. A. degree in French from Vanderbilt University and currently paints from her studio in Crane Hill, Alabama when she is not tending to her honeybees. A natural teacher, Gayle's workshops in portrait and plein air painting have been appreciated by many. Gayle's careful observation of nature, color, critters and people inﬂuences her deeply. She absorbs the world around her and pours it into her work.

I have always been curious and done my best to be brave. My career as a French teacher took a sharp turn upon hearing the words “you’re having twins” just six weeks before the due date. Later on, to escape toddler mayhem, I found an art class on drawing portraits which I thought to be an impossible task but one worth pursuing. Ever curious, I explored portraiture in every possible medium -- Pencil, watercolor, oil, acrylic, charcoal, and clay. But something was missing. The attention to detail over eyebrows and noses had worn me down to the point that I needed, I craved, a fresh and different way to express my heart in art. A willingness to explore something new led me to several outstanding workshops. These classes taught me to trust myself as I applied paint to canvas, to experiment, to ask what if, and to take a risk and be brave. Everyone views art from a unique perspective. When you see my work, I hope you feel the underlying bravery and curiosity.

SUZANNE JACQUOT

Suzanne Jacquot has been an artist all her adult life working in various media. She lives in northern California and attended UC Berkeley, BA, and Mills College, MFA. For the past 25 years she has concentrated on abstract art using mixed media. For the last 15 years she has been teaching workshops and online courses and most recently she built a large 2000 sq ft art studio where she also invites guests artists to team teach with her. Being an avid hiker, nature is deeply part of Suzanne’s life and love. Her art encompasses the colors, the energy, the growth, decay and the fleetingness that is inherent in the natural world.

I ﬁnd that there is a vastness of creativity that wants to be expressed through me, and as I ﬁnd my way and my own inner visual language, I make marks, and I paint. Mark-Making is the oldest form of art that we know of and I feel I am part of this human lineage. It is my personal life’s journey to delve into my own direct experience and in doing so, I ﬁnd what is common to all of us: we are immersed in relationships and communication with each other and the world around us. I love the accidental, the unintended, the magical. So, when I am in my art studio, I am exploring, delving, excavating, being open and allowing whatever might want to arise from within and whatever might excite me from without. I am exploring the paints, the marks, my tools authentically and often not knowing where it will lead me.

Linnea Toney Leeming's parents were both artists who provided their young child with vast resources of multi-media materials, which shaped the foundation of her unlimited creativity. Her father built her first real studio while in her pre-teen years allowing her the freedom to express herself at an early age. Linnea's art has always been about her exploration of new experiences, the visual excitement of new areas, new colors, and new attitudes. While in college she hitchhiked across the country and back with friends, and after receiving her BFA she made further travels to Europe studying art and architecture. Linnea Toney Leeming's paintings can be seen in galleries and collections throughout the United States, as well as collections in Moscow, Shanghai and Madrid.

I use the abstractionist's process-driven approach to painting and the practice of listening to the unconscious. Large abstract paintings are conceived by making a series of considered decisions fueled by issues of color and space, where lines, patterns, and textures overlap and merge into unified compositions. Layering color, mediums and glazes, my compositions evolve of their own accord, acquiring their own presence and identity. I am relentless in using various media and experimentation to create the finished piece. I work intuitively and impulsively, always vibrant and energetic, creating paintings that burst with color; my mind and my hand work together to spark imagination.

VICKI OVERSTREET

Vicki's pursuit of art began at The University of Mississippi where she received a BFA. Following graduation, she taught art in Georgia and Mississippi. Vicki has studied oil painting with many artists throughout the country, and her pursuit of “plein air” painting has taken her many beautiful places to study and paint on site. In the past ﬁve years the study of abstract painting and acrylics has been an energizing pursuit.

A friend gave me a quote by St. Francis of Assisi that I love: "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his head, and his heart is an artist." I am an artist!

PATRICIA PAYNE

As a child, Patricia Payne's favorite activities were reading and creating art. These passions have remained constant throughout her life. In her professional life as therapist specializing in the treatment of sexual abuse, she used art as an integral component of the therapeutic process. Patricia began creating her own abstract art about ten years ago. Although primarily self-taught, she has studied with some of the current masters in the ﬁeld of abstract art, including Steve Aimone, Chery Baird, Audrey Phillips and Nancy Hillis. Her work has been featured in several shows in Georgia and elsewhere.

Our experience of the world is determined by multiple, complex factors. The thinking part of our brain interprets information received from our senses, from past experiences and from our social, cultural and political environment. We also experience our world through an array of emotional responses. My paintings are a visual documentation of the interplay of my internal and external experiences of the world. The painting may start with a random gestural mark as a reaction to world events or to personal experiences As I layer paint, create lines and marks, develop shapes and textures the painting becomes a dialogue between the conscious and unconscious. When this conversation pauses or feels complete the result is a painting that makes a personal statement about the world.

BETTY PERRY

Growing up in a small Southern town as part of a family with a creative heritage, Betty Brand Perry observed early on how artistic endeavor enriched the lives of her ancestors. Education in visual art followed her appreciation for all things handmade, and she received a BFA from the University of Mississippi, where her love for 20th century art began to grow. After graduation she taught public school art, and in Georgia and South Carolina before raising a family and serving her Augusta community as arts volunteer and advocate. Continuing her art education, she enrolled in post-baccalaureate work at Augusta State University. In addition, she has studied abstract art in nationally-known workshops with teachers which include Steve Aimone, Nicholas Wilton, Krista Harris, Audrey Phillips, Martica Griffin, and Fran Gardner.

Visual poetry can be created by bringing together all the senses in a work of abstract art. Sensuous magic in my work is woven into the rhythms of music and sounds, personal symbols, and calligraphic marks. Undercurrents include inﬂuences of botanical-like forms, memories distilled, and the ever-changing natural world that lies beneath and above the artist-as-observer. Of special interest is the expression of implied meaning in non-objective paintings through the use of compositional elements with personal signiﬁcance.

NANCY PERRY

Nancy Perry has painted for many years, studying at Anderson College and the Greenville Museum, and with several well-known artists. Inspired by nature, she painted in an impressionistic style. Several years ago she followed a path toward abstraction and has painted in that style for the past few years.

I found that abstraction fulﬁlls what I have always been trying to portray with my artwork. An intuitive painter who lets the painting lead the way, I combine many media and have found a new love for collage. The feeling of a place or time is what I am aiming for. I continue working with a painting until something meaningful emerges, occasionally accepting the chaos instead of searching for harmony.

GARNET REARDON

Reardon was Born in Northern Ireland during the time of The Troubles, a time which ingrained in her that conﬂict does not deﬁne or dictate how one should think or feel. More importantly, she realized that external labels are less valuable than the internal ones. As a young adult, she moved to London for formal studies in design and embarked on a career working for a range of publishing and design ﬁrms. Garnet’s non-objective painting explore the interplay of color, line and texture like that of a verbal conversation, except one with creative materials. She works out of her studio in Atlanta, GA.

I am fascinated by the relationship between two things, the merging of things (like two piano notes combined), and the space surrounding things. I work with a variety of lines, textures, and colors in an effort to get lost in this visual language of mark-making, to capture this felt vibratory energy.

KATHY ROMAN

Known for her earthy, expressive paintings, Chicago artist Kathy Blankley Roman holds an AA degree in Commercial Art. She learned technique mostly through workshops and studying at local art centers. A course in expressive nonobjective painting propelled her process of working in layers and excavating back through them. Skilled in multiple mediums, Kathy moves between acrylics, collage, encaustic, and oil & cold wax. Art making was mostly relegated to spare-time status until her retirement in 2010 when she stumbled upon High energy marks, which flow through the layers of a limited palette, resulting in paintings that pulse with energy, depth, and a sense of place. Her award-winning work has been featured nationally in juried and solo exhibitions, and in private and corporate collections. She has been featured in ArtAscent Journal of Art and Literature Magazine as a Bronze Award winner and numerous times in The Woven Tale Press.

My expressive paintings explore texture and gesture and are about the memories and emotions that are evoked in the process. Ultimately it is all about the process: becoming immersed in the moment and the physicality of engaging the surface; ﬁnding a sense of order, refuge, letting go. There is a visceral feeling in the physical act of engaging the surface that releases a visual energy. Starting with random marks and responding to them intuitively, my paintings are built up in layers that go through many changes that morph across the surface like thoughts through my mind. They are driven by a sense of play, experimentation and an exploration of the materials as much as by an emotional response to the evolving painting. It ﬂows through the layers, creating depth, motion and an intimacy that invites viewers in to share in a kind of dialog, to explore and participate in the experience through the lens of their own personal ﬁlters.

RHENDA SAPORITO

Rhenda Saporito is an abstract expressionist, having studied color theory, abstract painting, life drawing and sculpture at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. She activates the canvas with random marks to break up the surface. Her paintings are visual expressions of previous experiences. She works on large canvasses -- some as large as ﬁfteen to eighteen feet long by six feet tall. Her work has been shown and she has been featured in Forbes, Fresh Paint Magazine, London, and the cover of Inside New Orleans Magazine. Nationwide collectors include The University Medical Center, New Orleans, Federal Reserve Bank, New Orleans, and Sloan Kettering, New York.

My paintings are large works on canvas, sometimes as large as a mural. I love the whole body engagement that occurs when activating a large canvas. An intuitive application of mixed media is my focus when I develop a painting. With no regard for the end result, my path takes me into and out of chaos. Throughout the process, the painting becomes pared down and one may ﬁnd a resting place. The push pull of the sheen of the painting when viewed from the side becomes the topography of the painting. Images of visions long ago, a reﬂection of previous life experiences, work their way into the narrative. The ultimate goal is an emotional response to the work that communicates without words.

BJORK TRYGGVADOTTIR

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tryggvadottir currently works out of her studio in Gardabae. She has done many workshops in Iceland. At art school, she has taken workshops with Nancy Hillis, Steven Aimone, Audrey Phillps, and Nicholas Wilton. She has participated in group exhibitions, including one at the Turner Center for the Arts. She has also had solo exhibitions at the Icelandic Printmakers Association.

I have been interested in handcrafts from a young age. I am mostly inspired from Icelandic nature, the colors and the own voice and expression of the creation process. I am using acrylic mostly in my work. Painting is an intuitive process of creating space, a layering of experiences that evokes both unexpected complexity and the bareness of the moment.

PEGGY VINEYARD

Peggy began her love of art at an early age and it followed throughout her life. She majored in Elementary education with a minor in Art and has a Master’s Degree in Guidance Counseling from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. She continued her studies in art while teaching/counseling. Taking classes for 12 years at the renowned Glassell School of Art in Houston was a premier experience.

My primary medium is acrylic and water color, but I have enjoyed sculpting through the years. My paintings are primarily abstract/non-objective works, which reﬂect my love of nature with experimentation in using varied colors, organic shapes, line, until ideas and images emerge. Painting is an emotional and mental challenge for me which takes much thought and concentration.

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