Cathedral Center for the Arts presents

PEGGY SAMPLE: new works

solo exhibition | watermedia/acrylics

showing july 16—August 30

OPENING  TONIGHT:

3rd FRIDAY!!

JULY 16, 6pm-9:30pm

The Olney Gallery

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

100 West Roosevelt, central Phoenix

OPEN: First and Third Fridays 6-9:30pm

and: M-F, 9 am – 3 pm

Peggy Sample works in watercolor and acrylic on paper and canvas. She strives for freedom of expression in color, light, energy and diversity of style. Having practiced art and music since the age of 8, Peggy encourages the viewers to imagine the music and emotion expressed in her work.

Born and educated in Jackson, Mississippi, Peggy holds a Bachelors degree in music and voice and additionally did conservatory work in Chicago and Boston.

go to

www.contemporarywatercolorist.com

to see more of Peggy's work online. This is Peg Sample’s art story in her own words:

"I wish I could tell you that I studied painting and got a degree in art, but instead, I studied voice and learned to teach others to sing. I began the study of painting in 1970s, and have painted ever since.

The process of painting that has emerged for me is that I first begin reflecting and looking at images. Initially, my thoughts are scattered and unformed. Sometimes the process takes days. Often I require a deadline in order to finish what I am doing.

When a painting speaks to me, it is finished. There may be editing or lifting or painting over, things to add or take away. If it speaks to my esthetic eye and my heart, it is near completion. Then the problem is not to paint it to death. Further, painting is like jazz. It involves improvisation and interaction.

It is important to have an idea that speaks through the painting. When our son was killed in a motorcycle accident, it was important to paint what I felt which I did first through a portrait of him. Following that, I did a bleak-looking landscape, a gray, ugly painting by most standards, but it spoke of my feelings and it spoke to the person who bought it, who had just lost a brother. In my work the painting, has to tell a story, a story that is suggested, rather than announced, in the title. Viewers can then finish my suggested story or imagine one of their own.

Last I received the Juror’s award in the AWA Spring show and second place in the Beatitudes Vista show. The Gateway Community Bank of Mesa displayed a 19-piece show of my work from August to December and then purchased thirteen of the paintings.

Recently, I have been accepted for the 2010’s western’s Federation show, to be held in Salt Lake City in June

I am Co-Chair with Sandra Camp for the 2010 National AWA show and membership chair for CWA.  Along with two monthly critique groups, classes and workshops, I stay busy painting."

from the May 2010 Issue AWA Newsletter