BrownwoodNews – Art lovers of all ages may view the Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit February 10-23 at the Depot Civic and Cultural Center located at 600 E. Depot in Brownwood. Show hours are Monday-Friday from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, Saturday from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
Artwork that did not make the Stars of Texas Art Exhibit will be featured in the Salon des Refuses at the Brownwood Art Association Art Center, located at 215 Fisk Street during the above hours.
Demonstrations will also take place each day during exhibit hours from a variety of artists. There is no charge to enter the exhibit or attend the demonstrations.
Monday’s Artist:
1. Julie Mize lives in Brownwood. Her demonstration will be mixed media drawings that incorporate watercolors, colored pencils and a variety of papers.
Mize has a Bachelor of Science degree in art from Howard Payne University, and a Master of Art Education degree from Texas Tech University. She taught elementary art in Alief ISD in Houston before moving to Brownwood, where she teaches art at Brownwood Middle School. She is an adjunct instructor for the art department at Howard Payne University.
Mize has enjoyed drawing and painting since she was a child. Her elementary art teacher, Beth Brubaker, was her inspiration to become an art teacher. While she was a student at HPU, a lifelong interest in photography began when she took the darkroom photography course.
2. Linda Hall Eggleston is known for her distinctive and colorful style of painting in oil, pastel and acrylic, equally versatile in still life and landscape. She especially enjoys painting objects and scenes of the Southwest and Texas. Her works range from Indian pottery, wildflowers, animals, and people.
Her extensive travel throughout the southwest, first as a Longhorn Salesperson with her family “JH HALL’S Mounted Longhorns”. Her grandfather BG Humphries was the first to start the Longhorn business in 1928. Then as an artist has given her the opportunity to study and observe this region of America. She has lived and worked in the remote areas of New Mexico and Texas.
Linda is self-taught in drawing, but credits her colorful style to Artist Gaitha Browning of Brownwood, Texas with whom she studied. She later became Gaitha’s Studio Assistant. She has also studied with Richard Goetz of New York, George Burrows and Kay Franklin and many other artist.
Linda taught private art classes in Brownwood and San Saba, Texas for many years. Her classes consisted of drawing, composition, value and mixing colors. She stresses how a shadow can change the subject of the painting. Linda likes oil medium and how you can intermix oil colors with other colors to get just the right one and the slow drying time for this medium. With pastel you get immediate results and the intense colors are great. Acrylics are a medium within its self you can introduce other medium into it and achieve different results are a plus.
An accomplished artist, she has won a multitude of awards and Best of Show at Art Shows. Linda has been in The Stars of Texas Art Show for many years. She well be giving a demonstration, oil landscape with under washes.
“I have painted many different styles, technique in the years I have painted. Do not paint for anyone but yourself. Thing’s change, colors change and styles change be True To Your Self. Paint what you feel, I have not done this for a number of years. When I painted 9/11 in pastel (Eagle with flags of America and Texas and the Twin Towers) that’s went we all came together as One Nation. I was hurting for our Country.”
3. Avalon (Ava) Hicks was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, raised in Wichita, Kansas, and has spent the majority of her adult life in Brownwood, Texas. During her youth, her parents took her on four vacations which covered the United States. In her adult life she has lived in California, Louisiana, and Wyoming besides Texas. Her German grandmother was her inspiration as she was a talented oil and china painter. Later in life, at age 45, Avalon began painting, also oil and china painting. She has tutored under Kathy Tate, Stephenville, Tx.
“As a child, I would stand in front of an oil painting (at the Smithsonian Institute), look at the brush strokes, the depth of the colors by various Masters (Titian), and dream. Seeing America, I fell in love with landscapes, and dreamed of a world filled with beauty. I paint, as a rule, without a reference, just what I feel. So, I have been considered an “Impressionist,” I’ll let you decide. I paint what I believe is our future, as the Creator designed, without flaws and opportunities presenting themselves. I hope you enjoy my art.”
“Oil painting and china painting are my favorites. They are lasting products.”
Avalon Hicks has exhibited in thirteen towns and cities in Texas. Her work is currently carried by Carriage Factory Art Gallery, Newton, KS, and Canadian River Art Gallery, Canadian, TX.
Avalon’s studio is in Brownwood, Texas and is open by appointment.
