Brownwood News – Artists will continue to demonstrate their crafts on weekdays as the 22nd annual Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit enters its second week.
The art exhibit, presented by the Arts Council of Brownwood at the Depot Civic and Cultural Center, opened last weekend. Three different demonstrations are scheduled each day Monday through Friday.
Hours for the exhibit of 91 artworks will be 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The show is open to the public at no charge.
Demonstrations by artists — three each day — will be ongoing between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Tammy Barr
Precious Metal Clay Jewelry
“Making” things has been one of Tammy Barr’s loves since she was a child. She has dabbled in many things over the years but spent most of her crafting time sewing or making jewelry.
She discovered metal clay by accident while looking for a bead store during a trip to the city. She took a class and was hooked! She hand makes each piece so they are all unique.
Many of her pieces, like her lifestyle, have a western flair. One of the things that make her designs unique is the background of each piece. The background on the western-influenced pieces looks like tooled leather and usually has a cattle brand or initials included on the piece.
But don’t think all her pieces are western. She will tell you the design possibilities are endless.
She has displayed and sold her items at The Western Heritage Classis, Red Steagall Gather, Women in Ranching Seminars, and Petticoats on the Prairie shows to name a few. Many of her designs at may be viewed at www.facebook.com.tammybarrbrands.
Her roots are in agriculture and she has always had a passion for the rural lifestyle. She has an Agri-Business degree from Sul Ross State University and currently resided with her husband in Fredericksburg.
Linda Hall Eggleston
Pastel Painting
Linda Hall Eggleston is known for her distinctive and colorful style of painting in oil, pastel and acrylics, equally versatile in still life and landscapes. She especially enjoys painting in oil the objects and scenes of the Southwest and Texas. Her works range from Native American pottery, wildflowers and animals to people.
Her extensive travel throughout the southwest, first as a Longhorn salesperson with her family “Hall’s Mounted Longhorns,” and 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.
She is self-taught in drawing, but credits her colorful style to artist Gaitha Browning of Brownwood, one of many artists with whom she has studied during her art career.
She has taught private art classes in Brownwood and San Saba for many years. She stressed how a shadow can change the outcome of a painting. She likes oil and how you can control it and the intense colors you can achieve. With pastels the artist can get immediate results. Acrylics are a medium unto itself, and an artist can use other mediums with it to achieve different results.
An accomplished artist, she has won a multitude of awards, including having been accepted into the Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit many times. She will be giving a pastel demonstration for the Stars.
“I have painted in many different styles and techniques in the years I have painted this is what I have learned: Paint your own style not someone else’s. Things change, colors and styles change in today’s market in today out tomorrow. ‘Be True to Yourself,’ paint what you feel. I have not done this for a number of years, and I am going to try to do it again.
“When I painted Nine-Eleven in pastel, and like everyone else in America I was in shock, I used my painting to help me with my feelings. That is when we all came together as One Nation.
“The Right Time to Start to Paint is Now.”
Julie Mize
Using Masking Fluid with Watercolors
Julie Mize of Brownwood will be demonstrating how to use masking fluid with watercolor paintings.
Mize is the art teacher at Brownwood Middle School. She also is an adjunct instructor for the art department at Howard Payne University. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in art from Howard Payne University and a Master of Art Education degree from Texas Tech University.
As a child, she was always interested in drawing, painting, and taking photographs. She was inspired by her elementary art teacher Beth Brubaker, of Houston; as early as age 11, Mize had no doubts that she would become an art teacher, too. She still enjoys photography, painting, and drawing.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Sally Hollon
Watercolor Painting
Sally Hollon has been living in Brownwood for the past three years. She was born in Andrews and lived in Odessa before that. She graduated from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin with a major in art. She taught art for 20 years at Milam Elementary School. Upon retiring, she did decorative and faux painting for several years. Now in Brownwood, she enjoys going to People Painters on Wednesday at the Art Center.
“My favorite media is watercolor, but I also enjoy oils, colored pencil, paper making, sewing, and all sorts of crafts,” she said. “I have loved art since my own elementary days. It is great to be able to help students to be creative through art.”
She will be demonstrating watercolor crayon resist for the Stars of Texas.
Jacque Rider
Fiber Art
Jacquelin Rider, who moved to Brownwood in 1988 with her family, will be demonstrating fiber art. She will show basic weaving techniques with fibers and how fibers can be introduced into sculptures. Other media she uses include acrylics, watercolors, printmaking, polymer jewelry, wire, papier-maché, and basically anything there can be used to create art.
Growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area, she developed a passion for art as a little girl. She said she is mostly inspirited by God’s creations found in nature.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in art through the University of Texas at Arlington. She also holds a lifetime, all-level art teaching certificate, and elementary certificate through eighth grade.
After teaching for 28 years, she retired in 2016 and now enjoys creating and spending time with her family.
Christine Brisley Wade
Pour-n-Palette (Acrylics)
Christine Brisley is an internationally known artist who has been exhibiting her art since the age of 15. She was one of the first Europeans to be invited to attend the Nam Yang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore. This early exposure to Oriental culture can still be seen in her watercolors today.
Since then she has had over 60 one-woman exhibitions in England, America, Cyprus, Singapore, and the Channel Islands and has shown her art in numerous galleries, including the famous Grosvenor Park Gallery in Mayfair, London, and the Spencer Coleman Galleries throughout England.
She has also owned and operated five of her own galleries in Lincolnshire and Essex. Her art is very eclectic in style as she enjoys working with oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels and paints fine art and modern art with equal exuberance.
This diversity of contrasting styles caused one art critic from a Seattle magazine to exclaim at her Bellingham, Washington, exhibition, “one artist painted all of this!” It is through this diversity that Christine’s ever-expanding and questing imagination is allowed the freedom she needs to find true expression.
Though she prefers working “En Plein Air” or in her studio, she has also been seen painting in businesses, homes, airports, cars, hotels, or whenever and wherever the Spirit moves her. She has traveled extensively worldwide and her love for art and the images she paints are reflected in the warmth and beauty of her paintings. She has also authored and illustrated the books “Inner Visions” and “Expressions” and is currently working on her third book, “Living in Trust.”
She has been moved to paint numerous subjects throughout the world, from Monet’s garden in France to Aphrodite’s Rock in Cyprus, from the Canadian Rockies to the Southwest desert, all are uniquely beautiful to her artistic eye.
She now lives in Georgetown, Texas, and will continue to bring to life through her art the beauty she sees all around her. She can be reached via email at christine@brisleyart.com.
(by Gene Deason)
