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Annual Open Studio of the Anne Newbold Perkins Critique Group.
Friday, October 26, 2018, 6:00 PM to Saturday, November 17, 2018, 4:00 PM EDT
Category: Events

Join us for the opening reception of the Annual Open Studio of the Anne Newbold Perkins Critique Group.

The show features artists Betty Brown, Barbara Bear Jamison, Rena Powell, Jodie Wrenn Rippy, and Jenny McKinnon Wright.

The show will be up until November 17; admission is free.

About the Artists

Betty Brown’s career in art extends to over forty years of painting and teaching. She has studied with many nationally recognized teachers in watercolor, oil, and has been educated in most media. She has taught workshops and classes in her home, at the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as workshops across the region. She enjoys experimenting with new ideas, materials, and subject matter which keep her work fresh and new.

Barbara Bear Jamison is a fourth generation Wilmingtonian and an award winning artist. Her portfolio consists of scenes depicting local wetlands, beaches, and the houses that watch over them. A subdued yet blissful palette compliments the landscapes and joyful outings of people in her artwork. “It has been a pleasure to draw and paint all these years,” Jamison says. “The water, travels, and people I meet are my sources of inspiration.”

After running a marine canvas business for 15 years, Rena returned to her childhood passion for drawing and painting. Growing up on Summer Rest Road on Wrightsville Sound, Rena’s work reflects her lifetime of experiences in and around the water. She is also a lover of all animals, and often explores their different personalities in her figurative work. Rena Powell approaches her canvas from a traditional plein air perspective -- focusing on light, color and quick movements. Her childhood home of Wrightsville Beach continues to inspire her and appears frequently in her oeuvre.

Jodie Wrenn Rippy is an artist who thrives on finding a myriad of ways to make her marks. At her core she is a representational oil painter. Art and the making of art has been an integral part of her life since childhood. Her earliest memory of sharing her art with others was her portrait of young Caroline Kennedy, of which she promptly sent to the President himself (for which she received a warm thank you from the White House...she was age 10). Her work has been influenced by painters of the Impressionist period and abstract expressionists. She feels God has blessed her with a wonderful gift that allows her to have fun creating and making art using the mediums of oil paint, collage, gouache and watercolor. Not to mention the 8 grandchildren that keep her creative juices going with art projects ranging from painting, to making “fairies’ from silk flowers and special landscapes using found objects for them to live in. As well as making fashionable “Fascinators” and hair adornments. There is never a dull moment!! Paul Cezanne said “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” She agrees. Making art nourishes the soul.

Jenny McKinnon Wright is intrigued by light as it affects nature in a particular moment. To capture that emotion and connect with the viewer is the goal. It’s what light does to color that intrigues her. A constant student, Wright delights in the journey of pushing oil paint around to build forms using luscious color combinations and varied techniques. She leaves it to the viewer to imagine stories about the place that caught her eye. Wright started her art education at her Aunt Sarah’s side, then earned a degree from ECU, and followed with graduate Work at GA State University while teaching high school art. She continues to study with well-known artists.