Description
“Paradise Downstream, Cowpasture River.” Framed acrylic painting on canvas by Artist Peggy Terrell.
9″ x 12″ with the frame.
Gallery Retail Value = $425.
Minimum Bid $250.00.
About the Artist:
Super Heroes, Weasels and Crawdads
I proudly boast that my super heroes in painting for the last 12 years are my grandchildren and the elementary students that I used to teach. They all go excitedly to an easel or “weasel,” as some of them called it. They paint freely, intuitively and seemingly without structure.
Their free, in the moment, painting at the easel inspires me constantly.
However, I know that the layers of cool and warm interchanges of strong color in my work are anchored by my past painting teachers and colorists from VA Tech in the early 1970s — Victor Huggins and Maryann Marmon.
I also value the continuing feedback and support of my long-time painter friends and colorists, Ron Boehmer and Marcia McDade. I am thankful for the patience and encouragement of my husband, Ricky Terrell, the fearless renaissance man, talented carpenter and intuitive passionate drummer and singer.
I prefer to paint from observation outside, when possible. It is in the electrically changed moments of direct observation that I can paint without structure, just like a child! It is there that I can have a frenetic dance with the visual responses of color around me.
My latest paintings include studies of the rapids and water stretches of the Cowpasture River in Bath County where the light flickers in concert wit the roar of the rushing water, all of which are accompanied by the rhythmic movement of sweat bees, gnats and crawdads.
Education:
1978 Studies Abroad, University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy
1974 Master of Science, Art Education, Radford University, Virginia
1973 Bachelor of Arts, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Teaching Experience:
2004-2017 Boonsboro Elementary School, Bedford County Schools — Art
1994-2004 Forest Middle School — Art
1976-1984 Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, Virginia — Art
1974 – 1976 Virginia Tech, Adjunct Faculty — Design
