Saturday, July 31, 2010

Brenda McDaniel, August Artist-of-the-Month

Brenda Clark McDaniel of Monroe, Louisiana is the Ouachita River Art Gallery’s featured artist for August 2010. Her show, Running Out Of Time, consists of oil and acrylic paintings depicting the decline of common living things.

The artist says, “This show was inspired by the beauty I see in common living things as they near the end of their lives. I hope to show the viewer that a living thing coming to the end of its life does not have to be ugly but can be a beautiful process. Death is not the end but a beginning. Also, anyone who has ever cleaned out their refrigerator’s crisper drawer will relate to these images!”

A native of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, who has lived in Kentucky, Kansas, Texas and Europe, Brenda specializes in representational paintings of animals, people, places and objects, taking side trips into fantasy and imagination. Before deciding to paint full time, Brenda was a commercial artist employed in the advertising business, where she garnered many local as well as national awards. Although Brenda attended several universities and private schools, she considers herself primarily a self-taught artist. She helped organize and open the local gallery The Ouachita River Art Guild, which is now celebrating 20 years and has become the oldest and largest art co-op in Louisiana. Brenda has many commissions of homes, portraits of people and pets, southern landscapes and still lifes hanging in private and corporate collections in the U.S.A., Europe and The United Kingdom.

Brenda McDaniel, August Artist-of-the-Month

Running Out of Time - Pumkins