Brenda Clark McDaniel of Monroe, Louisiana is the Ouachita River Art Gallery’s featured artist in September.
Her show, “For The Love Of Cypress”, will consist of oil, acrylic,
pastel and watercolor paintings depicting her interpretation of
Louisiana’s cypress trees, found mostly in her own “back yard”.
Brenda says about her show, “This show was inspired by
the beauty I see in the swamps of Louisiana, especially the wonderful
diversity of our cypress trees. Nothing is as lovely as our moisture
laden air reflecting light on and through magnificent cypresses. They
absolutely “drip” from their wonderful pleated trunks, and in the fall
are just vivid with color. I never tire of painting them.”
A native of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, who has also lived in
Kentucky, Kansas, Texas, Europe and the U.K. (where her son and
grandchildren live), 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 she attended
several universities and private schools around the U.S., she considers
herself primarily a self-taught artist. She helped organize and open the
local gallery of The Ouachita River Art Guild, which is now celebrating
22 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.
The River Art Gallery, voted Best Art
Gallery in 2011, is at 308 Trenton Street, West Monroe, and is open
Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery is the oldest
and largest co-op gallery in the state. Currently boasting 29 artists,
you will find everything from paintings of all media, to wood turning,
pottery, glass art, photography, pencil sketches and jewelry. The
gallery is also open during the bi-monthly Downtown Gallery Crawls.
Admission is free. Gallery member’s work can also be seen at ORAG’s
extension gallery located in the lobby of Ouachita Independent
Bank/Bankers Mortgage Plaza at 18th and Louisville in Monroe. Call
322-2380 for more information or visit www.ouachitariverartgallery.com.
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