Welcome to Brown Painting / Art Quilts

"I paint for myself, for the challenge and joy of it; but knowing visual art must be seen to be heard, my greatest satisfaction comes when you concur with my feelings. Then you too become a part of my marks on paper - and I always leave room for you.
My medium is watercolor. I like to emphasize the "water" part of the word and paint very wet which will allow the paint to assert its own special personality. I let the medium tell me how to bring each start to a conclusion I find pleasing.

I always work with transparent watercolor. However at time I incorporate graphite, water-soluble color pencils, and pastels. Most of my paintings are presented upon layers of paper. Recently I have begun translating my paintings into art quilts. Just as I create a collage of papers in my more abstract works, I design and create a collage of fabrics and papers. The fabrics are hand painted, hand stitched and the finished piece can be framed or left to hang free upon a wall.

The painting process is pretty much the same for paintings on paper or paintings on fabric. First I wet the ground (paper or fabric) and start laying down color. Keeping the paper or fabric flat upon a board I let the pigments and media mingle and follow their personal paths as they dry. This process is repeated several times.

After all is dry I look into each beginning and let the marks on paper or fabric inspire me. This is when I get to assert myself and bring the image to completion by combining several pieces of paper or fabric and by drawing over the watercolor if working on paper, or by stitching if by working in fiber.

I try to express images that are on, above and below the surface of the painting. I hope I invite the viewer to follow as I work and see the painting process from tentative beginnings to the final touch. Some of the beginnings become non-objective abstracts. Some become landscapes or still life. All are collaborations between watercolor-the medium; and myself-the artist.

Publications:

Who's Who in American Art
Who's Who in America 2000
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who of American Women
Female Artists in United States - Rutgers U. Art Library
An Exploratory Approach to Watercolor - American Artist Watercolor '86 by M.C. Nelson
Watercolor Highlights, 1993 - America Artist Publication
The Watercolor World's 1994 Winners, The Artist's Magazine, Sept. 1994
Creative Collage Techniques, 1994, by N. Leland, V. L. Williams
Creative Collage, 1994, by Gerald Brommer
Best of Watercolor, 1996 by Rockport Pub.
Creative Watercolor, 1996 by M.A Beckwith
Best of Watercolor 2, 1997
Realistic Collage, 1998 by Phil Metzger

American Watercolor Society - New York, NY., Harrison Cady Award; AWS National Travel Exhibitions
National Watercolor Society - Los Angeles, CA., Best of Show, 1993; NWS National Travel Exhibition
National Academy of Design Annual, New York, NY., Henry Award Ranger Purchase Award
Watercolor USA-Springfield, MO., Jurors Award and Patron's Purchase Award, 1994
Allied Artists of America - New York, NY., Gold Medal for Watercolor, Henry Gasser Memorial Award
Butler Institute of American Art - Youngstown, OH
Women in Design International - Los Angeles, CA., Juror's Award
Rocky Mountain Watermedia National - Golden, CO., Juror's Award, I994
Midwest Watercolor Society, Juror's Award
Hoosier Salon - Indianapolis, IN., Best of Show
Watercolor Society of Indiana - Indianapolis, IN., Best of Show, 1992,1994
Indiana Artist's Club - Indianapolis, IN., Best of Show, 1995

Art Festivals (* Denotes Awards)
Coconut Grove Art Festival - Miami, FL*
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair and State Street Fair - Ann Arbor MI*
Gasparilla Art Festival - Tampa, FL
Winter Park Art Festival - Winter Park, FL*
Old Town Art Fair - Chicago, IL*
Port Clinton Art Fair - Highland Park, IL*
Plaza Art Fair - Kansas City, MO*
Lakefront Festival - Milwaukee, WI
Columbus Art Festival - Columbus, OH*
Boston Mills Art Festival - Cleveland, OH*
Cherry Creek Art Festival - Denver, CO
St. Louis Art Festival - Clayton, MO
Des Moines Art Festival - Des Moines, IA
Reston Art Festival - Reston, VA

Public Collections
Henry Ward Ranger Foundation - National Academy of Design, NYC
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Purdue University-West Lafayette, IN
Ricks College - Rexberg, Idaho
Columbus Art Center - Columbus, OH
Cass County Court House - Logansport, IN
Chamber of Commerce - Fort Wayne, IN
Bicentennial Purchase - City of Fort Wayne, IN
Fort Wayne Museum of Art - Fort Wayne IN
The Eccles Community Center .- Ogden, Utah
Cooperstown N Y. Art Association - Cooperstown, N.Y
Crosby Gardens Civic Collection - Toledo, OH
Civic Permanent Collection - Springfield, IL
Rocksprings Art Center - Rocksprings, WY
Dixie College - St. George, Utah
Mayor's Collection - Bloomington, IN
Courthouse Collection - Lafayette, IN
City Collection - Brea, CA

Corporate Collections
Amoco Corp. International Headquarters - Chicago, IL
Marshall Town Bank - Ames, Iowa
Jacobson's - Ml
Glendale Federal Bank - Fort Lauderdale, FL
Miami Herald - Miami, FL
Boca Raton Board of Realtors - Boca Raton, FL
Standard Chartered Bank - Hong Kong
IBM - Chicago, IL
Coca Cola Main Office - Cincinnati, OH
Office of the Controller of the Currency - Chicago, IL
Borg Warner - Chicago, IL
Kansas University Medical Center - Kansas City, MO
The Upjohn Co. - Kalamazoo, MI
Atlantic Richfield - Chicago, IL
The Continental Illinois Bank - Chicago, IL
North American Van Lines Executive Offices - Fort Wayne, IN
General Electric - Fort Wayne, IN

Brown County Art Guild Gallery
48 South Van Buren Nashville, IN 47448 8122/988-6185