Art Center Merit Show

When I won

Best of Show at the all member show awhile back

I was so thrilled and shocked.

It earned me a position in this months Merit Show,

along with the first, second and third place winners.

Last night was the long awaited reception and

 it was a great success!

All four of us have 3 panels of work each, on exhibit

for the month of August.

I had so much fun meeting everyone,

talking to other artists etc.

I had 6 watercolors and 4 art dolls in the show.

All four art dolls sold before I left the reception.

I got to meet and talk to the people who purchased the art dolls.

Doing that is something I always enjoy.

Here are the Keepers of the Secrets I and II,

each sold separate.

Karen and I are standing by

Peace be Still

who sold right off the bat

to a woman from San Antonio.

My friend Karen (who is an artist in her own right),

 her husband Steve, (in the yellow shirt)

and my husband (in the blue shirt) attended the show,

and I was so happy they could be there with me.

My husband took this photo of me with my friend Laura

 (who is a wonderful fiber artist and is shown here

in the orangey/rusted hand dyed shirt),

with 2 more of her friends, who came to see the show.

Thanks for being there ladies.

Also thanks to Happy and her husband for coming too.

The crowd was wonderful, as you can see.

We had a band, food and great fun.

The art is wonderful here!

One of the other featured artists was

Narice Hopp.

Narice's work reveals some Mexican Folk Art influence.

I love her assemblage work

as those and her paintings

are filled with color and humor.

Here she is wearing her googly eyed necklace.

Too funny!

Lynn Dickey and Pat Dittberner 

were the other 2 featured artists at the Merit Show.

Lynn paints in oils and also does pottery work.

Pat does some wonderful drawings and other

contemporary art paintings.

Congrats to all for a successful showing.

Thanks goes out to the Art Center for the Islands

and to Mary Rose, the director,

who always does such a wonderful job.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne