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Pears in Basket

example of painting in class at Art Square

painting4joy@gmail.com Betty H Wiley 540-903-4736 .Purcellville, VA 20132

Thank you for today's visit to my studio haven.I have entered the art environment after many years of the joy of my family, community and church service, and a life filled with music. A college sociology major I have experienced various work venues, children's services,the YWCA, school teacher, and founder/director of Loudoun Counties very first community center. Now that the amazing entry into the art world surrounds me and I am eager to share the immense satisfaction I have found in the brush and palette knife.

If you really want to be alert to your environment, take up art in any form! Amazing how the colors we see everywhere join together in their lights and shadows translating into "things of beauty and a joy forever".My youth journey was without electronic media. Our gang depended upon imaginative creativity everyday. No art taught in our small public school , YET, THE ART of bring constantly aware of our surroundings was a daily test of the success of the day.

I make no pretense of lifetime professional art instructional background. The sandbox, sculpturing in our deep snows, designing and sewing my own clothes were my introduction to an art form. In fact my "home ec" teacher was the first to open the doors to the art museums of Philadelphia, DC and NYC. That began a lifetime of appreciation and admiration of the work of many great artists and their world ,and I've always a bit tempted to try its waters. Faithfully every ten years it seems, I have taken art classes.. at college,then the Corcoran Gallery in DC, NVCC, and Loudoun Counties Art Square. Many gifted and encouraging professionals have widened the doors and with great patience expanded my vision. I have found a fantastic passion through my painting.The journey continues as a joy!

Always several canvases in process in my studio. Transitioning between them keeps the work fresh and exciting . I have found, "in art there are no conclusions, only new beginnings", so true. Each time a challenge is met, another follows. It never ends. Alleluia! Now eighty ,life has become very exciting. So much to do as all I see becomes a potential subject for a blank canvas.The studio invites relaxationin its joy.As a new member of the Loudoun Sketch Club many venues of Loudoun County,VA have been an added challenge !

Growing up in rural PA, I love this areas barns , spring houses and sadly disappearing farmland. As the Blue Ridge Mts and the Shenandoah River beyond are practically in my backyard,there is lots to see. Also love to paint ocean scenes and those of my travels as well as the still life. Painting from your favorite photos , and paint commissions by contract, en plien aire... the list goes on.

I go up to my studio for just a minute and soon forgetting to eat or drink, five hours have passed before I realize it. The night curtain is drawn, but by sunrise I am back in front of whatever project had so intrigued me previously.

I am honored to have had visitors to my home/studio during the June Western Loudoun Artists Tours.That is such fun ! Don't miss it ! . Thanks to all who visited .Contact us today at painting4joy@gmail.com or 608 Glenmeade Circle, Purcellville,VA . Open by appointment only at all other times . Continue this journey with me , it will be great to hear from you ! 540-903-4736