“Five Vantage Points” Work By the Anne Newbold Perkins Critique Group
Fourth Friday Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 6-9 pm
Fourth Friday Closing Reception: Friday, March 25, 6-9 pm
Show Closes: Tuesday, April 12th
Featuring: Betty Brown, Barbara Jamison, Rena Powell MacQueen, Anne Newbold Perkins, and Jenny McKinnon Wright
About the Anne Newbold Perkins Critique Group:
For the past ten years, the Anne Newbold Perkins Critique Group has been coming together on a monthly basis to paint, share ideas, critique one another’s paintings, and to network. The group began as the Fine Arts Committee at First Presbyterian Church. It was founded by Anne Newbold Perkins, who gathered Dot Daughtry, Gladys Faris, and Jodie Rippy to join her. The group of women started meeting regularly to help improve the art display at the church. They installed a new art hanging system in the main corridors and meeting rooms of the church, paving the way for each of them to display their art in separate rooms. Each artist has decades of experience and training to bring to the circle. The five members participating in this show are Betty Brown, Barbara Jamison, Rena Powell MacQueen, Anne Newbold Perkins, and Jenny McKinnon Wright.
About Betty Brown:
Betty Brown is a painter of people and places, attracted by subject matter that invites exploitation of color, shape, and texture. She finds inspiration at home or through travels to the Greek Islands, Portugal, France, England, Italy, Scandinavia, New Mexico, and Maine. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, she has lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, since 1965. Brown began painting in 1975, studying under nationally recognized teachers, and holds degrees from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, earning a BA with honors in Art.
About Barbara Jamison:
Barbara Bear Jamison has been drawing and painting since she was a young girl taking classes locally and continued this love of painting graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Art Education. After teaching in Chapel Hill, NC and Iowa City, Iowa she now resides in her hometown of Wilmington, NC with her husband. Their children now grown, she maintains a studio in her home. Her subject matter reflects her travels and fascination with light and atmosphere of the subject. Having grown up in Wilmington, NC she feels a great since of gratitude for those early teachers who encouraged a tradition of art in the Wilmington area.
About Rena Powell MacQueen:
Rena Powell MacQueen is an emerging plein air artist that grew up on Summer Rest Road in the Wrighstville Sound area of Wilmington. She studied under John Poon and several other nationally known artists. She currently lives in Southport and frequently paints on Bald Head Island.
About Anne Newbold Perkins:
Anne grew up in Wilmington, attended Tileston School and graduated from New Hanover High in 1940. In 1951 she married and moved to Richmond, Virginia where, excepting five years in Blackstone, Virginia, she lived until her return to Wilmington in November 2004. Her first teacher was her mother’s friend, Helen McCarl of Wrightsville Sound Four six week summer session at Maryland Institute of Art taking “Lettering & Poster Design” while visiting her grandmother during her high school years. Anne has also taken art classes under Mabel Pugh at Peace College in Raleigh, NC, and at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She obtained a BFA in Painting & Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1984.
About Jenny McKinnon Wright:
Jenny McKinnon Wright is an award-winning artist who believes that working in plein air allows her to “capture the emotion that only painting in that location can offer.” For those who have her work, Wright’s sense of color shines through. Although she is personally enlivened by the locations she paints, those places can become viewer’s own experiences. Wright’s formal art training began at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and continued with graduate work in Atlanta at Georgia State University. She has taught art in the North Carolina and Georgia school systems and instructs private students.