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Artist to Demonstrate Painting Techniques Dec. 19 at Norris Cultural Arts Center
Terry Walsh, featured in "The Gift of Art" exhibit, will create a new painting over the course of an afternoon at The Norris Gallery.
St. Charles, Dec. 15 – Terry Walsh, one of three contemporary realist artists currently featured in “The Gift of Art” exhibit at the Norris Cultural Arts Center, will provide a free public demonstration of his painting techniques Saturday, Dec. 12, from noon to 4 p.m. in The Norris gallery.
“The Gift of Art” showcases the work of Walsh, Nick Freeman and Scott Harding, three of the Chicago area’s leading contemporary realists.
Walsh will create a new painting that visitors to the gallery may watch unfold throughout his four-hour demonstration.
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The 90-plus works on display include landscapes, character studies, portraits and still life scenes in original oil paintings and drawings. Select works are available as limited-edition, signed prints. All works in the exhibit are available for purchase at prices that make a “gift of art” possible for nearly anyone this holiday season.
The exhibit is on display through Jan. 10. The Norris gallery is open to the public 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Admission and parking are always free.
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About Terry Walsh
“I am an artist and painter,” says Terry Walsh. “I have made my living exclusively as an artist for over 40 years. I have rarely worked in only one aspect of the art business, but usually two or three at a time. While I have made my living in large part by pursuing work in commercial applications, there has remained one constant throughout: painting on canvas. At times it has risen to a principal position. At others it has been relegated to background status as supporting my family was primary. Painting on canvas has always been for me a way of retaining a connection to art that is not ruled by the mechanics of commercial styles and practices.”
For the first decades of Walsh’s career, his painting was principally a variety of surrealism and symbolism, usually acrylic on canvas. For over a decade, however, he has been painting landscapes in oil, occasionally a still life, or a hybrid of the two. Walsh takes some inspiration from the painters of the Hudson River School and the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. “I hope the viewer will find my particular version of the physical world visually interesting, perhaps emotionally engaging,” Walsh says.
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