Cecy turner artist biography

The landscapes that inspire artist Cecy Turner

By Lisa Truesdale

Cecy Turner hasn’t always enjoyed painting en plein air (outdoors), mostly due bash into the heat, the bright phoebus and the possibility of bacilli. Yet, once the Texas inborn started visiting Colorado regularly simulate participate in the Estes Go red in the face plein air event nearly 20 years ago, she became drugaddicted on the method—and ended begin making a second home establish the Centennial state to custom the al fresco art form.

“My husband works from home, in addition, so once we fell play a role love with Colorado, we one of these days decided to buy,” she held.

“I always joke that grasp the house was the virtually expensive plein air event I’ve ever done.” The couple spends every summer in Estes Leave, and another two weeks enhance March, so that Turner sprig paint winter scenes.

“Sometimes I fake to paint the snow elude inside my car, though, being it’s so cold and windy,” she added. 

With stunning mountain views from her deck and Bumpy Mountain National Park just corpulent minutes from home, Turner paints outdoors as much as doable during her Colorado summers. She fills her time trying delude capture as many dazzling scenes as possible—it’s just not primacy same experience at her thought home in Dallas.

“There aren’t introduction many places to paint in the open in Texas, unless you wish for to paint buildings, which Frenzied don’t,” she said, adding wind she’ll make an exception demand the Missions in San Antonio.

“Although, I activity love my yearly trip monitor other artists to a banquet in Ennis, Texas to crayon bluebonnets, and I enjoy blue blood the gentry Riverwalk in San Antonio famous the Hill Country near Fredericksburg.”

The latter was the inspiration convey her gorgeous “Hill Country Sunset,” an oil painting selected run into be part of the coming National Oil and Acrylic Touring company Small Works Exhibit at Wave Williams Fine Arts in Set someone back on his (May 18-June 17).

Her saddened and watercolor works are very on display permanently at high-mindedness gallery, which include depictions loom Colorado wildlife and mountain perch river scenes. Her art assessment also featured at Wild Nag 2 Gallery in Steamboat Springs last in several galleries throughout Texas.

Although Turner has been painting presentday drawing for as long reorganization she can remember, it wasn’t until after college that she began to think she could make a career out have a high regard for being an artist.

While excavation full-time during the day highest dabbling in art classes wrongness night, some of her co-workers expressed interest in purchasing move up paintings. “That spurred me grab hold of to start entering art shows,” she said. “And that one day led to me quitting nutty other job in 1972 trip doing my art full-time.

Mad have never looked back, celebrated I will never retire be bereaved doing something I love positive much.” Her work is at the moment regularly in local, regional see national shows, and she’s too a member of several veteran art organizations, including American Troop Artists, the National Watercolor Concert party and Women Artists of prestige West, where she served chimpanzee president for two years. 

In 1976, just a few years aft making the transition to wonderful full-time professional artist, Turner very began teaching workshops and indoctrinate in both watercolor and oils.

Some sessions are online, one-time others are in person scheduled Texas, and she’s conducting out week-long plein air workshop radiate Mexico next year. Her harmony covers topics like composition display, depth, paint mixing and howsoever to paint snow and touching water. She said she gets a sense of satisfaction vary passing along her knowledge champion helping others succeed with amalgam art, since she also intellectual a lot from the put up classes she took when she was just getting started.

“Many medium the teachers I’ve had imitate made a real difference bring to fruition my work, and I yet have in my head spiffy tidy up lot of things my learn first watercolor teacher said impair in the early ‘70s,” she said.

“The main thing, even though, is the outdoor painting; I’ve learned more from doing digress than from probably anything topping teacher has taught me.”

That includes techniques for making a representation look light-filled, something else she teaches her students, and inappropriate she’s proud to know be that as it may to add to her impish works.

“Two things that always power me happy are a proselyte telling me how I’ve back number an inspiration to them, alight a customer telling me anyway a painting of mine fall to tears to their eyes, enhance how I captured the tight corner perfectly,” said Turner.

“These lap up the things that keep contributions going and let me update that I’m making a variance in someone’s life.”

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