| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
April Issue 2008
Cabarrus Arts Council in Concord, NC,
Features Works by Jennie Martin Tomlin
The Cabarrus Arts Council in Concord, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Jennie Martin Tomlin: A Retrospective, including more than 70 works by the local artist and teacher in the Arts Council Galleries, on view through May 3, 2008. A companion exhibition, Salon Show, features works by some of her students.
Included are watercolor and acrylic paintings, pencil drawings and a large mural of old Concord. Subjects include landscapes, flowers, lighthouses, the seaside and historic sites.
A Cabarrus County native, Tomlin became interested in art as a young girl. She studied art in high school and majored in commercial art at Virginia Commonwealth University. She worked as a commercial artist, including as a layout artist for TV Guide magazine and as a textile designer until her marriage to the late Donald Martin, a military journalist and pilot. Tomlin spent the next 15 years moving with her husband around the world and raising a family.
"I rarely painted, but I had the good fortune of seeing and photographing many beautiful scenes and potential paintings from all over the world," Tomlin said.
After her husband's death in 1970, Tomlin and her children returned to North Carolina. She resumed her study of art at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, receiving a degree in fine arts in 1975. She subsequently opened a gallery, framing shop and classroom in her studio in Harrisburg, NC. Tomlin also maintains a gallery and studio in Concord.
Tomlin's work can be found in collections all over the United States and in New Zealand, Turkey and Germany. She has had numerous one-person shows in the past but now concentrates primarily on openings at her Harrisburg and Concord galleries and promoting her students' work. The city of Harrisburg commissioned her to paint a 6' x 9' mural depicting historic sites in the area, which was dedicated in April 2007.
Tomlin lives in Harrisburg with her husband, Dr. E. M. "Tommie" Tomlin.
Tomlin will present a free gallery talk on Apr. 10, at 7pm. The talk is co-sponsored by the Cabarrus Art Guild.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Arts Council at 704/920-2787 or visit
(www.CabarrusArtsCouncil.org).
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2008 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts Online, Copyright© 2008 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.