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August Issue 2003
Hilton Head Art League in Hilton Head, SC, Features Works by Lucy Morrison and Ann Bent
The Hilton Head Art League in Hilton Head, SC, is pleased to present a unique show at the League's gallery in Pineland Station. The show titled, Double Vision, features the work of Lucy Morrison and her daughter, Ann Bent. Both accomplished artists, they are excited by this first opportunity for a joint show. The exhibit will be on view from Aug. 5 - 30, 2003.
Morrison is a former resident of Decatur, GA, where she began studying art in 1978. Among her teachers were Dale Hundley, and the former head of the Art Department of Georgia State University, Joseph Perrin. She was a member of the Atlanta Artists Club and dabbled in various mediums, including pastels, acrylics, oils and watercolors. The Galleries of Rome, GA, have represented her work for 10 years. She won a first place award in the Fine Arts Division in the Hilton Head Art League's National Juried Show in 1998 among numerous awards in other shows.
Says Morrison, "Since art can represent the gamut of human emotions, the task of creating a painting can, and often does, flow from the artist's own feelings. A glimpse of a different viewpoint is very rewarding. Exploring the possibilities of watercolors, inks, pastels and mixed media, continues to be an exciting interest. My latest explorations have been in monoprints."
Ann Bent says that museums, galleries and studios have always been her favorite playgrounds, finding them "enticing in their variety and spellbinding with their displays of expertise and tools of creativity." She began drawing, painting and experimenting with linocuts, fiberarts and assemblages at an early age. However, it was not until moving to Hilton Head in 1994 that she began to seriously pursue her artistic bent, with pastels and oils emerging as her preferred mediums.
Bent has studied with many well-known artists, including: Walter Greer, Joyce Nagel, William Herring, Larry Blovits and, of course, her mother, Lucy Morrison. Her mother's lifelong involvement in the arts has been a constant, enlightening example. Bent focuses primarily on landscapes of the Lowcountry and France. In every piece, she tries to find an oriental balance, a sense of economy of line, color harmony, simplicity and serenity.
The marshes of the Lowcountry with their changing colors and patterns drew Bent and her mother to Hilton Head for retirement. Says Bent, "The sharp contrast between the twisted shapes of the live oaks, the tall sentinel palms and the horizontal expanses of marsh capture my attention and lead me back again and again to my studio, the studio I inherited from Walter Greer."
Bent purchased her townhouse on Hilton Head
from the Greers. "When we purchased his home, I told Walter
that I planned to paint. He explained that his muse would still
be present in that studio and that I should take
advantage of it. His approaches in the use of color and light
in his pond paintings and his marsh scenes are enlightening."
For an unforgettable view of the world according to the mother and daughter team of Ann Bent and Lucy Morrison, be sure to see Double Vision at the Hilton Head Art League Gallery in Pineland Station.
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