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August Issue 2005
Hilton Head Art League on Hilton Head Island, SC, Features Works by Folly King and Terry Brennan
The Hilton Head Art League on Hilton Head Island, SC, is pleased to present the following exhibitions, including: Spectrum, featuring artworks by local artist, Folly King, from Aug. 2 - 27, 2005, and Lowcountry Palette, featuring 30 new paintings by Terry Brennan from Aug. 30 through Sept. 24, 2005. Both shows will be on view at the League's gallery in Pineland Station.
Folly King
King started her professional career in art
in the Washington, DC, area in 1964. She needed enough money to
build a pond on the farm that her family had purchased. Without
a place to swim, she knew her children would not want to spend
weekends and summers on the farm. Motivated to promote and sell
her paintings to pay for the pond, she approached three places
where she had seen other artist's shows. All three accepted
her paintings and soon King had the money she needed.
Once King became known, six galleries in the Baltimore, Washington,
Maryland area carried her work. She was also in museum shows
and won prizes on a fairly regular basis.
King's training started in high school. Next was the Art Students
League in New York, then Ohio State University, and Pomona and
Scripps College in California. Believing she could not make
a living painting, she decided to get a degree in art education
at Pomona College. Later while teaching art in Michigan she
pursued and received an MA in art education from the University
of Michigan. King later also acquired a masters degree in social
work. This led to a job as a psychotherapist. She has taught
art to all age groups. When she retired and moved to Hilton Head
in 2001, King decided to concentrate on her painting.
King paints nearly every subject with the exception of landscapes. Flowers
and horses have always been favorite subjects. She thinks
of herself as an expressionist, loving color and avoiding photographic
realism. King tries to leave enough unexplained in her paintings
for the viewer to supply some of their own creativity. She says,
"I slip into abstraction from time to time, but yank myself
back, since that is not where I want to work."
One of the first things King and her husband did when they settled on Hilton Head Island was to rent a garden plot. She wanted flowers to paint and look at. At first the plot was filled with mint, weeds and fire ants. By the end of summer there were zinnias, mint, weeds and fire ants. She said, "We had grown old and forgotten how much work a garden is and we learned more than we wanted to know about fire ants. We gave up the garden plot. I would get my flowers elsewhere."
Terry
Brennan
In the past five years, Terry Brennan has sold over 90 paintings. He's truly a master of the Lowcountry scene as well as a prolific artist.
Brennan's palette is the palette of the Lowcountry.
The vibrant colors of local landscapes and seascapes come alive
under his brush. "With each landscape and seascape, I attempt
to capture the emotions and mood of a specific place at a particular
moment in time," says Brennan. He has 30 new paintings in
this exhibition. "Painting is an opportunity to combine color
and values into a composition that provides viewers with a chance
to see the Lowcountry as I do," says the artist.
Brennan's love and appreciation of the local area is apparent
in every one of his works. His work is very popular with the public.
The marsh scenes, shrimp boats, and landscapes with mossy live
oaks spring forth from his palette in all their magical wonder.
Brennan and the Lowcountry are engaged in a dance of mutual admiration.
In 2001, his one-man show Lowcountry Scenes, was highly
successful, with more than half the paintings being sold at the
opening. Lowcountry Palette is the sequel. In addition,
his commissioned works can be seen in homes and businesses around
the area.
Brennan has a degree in engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a business degree from Northern Illinois University. He spent 35 years with Nicor Gas Company. In 1993, he and his wife, Joanne, retired to Hilton Head Island where he honed his art skills with noted artists like Tom Lynch, Irving Shapiro, Tony Couch, Charles Gruppé and Morgan Samuel Price.
Utilizing his engineering skills, Brennan was responsible for the design and construction of the Hilton Head Art League Gallery in Pineland Station and, more recently, the Society of Bluffton Artists' Gallery in Old Town Bluffton, SC. He served on the Art League Board for more than three years and is currently president of the Society of Bluffton Artists. He is also a member of the Beaufort Art Association, the South Carolina Watercolor Society and the Hilton Head Plantation Artists Association. His work is currently shown in three galleries in the area.
For more information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Art League gallery at 843/681-5060
or at (www.hiltonheadartleague.org).
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