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September Issue 2007
Charleston Artist Guild in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Ann Marie McKay
The Charleston Artist Guild in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Owning the Landscape, featuring works by Ann Marie McKay in the Guild Gallery from Sept. 1 - 30, 2007.
In Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, he said that he didn't have to own property to retain the landscape. That's how McKay feels about painting her favorite places. She particularly likes to paint on location, where she can use all her senses to "own" the place. One of her favorite beach scenes is near Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island, SC. To paint this view, McKay stood in the sand behind the bulkhead and looked out toward Charleston and the Ravenel Bridge. With impasto strokes, she painted the rough texture of the rocks and bulkhead in the foreground. McKay could hear the waves swirling around the rocks. Further down the beach, the waves gently lapped to the shore, and, in the distance, she could see the Charleston skyline.
"That landscape is now part of me," says McKay. View from Fort Moultrie is part of McKay's month long exhibit.
McKay's exhibit will feature places she has connected with both here in the Lowcountry and during her travels. She says she has had "itchy fingers," eager to draw, ever since she was a child. Taking art classes and workshops wherever she lived, McKay enjoyed painting memories of the places where she and her Army husband were stationed. When they made a retirement move back to her husband's hometown of Charleston, McKay finally had the opportunity to paint fulltime. Most of her work is in oil, but she also paints with pastel and watercolor.
McKay was thrilled when Julie McLaughlin asked her to illustrate two children's books about the alligator in Lake Wakendaw, where they both live. (Hungry Mr. Gator and Mr. Gator's up the Creek.) McKay now "owns" the scenery around the lake and nearby Hobcaw Creek.
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