"Places in Space" the impressions of three women artists

8 January 2012

Gallery Exhibition
Featured Event

"Places in Space" - the impressions of three women artists

Linda  Palmer - featured artist

The art work displayed in this exhibition will consist of work from Linda’s travels to Italy, France and the natural state of Arkansas.  Her work will consist of her paintings and colored pencils.

Arkansas artist, Linda Palmer has focused primarily on interpreting and celebrating the varied facets of Arkansas landscapes for the last 25 years.  Palmer studied art at UAFS when it was WestArk Community College with Don Lee and Pete Howard. Working with colored pencils and oils, Palmer brings a delicate sensibility to her work that results in powerful compositions based upon elements of nature. 

Recent travels to Africa, Egypt, France and Italy have led to paintings of doorways, palaces, and architectural elements of the past.

 For the last four years, she has been locating, photographing, and then drawing the Champion Trees of Arkansas. The planned exhibit "The Champion Trees of Arkansas" will be a traveling show intended for art center, galleries, and state parks throughout Arkansas.  More information about this exhibit is available by contacting the curator at barbarabdesign@yahoo.com

Palmer is a signature member of ‘The Colored Pencil Society of America’ and her art has been consistently accepted in state and national juried exhibitions. Her drawings and paintings are in many private collections and over 40 corporate collections.  

Martha Efurd has loved art for as long as she can remember, but it was during her early marriage years in Europe that she received her first set of oil paints from her husband.  The areas of the Ozarks, Europe, and west Texas dominate the themes of her paintings.  She has been involved in designing pen and ink note cards of historic building or homes since coming to live in the historic area of northwest Arkansas.  Her paintings can be seen in private collections mostly in the central and western states. Efurd says her inspiration for her atwork comes from God's work in nature and anything showing character through living.

Maggie Malloy, a native of Wewoka, OK, has been resident of Ft. Smith for 35 years. Malloy’s work represents diversity and changes in her life.  She prefers working with oil because she enjoys blending oils’ intensifying shades that melt into the next. Since 2004 Malloy has been determined to develop her own style.  She wants to be seen as bold, unafraid of making mistakes and probably pleasing mostly to herself.  Her inspiration for her artwork comes from a desire to leave a little piece of herself behind.

Art will be on display through January 27, 2012.