Martha Faires

A Classical Education

 

A Hunting We Will Go

West Barn At Leatherwood

Content In Confinement

Out of Whose Flowers

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Artist Statement

As an artist, I am influenced as much by certain writers–––especially  George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis–– as I am by great visual artists
because they help me understand the deeper purpose of the arts.  Lewis speaks of nature being “only the first sketch” of a greater glory.   It
is that greater glory that I see in the ordinary world around me and that is what I hope to communicate to the viewer.  Whether in an old bearded
gentleman with character wrinkles or in the white light patterns on the deep green grass, I see the glory of God everywhere.   
I am captivated by the ordinary man, the simple little house, the rugged oak, the curly hair of a spaniel, the white explosion of a cumulous cloud. 
Nothing is insignificant.

ART ASSOCIATIONS
Mint Hill Arts
Piedmont Pastel Society
Oil Painters of America, Associate member
Oil Pastel Society
 


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