Margaret Sue Turner Wright
'Studio'
5731 Scenic Hills Dr
Roanoke, Virginia 24018
Phone: 540-798-1299 Cell
Email: artzysuzi@hotmail.com http://www.ArtzyVilla.com
http://www.historicspeedwaygroup.org/index.php?action=page&page_id=1
My earliest memories of Art are when I was 5 years old & drawing my own comic strips while Mom and Dad read the rest of the Sunday morning papers. The Sunday comics were my 1st Art teacher you might say. I began to enjoy making up all my own characters and faces, not realizing that people, animals and portraits would one day be my passion in paint. One day in 4th grade I was studying a rabbit that had visited our room. Later, I would find myself doodling over & over remembering the rabbit and drew it up in school, only to hear my classmate’s disbelief of whether I really was the one who actually drew it. I was grateful that the teacher knew better! Although I found that experience from my classmates somewhat annoying, it seemed to trigger awareness that Art was something I took for granted as it came easy to me. I began to take my Art more seriously after that and soon found myself falling in love with oil paint. As an adult, I still like to study the drawings & paintings of the Masters and several years ago I was accepted into the Copyist Program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
In my painting, as I create depth of form thru line, color and values, there is a reawakening within me of a certain perspective that allows me to both “see”, and be the object that is “seen”. I become immersed in this re-awakened creative act and may find out later that I have been in fact painting for some 10 to 12 hours or at times painting even until daybreak. It is during these periods of focused painting, that interesting things begin happening with my sight: everything I look at becomes seen to me as a painting, whether it is my living room, forks and spoons, the yard, my dog or my family members! It is a bit like when I became pregnant with our 1st child, I began to notice that the world was just full of pregnant women-oddly everywhere I went! I realize now that it is just all about being totally immersed in the moment. I really feel that Art has truly opened a door within me not only to creativity, but to compassion, and a certain Spiritual perspective as it concerns wholeness, connectedness to life and humanity and the world at large.
My painting preference in medium has always been oil. My choices of subject matter may come from a still life, a life study, a memory, a day of plein-air painting of a landscape, or just a vision in my head-that stays. I coined the term: Story Portrait, as I began painting famous figures with vignettes of themselves surrounding the larger portrait within the painting as was done with Mickey Rooney.
have exhibited in Festival in the Park, donated paintings to non-profit organizations and charities thru the years. One of my paintings is on display thru the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge that I donated to the Occoneechee Orange Speedway, in honor of my Dad and NASCAR stock car racing legend, Curtis Turner.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Commissioned Works, Festival sales, Charity Donations, Demos, Teaching, Published Illustrations in Boone & Company Magazines, Accepted into Copyist Program, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Exclusive Representation in The Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake http://www.thelittlegallerysml.com/
ACCOLADES AND CREDITS:
1st Place @ Salem fair, Artwork aired on WSLS TV 10, paintings have been featured in the John Payne Lifetime Achievement Awards at 2 Vision Film Festivals; $15,000 Hollins University Scholarship for my Art; Founder of Art Wrap e-news; Lonely Arts Club (On Facebook!); Sponsor of Roanoke region’s event ‘Bike & Paint Out!’; Coined term: ‘Story Portrait’; President and Founder, Curtis Turner Museum: www.curtisturnermuseum.com ; Vice President: Blue Ridge Southwest Virginia Film office www.blueridgeswvafilm.org ; Art Director: Vision Film Festivals; Arts Council Member: http://theartscouncil.org/
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Roanoke College; Hollins College Workshop, resident artists in New York: Jack Beale and Sandra Freckleton;
Daniel Greene workshop; Art Instruction Schools; Johnnie Liledahl Instruction; Suzanne Ross, WHS, ( Watercolor USA Honor Society ); Carol Marlowe Nelms, a Signature Member of the Virginia Watercolor Society; ShaLeigh Comerford, BA, MALS. Hollins University; Tim Tyler, Victor Vignola, Academy of Realist Art-Founders College in South Boston, VA
EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS IN:
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Texas, and California,
PARTIAL LIST OF NOTABLE OWNERS:
Mickey Rooney, David Huddleston, Patricia Neal, Nick Glenni/Smith, Dr. Kim Carmichael, Curtis Turner Museum, Historic Speedway Group for Occoneechee Orange Speedway
'Studio'
5731 Scenic Hills Dr
Roanoke, Virginia 24018
Phone: 540-798-1299 Cell
Email: artzysuzi@hotmail.com http://www.ArtzyVilla.com
http://www.historicspeedwaygroup.org/index.php?action=page&page_id=1
My earliest memories of Art are when I was 5 years old & drawing my own comic strips while Mom and Dad read the rest of the Sunday morning papers. The Sunday comics were my 1st Art teacher you might say. I began to enjoy making up all my own characters and faces, not realizing that people, animals and portraits would one day be my passion in paint. One day in 4th grade I was studying a rabbit that had visited our room. Later, I would find myself doodling over & over remembering the rabbit and drew it up in school, only to hear my classmate’s disbelief of whether I really was the one who actually drew it. I was grateful that the teacher knew better! Although I found that experience from my classmates somewhat annoying, it seemed to trigger awareness that Art was something I took for granted as it came easy to me. I began to take my Art more seriously after that and soon found myself falling in love with oil paint. As an adult, I still like to study the drawings & paintings of the Masters and several years ago I was accepted into the Copyist Program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
In my painting, as I create depth of form thru line, color and values, there is a reawakening within me of a certain perspective that allows me to both “see”, and be the object that is “seen”. I become immersed in this re-awakened creative act and may find out later that I have been in fact painting for some 10 to 12 hours or at times painting even until daybreak. It is during these periods of focused painting, that interesting things begin happening with my sight: everything I look at becomes seen to me as a painting, whether it is my living room, forks and spoons, the yard, my dog or my family members! It is a bit like when I became pregnant with our 1st child, I began to notice that the world was just full of pregnant women-oddly everywhere I went! I realize now that it is just all about being totally immersed in the moment. I really feel that Art has truly opened a door within me not only to creativity, but to compassion, and a certain Spiritual perspective as it concerns wholeness, connectedness to life and humanity and the world at large.
My painting preference in medium has always been oil. My choices of subject matter may come from a still life, a life study, a memory, a day of plein-air painting of a landscape, or just a vision in my head-that stays. I coined the term: Story Portrait, as I began painting famous figures with vignettes of themselves surrounding the larger portrait within the painting as was done with Mickey Rooney.
have exhibited in Festival in the Park, donated paintings to non-profit organizations and charities thru the years. One of my paintings is on display thru the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge that I donated to the Occoneechee Orange Speedway, in honor of my Dad and NASCAR stock car racing legend, Curtis Turner.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Commissioned Works, Festival sales, Charity Donations, Demos, Teaching, Published Illustrations in Boone & Company Magazines, Accepted into Copyist Program, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Exclusive Representation in The Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake http://www.thelittlegallerysml.com/
ACCOLADES AND CREDITS:
1st Place @ Salem fair, Artwork aired on WSLS TV 10, paintings have been featured in the John Payne Lifetime Achievement Awards at 2 Vision Film Festivals; $15,000 Hollins University Scholarship for my Art; Founder of Art Wrap e-news; Lonely Arts Club (On Facebook!); Sponsor of Roanoke region’s event ‘Bike & Paint Out!’; Coined term: ‘Story Portrait’; President and Founder, Curtis Turner Museum: www.curtisturnermuseum.com ; Vice President: Blue Ridge Southwest Virginia Film office www.blueridgeswvafilm.org ; Art Director: Vision Film Festivals; Arts Council Member: http://theartscouncil.org/
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Roanoke College; Hollins College Workshop, resident artists in New York: Jack Beale and Sandra Freckleton;
Daniel Greene workshop; Art Instruction Schools; Johnnie Liledahl Instruction; Suzanne Ross, WHS, ( Watercolor USA Honor Society ); Carol Marlowe Nelms, a Signature Member of the Virginia Watercolor Society; ShaLeigh Comerford, BA, MALS. Hollins University; Tim Tyler, Victor Vignola, Academy of Realist Art-Founders College in South Boston, VA
EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS IN:
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Texas, and California,
PARTIAL LIST OF NOTABLE OWNERS:
Mickey Rooney, David Huddleston, Patricia Neal, Nick Glenni/Smith, Dr. Kim Carmichael, Curtis Turner Museum, Historic Speedway Group for Occoneechee Orange Speedway