June 21 - Aug 18, 2024

H-E-B Gallery

Reception Saturday, June 22, 5-7pm

Presented by Tito’s Handmade Vodka

Graphite Artist, Watercolor Pencil Artist

For years, Patsy Lindamood’s subject matter was principally wildlife and human portraiture.  She achieved signature status in the Society of Animal Artists, Artists for Conservation, and the International Guild of Realism with wildlife work.   But about two years ago, on one of her birding expeditions, other elements of the local Texas environment overran her focus on the avian population of the area.  

Another transition she has made in recent years is away from working principally in strongly colorful soft pastel to other dry media:  watercolor pencil and graphite.   For her graphite body of work, she looks for compositions that provide a range of values, an essential element for creating a compelling graphite painting.  

Never one previously drawn to painting landscapes, these days she is developing a series of Texas panoramas featuring grain silos, grain elevators and disintegrating homesteads.  These vistas are comprised of a broad range of values, populated with subjects which are consummate examples of strong lines and shapes.  And, when the visual language is reduced to just lines, shapes, and values, the underlying story becomes more poignant, more arresting.    Absent the romance of color, working in shades of grey is like telling a short story rather than writing a novel.  

A late starter as an artist, Patsy decided in 2004 to become a professional.   While she says she may not currently “live” off her art, she is nevertheless a full-time practicing artist, despite her day job as a CFO/CTO/CISO for a credit union.  She typically spends some 30 to 40 or more hours a week in her studio creating work, or at her computer vetting and composing her photographic reference, or engaged in the business of promoting and supporting her art.   In addition to her original work, she accepts commissions of all types for projects which she finds personally engaging.   

Patsy is a self-taught artist who has attended multiple workshops and conferences for colored pencil and pastel prior to 2020.  

“Now that she is working in graphite,” she says she is “in a lane of my own. Workshops and societies for graphite work are not to be found.”

International Competitions

ARC _ Art Renewal Center:  Finalist 2022, 2020-2021, multiple times prior years

Artists Magazine:  Finalist 2022, 2021, 2020, multiple times prior years

Strokes of Genius:  Finalist 2023, 2022, 2021

Southwest Art Artistic Excellence:  2022, 2021, multiple times prior years

Exhibitions

Birds in Art:  2022, 2021

Salmagundi Club Annual Open Exhibition _ Non-Member:  2023, 2022, 2021 (several times previous years)

·        Cathedral de la Madeleine – Certificate of Merit

Salmagundi Club Annual Members Exhibition: 2024

·        Through this Door. . . to the World _ Joan Peterson Memorial Award

American Artists Professional League: 

·        95th Grand National Exhibition (November 2023)

·        Spring 2023 Members Online Show

·        94th Grand National Exhibition

·        Spring 2022 Members Online Show

·        93rd Grand National Exhibition

·        92nd Grand National Exhibition

American Artists Professional League – Realism on the Hudson: 2023

Allied Artists of America:

·        110th Annual Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art

·        110th Online Annual Exhibition

·        108th Annual Exhibition

Hudson Valley Art Association:

·        Hudson Valley Art Association 90th Annual

·        Hudson Valley Art Association 89th Annual

Ridgewood Art Institution:

·        Ridgewood Art Institute 43rd Annual Open Juried Show

·        Ridgewood Art Institute 41st Annual Open

International Guild of Realism:

·        IGOR Fall Salon 2023

·        17th Annual Exhibition (2023), Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

·        IGOR Fall Salon 2022

·        IGOR Fall Salon 2021

·        IGOR Spring Salon 2021

·        15th Annual Exhibition (2020), Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC

·        IGOR Spring Salon 2020

·        Multiple annual exhibitions and online salons prior to 2020

American Plains Artists:

·        American Plains Artists 2023 Signature Show, Petrified Wood & Art Gallery, Ogallala, NE

·        American Plains Artists 37th Annual Juried Exhibit & Sale

·        American Plains Artists 2022 Signature Show, The Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, TX

·        American Plains Artists 2021 Art of the Plains Juried Exhibit

·        Several annual exhibitions prior to 2020

Society of Animal Artists:

·        64TH Annual Exhibition _ 2024, Sioux City Public Museum

·        Wildlife Wonders _ 2024, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

·        Encounters with the Animal Kingdom _ 2023, Janice Mason Art Museum

 3 Square Art, Fort Collins, CO: multiple juried exhibitions, 2021 and ongoing

          Silver Award – Over the Old Star Drug –

Art in B & W – 4th Annual –2023

Artspace 111, Dallas, TX:  2023    

Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas, TX:   multiple juried exhibitions

          1st Place – 2022 – Hollingsworth Motel

         3rd Place – 2021 – Lean In

 Solo Shows

Breckenridge Art Center, Breckenridge, TX

American Plains Artists, Kerrville, TX (2-D Artist)

 Signature/Elected Memberships

IGOR/International Guild of Realism

Salmagundi Club of New York

AAPL/American Artists Professional League

Allied Artists of America

APA/American Plains Artists

SOAA/Society of Animal Artists

AFC/Artists for Conservation

TxN/Texas and Neighbors

Elected membership to the Allied Artists of America is a coveted signature event for a realist.   So, now she has all the major American realist signature designations:  IGOR – International Guild of Realism, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, and now the Allied Artists of America.  

Her drawings (that will be in this exhibition) of “Mom's Bait Shop” took Juror's award and her “Pelicans on the Pier” received a bronze award in the Artist Invitation 9 International Juried Visual Art Exhibition at Camel Back Gallery.