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Ancestors and Spirit GuidesNew Works by Sharon Allred and Romney Nesbitt
Opening: First Friday, Dec 5, 5-8pm
Closing: Thursday. Dec 18, 5-8pm
Gallery hours after opening: Gallery hours after opening: Thursdays 5-8pm, Saturdays 1-5pm, Sundays 1-5pm
Liggett Studio is a located at 314 S Kenosha, Tulsa, OK 74120
Our lives are lived in the moment but our moments are linked to our ancestral pasts and to the future yet to be discovered. Allred and Nesbitt’s paintings explore this continuum from past to future.
Sharon Allred’s images explore the psychological myths and idols of our collective past. Romney Nesbitt’s paintings illustrate the worlds that can become visible when we open our consciousness through meditation and imagine a place beyond this life.
SHARON ALLRED BIO
Sharon Allred’s creative career emerged alongside her years as a cardiac nurse where she focused on the many aspects of healing the whole person. Tying art to healing was a natural transition. She studied methods of improving patient healing through art making at the Creative Center in NYC where she trained to be an artist-in-residence. In Tulsa she worked as an Artist-in-Residence at OK Heart Institute and Children’s Pediatric Oncology Clinic where she taught art to patients and their families. Sharon has also led small groups in art and healing workshops. Sharon has studied painting with several notable mixed media artists and has developed her own unique style that invites the viewer to look within. Sharon works full-time in her mid-town Tulsa studio creating mixed media paintings that invite the viewer to look within to find their own path to greater wholeness.
SHARON ALLRED ARTIST STATEMENT
My images connect to the core of the human experience. I use color and textures to express the organic nature of our emotions, memories, personal legends and hopes. My painting process often includes found objects and asemic writing. The process of creating art for me is a mirror of the way life is lived--we add, subtract, move and shift to new ways of being in the world.
Romney Nesbitt Artist statement
At a weekend workshop in 2017 titled Creativity as a Spiritual Practice I found a new direction for my work. I learned how to use my meditation practice as a doorway to an inner world where new images could emerge—and they did! Digging into art history, I found the paintings of late 19th and early 20th Century transcendental artists such as Hilma af Klint, Agnes Pelton, and Georgiana Houghton and I’ve traveled to see af Klint’s paintings in Sweden and Germany. I describe my new works as “interior landscapes.” I illustrate what I see in my mind’s eye during meditation and in dreams. I paint the mystery and wonder that is available when I slow down, look inside and breathe. My materials are watercolors, acrylics, awe, silence, curiosity and time.
Romney Nesbitt Artist’s biography
Romney Nesbitt has always been an artist. Her mother proudly claimed, “Romney’s favorite toy was a pencil.” She has a BFA in Art from William Woods University, Fulton, Missouri and a MA in painting from The University of Tulsa. While in graduate school she worked as a courtroom artist on some of Oklahoma’s more infamous murder trials. In 2004 she was trained to be a creativity coach and began coaching artists and writers. In 2008 she published SECRETS FROM A CREATIVITY COACH. For eleven years she authored an advice column for artists in Art Focus Oklahoma magazine. Romney taught art for Jenks Public Schools for twenty-two years and was a finalist for Oklahoma Teacher of the Year in 2014.
Since retiring from teaching in 2020, Romney enjoys painting in her home studio and teaching watercolor workshops. To show her appreciation for veterans, Romney draws pencil portraits of Oklahoma vets at local retirement homes and military centers. Other interests include playing in the Tulsa Accordion Band, learning to speak German and reading non-stop.
Romney and her husband are retired empty nesters. They like to take road trips to see weird roadside attractions and visit museums. At home they serve as full-time staff for two elderly cats.
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