Fay Lee, Artist Extended BioBIOGRAPHY
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"Koi II"
Watercolor
Image Size - 12"X16"
(Original Painting)
Fay Lee grew up
in Escambia County in South
Alabama, and always had a talent for drawing. She now lives in
New
Hampshire where she is a member of the York Art Association (ME)
and the Society of Arts & Crafts in AL. She participates in
local and regional art shows in the Northeast.
She took
painting classes in New York from Joe
McDowell of Nyack, N.Y., and in Montgomery took classes and workshops
from Joe
Robinson of Destin, Florida, Deborah Gibson of Alexander City, AL, Ann
Calagaz
of Mobile, and Jim Lewis of Olympia, Washington, and from local
instructors
(Donnave Lindsey, Connie Lewis, Clark Walker, Virginia Kelley, Sharon
Yavis,
Shirley Baird, and Marguerite Edwards.)
She has been in
juried shows with the York
Art
Association, the Newburyport
Art Association, Regions Bank/Montgomery Art
Guild, the Museum of Fine
Arts/Montgomery Art Guild, Society
of Arts and
Crafts, Selma Art Guild and Elmore County Art Guild,
as well as the Experimental
Artists of Alabama juried show at Samford University in
Birmingham. She has been in group shows with the WAOAPOA Art Group
at
Alabama State University in Montgomery, Central Alabama Community
College in
Alexander City, Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Andalusia, and
High
Cotton in Alexander City and at the Coliseum Boulevard Branch of the
Montgomery
Public Library System. She has, also, been in shows with the Yancey
Avenue Gallery in Montgomery, AL.
Several years
ago, she had a painting in an
invitational show entitled "Alabama Landscapes" at the Wiregrass
Museum of Art in Dothan, which then went on tour around Alabama for
six months.
Fay has been
painting in oil and acrylic since 1978
and started painting in watercolor in 1987. She, also, works in
pastels,
collage, pen and ink, and mixed media. She does local and
regional art
shows, and has occasional one-woman shows. She had a show at the
Bank of
New Hampshire in Wolfeboro Falls in 2005, and she had two shows at the
Tuftonboro, NH, Library in 2004 and 2005 as well as a two-woman show at
the
Wolfeboro Library in 2007.
She has won many
awards at various art shows,
including "Best of Show” twice, and has paintings in collections
throughout the United
States and in several other countries, including Germany, France,
England, Hungary,
Luxembourg and Japan.
She is or has
been a member of York Art
Association, Newburyport Art Association, Durham Art Association,
Manchester Art Association, Black Bear Art Association, the
Society
of Arts and Crafts, Experimental Artists of Alabama, Montgomery Art
Guild,
Elmore County Art Guild, Shelby County Art Association, Eastern
Shore Art
Association, and the WAOAPOA Art Group. She sells her work
through Artisans' Gallery of Tilton, NH, SAC's
Gallery in Montgomery, AL, and in the gift shop of York Art Gallery in York,
ME, and at local and regional shows in the Northeast.
Through
the Volunteer &
Information Center and the Junior
League of Montgomery, Fay
was nominated for Volunteer of the Year for 2002 by the Radio
Reading Service for the Blind and by SAC's Gallery. There
were three corporate awards,
two awards to organizations, two special awards and four individual
awards.
Fay was selected for the 2002 Arts Volunteer of the Year Award.
Fay
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