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Deep Connection To Nature
Written By: Zach Claxton - Highlands-Cashiers Art League | Issue: May 2023
After spreading her techniques and her vision across the US and throughout Europe, Norma Hendrix shares her art with The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers, May 22 at The Bascom.
Norma Hendrix
The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers is pleased to announce that Norma Hendrix, lifetime honorary member of the Art League, will be the guest speaker at the May 22 meeting. Her presentation at 5:00 P.M. will follow a wine social at 4:30 P.M. All are invited to attend this free event. Her presentation will focus on her recent artist residency in Corris, Wales, and experiences in Bristol, England, where she presented as part of a four-women panel at an international conference.
Hendrix has been an exhibiting artist for over 40 years. She holds a BFA, an MA, and an MFA. She has been an artist in residence and presenter at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; Atelier Four Winds, Aureille, France, and Corris, Wales.
She was a professor of Drawing, Life Drawing, Painting and Art History for 10 years at Western Carolina University. She founded and directed Cullowhee Arts, an internationally recognized non-profit arts organization. Hendrix participates in international cultural exchange through artist residencies and artist lectures. Most recently, she presented an arts-based paper at the International Conference of Autoethnography, July 2022, in Bristol, England. Her artwork is held in private and public collections in the US, France, England and Wales.
Practices of preparation, composition, and the use of vertical panels have emerged through her study of Asian art, philosophy and poetry. She says of her work, “Drawing and painting are ways I express my deep connection with nature. My art-making really begins during daily walks or hikes in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where I live, or other wilderness places where I travel…”
Hendrix is committed to using environmentally and health-friendly materials, and she therefore makes earth pigment, water soluble paints. She also incorporates other drawing media from graphite and charcoal chunks and powders, sumi ink, and art graf squares, black and red drawing stone from England, etc., all of which are also water soluble. Her supports are rice paper mounted on wooden panels and finished with archival UV protected acrylic varnish.
We know that this presentation will prove to be an interesting and informative one, and we hope you will be able to attend.
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