She’s extremely talented, yes, but she’s also interesting and funny and kind. The Nature Artists’ Guild would like to invite all who are interested in nature or art to attend a presentation by Peggy Macnamara on June 6, 2019, from 7 until 9 pm. Peggy is calling this presentation New Directions, and we are intrigued! Please take a moment to visit Peggy’s website or do an internet search to find videos, interviews, books, and photos of Peggy and her artwork. It will be time well spent.
This program is open to the public and there is no charge to attend, no fees for parking, and no admission fee to The Morton Arboretum for the event. Please click on this link to a previous post for more details.
Light refreshments will be available, and copies of some of Peggy’s books will be given away as door prizes.
From the March 2019 issue of The Costco Connection –
“I never knew about the wildlife painting community because I came from the snobby art-history world,” says Peggy Macnamara (peggymacnamara.com). A noted nature painter for The Field Museum in Chicago, she found her vocation by serendipity: “I had too many kids at home, and I needed a studio space.”
The museum was close to her home, so she would go there to practice her craft. After about 10 years, she was asked to create paintings for the museum. She’s been there for 35 years now, and her work helps to draw attention to wildlife conservancy.
“[Nature is] much more magical than it appears at first,” she says. “We miss most of it. We miss the magic.”
Macnamara’s colorful art helps us find it. Her paintings are used in publications and museum presentations.
THE POWER OF ART
Peggy Macnamara is also a teacher.
“I see a lot of people afraid to jump into painting and drawing,” she says. “They think God’s gotta drop out of the sky and invite them. And there’s much more talent out there that never gets brought to the front because people don’t like to sit and do the work.”
But it goes beyond simple work. “What I would love is more people to see [creating art] as a form of meditation,” Macnamara explains. She tells her students to “slow down and observe something perfectly made. That’s a wonderful activity.” –Steve Fisher
Nature Artists' Guild 