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Released April 1, 2010
Spring Festivals & The Arts
We thank John Hutchinson, Organist
and Director of Music, Worship & Arts
at the Cumming First United Methodist
Church, for supplying the beautiful
painting that graces our cover this month.
This is a sample of what you will find
at the Festival of Arts being held April
18-25 at the church, located at 770
Canton Highway. The Festival of Arts
was established in 2008 with the goal of
presenting professional and student visual
artists in gallery displays. The professional
visual artists are juried, and cash awards
are given. See more about this event on
page 16.
The work on the cover is by Connie
Lynn Reilly of Buford, GA. She is an
Atlanta native, a true southern belle.
Connie has studied with various artists
over the years: Irving Lawhon, Morgan
Weistling, George Carlson, Nelson
Shanks, Richard Whitney, and Tony Couch, to name a few.
The master artists of old who have
influenced her work include the French master Bouguereau, Ingres, Carl
Bloch, and John Singer
Sargent. She has been painting portraits professionally for 38 years,
and has won national and
international awards; her paintings are in numerous private, public, and
museum collections. Connie
is a Master Instructor of classical drawing and painting portraits and
figurative art, and now teaches
an adult classical drawing course at the Johns Creek Art Center. She is
founder, president emeritus,
and Member of Excellence of the Southeastern Pastel Society, and a
member of Oil Painters of
America and the Portrait Society of America. Currently she is working on
illustrations for a children’s
book.
Thank you, Connie, for sharing your beautiful painting with our
readers.
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