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Webster artist featured |
Webster artist James Smythe
is the featured artist at
the Balsam Center at Southwestern
Community College’s
Jackson Campus through the
month of March. The lobby
art gallery is open Monday
through Friday during regular
school hours and during special
events in the evenings. Smythe
is a retired painting professor
from Western Carolina University,
where he taught painting and
art history for 31 years.
On his retirement Smythe became
a full-time landscape painter.
His paintings have been widely
exhibited and he has won many
art awards. “Our beautiful
mountain environment inspired
the subjects of the nine paintings
in this exhibition, including
the two that focus on churches,”
said Smythe. His paintings
feature rich, bright color
and a loose application of
paint, often with the help
of a palette knife. All of
the paintings are framed and
reasonably priced. Organized
by the Macon County Art Association
(of which he is a member),
this is the third art exhibition
of a yearlong schedule to
be held at SCC. More paintings
by the artists can be seen
at the MCAA website mcaauptowngallery.org
under Member Artists.
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Last
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3/11/09
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