How to go
What: “Lynda Pauley: Following the Trail” opening reception
Where: Springfield Museum of Art, 107 Cliff Park Road, Springfield
When: 5:30-7 p.m. Saturday, May 30
Admission: $5 nonmembers; museum members admitted for no cost
More info: 937-325-4673 or www.springfieldart.museum
Lynda Pauley has a long trail with the Springfield Museum of Art. She served as former museum educator and ran and taught at the art school for five years and has won prizes in the Juried Members’ Exhibition.
Now the trail has led to her own exhibition. “Lynda Pauley: Following the Trail” will debut at 5:30 p.m. Saturday with a reception, concurrently with the 69th annual Juried Members’ Exhibition.
“Viewers of her work are astonished by her technical skills to portray a realistic image while using light and color to create a mood, to express the emotion of being there and witnessing the events as if they are taking place in the present,” said Eve Fleck, museum operations manager.
Pauley made her name as an equine artist, using oil paint and pastels to capture championship horses from several countries early on. She’s since expanded into new subjects, including prairies, pioneers and people.
“The theme of following the trail is not just the pioneer trail, but my trail as an artist, of what I like to do,” said Pauley, who runs the appropriately named Prairie’s Edge Studio in South Vienna. “I like to read pioneer women’s diaries and collect old photos of them.”
The exhibition will feature 21 pieces, including an early equestrian painting. A couple feature hunting dogs, a tribute to her husband, another is a landscape of her South Vienna property, Western scenes and pioneer women.
Her painting “Pitchfork,” which won an award at the Cincinnati Art Club Competition in 2012, will be featured as well as award-winning pieces from Springfield Art Museum Juried Members’ Exhibitions.
“Most represent the last 15 years, a little mixture of everything I do,” said Pauley. “It’s fun to see it all together. Much of it stays stored away and it’s nice to see how it looks in a group.
“I hope people will have an appreciation for land and pioneers and their beauty in the artwork.”
Pauley teaches oils and pastels to students three days a week, with some students who’ve been with her for the nine years she’s had a studio.
Pauley will do a free artist talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 6 at the Springfield Museum of Art. She will also do a painting workshop, “Essentials – Putting Power into Painting”, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 18.
The exhibition will be on display during museum hours through Oct. 25
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