Additionally, Carol Cheney will be giving portrait demonstrations at the ArtWorks Art Gallery on First Thursday, August 7, from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. Carol is a painter and local artist/educator. Her watercolor and oil paintings will be on display at ArtWorks Gallery for the month of August.
ArtWorks Gallery will be presenting artist demonstrations within the gallery once a month on First Thursdays. These demonstrations are free to the public.
Thurman Grantham's surrealistic flora and fauna are out of this world and truly exotic. Grantham's media of choice is auto-body plastic and layers of crystal-based paints and clear coat. He often includes insects hidden within the foliage. His first six sculptures were created over a six-year span.
Grantham is a native of Albany, Indiana and is a graduate of Delta High School. His occupation is a paint restoration specialist at Muncie Imports and Classics. The media he uses to restore rust eaten Jaquars is also used to create his sculptures. Grantham is considered by definition as an "Outsider Artist". This term is often used to define a group of artists who have not had formal art instruction. Grantham relies on his creative imagination and his innate artistic sense of design, color and composition to fabricate his creations.
Grantham is 52 and soft spoken. He states "I have been an artist all my life". Art just comes naturally to him and when he was a youngster he dabbled in watercolors. His older brother is a professional artist in Chicago. Grantham started using auto-body plastic and paints in 2002 when two of his buddies complained about not having the money to buy their wives flowers for Valentine's Day. Grantham replies: "We'll just make them". He made one for his wife as well. According to his wife of 27 years, Marilyn "You never know what he is going to come up with next"!
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