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show so she can exhibit at the International Horse Show (which charges $1000 for an exhibit space and lasts eigl|t days) and others coming up.
She has a show planned at Village Frameworks in Culpeper in June, and a second show at the library planned for May.
Mrs. Powell’s favorite medium is colored pencils. “It really lends to flesh tone and light. It is a wonderful media,” she said.
She describes her drawings as being very meticulously rendered so that they are as exact as they can be without being photographs, though they are not photo realism, which she doesn’t like. “Art is supposed to be a little larger than life to me, a little more bedutiful, a little more of the divine.”
“Life can be so mundane,” said Mrs. Powell, and she likes to make a difference, bringing out what is beautiful in life, she said. That is why you take walks, commune with nature, she explained. “I want to bring that beauty indoors. You can see a person’s soul, almost, when you see a portrait, she added.
Her portraits show that beauty, and are often set outdoors — maybe a little girl playing with her favorite pet, or a pensive moment in the garden. Her horse portraits are striking, and are usually done from photographs that she has taken, because she knows what poses work best for a portrait.
She normally works from photographs, as horses, dogs and kids don’t sit still, she said. She can also work from old paintings.
Mrs. Powell studied art at the University of Utah with Jim Christensen, who is very well known in the art world for his fantasy art and has published a few books of his work. He’s a very disciplined artist who paints every day, she said.
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