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Royal Academy of Art
honors local artist
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By Malcolm C. MacPherson
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A shy Washington painter with a passel of loyal and admiring friends, some of whose walls he has brushed and rolled, departed last weekend for London, where his painting is being honored among a coterie of great artists that includes Turner, Constable, Gainsborough, and Hockney.
This may seem confusing. It isn’t. The painter, Rex Slack, is an artist; rather, the artist is a painter who explains the difference to a recent visitor, stating simply, “People are not always what they do. You have your day job and you have your passion.”
One of Slack’s paintings, titled “Backroads,” was accepted by the Royal Academy of Art’s Summer Exhibition and will be shown at the Academy’s famous “Varnishing Day” reception this week. As many as 9,000 paintings and sculptures are submitted annually to the Academy from around the world, for a final selection of only 450.
In the last two years, Rappahannock County has had two artists honored by the Academy, which held its first summer exhibition in 1769.
With typical modesty, Slack calls “Backroads,” “a strange little picture that I couldn’t sell.”
His friend, an accomplished painter also from
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People are not
always what they
do. You have
your day job and
you have your
passion.
Rex Slack
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