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A watercolor image called Hickoru Creek by Leigh Ellis that will be in the “A Naturalist’s View in Watercolors” gallery. CONTRIBUTED
The Madison Artists Guild is proud to welcome well-known watercolorist and teacher Leigh Ellis to Madison for her one-woman show titled A Naturalist’s View in Watercolors.
Please join Guild members and MAGallery artists on June 10 from 6-8 p.m. for a special evening that includes refreshments, conversation, and a watercolor demonstration by Ms. Ellis at 6:30 p.m.
A Naturalist’s View in Watercolors will remain at the gallery through July 9, and all works are for sale. The exhibition may also be viewed in the gallery’s online shop at www. themadisonartistsguild.org/shop.
MAGallery is located at 125 W. Jefferson St., Madison.
Ms. Ellis truly is a naturalist who views the world in watercolors: a naturalist educated in zoology and ecology, who has a Masters in Science in Biology, and who began her art career in biological illustration 23 years ago.
“My paintings, studies and curiosities are piqued by biological connections and light in the natural world. A major muse in my work is birds - to me, they are the embodiment of freedom and life.”
Leigh studied painting and design at the University of Hawaii and Montana State University and has participated in Smithsonian Institute workshops.
While Leigh lives and paints in nearby Oglethorpe County, she cuts a wide swath across the Southeast teaching classes, leading workshops for Oconee Arts Foundation, and exhibiting in fine art shows from Florida to North Carolina.
Until recently, she held a faculty position at Athens Academy where she taught painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography in the Fine Arts Department.
Her illustrious career includes 15 solo exhibitions plus juried and private exhibitions from Hawaii to Georgia, six book illustrations (five for Menasha Ridge Press), and Signature Membership in the Georgia Watercolor Society.
A busy Fall of 2022 takes her back across the Southeast in a flurry of shows, but Spring 2023 lands Leigh back in Georgia for an exhibition at the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia.
A Naturalist’s View in Watercolors is one of MAGallery’s 11 special exhibitions for 2022 that showcase original artwork of emerging and established artists who are from outside the local community.
MAGallery, a retail art gallery supporting over twenty local artists and eight authors, is operated by Madison Artists Guild, a nonprofit dedicated to education and the encouragement of artistic endeavor in its members and the community through outreach programs, classes, workshops and social gatherings. learn more about the organization, please visit TheMadisonArtistsGuild. org or call 706-342-9360.