Your Entry Title For Purple Mountain Majesties

Your NameEmma Wilson


MediumOil

Your ProfileEmma Wilson is a native North Carolinian, born in Beaufort. Her love for this area of the state is seen in her paintings of coastal scenes. Emma attended and graduated from UNC-G with a degree in Clothing and Textiles.Her first job brought her to Moore County as a 4-H Extension agent. She traveled to the Philippines with her Air Force husband where she took art lessons from Jose B. david, a renowned Philippine artist. Returning home, she started color analysis business called "Colors by Emma" in the 1980's. Later she returned to school to get a degree as a Registered Nurse and worked at Moore Regional Hospital for nearly twenty years. After retirement and a 35-year break from art, she became active in the Artists League, taking a variety of classes. She loves working in pastels, watercolors and oils, and has a special affinity for alcohol inks because of their vivid colors. Emma tries to paint several days a week, while allowing time to enjoy her grandchildren.

The Story Behind My America"America the Beautiful" was written by poet Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor, when she first visited Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs. She was so inspired by the view that she wrote a poem "Pikes Peak." Later it was set to music and renamed "America the Beautiful." The mountain range in my painting is not the view from Pikes Peak, but one of many beautiful American mountain ranges. The third verse of the song is as timely now for its war-oriented imagery as it was when first written. For all the soldiers past and present, these words still hold true: O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine! This painting is dedicated to all soldiers past and present.

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