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Frozen in Time
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Your Painting Title
Frozen in Time
Your Name
Tommy McDonell
Medium
Mixed Media
Your Profile
Tommy McDonell is an award winning artist living and working in Pinehurst, NC. She has been a member at the Artist League of the Sandhills since 2008, and a studio member since 2009. Originally from New York City, she didn’t take art classes until 2007. Tommy won her first honorable mention with the first watercolor she did on her own, prior to moving to Pinehurst. Most recently her painting, “Tale of Two Cities”, a collage, won first place in Mixed Media in June at the Artist League of the Sandhills. And she won an Honorable Mention in Mixed Media at the Arts Council of Moore County (ACMC) in August, 2017, and a Second Place in a 2015. She has had several shows, most recently, a two woman show with Deborah Kline titled Life’s Layers at the Campbell House of ACMC. Find out more at http://tbmcdonellart.com
The Story Behind Your Painting
My father was in the Navy and friends were in the Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. I grew up hearing stories about the sea at night. How the water reflects and what we think we see, might not be what’s really there. Frozen in Time is Alcohol Ink poured on the page and I moved the paper around. I took leaves and sticks and stirred the liquids. Then Silver Stars were poured and stirred to connect the sides of the Stars. In the end I hope it makes people think when they look at my work as to how we got where we are.