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Esther Abbey, of Dodge City, is being featured from now until Feb. 4 in the Delmar Riney Art Gallery at Pratt Community College.
“Abbey’s exhibit is a very nice example of classic oil paintings,” said Marsha Shrack, art instructor at Pratt Community College. “She has a wide verity of subject matters.”
Abbey said she became interested in art when she was a child and started taking private lessons at a young age, though band was the popular activity to be involved in.
“I’ve always liked to draw and my mother enrolled me in private art lessons when I was in the third grade,” Abbey said. “All the way through school I opted for the act classes, but begrudged the camaraderie and band trips of my friends who were in band. Back then you couldn’t do both.”
Abbey said she quit painting when she became a mother because she felt the oil paints were too much of a temptation for a toddler. After putting the paints away she didn’t get them back out again for 30 years.
While watching Oprah Winfrey one day, Abbey said she became motivated to pull the oils back out. Abbey said that Oprah’s message was urging people to do something special with their life and she took it to heart.
“Painting helps me to get up in the mornings,” she said. “I can hardly wait to get my easel and I am never bored.”
Abbey said majority of the paintings in this exhibit have been completed within the last 10 years and said that she really likes do portraits because “it’s a challenge to get a likeness.”
The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. For more information contact Shrack at marshas@prattcc.eduor call (620) 450-2191.
Esther Abbey, of Dodge City, is being featured from now until Feb. 4 in the Delmar Riney Art Gallery at Pratt Community College.
“Abbey’s exhibit is a very nice example of classic oil paintings,” said Marsha Shrack, art instructor at Pratt Community College. “She has a wide verity of subject matters.”
Abbey said she became interested in art when she was a child and started taking private lessons at a young age, though band was the popular activity to be involved in.
“I’ve always liked to draw and my mother enrolled me in private art lessons when I was in the third grade,” Abbey said. “All the way through school I opted for the act classes, but begrudged the camaraderie and band trips of my friends who were in band. Back then you couldn’t do both.”
Abbey said she quit painting when she became a mother because she felt the oil paints were too much of a temptation for a toddler. After putting the paints away she didn’t get them back out again for 30 years.
While watching Oprah Winfrey one day, Abbey said she became motivated to pull the oils back out. Abbey said that Oprah’s message was urging people to do something special with their life and she took it to heart.
“Painting helps me to get up in the mornings,” she said. “I can hardly wait to get my easel and I am never bored.”
Abbey said majority of the paintings in this exhibit have been completed within the last 10 years and said that she really likes do portraits because “it’s a challenge to get a likeness.”
The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. For more information contact Shrack at marshas@prattcc.eduor call (620) 450-2191.
