Artist Bio:
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Wendy Ervin moved to Middle Tennessee in 2003 with her family and retired from a career as a maternal-infant Registered Nurse. She was then able to pursue her passion for oil painting and has studied with a variety of master artists: Roger Dale Brown, Colley Whisson, Anne Blair Brown, Frank Baggett, Kevin Macpherson, Marc Hanson, and Morgan Samuel Price.
Wendy uses a limited palette of bright clean colors in her landscape, figurative, and cityscape paintings to capture the simplicity and serenity of everyday moments. She enjoys both studio work, using photographic and sketched references from travels in Europe, Mexico, and the US, as well as plein air painting in beautiful Tennessee. She spends countless hours of personal study and practice, always wanting to grow as an artist.
Wendy is an associate member of Oil Painters of America, the National Organization of Acrylic and Oil Painters, and The Chestnut Group in Nashville and serves on their Board of Directors. She participates regularly in art shows in the Middle Tennessee area and has had her work juried into national shows.
Awards & Honors: Affiliations:
Juried into Gallery North Small Works Show, Edmonds, WA 2018 Chestnut Group Nashville...Board Member
Juried into Randy Higbee Gallery 6x6 Art Show, Costa Mesa 2017 Oil Painters of America...Associate Member
Special Recognition Award, LightSpace&Time Online Gallery, Landscape 2017 National Organization of Acrylic & Oil Painters
Special Merit Award, LightSpace&Time Online Gallery, Figurative 2016
Recent Exhibits:
Warner Park Art Show, 2018
Gallery North Small Works Show, 2018
Randy Higbee 6-Squared Show, 2017
Friends of Radnor Lake Art Show. 2017
Martin Masters Fine Arts Show (juried) 2017
Chestnuts @ The Hermitage 2017
Lipscomb Art Show (juried) 2017
Brentwood Academy Art Show (juried) 2016
Artsclamation! (juried) 2015-17
Small Treasures Art Exhibit 2014-2017
Monthaven Autumn Exhibitt 2011-2016 (Award winner-2015!)
East Nashville Tomato Art Festival 2012-2017 (juried)
Small Treasures Art Exhibit 2014-2017
Autumn Artisans Show (juried) 2014-15
Actors Point Theatre solo show 2014
Hermitage Fall Festival (juried) 2013
Warner Park Art Show, 2018
Gallery North Small Works Show, 2018
Randy Higbee 6-Squared Show, 2017
Friends of Radnor Lake Art Show. 2017
Martin Masters Fine Arts Show (juried) 2017
Chestnuts @ The Hermitage 2017
Lipscomb Art Show (juried) 2017
Brentwood Academy Art Show (juried) 2016
Artsclamation! (juried) 2015-17
Small Treasures Art Exhibit 2014-2017
Monthaven Autumn Exhibitt 2011-2016 (Award winner-2015!)
East Nashville Tomato Art Festival 2012-2017 (juried)
Small Treasures Art Exhibit 2014-2017
Autumn Artisans Show (juried) 2014-15
Actors Point Theatre solo show 2014
Hermitage Fall Festival (juried) 2013
Artist Statement:
"My primary objective in every painting is to capture a unique moment in time and interpret it with the contrasts of light & dark values, warm & cool color temperatures, soft & sharp brush strokes. Every painting takes me on a journey into the intimacy of the form and content of each shape, the gesture of movement, and the mood of the subject.
For me, life has the sweetest meaning in simplicity, stillness, and those ordinary experiences of beauty: a field of tulips, waves hitting rocks, light on autumn leaves. My art focuses on being awake to the wonder in nature, in people, in the precious moments of living.
This quote from C.S. Lewis expresses the inner longing for a meaningful life that we all seem to have:
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory" "
For me, life has the sweetest meaning in simplicity, stillness, and those ordinary experiences of beauty: a field of tulips, waves hitting rocks, light on autumn leaves. My art focuses on being awake to the wonder in nature, in people, in the precious moments of living.
This quote from C.S. Lewis expresses the inner longing for a meaningful life that we all seem to have:
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory" "