January FOBL Gallery Wall Artist

January FOBL Gallery Wall Artist

Evelyn LeNoir Chandler

Watercolor

Artist Bio:

Evelyn LeNoir Chandler loves to explore the outdoors. She has summited Mt. Whitney thirty times and trekked many other mountain ranges. Her hiking gear always includes pens, pencils, and watercolors. 

An East Tennessee native, Evelyn sold her first painting as a college student and spent three years as the artist for the Emory and Henry College library in Virginia. After studying oil painting in San Francisco, she continued her explorations to Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, and Dallas.

Evelyn has been a docent at Cheekwood Museum of Arts for several years, and is a member of the Friends of Radnor Lake. She has shown in several venues in the Nashville area and holds two blue ribbons in watercolor from the Tennessee State Fair Fine Arts Competitions, as well as other awards.

Evelyn holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Math and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion.

Presented by The Friends of The Brentwood Library:

Each month, The Brentwood Library hosts two local artists on the Friends of the Brentwood Library (FOBL) Gallery Wall and Showcase Display. Please take a few extra moments the next time you visit to pause and savor these artists' creations.

Each artist who displays their collection on the FOBL Gallery Wall contributes one piece to the our Art Lending Library. With over 230 pieces to choose from, patrons are able to check them out for ninety days. This artwork is a beautiful addition to the library that includes original artwork in acrylics, oils, pen and ink, pastels, photographs, and water colors. A full, detailed description of most items can be found in the Digital Collection on the library’s website.

December FOBL Gallery Wall Artist

December FOBL Gallery Wall Artist

Sandy Coomer
Mixed Media Collage Art

 

 

Artist Bio:

Sandy Coomer's mixed media collage art is meant to be examined up close. Although the presentation of the art as a whole should be pleasing to the eye, the details and minutiae of the piece are what make it special. Sandy invites you to look closely. See what you can see.

 

A native Tennessean and Brentwood resident, Sandy is also a poet. Her two collections of poetry are Continuum, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press, and The Presence of Absence, which won the 2014 Janice Keck Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems have also been published in various regional journals and literary magazines.

 

As a poet, most of Sandy's art includes words, the emotive element, which bonds with the visual element in art to create a multi-dimensional product. Favorite themes are home, love, creativity, joy, belief in self, courage, and happiness. The one specific element you will see in virtually all of her art is birds. Birds represent freedom, delight, and fearlessness, and connect ethereal emotion (heaven, air) to sturdy, solid fact (earth, ground).

To balance her creative side, Sandy is passionate about endurance sports. She regularly participates in marathons, half marathons, and triathlons, finishing the year as a 2015 Ironman All World Athlete (top 10% of age group) after completing the ultra-distance Ironman Chattanooga in September 2014. She continues to train and race year round.

 

Learn more about Sandy at her website www.sandycoomer.com. See more of her art at her Etsy store: Sparrow House Art. www.etsy.com/shop/SparrowHouseArt. 

Each month, The Brentwood Library hosts two local artists on the Friends of the Brentwood Library (FOBL) Gallery Wall and Showcase Display. Please take a few extra moments the next time you visit to pause and savor these artists' creations.

 

Each artist who displays their collection on the FOBL Gallery Wall contributes one piece to the our Art Lending Library. With over 230 pieces to choose from, patrons are able to check them out for ninety days. This artwork is a beautiful addition to the library that includes original artwork in acrylics, oils, pen and ink, pastels, photographs, and water colors. A full, detailed description of most items can be found in the Digital Collection on the library’s website.

November FOBL Gallery Wall Artist

November FOBL Gallery Wall Artist

Dave Woodward

Watercolor and Color Pencil

Watercolor

Color Pencil

 

Each month, The Brentwood Library hosts two local artists on the Friends of the Brentwood Library (FOBL) Gallery Wall and Showcase Display. Please take a few extra moments the next time you visit to pause and savor these artists' creations.

 

Each artist who displays their collection on the FOBL Gallery Wall contributes one piece to the our Art Lending Library. With over 230 pieces to choose from, patrons are able to check them out for ninety days. This artwork is a beautiful addition to the library that includes original artwork in acrylics, oils, pen and ink, pastels, photographs, and water colors. A full, detailed description of most items can be found in the Digital Collection on the library’s website.

Artist Bio:

 

Dave Woodward is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee. After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a degree in forestry and wildlife, he moved to Nashville and began a 33-year career with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
 
Shortly after retiring in 2006, Dave began painting, incorporating his love of the outdoors and wildlife into a variety of portrait and landscape paintings. Much of his work depicts scenes in and around middle Tennessee, using watercolor paint as his primary medium. He has also started working with color pencil on black paper to create several wildlife and portrait drawings.
 
Dave's creative interests extend to music as a songwriter and performer of original songs, many of which are related to wildlife and the environment. A member of ASCAP since 1975, he has had numerous songs recorded, ten of which charted on Billboard's Hot Country 100.
 
Currently, Dave works part-time with the Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association, giving him an outlet for his interest in Civil War history. Several of his color pencil drawings are dedicated to both Confederate and Union generals.
 
Dave lives happily with his wife Donna in Brentwood, and they have two grown children, Troy and Emily.