Horseback Riding Together With Hiking Inward The Wilderness

“Recent Works” Exhibit yesteryear the "Reynolds Art Duo" 

Opens Thursday, July 5

If you lot don’t similar “epic” outdoor adventures alongside tent camping, horseback riding together with hiking inward the wilderness, don’t become on opor-garai alongside “The Reynolds Art Duo,” Meredith together with Tony Mullins. 

The Mullins are artists together with professors of fine art at Reynolds, only they are too travelers together with lovers of the outdoors. They both grew upwardly inward rural, “ruggedly beautiful” areas every bit Tony puts it, Meredith beingness raised close Shenandoah National Park exterior Charlottesville, Virginia, together with Tony inward Rockwood, Tennessee close the Cumberland Plateau. This summertime they volition live on taking the 2nd purpose of an “epic” trip out west, driving across solid reason to see Mount Rushmore together with Yellowstone together with the Grand Tetons National Parks. 

Before leaving on their jeopardy the “Reynolds Art Duo” has an present of their operate opening on Thursday, July five inward Conference Center Gallery inward the Workforce Development together with Conference Center on J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s Parham Road Campus. Their exhibit, “Recent Works” includes to a greater extent than or less xx of their paintings. It volition live on available for viewing until Friday, August 31.

Meredith Mullins says of her work, “In the development of [my] electrical flow paintings, the familiar woman soul figure is studied inside the contemplative moments of feminine rituals together with routines. Ideas together with symbols representing femininity, motherhood, childhood, increment together with alter look inward my work. My intent is for the figures portrayed to invoke a feel of familiarity, reminiscent of Woman, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Partner or Wife.” Meredith’s “women” are unadorned, together with she almost ofttimes captures them inward “quiet moments of domesticity advertizement reflection.” She captures their essence inward their natural state, earlier brand upwardly is applied or pilus is arranged. Meredith has an incredible artistic mightiness to let out the soft beauty introduce at that moment.

Tony Mullins says, “I conduct keep spent the bulk of my ikon career wrestling alongside color, score making together with other formal elements, all spell exploring the possibilities of abstract painting. With this novel trunk of work, I’m pursuing these same themes, solely at in 1 lawsuit I conduct keep recognizable plain of written report affair upon which to construct paintings. I’m to a greater extent than interested inward retaining the expressive qualities of the ikon procedure than inward capturing a perfect likeness. The faces together with heads of my subjects are armatures, skeletons of an epitome upon which to slash, drip together with expressively apply paint.” Tony’s paintings are explosions of color together with recognizable faces – Johnny Cash, Willy Nelson, together with Prince to cry solely a few. He uses unlikely combinations of brilliant blues, reds, together with fifty-fifty greens to add together shadows together with lines to faces, bringing them live on beyond the canvas.

Both Mullins dear pedagogy fine art together with uncovering the students’ passion fuels their ain passion. Meredith says, “The almost rewarding gift is the surge of creative liberate energy that I experience subsequently pedagogy studio shape classes. When students grow artistically, their excitement together with pride is similar a shared electrical current.” For Tony, “Helping fine art students avoid all the mistakes that I made together with getting them gear upwardly for their adjacent steps is the almost rewarding. I’m a old community college kid myself together with hence I’ve walked the same path that they’re on now.”

The Mullins conduct keep been married for xix years together with conduct keep been pedagogy together at Reynolds for nearly fourteen years.