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Page 8 The Independent Thursday, May 4, 2017
Tammy Hext of Burlington comes home for her one-woman show at Victoria Hall in May.
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Hext adds colour to the outdoors
Heather Wright
“At some point, you have to put the photo down
and let the painting guide you,” she says. Hext has been adding more colour to her works recently saying people are drawn to it.
sell some of her work so she can buy more art supplies. “I’m satis ed breaking even,” she says.
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Tammy Hext loves bold colours and the outdoors.
Even in a world of digital photography and cheap department store art, Hext says people still appreciate the work she is doing.
The Wyoming native who started painting under the guidance of Ariel Lyons and Jane Austin at LCCVI as a student, uses both in uences in her one-woman show pre- sented by the Victoria Hall Art Advisory Committee at Victoria Hall this month.
“It is good to be loose and explore what I’m seeing with paint and I’m trying to use more colours together.”
“Some people do go to Walmart and get a huge piece of artwork for a small amount, but they don’t understand what goes into each painting or the work in the years before... to get up the skills to get there.”
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Hext now lives in Bur- lington. She often grabs her camera and heads out on the road for inspiration.
Hext will spend more
than a week on most of her paintings, working after she comes home from her job as an insurance adjuster.
As she travels, Hext takes photos of vast hills, winding roads and fall colours that inspire her to paint. “I love Ontario. You can just get in the car and drive out of the city to nd inspiration,” she said Saturday during a break from hanging her works.
While Hext has been fortunate to nd places to display and sell her works, she is excited to be able to show in Petrolia.
But she says the world of accessible art may be having another effect: increasing the market for ne art.
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“Karen Campbell called me and said they were look- ing for an artist and would I show? It was a nice sur- prise to be offered a place because it is hard to get a place to show.”
“I know people who will invest in a piece that 20 million other people don’t have.”
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Hext’s works will hang in the council chambers and bar area at Victoria Hall until the end of the month. An opening reception is being held Saturday starting at 5 pm.
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Hext is drawn to roads and pathways. Sometimes the colours in her photos are muted so she lets her imagination go.
Hext paints for the joy of it, knowing it is next to im- possible to make a living as an artist. She’s happy to just
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