2009-12-03
River’s Edge Gallery features work of Medina artist
By Judith Pannebaker
Debbie and Mike Wilson, owners of River’s Edge in Kerrville, have selected digital artist Carole K. Boyd of Medina as the gallery’s latest featured artist.
Trained since the age of two in dance and drama, Boyd’s return to the Texas Hill Country has inspired her to work in another area of art – the graphic arts. As an emerging digital fine artist, she has been recognized and published both locally and nationally.
To create her original works, Boyd uses only a Microsoft Paint program and a computer mouse as a brush. However, her paintings are original digital art rather than altered, manipulated or painted photographs.
Boyd also eschews using filters to create textures, which makes her work unique in this emerging field. Boyd’s work spans categories from surrealism to realism and impressionism to illustrations – even fine line drawings.
“As a child, I often did pencil drawings. I decided then that when I grew up and got old – I had in mind about age 35 – I would try to paint. That never happened,” Boyd explained. “But when I discovered ‘Paint’ on the computer, it instantly opened up a world of color.”
An international art site voted Boyd’s portrait of River’s Edge Gallery’s dog, “Roxie the Art Hound,” as one of “The Ten Best Animal Portraits of 2009.”
In addition, 27 of her works were chosen as featured art by an international group of fellow artists working in all types of media. Boyd’s “Winter Walk,” “Roxie the Art Hound,” “Avocado,” “Three Kings” and “Hill Country Colors” were voted in the top 10 of their categories.
From over 800 entries, “Welcome to My World,” Boyd’s depiction of a mare gazing at her newborn foal, was selected by an international panel of judges to be featured on one of the 365 days in a Daily Calendar of Contemporary Art.
When asked to describe her artistic style, Boyd replied, “I strive towards realism to some degree regarding what I consider the focal point of the painting – and what I want others to focus on. In the rest of the painting, I lean heavily towards impressionism. That way, the remainder of the painting will not distract viewers from what I want them to see first.
“With the rest, I quite often leave it up to the viewer’s imagination to fill in the details. Thus, my paintings do not neatly fall into a single category but are, for the most part, a combination of realism and impressionism – something a bit different. Of course, with portraits, I try to create as realistic a painting as the subject will allow and I can achieve.”
In addition to being a digital artist, Boyd is a horsewoman, dressage rider and trainer, an attorney, certified mediator, singer-songwriter and rancher in rural Texas.
When growing up, the native-born Texan lived in and traveled throughout Texas, Central and South America and Canada. Her early education was in South America where she was educated in Spanish and English.
Boyd later lived in Florida, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey, where the multi-faceted overachiever became a ranked tennis player, sang and performed her original songs in clubs and concerts, recorded albums, won a role in nationally televised soap opera and raised and trained thoroughbred race horses. After earning her pilot’s license, she explored the Florida Gulf Coast and its many islands, including the Keys and the Bahamas, in her boat and single engine plane.
To view more of Boyd’s work, visit www. RiversEdgeGallery.net.
The Wilsons also deal in original fine art, handcrafted jewelry and sculptures and also serve as a print dealer for Greenwich Workshop and Somerset House & Mill Pond. The gallery also offers framing and printing services.
River’s Edge, 832 Water Street, is open from 10 am until 5 pm, Monday through Saturday. Telephone is 830-895-5184 and email, riversedge@bizstx.rr.com.
