In 1999 I drove north after I retired from Denver Public Schools and fell in love.  Not with a man--with the Prairie! I found myself dreaming of the wind, and of wafting, blowing grasses.  Weird, hah?  So I bought a house in Harrison Nebraska.

     Not too long after my move to Nebraska I discovered pastel painting.  The pastel medium--pure pigment in a stick--allows me to explore the immediacy, the passion, and the fragility of these high grasslands. While I still paint in acrylic and oil, I always circle back around to pastel--and the scenery of plain and pines.



 
 

     Peg Fowler was born in New York State and grew up in Pennsylvania.  She graduated from Penn State University with majors in both art and English, and an abiding interest in caving, climbing, and the out-of-doors.  
     
     Fowler moved west, married, divorced, raised two children, and put her art career on hold--until she retired from the Denver Public Schools in 1997.  Children and grandchildren are all in Minnesota, but Fowler maintains both a home and a studio in Harrison, Nebraska, where she paints full-time.








Recent Art Shows and awards:
2007-- Best of Show, 14th Anniversary Show,
            Carnegie Arts Center,  Alliance, NE

2007--Solo Exhibition -- Peg Fowler: Portraits of
            Land     West Nebraska Arts Center,
            Scottsbluff NE

2007--ABH Exhibition, Eastern Wyoming College,
            Torrington WY

2006--Artists of the Black Hills; juried show
            The Dahl, Rapid City SD

2006--Uppity Women's Invitational Show
           Yount Street  Gallery, Fort Collins CO 
 
2006--Oregon Trail Days Art Show and Sale
           Gering NE  (Top Seller)
          
2006--Gering Arts Festival, (art in the Park)
            Legion Park, Gering NE

2006--"Colors for a New Year"  Carnegie Arts
            Center,  Alliance, NE   

 
 

Peg Fowler is represented in the Black Hills by:
 
Prairie Edge, Rapid City, South Dakota

Shaman Gallery, Hot Springs, South Dakota


Visit her website at:

www.pegfowlerfineart.com

or

www.pegfowler.com





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