September Featured Artist

The Port Aransas Art Center is happy to announce the September featured artist as Greta Watkins.

“Greta Watkins”

In Greta’s own words she lets us know how much she loves creating the beautiful art that she brings to life.

“As long as I can remember, I've always been involved with some form of art and creative process. As an adult, I worked for several years in clay, focusing on hand built porcelain. Then I turned to a medium with more immediate results, handmade paper- exploring texture, pattern, light and shadow. Drawing and painting classes gave me a new direction when I decided to go back to school, to finish a long postponed art degree. I love the mark making, the directness of painting, being able to create illusions of reality with just a few brushstrokes.”

Greta has such a wide range of artistic abilities, from her beautiful scenic paintings to her fun and well sought after painted toys. We asked Greta about her painted toys and this is what she said…“So why do I paint toys, especially Fisher Price Little People and pull toys? I think it is because we all seem to have happy connections with these toys. And they just make me smile! You, too, I hope. And I am having a blast taking artist liberties with the original figures - creating costumes and props for them, giving them new roles to play, posing them, etc. They almost seem to take on a life of their own sometimes. I hope. Lucky, the dog, is a huge favorite of mine. You will see him often in my work.”

Greta has created something very special that we are happy to display In our gallery. Greta’s true to life size paintings of some of our local bird nest with eggs are an amazing sight to see. Please stop in Monday through Saturday, 11-5 to see these wonderful works of art. This fascinating display illustrates the vast difference in size of bird nests and their eggs between our smallest and largest birds seen here in the coastal bend – a tiny nest only 3” inches in diameter all the way up to the massive nest of the Whooping Crane the tallest of North American birds that measures 36” in diameter, along with the nests and eggs of ten other resident and migratory birds species that can be seen here in the Coastal Bend of Texas.