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OVER 60 ART COMPETITION
Lynne Hardwick
Age 72 • Summerville, South Carolina • lynnehardwick.com
I fell in love with art in college when
Impressionist slides were shown in a
humanities class. After college, I attended
what was the Katharine Gibbs School in
New York City and spent my weekends
in museums and art galleries while audit-
ing art history classes, eventually i nding
work in advertising. After saving money for
several years, I bought a Eurail pass and traveled alone through
Europe to visit museums and art galleries. Standing in front of
stone carvings 20,000 years old gave me goose bumps and my
life was changed forever. I ran out of money in i ve months and
returned to the States, but I still have plenty of gypsy bones
ready to explore our world and its people—learning about their
antiquities, beliefs, customs and petroglyphs.
Later, I began traveling for a month or two each year in
Europe again, studying watercolor and painting en plein air.
At the time, I was busy raising my children and selling real
estate to fund my travels. In 1996 I moved to Charleston, S.C.,
where I began painting full time and bought into (and still own)
Lowcountry Artists Gallery in Charleston’s historic French
Quarter.
Kazakh XV is one of a series I’ve been exploring this year.
I’m honored that this piece went to China for the International
Small Image China Exchange Exhibit and was shown in
the Shenzhen Art Museum, moving from there to San
Pedro, Calif., where the series will be shown in the National
Watercolor Society Gallery until August of 2016. M.G.
George Schoonover
Age 85 • Yachats, Oregon
I grew up in the coun-
tryside of Southern
California, surrounded
by orange and avocado
groves. Our nearest neigh-
bors were half a mile away,
and kids my age were more
than a mile away. h is left
me to my own devices; luckily our environ-
ment included a large red clay deposit. I spent
many hours sculpting i gures and free-form
characters.
In high school I developed more as a car-
toonist rather than as a i ne artist, entertain-
ing my fellow students with caricatures and
humorous drawings. After a stint in the Army
during the Korean conl ict, I returned to col-
lege to i nish my master’s degree.
Pose Break is a remembrance of many
wonderful hours spent in the studio of Bob
Jackson. h is generous individual opened his
studio one night each week to local artists. Bob
found models within the community, and we
all chipped in for a three-hour session. h ose
that attended these sessions were from a wide
range of backgrounds. h ere were nationally
known cartoonists, oil painters, portrait artists
and architects. M.W.
ABOVE: Kazakh XV (mixed media on paper, 12x15)ABOVE: Pose Break (acrylic on paper, 19x22)