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 PATSY LINDAMOOD NAMED 2024 ROCKPORT ART FESTIVAL MASTER ARTIST

Banking executive makes time to also be a full-time practicing artist

ROCKPORT, Texas (July 21, 2023) — Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA) today announced artist Patsy Lindamood as the 2024 Rockport Art Festival Master Artist.

Known for her realistic watercolor pencil, graphite and soft pastel works, Lindamood is the 32nd artist to be honored as Master Artist, a tradition that began in 1993 with Harold Phenix. As Master Artist, she will host a solo show June–July of 2024 in RCA’s H-E-B Gallery coinciding with Art Fest and will also provide an original piece to the annual Art Auction Gala which kicks off the festival weekend.

Since its inaugural event in 1969, the Rockport Art Festival has grown to become one of the most respected, and longest-running juried art festivals in the United States. Held each year on the July Fourth holiday weekend, the event features art by more than 120 artists including painting, jewelry, ceramics, woodwork, glass and more.

Lindamood has achieved signature status in the Society of Animal Artists, Artists for Conservation, and the International Guild of Realism with her wildlife work.

“We’re so excited to honor Patsy Lindamood as our 2024 Master Artist,” said Elena Rodriguez, exhibitions curator for Rockport Center for the Arts. “As a regular participant in Rockport Art Fest and Birds in Art, her work really speaks to the heart of what makes Rockport special. Her artwork reflects immense talent and sincere love of the region.”

A late starter as an artist, Lindamood decided in 2004 to become a professional, which she continues to pursue along with her career as a CFO/CTO/CISO for a credit union. In addition to her day job, she typically spends  30 to 40 or more hours a week in her Huntsville, Texas, studio creating new work, on her computer vetting and composing her photographic reference, or engaged in the business of promoting and supporting her art. 

Often asked how a professional mathematician of sorts, responsible for implementing and supporting technology can also possess such a strong passion to create art, Lindamood said she never really tried to understand the dichotomy between the demands of her day job and the skills and creativity required to be an artist. Eventually, however, her own need to understand that dichotomy led her to explore how mathematical concepts such as symmetry, linear perspective, and the Fibonacci sequence, are foundational in the highly representational artwork she creates.   

Never previously drawn to painting landscapes, Lindamood has recently been developing a series of Texas panoramas featuring grain silos, grain elevators and disintegrating homesteads, vistas comprised of a broad range of values, populated with subjects that are consummate examples of strong lines and shapes. 

“For years, my subject matter was principally wildlife and human portraiture,” said Lindamood. “But a couple of years ago on one of my birding expeditions, other elements of the local Texas environment overran my focus on the avian population of the area.  

“When the visual language is reduced to just lines, shapes, and values, the underlying story becomes more poignant, more arresting. Absent the romance of color, working in shades of grey is like telling a short story rather than writing a novel.” 

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About Rockport Center for the Arts and The Rockport Conference Center (The ROCC)

The new 1.2-acre Rockport Center for the Arts is located a block away from Aransas Bay in the heart of the Rockport Cultural Arts District. Designed by the award-winning team at Richter Architects, the state-of-the-art campus features a two-story, 14,000-square-foot, visual arts and education building with four galleries and five classrooms (204 S. Austin St.); a one-story, 8,000-square-foot conference and event center, known as The ROCC, including a 4,400-square-foot ballroom and culinary arts kitchen (106 S. Austin St.); with a 16,000-square-foot Sculpture Garden serving as a visually inspiring transition space between the two buildings. Hours of operation for the showroom, galleries, and gift shop are Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Sunday from noon–4 p.m. Admission is always free. For information on event space, or to book an event, call (361) 729-5519. For general information and to become a member, visit rockportartcenter.com, follow RCA on Facebook, or call (361) 729-5519.

Rockport Art Festival Master Artists, 1993–present

1993 Harold Phenix †; 1994 Steve Russell (Founding member of the Rockport Art Association, Inc.); 1995 Al Barnes †; 1996 Herb Booth †; 1997 Jesus Moroles †; 1998 Evelyn Atkinson; 1999 Ricardo Rivera †; 2000 Kay Barnebey; 2001 Jim Offeman; 2002 Flint Reed; 2003 Anita Diebel; 2004 Thom Evans †; 2005 Carol Koutnik; 2006 Hal McCaskill; 2007 Nanci Barnes; 2008 Teresa Justice; 2009 Lisa Baer Frederick; 2010 Shirley Hughes Blackman; 2011 Betty Shamel; 2012 Bruce Bitter; 2013 Bonnie Lou Prouty; 2014 Pamela Fulcher; 2015 Chance Yarbrough; 2016 Joey Blazek; 2017 Barb Robinson; 2018 Debbie Stevens; 2019 Angalee DeForest; 2020 V… Vaughan; 2021 Robin Hazard; 2022 Jeffrey Neel McDaniel; 2023 Kent Ullberg (†Deceased)

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