Artist Has Affinity For State, Desert

Mountain Mail reports

Socorro artist Georgette Grey, the Chamber of Commerce’s artist of the month for July, has an affinity for New Mexico and the desert.
"I guess I just like living where the sun shines more often than not. I have been fortunate in that I was able to return to the West for many visits, and even more fortunate that I finally have been able to return to live in New Mexico, land that I love," Grey says.
Originally from Oklahoma, Grey and her husband Prescott moved to Socorro eight years ago.
In the intervening years, she has lived and studied in Ohio, North Carolina, California, and New England.
Her show at the Chamber is a varied watercolor presentation of still life, landscapes and summer scenes.
Grey’s growing body of work totals several hundred pieces.
With formal training in arts as diverse as printmaking and throwing pottery, her true art school has been her life.
Working exclusively in watercolor, her love of nature and her skill with watercolor combine to create works enhanced by observation and knowledge.
“I’ve always worked only in watercolor,” Grey said. “Why? Because I’m always learning new techniques. Trying new things. There’s always something new to try.”
Despite the seeming realism, her work reflects an inner emotional view that the artist refers to as interpretive realism, a style that offers more than the mirror of a photograph or the technical mastery of a draftsman.
Before Grey became a charter member of Socorro County Arts, she was co-founder of The Artists Guild in northeast Massachusetts, was Gallery Director of the Newburyport Art Association from 1994 to 1997, and is a past board member of the Seacoast Artists Association in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Socorro is fortunate to have such a prestigious artist, and her work is also exhibited at Curious Crow Studio on 113 Abeyta Street.
Grey's work has been accepted into many prestigious exhibits including the juried annual Lassonde Show at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a juried exhibit at the Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Mass., sponsored by ArtsNorth magazine.
She exhibited by invitation at the Farm Life Museum, Kenly, North Carolina in 1997 and was asked to return in 1998 and each year since.
In 1996 she began exhibiting at Andover Art in The Park, Andover, Mass., and was a familiar face at Art on Bartlet Mall during New-buryport's annual Yankee Homecoming. She has also exhibited in San Clemente and Newport, California.
Many of her originals, plus prints and cards of her work are available at her website: www.vertuarts.com.Selected paintings can be seen at the Socorro Chamber of Commerce through the end of July.

Picture: Georgette Grey describes her technique in her painting “Open Air Market” at the Socorro Chamber of Commerce.

Photo by John Larson

Artist Has Affinity For State, Desert