I am currently exhibiting with Art JAM at Piedmont Arts Center, Martinsville VA, March 5 - April 24, 2010, and at Alleghany Highlands Arts Center, Clifton Forge VA, June 8 - July 10, 2010.
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The paintings on this website show my two artistic passions, for I love painting abstractly and painting landscapes. A move to the country in 1998 has given me daily opportunity to appreciate the wonder of light, fog on the mountain, the glory of spring from the top of the meadow, a sunset over the tops of distant trees, an old house, a favorite view down a road, and the ever-changing expanse of sky.

But abstract art gives me the freedom to splash, drip, pour, squeegee, scrape, print, spray, explore, discover and play. Going back and forth from realism to abstraction helps keep me fresh and offers challenges to learn and grow.

While I have exhibited in many solo and group shows over the past thirty years, two favorite exhibits were a series of very large multi-panel landscape paintings which were part of Watershed: Three Views of the Land and a one-person exhibit based on the short stories of Flannery O'Connor that traveled through the Southeastern United States from 1992-96.

A graduate of Austin College and Virginia Tech, I have also studied at workshops with Wayne Thiebauld, Darby Bannard, and Susan Shatter and at Arrowmont and Penland Schools of Art and Craft. My work is in public and private collections throughout the US.

Martha Dillard