Fairfield Bay artist exhibits works at Garvan Gardens

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

HOT SPRINGS — Garvan Woodland Gardens will showcase the artwork of Charlotte Bailey Rierson of Fairfield Bay through July in the Magnolia Room. The One-Woman Art Exhibit can be viewed from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Admission to view the artwork is free.

A meet-and-greet reception for the artist will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10.

Rierson's exhibit, "Growing Up in Arkansas," is a collection of watercolor portraits depicting life in the Natural State. It includes the early beginnings of the artist's finger paintings to works that reflect Rierson's childhood memories.

Rierson has been both an artist and a promoter of the arts. She is a past president of Mid-Southern Watercolorists and the director of the MSW RegionalAdvisors. She has also been involved with other art organizations in the region and state.

Rierson's paintings have been selected to be in the permanent collection of the Historical Arkansas Museum, University of Central Arkansas, Clinton Presidential Library, Arkansas Art Council's Small Works on Paper, Ozark Health Medical Center and private collectors nationally. One of her paintings was selected to be exhibited in the Arkansas Art Exhibition that hung in the national Capitol.

Some of Rierson's artwork can be viewed at www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/charlottebailey-rierson.html.

More information about the exhibit and directions to the Gardens are available at www.garvangardens.org.

River Valley Ozark, Pages 141 on 06/29/2008