I had two pieces accepted into The Museum of Florida Art and Culture Plein Air Show this past month in Avon Park, Florida. "Bill Cone's Pasture" and "Calm Sunday". I also painted the next day in the plein air event...no prizes, but a lot of fun!
I grew up in an artistic home.My parents met at the Chicago Academy of Arts in the mid 40's. My father, Steven Gaston Dobson, became an accomplished Chicago Illustrator and my mother, a display artist for Marshall Field & Company. My early works earned me a scholarship to Ringling College of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Like my parents, I met my husband in art school and have resided in Sarasota since 1971.
For over 30 years, my husband, Travis and I owned our own businesses making sculptures using bronze and various natural elements, and later a line of imprinted apparel.
Although successful, and living a full life with three children (now grown), I never stopped dreaming of painting full time. In 1993 I resumed painting on a weekly basis with my then retired illustrator father, and I've since found other talented painters whom I paint with several days a week. Painting almost exclusively from life, I have traveled and painted and have work in private collections across the USA, Argentina, Spain, and France.More of my work may be seen at M Gallery of Fine Art in Sarasota, Florida and Corse Gallery and Atelier in Jacksonville, Florida.
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