E. Faye Collins

Faye says that she discovered the pleasure of drawing at an early age when she slipped behind the living room sofa and drew pictures on the unpainted plaster wall. She knew they were the best drawings she had ever done. However, not receiving the critical acclaim that they deserved, they were soon painted over. That distant memory comes back to her as sparking her ambition to make something (Art?) worthy of being saved....immortal art that communicates with viewers! Art that speaks for itself!! In case that is not happening, here are her words to help:

"After spending twenty years with making paper and exploring the possibilities for art from hand-made paper, I am returning to my first interest in art---drawing and painting ("coloring"). These paintings are my efforts to get back-to-the-basics with all that I have learned (or not learned) in the interim. I am interested in an expressive application of paint. I am also concerned with thoughtful consideration for composition, perspective, boundaries, and color relationships. It is still my ambition to interest viewers as well as to indulge my own pleasure in the process."

Faye is a native of the Guilford College area of Greensboro where she still lives, and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA (Magna cum laude) and MFA in painting and printmaking. She studied at Kent State Blossom Festival, Penland and Arrowmont Craft schools, and has traveled and studied art history in France and painting and art history in Italy. She has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1989 and shown there regularly, as well as with the Gallery group shows at the Hickory Museum of Fine Art, Davidson County Museum, the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, the High Point Theater Gallery, and Meredith College Gallery in Raleigh.

She has shown in Art on Paper at UNCG Weatherspoon Museum, in 2002, 1992, and 1987. Her work was included in Dimensions, 2001 (2001), Untitled: Non-Objective Art, (1997), and Southeast Spectrum, (1996) all sponsored by Associated Artists of Winston-Salem. Her work has also been shown in Green Hill Center and Greensboro Artists' League in Greensboro as well as various other venues since 1980 and is in numerous private collections.

Faye is an avid gardener and patron of trees, an admirer of tomatoes and nature, and a novice birder.

Artworks Exhibits: September 2009, February 2008

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