Mays Field by artist Fran Redmon

Original Pastel Painting on Sanded Paper (matted)

Size: W 16” x  H 12”  (painting w/o mat, W 12” x H 9”)

Artist Bio: 

Fran’s love for the visual arts started at a very young age.  From her earliest years and throughout high school she excelled in drawing and painting, won awards, and was encouraged by her high school art teacher. Fran Redmon graduated with a BFA in commercial art and a studio concentration in weaving from Western Kentucky University in 1977. Her first career position was as a graphic artist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Public Information Department.  Later, as a marketing specialist, she became one of two employees charged with pioneering the Craft Marketing Program in the newly formed Department of Arts.  Fran was promoted to Program Manager in 1987 and directed the award-winning Kentucky Crafted program until her retirement in 2007. 

In retirement, Fran has returned to her first love of creating her own art. Rasied in rural Woodford County, Kentucky, as the daughter of a tobacco and cattle farmer, her heritage in agriculture and love of the natural beauty of rural Kentucky is at the root of her inspiration.  She took up pastels, which she feels best enables her to depict her love of nature and the pastoral scenes of Kentucky.  She has been producing and selling her pastel paintings since 2014.  She also creates painterly digitized photographs that often become inspirations for her paintings. Fran has taken numerousclasses with pastel artists Dianna Colgate, Marianna McDonald, Anne Kindle and Karen Margulis. 

The Kentucky Arts Council has accepted her work for seveninvitational and juried exhibits, 2016 -2019. Other juried shows include:

• 2016 Bluegrass Biennial Exhibit at Morehead State University
• 2016 Horizon Contemporary Landscapes, anInternational Juried Exhibition, Community Arts Center, Danville
• 2017 notBig(4) nationally juried exhibit at MS ReznyGallery, Lexington
• 2018 Fall of the Leaf: Autumn Art Show, Kaviar Gallery, Louisville
• 2018 12x12 Exhibit, Appalachian Artisan Center, Hindman. 
 

She has sold work via the Kentucky Artisan Center, Berea and Love Art Gallery, Bowling Green. Four of her paintings are the in the collection of St. Joseph East Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky. Fran has also completed commissioned works.

She is a founding board member and past president of the Kentucky Craft History & Education Association.  She is a long-term board member and program committee chair of the Appalachian Artisan Center, ba sed in Hindman, Kentucky.She serves as peer advisor for the Kentucky Arts Council.

Images of work available at, franredmonfineart.com and purchased directly at https://www. dailypaintworks.com/Artists/ fran-redmon-9348