Specialties
This is a working studio/art gallery. Marsha also does pottery in addition to paintings. She also teaches classes, 2 ongoing oil painting classes are on Tuesday. She will teach painting parties by request. Marsha works in the space and welcomes art lovers to stop by and see herwork and watch her create.
History
Established in 2008.
These artists both had studio/galleries in Amarillo originally. They moved to Canyon and opened Fourth Avenue Fine Art in the summer of 2017.
Meet the Business Owner: Marsha C.
To be an artist, a person must draw from all she knows, feels and believes in order to create something beautiful. To paint well, a person must have more than technique; she must have a vision of the essence of what she is painting. It is not a good idea that turns our work into art, but the selection, balance, and design of the ideas and emotions we have. A painting begins with a sense of awareness. A painter must be taken by things that anyone else would just walk by. We must see paintings in our everyday lives. We begin a painting by noticing, feeling, wondering, remembering, yearning.
I paint because I love to paint--it's fun for me. Painting to me is being conscious of living, taking in the world around me and creating something from what I experience. I take a moment in time--an image, a memory, a place, a thing--I hold it in my hands and declare it a treasure, something worthy of my time and energy.