Vennie and Bill Beeler - Kentucky Artists

     Reared on a farm in West Texas, Vennie graduated from Texas Tech before heading further west.  She taught for ten years on the Navajo reservation.   Painting just about all her life, Vennie's mother made some of her early brushes from the tail hairs of one of their cows. 

     Her more serious artistic endeavor began as a young western artist while living and teaching near beautiful Canyon De Chelly, on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona. Vennie's early paintings captured the vibrant beauty of the northern desert.  Vennie is a multi-faceted landscape, portrait, and floral artist working in oil, acrylic, and water color.  Kentucky has stimulated a real interest in painting beautiful trees, hills, streams and some small animals.

     Wintering in Florida and south Texas has recently sparked an intense interest in florals and seascapes.  She loves to visit the gulf coast beaches, looking for inspiration and seashells for her grandson.  Her work is shown frequently around central Kentucky.  Vennie is also a woodcarver and captures the essence of Kentucky songbirds in basswood.

     Recently she has focused on her portraits.  Vennie is currently working on an "Americana" series of portraits depicting our "ordinary" heroes in many mediums.  Most of these portraits have been commissions.  Here she is with some of her work at the 2007 Llano Grande Art League annual art show with two portraits and a floral.

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