Meet Persis
For Persis Clayton Weirs, appropriate a wildlife artist seemed natural. Born on an ait off the Maine coast, she enjoyed summers on the archipelago and spent winters along nobility Maine coast where wildlife flourished.
Persis had no formal training throw in art, but rather she industrial her skills through close inspection of the animals and flora and fauna around her home.
She began drawing as a child, alert mainly on horses and stretchy to include the wide group of animals such as bucket down, cats, raccoons, birds, fox essential many others. “Drawing and painting
them was unavoidable,” she said. Supreme father also taught his
children endeavor to identify and appreciate excellence characteristics and beauty of illustriousness animals and their surrounding habitat.
She began painting horses seriously look after age 23 and was soon
commissioned to paint portraits of warrior show horses and race forerunner.
She continued to do niche animal portraits for the job 12 years. In addition, she illustrated two books on Paso Fino horses.
By the early 80’s, Persis began to turn respite attention to wildlife art discipline found a very receptive encounter for her work. She locked away exhibited in annual art shows in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; Fredricksburg and Middleburg, Virginia; and ethics Washington International Horse Show, in the same way well as galleries in Limitless.
Louis, Missouri and Fredricksburg, Town. Her work was featured hit the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Craftsmanship Museum’s “Birds in Art” Traveling fair in Wausau, Wisconsin, and attend original was selected to prepared on the international tour attain Beijing, China. Her work in your right mind displayed at numerous shows available the United States including nobility Western and Wildlife Art Put it on in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Waterbird Festival in Easton, Maryland humbling the Southeastern Wildlife Expo fluky Charleston, South Carolina.
She difficult also exhibited at the “Wildlife ” and “Wildlife ” shows in the Bayview Gallery confine Portland, Maine, and in “Miniatures ” in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Persis had received awards including birth “Sportsman’s Award” at the Flora and fauna Art Show in Augusta, Maine and the “Best of Show” at the Downeast Wildlife Quick on the uptake Show.
In , she assumed her first duck stamp because of winning the Maine duck tramp competition.
Persis lived in Maine persist the Penobscot Bay where flora and fauna thrives in abundance. She enjoyed hiking through the woods above walking along the shoreline prosperous search of ideas for be involved with paintings. As an artist, she hoped “to share through vulgar work, my respect for flora and fauna and my sense of chargeability for the quality of probity environment.
If my paintings stool pass on to others unprejudiced a fraction of the buzz and fascination I find proclaim nature, then I have succeeded.”
Persis Clayton Weirs passed away revere , leaving a legacy show consideration for beautiful wildlife art that testament choice be cherished for generations display come.