Art Exhibit- Find Your Joy: Nature As Nurture with Sandra Spotts and Amber Leibee

Name: Art Exhibit- Find Your Joy: Nature As Nurture with Sandra Spotts and Amber Leibee
Start: 2025-04-03T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-03T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 409 W Van Buren, Eureka Springs, AR, United States, Arkansas 72632

Schedule

Thu Apr 03 2025 at 04:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

409 W Van Buren, Eureka Springs, AR, United States, Arkansas 72632 | Eureka Springs, AR

Through mixed media, yet divergent styles, Amber and Sandra
take the viewer on an exploration of the power of nature to ignite, to inspire, to nurture, to calm the human spirit.
Sandra Spotts is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas and a current resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She cultivated a love for art at a very early age which led to earning a degree in Art from the University of Arkansas with a minor in English.
Sandra spent many years teaching elementary and junior high art as well as working as a professional artist and designer. In addition to painting, usually in an abstract expressionist style, she has worked and exhibited as a weaver, paper maker and creator of sculptural contemporary basketry, winning several awards. One of her works is a part of the permanent collection of the Art Museum of Arkansas.

Her love of writing and storytelling influences her mixed media painting style in which she often incorporates fragments of letters, books and other found objects and original prose. Her themes are often highly personal and emotional responses to life events, observation of nature or global events. Sandra is co-producer and performer on the live storytelling show, “Homegrown Tales.” She currently exhibits regionally and nationally.
Amber Leibee is a watercolorist and amateur naturalist. Her artistic intention is to record the profound peace inherent to silent moments of solitary study and observation of the natural world. Her works are small, meant for an audience of one, an intimate exchange between artist and viewer. All paints used in her palette are hand mulled using water from a local spring, this process helps her understand how her pigments will mix and behave together on paper. The majority of her work is done en plein air, rendered first in graphite, then watercolor, and on occasion finished with pen and ink details.