Connie McLennan
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| O-112 Winter Hills, Monterey Co. oil 24x24 $1495 |
2nd. Place Winner
Connie McLennan grew up in Yreka, CA, where she showed quarter horses and sometimes accompanied her father, a veterinarian, on his out-calls amid the natural beauty of Mt. Shasta and the surrounding countryside.
Connie
graduated from CSU, Sacramento with a degree in journalism, then spent two
years studying illustration at San Francisco's Academy of Art. She began
as a freelancer, illustrating a variety of advertising, institutional and
editorial projects, including thirteen children’s books.
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| O-111 Spring Smorgasbord oil 14x12 $425 |
She
attended her first painting workshop with Craig Nelson in 1994 and
continued paint with Craig for five days every winter for several years.
In 2010, she turned to painting full time and was enormously influenced by
a series of workshops with well-known impressionist Don Hatfield.
Connie
is a two-time contributor to the Air Force Art Collection. One of her
paintings currently hangs in the State Capitol, representing the 1st
Senate District in California’s 2013-2014 Senate Contemporary Art collection.
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| O-110 Tulip Dance oil 12x12 $350 |
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