Belinda Reed Lawson

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Belinda Reed Lawson

Belinda Lawson

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I would like to think that I have been an artist since I was five years old.

I remember moving from Fort Smith Arkansas to Pine Bluff Arkansas and desperately missing my childhood friend and neighbor, Donna. I could not read or write so my mom would tell me to draw her pictures and we would mail them to her. Needless to say, that's where I started my creative experience.

I begin painting in college while perusing my art education degree in oils. I loved to create, what I call heritage paintings. My paintings were of places and in images of the history in my areas in Arkansas. The heritage images were of barns, old homesteads, stores and gas stations.

I later worked in watercolors while I began my teaching career. My images grew more to be landscape of the delta and farmlands incorporating human portraits in these works.

I love teaching art and I feel that art is not a talent born but an exposure and experience for each and every person. It is an inner journey for each person to experience success in their own goal with self-esteem. Sort of like therapy relish in the planning, creating, reflecting and sharing. The Five step studio process.

Currently, I have come out of retirement of 35 years as an art teacher and gone back to teaching High School.

During the last 10 years I sold art online reaching sales in over 30 states; eBay, Esty, Fine Art of America and Pinterest.

Also, I have a Facebook page titled I paint them by Belinda Lawson. My latest business is my paint party business, which has been very successful in the Southeast Arkansas area.

I received many honors exhibiting in the Daffodil exhibit at Camden, Twin City Bank, The Arkansas Arts Center, Spencer Gallery in Monticello. Lake Village Gallery, Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center, and the Delta Center of Helena Arkansas, with a permanent work there.

I am presently working on a heritage Quilt Trail in Southeast Arkansas called Delta to the Timbers Quilt trail. I am focused on the Cleveland county quilt trail at this time. We have made and are presently exhibiting over 12 quilts in and around designated areas in our county.

My goal is to create an exhibit of art images of the 50's and 60's Arkansas rural life and develop them into a working exhibit. I am an older artist but believe I can do this.