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Colorado Vista
oil - 15" x 30" - $1800 |
Fall Splendor
oil - 24" x 36" - $2850 |
Market Family
oil -18" x 18" - $1500 |
SOLD -
The Waiting Game
oil - 12" x 12" - $900 |
Tina
oil - 12" x 12" - $900 |
Winter Stream
oil - 18" x 24" - $1500 |
SOLD - Celebration
oil - 20" x 24" - $1500 |
SOLD - Snow Patterns
oil - 18" x 24" - $1400 |
SOLD - Spring Blooms
in Santa Fe
oil - 20" x 24" - $1500 |
The challenge for an impressionist painter is to
capture the essence of the moment—the atmosphere created
by color and light.
Doris Spires is mostly self-taught, though she has
sought well-known teachers in William Earle, Ted
Goerschner, Marian Steel and Raymond Froman, working
with William Earle for 12 years.
Her current works reflect a lifelong journey to the
present: an innate talent for draftsmanship since
childhood: her training as a professional interior
designer honed a skill and daring in the use of color.
“The most revolutionary thing to happen to me is the
understanding of the light and what it does to my art
pieces,” Spires has said.
She works in oil, for the most part, both in the
studio and on location. Her most popular works are
landscapes from the Santa Fe area, Texas Hill Country,
New England and Colorado along with her figure and
animal studies as well as markets from Mexico.
Displays
One of 30 Texas artists to be represented at Richmond,
Texas Sesquicentennial. Chosen to participate in the
cultural exchange program Midland, Texas has with
Dongying, China.
Awards
Purchase Award—Midland Racquet Club
Best of Show 1999 Midland
Best of Show 1998 Odessa
Purchase Award—three paintings were purchased to hang in
the
Midland Memorial Hospital’s reception area.
Purchase Award—one painting was purchased to hang at
Harden-Simmons University Library.
Selected for numerous honors and awards in Midland,
San Angelo, Lubbock, Breckenridge and New Mexico.
1994 Featured Artist at the Midland Celebration of the
Arts
Best of Show 1993 in San Angelo
Best of Show at the 1988 and the 1989 Midland
Celebration of the Arts
Recipient of the first William Earle Award and Medal
