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 Pegi was born in Canada to Austrian immigrants. Her creative spirit blossomed early in life. She always knew who she was. She wrote and illustrated a book for her mother when she was seven years old...her mother kept and cherished it until the day she died. When she was eight, she began learning to play the violin. She studied privatly for eight years, playing all the while in the schools orchestra's, mostly first chair, and with her grandfather, also a violinist. She then went on to play several styles including jazz, rock, rhythm and blues etc. As a teenager she also apprenticed under her father to become a third generation dental technician. She took that one more step and began painting on crowns...up to this day, she still paints custom paintings on crowns. She also made miniature sculptures on her fingertips out of the same porcelain used to make crowns. Pegi took a pottery class in high school and one of her first pieces was taken to an art show by her teacher. She began studying Ballet and Jazz dance when she was twenty. After ten years, she realized she had started too late, but she still loves to dance. She dabbled with paints from time to time but was very intimidated by her father, an artist/painter.he was a realist and did not understand her paintings.she soon gave it up for sculpting out of clay...She took up painting again in the year 2006 passionately! Her paintings take on the ever evolving essence of her spirit, evolving with every layer of paint. Within the first layer, the journey begins. The mystery unfolds as each layer beholds a new image. Pegi hopes to gently awaken the imagination of the viewer. Her inspiration comes from her own imagination as well as her everyday surroundings...color, probably playing the most important part as the color's she chooses evoke emotion. Pegi now works full time on her paintings and sculpture and music..the creative process permeates her hear and soul, which gives her such passion for life!!!
Please Come visit My Website PegiSmith.com
Exhibitions
Class Act Gallery..Washington State...Sculpture
Revelution Gallery Issaquah..Wa.
Dancing Coyote Gallery..Depoe Bay Or.sculpture
Earthworks Gallery..Newport Or...sculpture
Second Street Gallery...Bandon Or. sculpture
Gallerie Karon...Ashland Or.....paintings and clay sculpture...
Gallerie Karon...Ashland Or.2007..Abstract Paintings
Paschal Winery....Ashland Or. paintings
Liquid Assets...Asland Or....paintings..sculpture
Ashland Artisans Gallery..Ashland...paintings
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