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my bio

About the Author & Artist. Arlene Wright-Correll (1935- ___), popular American award winning Artist, published author, columnist, & art instructor, at the age of 68, decided to pick up her paint brushes again after 54 years and paint, in mostly gouache watercolors and pastels, the flowers, herbs and fruits that grow at Home Farm Herbery in Munfordville, KY. Though she paints in all mediums, she likes to use the Gouache paints, which are a heavy, opaque watercolor paint, sometimes called body color, producing a less wet-appearing and more strongly colored picture than ordinary watercolor.  Occasionally, she will paint something from her world travels especially of Scotland, Ireland, or the Mediterranean. She is fond of those old memories. She is the resident artist and workshop instructor at Avalon Stained Glass School. She is a Certified EBSQ artist.  Ms. Wright-Correll is the creator and writer of Who’s Who in Arts and Crafts©, author of numerous published books, over 300 published articles, winner of many organic gardening writing contests and a member of KAHT.  She is also a China & Porcelain painter, Stained Glass Artisan, Sandblasting and glass etching artist, works in Fused Glass and Encaustic Art. She is one of the six KY Artists who worked 6 months to create the dolls for Journey Jots in 2006.

Exhibitions:

2009 Kentucky State Fair Winner of ribbon for fused glass art.

2009 designed the stained glass panels created by Carl Correll for the Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library.

2009 Delphi Exhibition Lansing Michigan 1st place winner hand painted china.

2009 Winner of 9 ribbons Hart County Fair

2009 1st place winner Delphi Glass, Lansing Michigan, Ceramics painting

2009 APW Postcard Exhibition New York “One Picture is Worth a 1000 Words”

2009 North Light Cover Competition

2009 NeoPopRealismStarz Competition New York

2009 Miami Basel Competition

2008 & 2009 OvationTV art exhibition

2008 Smithsonian Institute Art Exhibition “Between Fences”,

2008 The Artist’s Magazine's 2008 All-Media Online Competition

2009, 2008 & 2007 Women in the Arts, Bowling Green, KY,

2009, 2008 & 2007 USBank annual Celebration of the Arts, (2009 1st Place winner in watercolors)

2009, 2008 & 2007 South Central KY Cultural Center, Glasgow KY,

2008 & 2007 Fine Arts winner KY State Fair,

2008 winner of 4 ribbons Hart County Fair,

2007 The Pastel Journal’s 9th Annual Pastel 100

2006 Artist of the Month, Horse Cave Book Store,

May 2005, 1st place winner Salis International, Colorado Springs, Hydras Watercolors. She has studied Vitri-Fusaille” with award winning artists Peter McGrain and watercolors with Jef Dirig.  Her original paintings are sold quite quickly and one can always try and pick up whatever current one she is working on. The amazing thing about this "young" artist is that as a mother of 5 & the grandmother of 5, she is also a cancer and stroke survivor who is able to strive forward each and everyday to welcome the beauty of this small planet.  . Her books can be found on http://www.lulu.com/kate1031 and her art at http://www.learn-america.com/the-art-work-of-arlene-wright-correll/  or http://www.yessy.com/AvalonStudio/ArlenesArt.html email askarlene@scrtc.com   All Ms. Wright-Correll’s royalties from all her creative works go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.  Want a bargain? Then click here for my art auctions now.

my VN interview

• How did you get to where you are now?

  By working fairly and very hard. By knowing what I wanted to do, knowing what it would cost and by being ready to pay the price.  By getting up early and staying late.  By being creative, resourceful and reliable. By constant learning and sharing what I know.  Please check out my How to books and down loads at this link.  or my over 300 published articles by clicking here.  

• How do you see yourself differently now than you did 10 years ago?

  Older, wiser, slower, mellower, fatter, still knowing that each day I wake up is a great day to still be above ground!  I never thought, at this stage of the game, I would be opening an "art colony" hostel for teaching creative arts to people who want a learning vacation.

• Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

  At 74 gong on 75 years old, I would like to think that I will still be going strong as the resident artist at Avalon Stained Glass School in Munfordville, KY sharing my time with my best guy Carl Correll and still writing, creating art and teaching the workshops to other women who want to continue learning and who want to discover their unhidden talents.

a postcard to my younger self

Did I know that taking all those "roads less traveled" that I would be where I am today?  No!, but I am glad I did.  I am glad to be the mother of my children and life mate of Carl. I am glad to have experienced the hardship, the ups and downs, the sad and glads which is what strength and growth is really all about.  I am glad for all the friends I have made along the way and even for the few enemies as we all acquire them whether we want to admit it or not.

my role models

Ayn Rand, Katerine Hepburn, Ruth Gordon, my grandmother!