Peggy Walker
Broken Arrow, OK
I formed of Peg of My HeART, LLC, in November of 2024 and am a newcomer in producing artwork that is not being given away as gifts. Have been married for 46 years and my husband and I are amateur astronomers that engage students through STEAM events. I have painted several telescope bases with astronomical themes as well as repainted basic black paint to optical tubes. I have been able to find fabrics as backgrounds for my many astronomical topics and deep sky objects which serve as the base to the piece as the motifs bleed through the artwork. Several pieces are a "tongue in cheek" or "astronomy with a twist" humor space concepts like, Whale Watching at the Sea of Tranquility, a Dolphin jumping over the Rings of Neptune and turning the Orion Nebula into a ballgown on a dress form. I started with commissioned color pencil portraits of pets on black paper and making shadow boxes. Now she has expanded the original concept to include boxes with multiple glass/acrylic panels to give 3, 4 and 5 layers to the subject matter. Simple shadow boxes of night sky, barracuda under the sea, beach side, birds on shoreline, soon turned into an 8' x 10" box with 5-D view of the April 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, a 3-D 14" x 16" shadow box of A Secret Garden Trellised view and a 14" x 16" 3-D of Da Vinci's Venusian Man sketch. I repurpose frames whenever possible and oftentimes tie it into the overall work. I have even fabric wrapped frames to feature the object of the artwork.
What is your artistic or creative process; your vision for your work, and, who or what influences you? My Process is blends fabrics, art and astronomy and I integrate astronomical science with unlikely/common objects to give a twist or wink to the piece or subject matter. Like painting the Apollo 8 module on the lunar surface with the flag on star fabric wrapped canvas since original photos had no stars. Ideas seem to flood in at various times and places and I have to sketch them in my projects book so I don't forget. My Vision is to convey the cosmos/earth and sky in an exciting way that is dimensional even tactile at times. This aspect stuck with me after developing astronomical tactile resources for the visually impaired community now at the library of the Oklahoma School for the Blind in Muskogee. My tactical processes are much more in depth since they are not 3-D printed plastic and hard to differentiate at times. My Influence primarily comes from looking through telescopes, astronomy magazines, NASA images, Webb, Huble, Chandra missions, and images from large international observatories and astronomical imagers. I also am moved by nature and earth and sky phenomenon ie, weather and aurora, moonlit skies, etc.
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