GINNY VERSTEEGEN FINE ART

FORMALLY trained in art education, Ginny Versteegen spent her entire professional life immersed in art, teaching its history and techniques to students of all ages. A lover of all things creative since childhood, she was selected for pre-college art classes at Carnegie-Mellon University and went on to get her degree at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, majoring in painting and minoring in art history. As she both lived and traveled around the world, her love of that history deepened. Looking at the body of her works, it is clear that the many renowned artists she had the good fortune to meet and work with influenced her technique.

Now settled in Charleston, Versteegen largely paints in oil but has recently begun experimenting in mixed mediums, finding freedom in the use of cold wax mixed with oil paints. The effect is a more atmospheric look that translates well in her landscapes and seascapes, giving them an ethereal air. Her style displays a sense of place, and whether the painting captures the beauty of some far-off place or evokes the Lowcountry charm of South Carolina, her heart is clearly visible in each piece. Versteegen is represented by Charleston Artist Guild Gallery. Visit her website to purchase her paintings or contact her to schedule a viewing.

WHILE he may have followed a more traditional path with his career as a landscape architect, Dennis Fulbright never abandoned his love of art or his desire to paint. In his professional life, he used his artistic skill to bring vivacity and color to the renderings of his projects, painting landscapes and architecture with technique and attention to detail. After retiring in 2015, he turned a greater focus to transparent watercolor and entered many juried shows in South Carolina and Georgia for which he won awards. He has been featured at the Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition twice and will be at the 2023 event.

With a style that seems to blur the line between impressionism and realism, Fulbright depicts landscapes and seascapes with manmade objects incorporated to “help develop scale and mood.” His medium of choice, transparent watercolor, is one that creates a much different effect than oils or acrylics. “Transparent watercolor is the application of layers or glazes of watercolor pigments onto paper in a manner that allows light to penetrate through these layers and reflect back through the pigments, giving the color brilliance and luminosity.”

Fulbright works from his home studios in Charleston and Cleveland, South Carolina, and his work may be found online on his website.

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