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Edmond Life and Leisure - April 17, 2025
Edmond Art Association to meet April 22
Edmond Art Association is in its 53rd year as a local non-profit art group. We will meet Tuesday, April 22nd at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 3100 N. Broadway. Meeting time is 7-9pm and our
demo artist is DeAun Olive. She will be giving a hands on watercolor demo. Below you will find all of her info. Please let me know if you have any additional questions and come join us. The public is invited for a small fee of $5.
Artist DeAun Olive grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas, and now resides in Oklahoma City. She began painting to deal with grief. As a child she wanted to be an artist but didn’t pursue it, until much later.
Life got in the way of a childhood goal but was never forgotten. She took art classes at Rose StateCollege. Olive developed a daily habit of painting. Her instructors urged her to start showing her work, and she began a second career in art.
She belongs to the Paseo Artist Association, Mid Del Art Guild, Oklahoma Art Guild, Chisolm Trail Art Guild, and the Edmond Art Association and has served on boards of several guilds. She currently is a resident artist at Paseo Gallery One, and guest at Gallery 123, and Marvins Place. Her work is also shown in several gift shops in the area. She
has been awarded best of show, and judges’ choice in several competitions. Her work was one of the featured artists at the Myriad Gardens March 2024 and again in 2025. March 2025 was a two person show at the Ally Jenson Memorial Gallery, in Tulsa.
She has enjoyed working with art students at a local school and was honored to judge several of their shows. Olive teaches at a variety of galleries and studios in the Oklahoma City area. She gets much satisfaction from seeing her students fall in love with the process of watercolor.
Her work is mostly abstract watercolor, both floral and landscape, pulling her experiences from her own travels and home environments with the goal to create happy places and feelings. She also paints in acrylic and pastel, both soft and oil pastel. The goal of her work is to show the world as a beautiful experience, a moment away from life’s trouble. If someone smiles or relaxes a bit, she considers her art a success.
A happy artist creating happy art is the daily goal.
