The May meeting of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers will be held on the Bascom terrace Monday, May 20, 2024 at 5:00 p.m., following a wine reception at 4:30. The featured speaker is Michele (Page) Webster. Ms. Webster is an award winning decorator, designer and visual artist and is listed as an Honored Member of Marquis’ “Who’s Who in America 2023”
Always creative, from an early age she imagined herself to be a painter. Her professional career, however, began in different, but not entirely unrelated fields. Having studied Psychology and Design at Miami Dade College with additional coursework at North Carolina Wesleyan University, she first started as an interior designer. She then went into event planning and home staging for the real estate market. During those years, she was a designer and artist for Custom Creations in Tallahassee, Florida, as well as taking free-lance assignments. She demonstrated further creativity by designing and installing an Italian-style garden before finally yielding to her desire to concentrate on the visual arts, an aspiration she had since childhood.
She believes that the same elements of design are present in interior design, landscape design, party planning or the visual arts, those being scale, progression, texture, color and lighting. She has applied all of those elements over the past thirty-five years to her design work and continues to apply them to her paintings. Her paintings are vey often inspired by nature. She says, “I try to use nature to stir the emotion and remind us of the intrinsic beauty that surrounds us.” Her work is represented by Fine Art by Page, Tallahassee, Florida, Native Sounds, Santa Fe, New Mexico and locally, by Bardo Style, 468 Main Street, Highlands.
When visiting her website, www.pagetheartist.com, one finds a variety of subject matter in her paintings, many in vibrant colors. The site includes separate sections of Southwestern Art and Religious Art. She incorporates holy soil from New Mexico's El Santuario de Chimayo into the pigments of paintings done for sacred purposes, which will be the subject of her presentation.
Please join us for this free reception and presentation. Visit https://www.artleaguehighlands-cashiers.com for more information about the Art League.