August Artist of the Month: Pat Meick

Cheyenne County Art Guild member Pat Meick of Gurley has been chosen Artist of the Month.  Meick’s favorite media is oil painting, but she is an accomplished award-winning artist creating artwork in various media.  She enjoys working in pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, pastels, and experimenting with any media. She has found it very interesting and challenging to find the technique and results of the different media.  Therefore, she has enjoyed taking many workshops and trying the warm, cool, lights, darks, blending, and mixing – all evolving to come together to make a picture of her own.

 

Meick has served as Vice-President and Treasurer of the CCAG as well as served on various guild committees throughout the years.  In addition she has benefited the Gurley community with her interest and skills as well as served on the Gurley Centennial Committee and instructed and encouraged the Girl Scouts from Gurley with their yearly special art project.

 

Her artwork has been on exhibit and won awards at various art shows including the Cheyenne County Fair, Holyoke, CO Art Show, Carnegie Art Center in Alliance, NE, the McCook Community College Show, McCook, NE, Scottsbluff Art Gallery, the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs Conference, the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Art Competition, the Yuma Art Show, Yuma, CO, the CCAG Spring Art Show in Sidney, NE, and the Crane Trust Visitors & Nature Center, Alda, NE.

  

Pat Meick’s oil painting “Golden Grain and Cloudy Skies”, depicting wheat harvests remembered from 25 years of harvesting grains, is one of the first paintings she ever painted many years ago and is on display at the Sidney Public Library.  The public is encouraged to view this fine artwork.  In addition more of her fine paintings may be viewed at the Cheyenne County Community Center through September 8, 2014.