Drake Gallery will host a reception for Cheraw, South Carolina, artist Vicky McLain on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., and her art will hang in the gallery through June 30.
“I have been an avid artist since I first picked up a crayon as a child in Texas,” McLain said. “I have been a professional artist most of my life, and since January 2000, it has been in a full-time capacity.”
McLain studied drawing at the San Antonio Art Institute and have taken more than 15 workshops with various instructors since moving to South Carolina in 2000. She also studied design while earning a bachelor’s in management at Virginia Wesleyan College.
McLain was selected to be the artist in residence at the Petrified Forest National Park in June 2017.
Numerous other exhibits have included the Piccolo Spoleto Juried Exhibition in City Gallery at the Waterfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina; Art Fields 2013, 2014 and 2017 in Lake City, South Carolina; and Visualicious 2012 in Art Trail Gallery, Florence, South Carolina.
“My work reflects my love of the out-of-doors, and I have found that a cotton field, and an abandoned car or barn has as much to say on canvas as a vase of flowers,” McLain said. “I am now a proud South Carolinian and really appreciate what South Carolina has given me to capture on canvas.”
‘Nature’s Way’ is one of the works to be shared by South Carolinian Vicky McLain at Drake Gallery.