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Peggy Kossler

 

Website   More images   Watercolors, etc. 496 Burnham Road Williamsburg, VA 23185 (757) 229-8060     Peggy Kossler has lived in York County, near Williamsburg, Virginia since 1969, and sails with her husband on the York River. She has a studio home in Florida where she lives and paints during the winter.     She is a Signature member of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society. Among awards she has received are: merit award for Florida Scenes at the Englewood Art Center; invitations to the FSWS Signature Members’ Show to a special exhibit for Women Contemporary Artists in Punta Gorda, FL; and in several juried shows at Art Center Sarasota, Venice Art Center, Hilton Leech Studio, and Englewood Art Center. Other honors include Summer Winners Circle at the Venice Art Center following a first place award for Spring Daze. In Virginia, she has exhibited at An Occasion For The Arts; This Century Art Gallery; at On the Hill (now The Gallery on the York ),where she received a Special Award in Virginia Heritage I, and placed second in Virginia Heritage II She has had a one person shows in the members gallery in 1997 and 2004 and was invited to exhibit in a show for students at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center. She participated in the Tercentenary Exhibition at the College of William and Mary. “I I try to make a positive statement that will bring lightness as well as a new awareness to things and places that are around us. Colonial Williamsburg, the Chesapeake Bay boats, and flowers are some of my favorite subjects. After 9-11 I felt an urgency to create two quite large paintings using collage of news clippings and family photos and acrylic paints. There was, of course, nothing light about these paintings. I am gratified that it seems to draw viewers, and I hope it helps them to the catharsis we need as a nation.”       Paintings can be seen at Gallery on the York (formerly On the Hill), at York Hall, This Century Art Gallery in the Williamsburg area. In Florida, her works are on view at the Art Center Sarasota, The Venice Art Center, and the Englewood Art Center.

Florida Hammock     Chinese Bridge     Sailboats at Rest Hampton     Billy Boy     Winter Beach     Pier at Cortez     September 11 2001