
Jeannie doing a photo session with daughters of out of state couple near Sea Grove
Jeannie was featured in the latest issue of WDW as an artist who did the first show that is now called THE FESTIVAL OF THE MASTERS at Disney World.
Since then, Jeannie has won Best of Show in painting seven times.
When asked about coming 37 years in a row by WDW, Jeannie replied "I actually did miss one year, with good reason;
the birth of my son, Samuel - our greatest masterpiece who was born in 1990!"
Jeannie was recently asked by a collector to help solve the problem of a big wall in a great room that was 23 feet tall and more that 25 feet wide.
She thought it would be interesting to use a large 46 x 60 inch swimmer giclee as the anchor piece and then use two halves of the underwater giclee to create a trip-tic that has a real WOW factor.
It can measure 46 x 126 inches or more, depending on how far apart the separate canvases are spaced. (Hand-embellished giclees on canvas-$3100)
Ronald
McDonald congratulates Jeannie for winning Third Place at Greenville's Artisphere.
Samuel drove over from Auburn for Mother's Day. Jeannie said, "Best Mother's Day EVER!"
Jeannie featured on the front and inside pages of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram - The Faces of the Festival Circuit - for those in the tents at the Main Street Forth Worth Arts Festival, art fairs are a way of life - and a really long road trip.
Painter Jeannie Maddox will do 22 shows this year and has a son in college studying architecture. If that weren't expensive enough, this year he is studying abroad. He is based in Istanbul and traveling to Berlin and Barcelona which is keeping her on the art fair circuit longer than usual.
Her photo-realism style of painting swimmers often under water is time consuming. Each canvas can take as much as 3 months to finish so she travels with at least five 5 large pieces and many smaller pieces.
Maddox has been on the art circuit for a couple of decades and keeps a mailing list of all of her customers. Her husband Sam keeps track of the customers and sends them notices of their upcoming art shows. Jeannie has more than 500 names in the Fort Worth area alone.
In response to why
she loves marketing her work art festivals, Jeannie said "We've made friendships with our clients that we have had for over for 35 years. We stay in their homes and guest houses and if I sold thru a gallery, I would not know who is buying my work . We like staying in touch with our people much like the actor who loves doing plays as opposed to making a movie - the feedback and reaction is more immediate."
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