Peggy Hering
Artist/Illustrator
".....I have always enjoyed making pictures. Art has been in my life from a young age. I remember watching my father model storybook characters for a children's theme park, paint religious murals in churches and spend evenings doing pencil drawing in the backs of preciously protected old art books. He was a self-taught artist, learning by copying paintings of the old masters, copies of which eventually hung in every room of our home. Eating dinner with the "Last Supper" above the buffet, the "Mona Lisa" hanging on the wall on one side of the room and Rembrandt's, " Man in the Golden Helmet" on the other, was not uncommon. Realism had always been natural and comfortable to me and easily became my way of visual expression.
A realistic approach to painting still continues to challenge me, either in a straightforward way or in one that I manipulate. Portraits and figures were once prominent in my work so may still somewhere appear, but most often there is some element of nature. My interest has always been to make art that talks about the spiritual aspect of life and our connected oneness with all beings......to provoke a contemplation of life and nature, to trigger thoughts that extend outside the work, through the use of color and design elements or through the juxtaposition or association of different images as seen in a new relationship. My art is about beauty, harmony, balance, awareness. See it and we have touched.... know it and we have met. "
PEGGY HERING
was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
into a family of artists. From childhood, painting
and drawing were a natural part of life.
She studied art at the Pennsylvania State University
where she received her BS in art education and there
continued with graduate studies in painting.
She is an educator, graphic designer and illustrator, and painter.
Her career as a painter blossomed when in 1976
she made Nassau her home and the Bahamian people
a full-time subject for her art. There she
participated in numerous group shows and in 1984 held
her first one-woman exhibition. Her work was reproduced
into her own 1979 limited edition, "Images of the Bahamas",
commissioned for the 1984 Finco Grantstown Limited Ed. Collection, and
compiled as a portfolio of scenes for Resorts Int., Bahamas,
as well as for interiors of the (now former) Paradise Island Villas on Paradise
Island in the Bahamas.
Other published works and commissions include greeting
cards, cook book covers (Surfside Publishing, Florida), and in advertising
campaigns for such companies as Jordan Marsh of Florida, Resorts Int. Bah.,
and The Family Guardian Insurance of Nassau. For ten years
she was illustrator and graphic designer for the Nassau Guardian Newspaper. During
her nine year Bahamian residence her original works found
their way to private and corporate collections throughout the world.
After returning to the states in l985, she joined the studios of the
Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, participated in numerous group
and several solo shows. As a member of the Woman's Caucus for Art, she
co-produced and co-hosted a 24 part educational T.V. series,
"Way of the Woman Artist", interviewing south Florida woman artists.
The years of the past decade and of present have been focused on personal exploration
and commissions while working in her Miami, Florida studio. Island influence is
still seen in her current painting while she works on nature inspired canvases.
Her techniques include oil, watercolor, acrylic,
pastel and various drawing media.
Ms. Hering can be reached
By appointment:
Commercial Center of Miami
6187 N.W. 167 St. #H20
Miami Lakes, Florida 33015
(305) 856-5739
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