Featured Artist
April  2010


Frances Anthony, Surprise. Oil.

Frances Anthony

Frances Anthony resides at Ninnekah, Oklahoma. A native Oklahoman who
has enjoyed farm and ranch life with her husband for the last 56 years. As a
child she admired her cousin's drawings and paintings which sparked the
desire to want to join the art world. During the last 25 years she has had the
opportunity to do just that----making life more enjoyable by painting. Using brush, paint, and canvas, creating an image is exciting. What a challenge! Frances's paintings can be found in business and private collections in Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, and Oklahoma.

Oil is her chosen media and she also enjoys working with pastels. Plein-air painting is becoming one of her favorite activities. She paints still life, floral, landscapes, southwest, western, animals, figurative, and portraits on commission.

Local, state and national shows have been frequented by Frances and she has
won many awards. During her career she has exhibited at several galleries
including 50 Penn Gallery where she will be a guest artist for the months of
June and July 2010.

She has studied under the direction of international artists including Leonard
Wren, Kaye Franklin, Gay Faulkenbury, and local artist Judy McCombs.
Donating a painting for fund raisers at the school is a favorite thing for her. She is a retired teacher and this is one way of saying "Thank You" to her community.

"I thank God for giving me the talent to paint. Also I thank those who
have shared their wisdom and encouraged me along the path. Painting is a
real journey and I have found so much joy, so much peace, and so much
devotion by others."