FORT DAVIS — Webb’s Fair and Square will host an exhibition opening Saturday, May 25, from noon to 4 p.m. for When the country was wild all around, a show featuring paintings by Melissa Lakey and jewelry by Margaret Sullivan. The gallery is located in the historic Masonic Lodge in Fort Davis, 105 N Front St.
Lakey is a contemporary visual artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out into the Mojave Desert. She wanted to be a cowgirl when she grew up but ended up an artist instead, and now cowboys ride through her paintings, picking flowers and stopping to swim in every creek they pass. A lover of art materials, she uses ink, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and oil pastel, painting quickly and leaving room in each painting for surprises, experiments and play. Her colorful work celebrates the landscape, people and animals of the American Southwest.
Sullivan is the eighth of 10 children from Gladwin, Michigan, but these days lives with husband Preston and a host of other animal family members on N-Bar Ranch in Reserve, New Mexico. N-Bar Ranch is a beautiful place operated with love in a way that honors the history of setting and the cowboy. She makes jewelry in her solar-powered studio just about every day, in between ranch chores and spending time with Preston, the furry family or ranch guests. Sullivan is the only jeweler the gallery shows. She most recently has taken a couple of Navajo jewelry workshops to hone her stamping and silver skills.
For more information, visit webbartgallery.com/
