FORT DAVIS — The Tumbling Tumbleweed show, featuring paintings by Melissa Lakey and hand-formed ceramics by Carl Block, opens Saturday, March 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Webb’s Fair & Square gallery, 105 N Front St., Fort Davis.
Come enjoy the art, the Masonic Lodge Hall, the newly opened antiquarian bookstore and share an afternoon drink on the porch.
The show opened last weekend at the gallery’s flagship location — Webb Gallery in Waxahachie — and is adding to and traveling down the road like a tumbleweed to Webb’s Fair & Square in Fort Davis.
About the artists
Melissa Lakey is an 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.
Carl Block has been making face jugs and fun ceramics for as long as Bruce and Julie Webb have had Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas, all 35 years! Although he studied ceramics at the University of North Texas with a focus on the stoneware zen style, Carl always had a love of color and the local Texas terra cotta.
Carl is familiar with the Southern tradition of face jug making –– combine it with that love of color, his family history of vacations to Mexico and his never-ending imagination and you get a man who can’t quit turning out some amazing terra cotta pottery.