Peggy Root

Born in 1958, Peggy Root grew up in Florida and North Carolina. She studied at Ringling School of Art and Design (1977-1980), and studied figure painting and anatomy at Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old Lyme, Connecticut (1984-1987). Peggy has spent the last 25 years painting the landscape of the Eastern United States. She has had many solo exhibitions in the Northeast and South and has exhibited in numerous invitational group shows. She works in oil directly from life on location, generally working on large canvases in two-hour sessions, returning to the site at the same time on successive days to develop the painting.

Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the country. Peggy lives in East Tennessee with her husband, artist Tom Root, and their two children.

The artist painting on location at Roaring Creek Falls, North Carolina, 2007.

EDUCATION:

Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL 1977-1980.
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT 1984-1987.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

     2010 Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
     2010 "At Home" Exhibition, JCAAC Gallery, Johnson City, TN
     2005 Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC.
     2003 Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC.
     2001 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN.
     1998 The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT.
     1997 Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN.
     1997 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN.
     1995 Covington and Burling Law Offices, Washington DC.
     1994 The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT.
     1992 The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT.
     1990 The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT.
     1989 The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT.

SELECTED JOINT AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

     2010 Milestones: Blue Ridge Parkway Exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
     2008 Blue Ridge Parkway Exhibition and benefit for Conservation Trust of NC, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
     2004-2007 'From Sea to Shining Sea' invitational exhibition (national traveling museum exhibition)
     2002 "Southern Vistas" group exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
     2002 "Common Ground" joint exhibition with Thomas B. Root
                 The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT.
     2001 Four person exhibition, Adelphia Centre, Johnson City, TN
     2000 "The Southern Scene: Contemporary Landscapes"
                  Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC.
     1998 Group landscape exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC.
     1997 B. Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University
                (joint exhibit with Thomas B. Root).
     1995 Airlie House Conference Center, Warrenton, VA - invitational
     1994 Airlie House Conference Center, Warrenton, VA - invitational
     1990 "Vision and Imagination" Cooley Gallery group exhibition at
                 Old State House, Hartford, CT.
     1987 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT (joint exhibition
                 with Thomas B. Root)

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Biltmore Industries, Asheville, NC
AmSouth Bank Corporate Headquarters, Birmingham, AL
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN.
Governor and Mrs. Don Sundquist, Nashville, TN.
Ms. Andie McDowell
Airlie House, Warrenton, VA.
Oshkosh B'Gosh, Corporate Headquarters, Oshkosh, WI.
Executive Transfer, New York, NY.
Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co., Hartford, CT.
Opryland Hotel Convention Center, Nashville, TN.
Meadowview Hotel Conference Center, Kingsport, TN.
Assissi Foundation, Memphis, TN.
Promus Hotel Corporation Headquarters, Memphis, TN.
Town of Jonesborough, TN, Visitor Center

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

"Painting in the Snow--Then and Now" by Stephen May, American Artist Magazine, May 1999.
"Painting Untamed Nature" by Sam Kirby, American Artist Magazine, May 1993 pp. 37-43 and cover, illustrated.