Larry Lemons

Larry Lemons (b. November 3, 1952), is a Texas artist who was born slightly North of Nashville, Tennessee, in Portland. Lemons now resides in Nocona, Texas where he has made it his home for over 40 years. He spent 27 years of that time creating award-winning portrait and wedding photography. Also during that time, circa 1989, he began to draw and paint as a hobby. After further honing of his craft, Lemons sold his photography studio in 2000 and made art a full-time career.

Many of the characters central to his brightly colored oil-paintings are animals common to the Texas Hill Country, such as the nine-banded armadillo, Texas Plains coyote, horned toad (lizard), and stinging scorpian. Other themes include bluebonnets, natural and man-made landmarks, dogs, trucks, and longhorn skulls. Each piece bears a unique, metaphorical or punny title, sometimes expressed as one word.

Public Exhibition History

From 2000 to 2008 Lemons has publicly shown his art work through one man shows, group shows, as well as juried art festivals starting with a one man show at the Nocona Public Library. Over the next seven years Lemons went on to exhibit in 32 other group and one man shows, and 8 juried shows in cities all over North Texas including: Sherman , Denison , Wichita Falls , Stephenville, Decatur , Graham, Granbury, Salado , Bowie , Mineral Wells , Richardson , Graham, and Gainesville .

Juried Art Festival Showings

In 2001 Lemons applied for and was accepted into his first juried art show, the Salado Art Fair, Salado, Texas. He was apart of the chosen artists in the same show for 2002 and 2005. In 2001 he was accepted into Grapefest, a juried outside art festival held in Grapevine, Texas. From 2005 to 2006 he was picked to has his work appear at other juried shows such as Graham Art Splash, Art Affair on Kemp Square, and the Texas Country Reporter Festival.

Teaching

He is an art education teacher by day for Saint Jo Independent School District and has been on the roster of approved "Artists in Education" by Texas Commission on the Arts since 2000.

Education

Lemons attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in 1977 where he studied still photography. As an artist he has attended mentoring and instructional workshops with Don Ward and Ray Vinella of Taos, New Mexico, Richard McDaniel of Santa Rosa, California, and "Cowboy Artists of America" members Bruce Greene and Martin Grelle of Clifton, Texas.

References

#cite news
last = Sweeten-Shults
first = Lana
title = Colors of Texas
publisher = Times Record News
date = 2007-08-11
url = http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2007/aug/11/colors-of-texas/
accessdate = 2007-10-25
#cite web|url=http://www.arts.state.tx.us/rosters/aie/disc.asp?id=12|title=Artists in Education Roster
#http://www.cowboyartistsofamerica.com/members/active/

External links

* [http://www.atexasstateofmind.com ATexasStateofMind.com]