Carmel, IN – November
6, 2013
written by Janel Bantz, Wickliff Gallery Associate
Wickliff and Associates Auctioneers, Inc. is pleased to announce
its next auction will feature original art by artist and author Violet Working,
a renowned, Bloomington, Indiana, artist who has been creating art since the
age of five.
Working began drawing when recuperating from a childhood
illness, started painting with watercolors at age twelve, took a two-year
correspondence course at age fourteen and began using oils in high school at
age 17. She and her family moved to Indiana where she attended Indiana
University and was later an art teacher in Fort Wayne Schools. She has been an
art educator for nearly 40 years, instructing in many mediums, although her
current focus is painting in watercolor and in oil.
In 2013, Working and her husband Russell Working, also a
retired educator, published “Art Lesson Handbook: A Guide for Teaching Art in
the Classroom and for Home Study Teachers.” The book offers instructional
lesson plans and illustration pages for teachers from Kindergarten through
twelfth grade.
Working’s lifelong studio work includes original graphics,
intaglios, paintings and sculptures. Her work is featured in individual art
collections across the country and her painting “The Peony” hung in the
Washington office of a U.S. Representative. Locally, she has shown
work in two Hoosier Salon Exhibits, Brown County Art Gallery, Waldron,
Buskirk-Chumley, and the Venue. Violet is a Signature Member of
the Blooomington Watercolor Society.
“I am intrigued by both color and composition as I work to
project subject matter drawn from real life experiences, feelings and
fantasies,” said Working. “I feel satisfaction when viewers seem to find
pleasure in my art work.”
The auction featuring Working’s original art, along with Russell's collection of contemporary art and works on paper, will take place
Saturday, November 23 at 10 a.m. at Wickliff and Associates Auctioneers, Inc.
in Carmel, Indiana. Online bidding, absentee bidding, as well as live bidding, is available. Go to www.wickliffauctioneers.com
to view the catalog and learn more.
