Virginia
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To see my complete portfolio, you can visit: www.virginiapeck.com
Female
58 years old
LOWELL, Massachusetts
United States
Last Login: 4/27/2009
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| General | my big kids, yoga, meditation, music, Human Design, movies, reading, river walks, my dear parents, my friends, my cat Stanley, being vegetarian | | Music | Dylan, Miles, Hendrix, Stevie Ray, Metheney, Johnny A, Paul Butterfield, Toots Thielemans, Ella, Sarah Vaguhn, Dianna Krall, Joni Mitchell, J J Cale, devotional Hindu chant - Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Bhagavan Das, Deva Premal, Dave Stringer, Kasey Chambers,Tulku, Lila Downs, Afro Celts, Sinatra , Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, James Montgomery, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Maria Ferrante, Keb Moe, Bonnie Raitt, Allman Brothers, Richard Souther - Vision, the Music of Hildegard Von Bingen, Punta Del Este, Chris Botti, Sade, Eva Cassidy, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Blues Project, Mimi and Richard Farina, Buffalo Springfield, Amy Winehouse, Chiara Civello, Sufi Splendor, Love, Jeff Buckley | | Movies | My Beautiful Career, The Man Who Would Be King, Frida, Days of Heaven, Starman, Impromptu, The Return of Martin Guerre, About a Boy, High Fidelity, Amadeus, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, Tin Men, The Godfather, Sherman's March, Suzanne Farrell docu., Bob Dylan docu., Andy Goldsworthy-Rivers and Tides docu., Picasso docu., My Dinner With Andre', Rushmore, Wedding Crashers, A Bronx Tale, Sense and Sensibility, The Grifters, Mullholland Drive, The Scent of Green Papaya, The Legend of 1900, Slam! | | Television | | | Books | Book of Daily Thoughts and Prayers by Swami Paramananda, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield, The Art of Mindful Living by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire and How to Know God by Deepak Chopra, The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks by Eckert Tolle, It's Here Now,( Are You?) by Bhagavan Das, William Styron, The Life of Pi, Cold Mountain, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Me, Seabiscuit, Prince of Tides, Lonesome Dove, all of Joseph Campbell's books, Jane Austen, Flaubert, the Bronte sisters, Siddharta by Hesse, all the Carlos Castaneda books | | Heroes | "The word Buddha in Sanskrit means 'to be awakened'...Expressed in art, Buddhas are not objects of worship, but mirrors of our innermost being, icons of the journey from ignorance to illumination". Ian A. Baker |
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Virginia's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Lowell, MA | | Body type: | 5' 1" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Full-time visual artist |
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About me:
After taking some personal growth workshops, which included forgiveness and healing work, i began studying Eastern philosophy. Inspired by my daughter, Alissa, i started doing yoga and meditation, which has become a daily practice that i find feeds both the work and the life. One day while meditating, a light went off in my head (and my heart concurred!), that i could combine my life-long love of painting faces with my spiritual interests. I've been painting Buddhas ever since!.
Growing up in New Jersey, I attended George School, a Quaker school in Newtown, PA. At that time, I also took courses at the Philadelphia College of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Coming to Massachusetts, I graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts with a degree in painting.
For 10 years I worked as a freelance illustrator for clients such as Reebok, The Boston Globe, Doubleday Books and many others. After my son and daughter were grown, I began doing personal painting again in 1997. Since then, I’ve had one and 2-person shows and have become part of many private collections. I have been affiliated with Alpers Fine Art in Andover, MA, for the past 7 years. I am also now showing with Powers Gallery, Acton, MA, and Gallery Anthony Curtis, Boston, MA.
"Virginia Peck is an artist whose work engages the viewer at a strongly visceral level. Her paintings are vividly colorful and luminous with an underlying texture...Faces predominate...There is a haunting, surreal quality to many of them. They are startlingly beautiful and do not easily release your attention". Cliff Hauptman, Editor, Brandeis Alumni Magazine, 2000
You can visit my website to see more of my Buddha paintings: www.virginiapeck.com
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Who I'd like to meet:
Other artists, or people who love art, and those who are fascinated by Human Design! I'm also interested in swapping my live/work loft on the Merrimack River in Massachusetts for a similar situation in another part of the country... or world! I would love to swap for the Santa Fe/Taos area or the San Francisco area, but open to other possibilities, and we can discuss lengths of time. I can send you pics of my loft and a description of my town which is 30 mins. north of Boston.
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