About the Artist

      2020 has been a year of massive change for everyone. For me, it meant a 3000 mile move from New York, where I've lived for 40 years, to California, where I grew up and graduated from art school. While the move has stretched the distance between me and my painting group, my art community, and my exhibition venues, my goal is to keep these connections strong while I build an artistic life on the Monterey Peninsula. Over the decades, I have never left the imagery that has always inspired me: mountains, forests, the seacoast, and especially water, in all its forms, the basis of life. I work mostly in pastels and love the immediacy of its rich true pigments and the layering of color, so true to nature, so authentic.

                                                                        -Peggy Davidson Post

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Organizations

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Salmagundi Club New York

artist member

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Pastel Society of America

signature member 2019

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Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club

full member, board of directors

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American Artists Professional League

elected artist, Fellow

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Allied Artists of America, associate member

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International Assn. of Pastel Societies

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California Art Club

associate member

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Connecticut Pastel Society

signature member

board of directors 2015-18

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Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod

member

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Pastel Society of the West Coast

associate member

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California Central Coast Pastel Society

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Piedmont Pastel Society, North Carolina

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Teaching

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The Artist’s Place, Pebble Beach, CA

Adult instruction in Art

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Taught art in over 40 art centers, schools, workshops, and private teaching in New York, Maine, and California.

Earned California Single Subject Art and Multiple Subject teaching credentials, 1977.

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Education

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BFA Calif. College of the Arts

Oakland, Calif.

Majors: Fine Art, Liberal Arts

Earned California Single Subject (Art),

and Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials (K-12)

Also studied:

The Banff Centre, School of Fine Art, Banff, Alberta, Canada

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Pastel Society of America

School of Visual Arts, NY, NY

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Katonah Art Center, Katonah, NY

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Westchester Community College

Certificate in Computer Arts