The Artwork of Peggy Walker

Peggy Walker, of Peg of My HeART, LLC, is a newcomer in selling artwork.  As an artist and seamstress from childhood, Peggy would make or sew items as gifts so this is a paradigm shift for her.

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She and her husband are amateur astronomers and take their scopes to schools for STEM nights, and regularly set up scopes (weather-permitting) at local establishments and is also connected to the Astronomical League nationally as the STEAM and Youth Engagement and Accessible Astronomy for other abled community.  Is also a contributor to the quarterly Reflector Magazine sent to the 24,000 membership.  She also has generated tactile astronomical resources for the Oklahoma School for the Blind.  This hobby inspired her to generate artwork on this genre along with other earth and sky inspirations from the Hubble Telescope, ISS and James Webb Telescopes as well as individual imagers.

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Her gift seems to be able to find fabrics as backgrounds for her many deep sky objects because she covers a canvas and then paints on top letting the fabric motifs bleed through the cosmos.  She has dog fabric behind the painting of Sirius, the Dog Star in Canis Major, tire tread fabric behind the Tire Nebula, horse fabric under the Horse Head Nebula, etc.  Her Bee Hive Star Cluster is painted on bees on a hive fabric, with the main larger star turned into the queen bee and then used a frame that looks like a bee keepers frame.  

 

There are also some “tongue in cheek” or “astronomy with a twist” humor space concepts like Whale Watching at the Sea of Tranquility, a Dolphin (aka Poseidon) jumping over the Rings of Neptune and turning the Orion Nebula into a ballgown on a dress form.

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Her love for texture and 3-D effects is shown in the mixed media, and use of pumice, micas, rocks, shells, sand, gravel, modeling paste, tree bark, and tree limbs on her artwork which often times gets incorporated on the frames of the overall body of work.  In addition, she finds a way to include color shifting, metallic or pearlized paints in every piece, even if it only is her signature at the bottom right.  She works currently with various canvas sizes since she has some great larger frames to fill.

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Peggy started with commissioned color pencil portraits of pets on black paper and making shadow boxes. But, she expanded the original concept to now include boxes with multiple glass to give 3, 4 and 5 layers to the subject matter, like a 5-D April 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, a 3-D to A Secret Garden and 3-D of Da Vinci’s Venusian Man sketch shadowbox.

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Peggy is also mindful of repurposing frames whenever possible, which 100% of the time, when used, have given a whole other aspect to the overall piece of work.  Oftentimes she will extend the artwork to the frame which has added to the allure of the overall piece.   Rick a wood worker has embarked on frame making which has him quite busy.

 

To date  her "Lt. Warf's Dinner Awaits at Quarks" for the "Art of the Meal" was exhibited at 302 Art on Main in Broken Arrow in April and her Out of My Way tornadow with debris attached on frame, has been accepted to the Juxtapose: Collage & Assemblage Art Exhibit at  Liggett Studio in Tulsa from May 9th to 26th.​