Come join us at Gordy’s to experience two local artists work, Form & Color paintings by Margie Prim and Pottery by Eugene Boyd, both will be onsite as well as examples of their artwork.
Margie’s heavy strokes swipe across the canvas with dabs of bold color, creating beautiful still lifes and peaceful landscapes. This quiet artist brings out her passion for life through her canvases. Her inspirations may be found as easily down an alley, by the White River, or out in a farmer’s field. “I just get in my car, and I drive,” Margie explains.
Margie began her art career in the 1960s in Oklahoma by taking painting lessons. She arrived in Muncie in the 1970s. She laid her brushes down until the early 1990s, when she started taking various art classes offered by community organizations such as the YMCA. She took lessons from Walt Lewis at the Stan Nossett School of Fine Art in Muncie. Margie, the perpetual student, continues learning through her involvement with the New Richmond Group and Indiana Plein Air Painters.
Margie considers herself both a studio and plein air artist and is adept in both methods. She especially enjoys, in the colder months, working from sketches or photographs in the comfort of her studio. As a plein air painter, she works outside, on location, to create her paintings.
Eugene ceramic forms range from traditional to mid-century. His strong, deep glazes accentuate the forms they cover, lending these functional pieces visual presence.
Eugene is an instructor at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. After he retired in 2009, Eugene planned to realize his lifelong dream of opening a wood shop. Until he took a ceramics class with Jason Combs at Cornerstone and discovered his passion for clay. Eugene forgot all about the wood shop!
He further honed his skills by learning techniques from John Peterson, a renowned potter in the area. He began using the Made in Muncie studio for wheel time. Within a few years, he became an instructor at Cornerstone and, in 2016, opened Boyd’s Pottery.
Eugene, alongside Jasen, has created a community of ceramicists of all skill levels who have found friendships and a place to belong both within Cornerstone and outside its doors, including in Eugene’s yard at a potluck BBQ. “It warms my heart to see others get as excited about ceramics as I do”, says Eugene.