By Melinda Ludwig, Customs House Museum
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville artist Peach McComb brings the outdoors in with her current exhibit at the Customs House Museum. Painting in a broad range of subjects, Peach works in both impressionistic and representational styles.
Her paintings appear effortless and “in the moment”. Referring to art as “yoga for the mind”, she says “I practice yoga for physical flexibility and art for mental agility.” In works such as Ginny’s Front Porch the artist provides the viewer with a real sense of Southern Americana with the iconic flag floating in the breeze alongside hidden wicker chairs. Paintings like Shore Patrol move us from rural Tennessee to the summer shores in soft blues and whites. The works in McComb’s suite seem to be themed in days of leisure, providing the art lover with a calm sense of beauty.
Peach has studied with several well-known artists such as Joseph Sulkowski, Chuck Marshall, Roger Dale Brown, Charles Gruppé, Mary Field Neville, and Mary Whyte. Peach is a member of the Nashville Artist’s Guild, Women Painters of the South East, American Impressionist Society, American Society of Marine Artists, Chestnut Plein Air Painting Group, Tennessee Watercolor Society and the Monthaven Art Society. Her works can be found in private collections throughout the U.S.; as well as, in the permanent collection of the Tennessee State Museum. The Art of Peach McComb will be on exhibit through April 27th, as part of the museum’s Women’s History Month celebration.
Located at the corner of Second and Commerce Streets, the Customs House Museum is the second largest general museum in Tennessee. For more information on above events contact Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator, at 931-648-5780 or terri@customshousemuseum.org.
Ginny’s Front Porch by Peach McComb