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about me

Peggi Batcheck is an award-winning artist who has exhibited her transparent watercolors since 1998. Educated at The College of Mount St. Joseph, Peggi subsequently studied design, figure drawing, and art history at The Ohio State University and The Columbus College of Art and Design. 

Reflecting upon the early influences that contributed to her life as an artist, Peggi sees her role as a daughter of two blind parents as pivotal.  They relied upon Peggi for detailed observations and descriptions from the earliest age.  Using words Peggi would “paint pictures of the visual world for them”. Through this process she learned to deeply study the objects before her, a process she continually employs in the painting of her realistic still lifes.

For the artist, painting in the realist tradition is about the process of exploring, of perceiving much of what is often overlooked. It is about discovering the abstract within the real, and of finding the balance between control of a wonderful but unpredictable medium and its happy accidents.

Viewers of Peggi’s paintings experience an awareness of the beauty that in everyday life might slip by their observations.  It is her joy when others can see the way her parents saw -“with the eyes of their hearts”.

Most Recent Exhibitions and Awards:
2003 - The M. Graham Professional Watercolor Merchandise Award, Midwest Watercolor Society's Annual National Exhibition, West Bend Museu, WI 2003 - Watercolor Society of Houston's Watermedia 2003 Exhitbition 2003 - Missouri Watercolor Society's Third National Exhitibtion 2003 - Award of Merit, Ohio Bicentennial Exhitbition 2003 2002 - The Bronze Medal Award, Ohio Watercolor Annual Exhibition 2002 - Best of Show, Central Ohio Watercolor Society’s Spring Exhibition 2001 - The Doug Pasek Award, Ohio Watercolor Annual Exhibition 2001 - Best of Show, Central Ohio Watercolor Society’s Fall Annual Exhibition 2001 - Best of Show, Lancaster Art Guild’s Autumn Open 2001 - Best of Show, Central Ohio Watercolor Society’s Spring Annual Exhibition 2001 - Pittsburgh Watercolor Society’s Annual Aqueous Exhibition 2000 - Watercolor West National Exhibition, Brea, California 2000 - Past Presidents’ Award, Midwest Watercolor Society’s Annual Exhibition 1999 - Finalist, Still Life Category, The Artists’ Magazine Annual Art Competition

Publications:                                                                                                                                            The Marion, Ohio Star; The Artists’ Magazine’s May, 2000 issue "Harvesting Inspiration";Northlight Books Monthly Publication "Meet the Member", November 2000; The Worthington Living Magazine "Brush Strokes", August 2001; The Columbus Dispatch Arts Page, October 2001.

Juried Memberships:                                                                                                               Central Ohio Watercolor Society, Signature Membership,  Ohio Watercolor Society, Signature Membership,  Watercolor West,  Juried Membership 

A Solo Exhibit is scheduled for the months of September and October in the year 2003 at The Ohio State University’s Faculty Club.

 Peggi is represented by Four Winds International, Columbus, Ohio. (614) 299-0311 www.fourwindsintl.com

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