Paintings by Charles E. (Chuck) Hendrix will be on display in the Palisades Branch Library Community Room from April 11 through 29. His watercolors, oils and acrylics reveal his lifelong love of nature, his passion for painting, and an innate ability to correlate color and object to produce realistic landscapes, portraits and still-lifes. A retired engineer, Hendrix has been painting for about 25 years. Although primarily self-taught, he has studied with artists Merlin Dow, Tom Fong, Joyce Wheeler and Ruth San Pietro under the Adult Education Program at Santa Monica Emeritus College. Early in his engineering career he worked as a design draftsman. While drafting is not art, he feels it provided him with insight into how solid objects and their relationship to each other can be depicted on a two-dimensional surface. Hendrix received an Honorable Mention in the 1985 Design Competition for the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Sacramento and has exhibited at the Great Dames Gallery in Ojai. His work has also appeared in juried shows in Santa Monica, Glendale, Santa Cruz and in Lexington, Kentucky. He is an associate member of the National Watercolor Society and a member of the Pacific Palisades Art Association. A reception will be held April 16, 2 to 4 p.m., at the library.
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