Peg McCreary.
Art Business News Magazine (June 2007).

Peg McCreary grew up in Cleveland where she spent the first half of her creative life involved in classical music, a talent that would eventually find expression in her abstract paintings. She has performed on the viola da gamba and has played double bass with several orchestras, including the Cleveland Philharmonic. She has also been a music critic and a program annotator and continues to study classical piano privately.

In the early 1990s McCreary began refocusing her creative energies. Since then, she has become an accomplished abstract painter who has exhibited in the United States and abroad. Her works are now in numerous private and corporate collections, including Berkshire Capital Corporation, the Pershing Square Company and the Buckingham Hotel, whose collection her painting "Capriccio" joined as one of the winners in the Buckingham Prize for the Expression of Music Through Art.

For 12 years McCreary has studied composition and color theory at the Art Students League with abstract painter Frank O'Cain, and she has won a merit scholarship and other prizes for her work. She was also the recipient of a scholarship in portraiture granted by the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland and was a prizewinner in the Manhattan Arts International Cover Competition.

Artist Statement:
"I believe we all sense a deep emotional connection between the compositions, colors and spaces on a canvas and the rhythms, moods and conflicts of our lives, and it is this connection that I seek to express as a painter. I bring to this task a musician's sensibility and draw equally from both worlds in the visualization of emotional structures and processes. Just as a musical theme may be split into chromatic shards, so may an image be broken into multiple views. Shifts in harmonies, as with colors and shapes, express transitions of feeling. Lines and forms convey a sense of organic growth, of a relationship evolving, a thought taking shape."

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