07/10/2024
I'm working hard over here attempting to add dad's paintings that are available for sale on my website. It is taking me forever. I am truly inept on the computer. So, I will be sharing some of them with you here on social media and in the future will be able to direct you to scarlettmeredith.com
I will be sharing so many more. Some of the paintings are 50 years old and some never seen before.
Robert Meredith
Robert Meredith is an artist’s artist, a painter from his head to his toes, from morning to night. An uncompromising perfectionist, when he is not painting he is studying paintings, or reading about them, or lately, writing about them.
His professional career is long, beginning at age sixteen as an assistant in the design department of a large monument company followed by a BFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of Georgia. Celebrating graduation, he spent the summer painting in Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina where he met his wife Brenda. They were married the following spring. They have four grown children, Scarlett, Robby, Boyce, and Brandon.
Meredith’s first solo exhibition was in 1964 at the Fine Art Gallery on West Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then he has exhibited his paintings in fifty, one-man shows including a half-dozen museum exhibitions and two retrospectives, plus numerous group exhibitions and competitions. Four prestigious New York Galleries have sold his paintings. He is currently represented by Brennen Fine Art in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Meredith recognized early on the difficulty artists have finding the correct way to paint in oils. The problem is not a lack of information, there is too much information. Oil painting is a do-it-yourself project with no instructions included. It is a muddled mess of mediums, myths, and misinformation, perpetuated by people who don’t know how to paint. Meredith resolved to simplify and demystify this problem by explaining in one book how easy it is to paint in oils if done logically.
“The Art of Oil Painting” describes in clear and non-technical language the materials and techniques used by artists since the invention of oil painting, and how this knowledge can be used by today’s artists to simplify their methods and paint better pictures. This book is for anyone who has ever struggled with thick, and gooey oil paint
Meredith’s subjects range from portraits to landscapes to still lifes, but his specialty is trompe l’oeil, or “fool the eye” realism. His realistic representations of store windows and cabinets can be found in Georgia mansions, Manhattan offices, and homes across the country. His painting “Studio Mirror” was the 2022 winner of the prestigious Metro Media Competition at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art. It is featured on the cover of the book.
