Denny Exposed
My name is Denny Martindale, I reside in Franklin Tennessee, and I am the proprietor of Martindale Artworks. I’m proud to be able to inform you that I have recently won an award from the Tennessee Art League’s Juried Membership Show.
I have harbored a love of art, animals, and nature from a very early age. I received my license in Veterinary Technology at Michigan State University. I also studied first year art at Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan.
A change of work venue brought my husband David and me to beautiful Franklin, Tennessee where I have become intensely associated with the Tennessee Art League. Here I started to combine my interests and my career as an artist took shape. I have had numerous commissions for pet portraits, murals, as well as a couple of book covers. There is even the occasional commission for a human portrait as well. I work with photographs as a reference for the pet portraits. Each piece is hand drawn in charcoal, then layers of soft pastels are applied for the finished piece. With pastels, pencil, watercolor, oil, and a camera, I enjoy creating and expressing my concern for the environment through images of both wild and domestic animals. I thank God for letting me borrow these talents! Besides animals, I also enjoy the occasional floral or landscape painting.
My work has been accepted into the Central South Art Exhibition, as well as other juried shows through the Tennessee Art League. I have also won awards at the Tennessee State Fair in the Tennessee Art Division and was invited to show in the Bettye Page Art Extravaganza in Nashville, TN. In 2001, I became a signature member of the Tennessee Art League, where I have served as historian, docent, and Vice-President and Membership Chairman.
