Color Pastel Portraits by Artist Denny Martindale

About the Artist, Denny Martindale 

Hello!  Welcome to the Martindale Artworks Website.  

      My name is Denny Martindale, I reside in Franklin Tennessee, and I am the proprietor of Martindale Artworks. I am a custom pastel portrait artist that hand draws each and every portrait without the help of a projector and 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 (South of Nashville) where I have become intensely associated with the Tennessee Art League, located in Nashville's Music City.  Here I started to combine my interests and my career as an artist.  I am told that I am now considered one of the more popular Tennessee (TN) custom pastel portrait artists, but I think I'll leave those statistics to the pros.

I have had numerous commissions for pet portraits, murals, landscape portraits and people portraits as well as a couple of book covers.  There has been an increase in the amount of commissions for human portraits in the last two years and I have really enjoyed the challenge and the growth that has happened to my talent while painting these portraits.  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.

To learn more about the Tennessee Art League, visit http://www.tennesseeartleague.org/

Bio 

• 1991-1993 Served as Historian for the Tennessee Art League, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1992- Purchase Award at the Tennessee State Fair, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1993- Accepted into the 32^nd annual Central South Art Exhibition juried show at the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1994- One of 30 artists nationwide to show in the Bettye Page Art Extravaganza, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1995- 1997- Served as Vice-President and Membership Chairman for the Tennessee Art League, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1994- One-person show at the Brentwood Library, Brentwood, Tennessee.
• 1994- One-person show at the Café Milano, Franklin, Tennessee.
• 1995- One-person show at the Tennessee Art League, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1995- Exhibited in Celebration '95 at the Centennial Arts Center, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1996- One-person show at the Leipers Fork Library, Franklin, Tenn.
• 1997- Accepted into the 36^th annual Central South Art Exhibition juried show at the Parthenon, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1997-Accepted into the Trans Financial "Celebration of the Arts" juried exhibition, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1998- Accepted into the 37^th annual Central South Art Exhibition juried show at the Parthenon, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1998- Accepted into the Tennessee Art League's annual juried Membership show, Nashville, Tenn.
• 2001- Awarded Signature Member status with the Tennessee Art League.
• 2002- First place award in the Pastel/Graphics division at the Tennessee Art League's annual juried Membership show.
• 2002- One-person show at the Tennessee Art League.
• 2005- Two-person show with Christian Gregory at the Tennessee Art League.
• 2007- Second Place in the TAL Juried Membership Show for "Heart and Soul"
• 2007- Accepted into the Central South Art Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee
• 2008- Painted large mural 15' x 28'for Grace Chapel in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee
• 2009- Second place in the TAL Juried Membership Show for "The Basset Case"
• 2010- Three paintings used for filming the movie "The Nothing", scheduled for release in 2011
• 2011- Painted a mural (about 200 sq. ft.)across the storefront of "Our Thrift Store" in Franklin,
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• 1994-present- painted numerous pet portraits for commissions across the country

•   My husband and I attend church at Grace Chapel in Leipers Fork, Tennessee

   

  .  Artists from various areas of Leipers Fork have contributed to the murals on the walls inside of Grace Chapel and I was honored to be one of those artists. Pastor Steve Berger is the Senior Pastor at Grace Chapel and if you would like to take a peek at the services just visit the website at www.gracechapel.net   and click on Listen, Download Sermons on the right side of the site.