After taking some personal growth workshops, which included forgiveness and healing work, i began studying Eastern philosophy. Inspired by my daughter, Alissa, i started doing yoga and meditation, which has become a daily practice that i find feeds both the work and the life. One day while meditating, a light went off in my head (and my heart concurred!), that i could combine my life-long love of painting faces with my spiritual interests. I've been painting Buddhas ever since!.
Growing up in New Jersey, I attended George School, a Quaker school in Newtown, PA. At that time, I also took courses at the Philadelphia College of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Coming to Massachusetts, I graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts with a degree in painting.
For 10 years I worked as a freelance illustrator for clients such as Reebok, The Boston Globe, Doubleday Books and many others. After my son and daughter were grown, I began doing personal painting again in 1997. Since then, I’ve had one and 2-person shows and have become part of many private collections. I have been affiliated with Alpers Fine Art in Andover, MA, for the past 7 years. I am also now showing with Powers Gallery, Acton, MA, and Gallery Anthony Curtis, Boston, MA.
"Virginia Peck is an artist whose work engages the viewer at a strongly visceral level. Her paintings are vividly colorful and luminous with an underlying texture...Faces predominate...There is a haunting, surreal quality to many of them. They are startlingly beautiful and do not easily release your attention". Cliff Hauptman, Editor, Brandeis Alumni Magazine, 2000
You can visit my website to see more of my Buddha paintings: www.virginiapeck.com
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