About

Penny Saville Fregeau…

“Soul Artist,” Writer, Communicator…

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”  – Henry Ward Beecher

Background:

• Parents & Family supported artistic talent from birth.

• Associate Degree – Humanities.
• Owned Stained Glass Studio – So. Cal. 7 years.
• Studied color theory under artist Jim Faber – 3 ½ years.
• Painters Teaching line: Jim Faber, Bernie Zulusky, Louis Ritman, Fredrick Frezeke, Claude Monet.

Claude Monet Reading (1872) by Renoir (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Sold Paintings; galleries; publishing.
• Wrote a weekly column about art for The Humboldt County Beacon, State of the Art.
• Co-Founded & Taught – Excelsior Christian Academy
• Taught Private Art Lessons
• Contributing Artist, The North Light Book of Acrylic Painting Techniques by Earl Grenville Killeen

• Called into ministry – 1998
• Bachelor – Trinity Bible College & Theological Seminary – Biblical Counseling.
• Further study toward Masters – Ministry, Christian Leadership, Management
•  Ministry Director through local church (Hydesville Community) – on staff 13.5 years.

• Painting during worship, set design, digital art sermon illustration, videos.
• Local Art Shows in businesses
• Teaching Local Classes in Drawing and Painting
• Teaching Painting Classes Through College of the Redwoods

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  Working on the end stages of a wedding portrait.

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