Peggy Duvall
A resident of Millwood VA USA, at the top of the Shenandoah Valley, Peggy is a lifelong painter with lengthy career in architectural design and building. Her design background together with a deep connection to the rural Virginia landscape and all things floral have shaped who she is as an artist.
She has an affinity for watercolor due to its fluidity and spontaneous nature. She appreciates the way watercolor plays with paper and gives back to the painting process by yanking the yoke back to school her in its preferred direction. She works on heavy bright white cotton paper. That the paper is constructed of a plant is not lost on her and contributes also to her painting process.
Peggy’s work has been shown locally at The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Long Branch House Museum, The Barns of Rose Hill and the AIM gallery in Middleburg. Her work is in homes across the Shenandoah Valley Region as well as New Jersey, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina and California.
Peggy’s paintings aspire to reflect upon the natural world and on humanity’s place with, and influence upon, that natural world. Her paintings represents a constant give and take between nature and intellect. They exploit flaws and inconsistencies aspiring to beauty and control.