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Art exhibit on display at downtown Parkersburg Wesbanco

Photo Provided The Dayne Thomas art exhibit will be on display through September at WesBanco Bank at 415 Market St., during regular business hours of Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

PARKERSBURG — The Dayne Thomas art exhibit will be on display at WesBanco Bank during the entire month of September.

The exhibit can be viewed at 415 Market Street during regular business hours of Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Thomas is from a family of animal lovers and that love has transformed into her art, as her first and foremost subjects are dogs followed by other animals then people portraits. Thomas is a realist and likes to do portraits and she wants her animal paintings to look like that particular animal she is painting.

Thomas works in different art mediums including oils, watercolors, colored pencil, graphite and 3D work in bronze, using the lost wax method.

At “The Art Show at the Dog Show,” a juried show in Wichita, Kansas, her colored pencil head studies won in the drawing category. Thomas’ portrait of John and Gerald Beckett (better known throughout Parkersburg as Pete and re-Pete) – entitled “Heart of the City” – won the People’s Choice Award at the Regional Show at the Parkersburg Art Center. The portrait is part of the exhibit at WesBanco during September.

Other awards Thomas has won include her lost wax bronze “Maui Life” that won in the 3-D category at the Regional Show in 2009; “Everywhere a Moo Moo,” an oil of two calves, won the first “Dr. Khalil Award” in 2011; and “Little Red Haired Girl” won first in 2-D at the Regional Show in 2012 and is part of the WesBanco exhibit.

Thomas is a life-long resident of the Mid-Ohio Valley and began her art career at the age of 6 by taking lessons from renowned portrait artist Dorothy Decker. She pursued her art in college at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan and went on to graduate from Marietta College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Thomas has taken bronze classes at West Virginia University at Parkersburg under the direction of Henry Aglio, as well as a bronze workshop with Victor Issa in Loveland, Colo.

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