Exhibit on Display in the Sigel Gallery at the Falmouth Art Center April 1-30
Meredith Howard grew up in a family surrounded by art.
Her mother, Phyllis Kendrick Howard, one of the founders of the Falmouth Artists Guild, was a commercial artist and award-winning watercolorist with the New England Watercolor Society.
Both Meredith’s mother and sister attended Mass College of Art. Meredith was following their lead, having won an artistic achievement award in high school.
She attended the Art Institute of Boston during the 1960s and got caught up in the current of the time. She got clean and sober and having lost a formative part of her life, she got to work.
Needing to earn a living, she attended the Culinary Institute of America to become a chef. After graduating, she opened a catering and wedding cake business and even became private chef to Senator Edward M. Kennedy at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport.
Life was good, but Meredith yearned to make art again. After retirement from cooking, she decided to pursue art seriously.
She said, “A couple of years ago, I made a decision to pursue my art. I was sick of listening to my family and friends say, ‘Why don’t you paint?’”
Now she is focusing on her art.
“I had always thought I’d do this but never got down to it and I certainly didn’t have a vision for it. Today I do and I’m thrilled by it,” she said. “The work I’m presenting in this show is a cross section of the different directions I’ve gone in trying to find my authentic voice.”
