Mural Art

Old Spanish Trail Studio

Exhibits and Awards

Mural Art by Lindy Severns: Historic Presbyterian Church Fort Davis, TX

GARDEN MEMORIES 30 x 30 oil panel by Lindy C Severns FDPC

GARDEN MEMORIES
30" x 30" oil panel by Lindy C Severns
Basement Fellowship Parlor
at the Historic Fort Davis, TX
Presbyterian Church

Using identical palettes for these two garden panels, Lindy's imaginary landscapes connect in color as well as in design. (The walks appear to intersect in a garden room deep in the foliage.) Besiding adding color to the once-dingy basement, the panels offer meditative scenes. Slightly impressionistic, the panels allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in a faux landscape. As in the rest of the historic building, these paired panels hint at old-fashioned days of ice cream socials and hymns sung by generations of Presbyterians.

A dark interior stairwell once suggested dank and dreary things below. Also, chunks of missing plaster begged extensive, if-non-structural repair. Since further repair wasn't in the church's current agenda, Lindy turned these "holes" into painted pots, niches that should last as long as the stairs themselves.

WALK THRU THE GARDEN 30 x 30 oil panel by Lindy C Severns FDPC

WALK THRU THE GARDEN
30" x 30" oil panel by Lindy C Severns
Basement Fellowship Parlor
at the Historic Fort Davis, TX
Presbyterian Church

The fellowship hall of this picturesque adobe church gets a lot of use for a once-dark and gloomy institutional basement. LIndy used existing casement windows as inspiration for paired faux window panels depicting a lush garden above. Besides walkways that invite the viewer into quiet space, this panel also offers steps down into mysteriously undefined space. Even though these panels are decorative art, Lindy chose oil rather than for its vibrancy and permanence.

HOLY LAND ROAD 24 36 oil panel by Lindy C Severns FDPC

HOLY LAND ROAD
24" x 36" oil panel
by Lindy C Severns
Storytelling Room
First Presbyterian Church (USA) Fort Davis, TX

The Storytelling Room takes kids into the Holy Land. Besides this faux window, Lindy painted the existing cracked stucco walls to look even older, artfully disguising flaking plaster as what it is.

Acrylic paint allowed Lindy to place windows in the walled room. (The low, floor-level window invites preschoolers to escape!)

You can see Lindy's decorative art by visiting First Presbyterian Church (USA) in historic Fort Davis, Texas. The doors to the sanctuary are always open, but you may want to come during worship or office hours for the full tour.