This page has a rotating display showing my work currently on view
At the Grand Prairie Events and Convention Center my works have been accepted for the Center Curated Art Display
April-June shows 3 of my works. The address is 2925 State Highway 161.
The Main Street Cafe in Lewisville has 6 of my works ready to take home
beginning 25 May through mid-August.
7 June-7 July the Visual Arts Society of Texas presents their 36th Annual VAST
Members Exhibition at the Grand Performance Hall in Lewisville. My "Coneflowers and Morning Glories" is among those accepted.
Ahead in 2025:
20th Ghost Ranch UN-Traditional Watercolor Workshop/Retreat in New Mexico 1-7 November. Some are
already registered.
Johnson City, Tennessee has chosen my artwork for a public art program utitlizing a traffic signal
box wrap.
Looking forward to 2026!
21st Ghost Ranch UN-Traditional Watercolor
Workshop/Retreat in New Mexico 18-24 October 2026
ART ADVENTURE ABROAD 2026
We are going to Switzerland!
Following a few days in Switzerland we then board a
river cruise for an 11-day river cruise on the Rhine and Moselle Rivers. We will sail through Switzerland, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. See details on the tab above for "Art
Adventures Abroad." Don't miss our group discount! We already have enough registered to qualify for our $1500/person discount including gratutities.
Looking forward to 2027!
Art Adventure Abroad for 4th Periford Retreat in Southern France on the Dordogne
River
15-24 September 2027
more details later
Get on Darla's contact list for the first notice of future workshop/
retreats!
Some of my 2025 art news!
I presented a pop-up event at the Wayne Ferguson Plaza in Lewisville, TX in June.
In May I served as the juror for the Central Texas Watercolor Society Exhibition as well as presenting a reception demo
and week-long workshop.
"Out to Pastsure" watercolor was accepted at the 59th Regional Juried Exhibition by Richardson Civic Art Society at
the Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX in May.
Two works were included in "Power of the Flower" at the Lewsiville Grand Performance Hall.
At the Visual Arts Society of Texas February meeting my watercolor, "Cone Flowers and Morning Glories" won 1st place,
Art of the Month.
The Visual Arts of Lewisville voted my "Goging Nowhere" photo collage2nd place in the Art of the Month.
My Art Adventure Abroad 2025 found us spending 5 days in Bruges and Brussels in Belgium then we boarded a river cruise
for 8 days to see the tulips blooming in Holland. We came home with filled travel art journals!
MY NEW BOOK:
I have written and published a 28-page book, "Making an Art Journal...As You Travel. How-to
Ideas with Darla Bostick". Those who accompany me on my Annual Art Adventures Abroad receive one as a
gift.
In the works isl Volume 2, ready for use in 2026!
Permanent Installations
See more on the Public Art tab above
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I am the Past President
of Society of Watercolor Artists in Fort Worth, TX. Check out this terrific watercolor association at
These are all photographs from travels in Asia. Still a work in progress, I have begun with China and Thailand. As you move your mouse across each image, the title
will appear. Each image can be enlarged by clicking.