This page has a rotating display showing my work currently on view
16 Oct-20
Nov: Richardson Civic Art Society Membership Exhibition, Huffines Rec Center on Plano Road, Richardson, juror Dr. Anna Fritzel, Gallery
Director Collin College. I won 3rd place!
27 Oct-31 Dec Marks--Make Your Mark Exhibit, Visual Arts Society of Texas, 1 Courthouse Dr, 2nd floor, Denton;
juror Burt Finger
Main Street Cafe, Lewisville has 5 of my pieces--watercolors, prints and photos from 12 Nov 2025-mid-Feb 2026.
Perfect for holiday gift-giving!!
Johnson City, Tennessee has installed my artwork for a public art program utilizing a traffic signal box wrap
at W Main & Winter. Pics are under the public art tab above.
Looking forward to
2026!
21st Ghost Ranch UN-Traditional Watercolor Workshop/Retreat in New
Mexico 18-24 October 2026--reservations are already underway!
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." We qualify for a group discount: $1500 AND gratuities are covered!
Looking forward to
2027!
We changed the date! We return to Perigord Retreat in Southern France on the Dordogne
River
in July 2027 more details later!
Check out this video presentation on my Art Trips https://youtu.be/beDIiK72fCI
My Visual Arts Society of Texas demo was put on facebook...
Get on Darla's contact list for the first notice of future workshop/
retreats!
Some of my 2025 art news!
My "Southwest Images" won 3rd place in the Richardson Civic
Art Society Fall Membership Show at Huffines Rec Center. Dr. Anna Fritzel, juror, Gallery Director, Collin Community College
I presented a pop-up event at the Wayne Ferguson Plaza in
Lewisville, TX in June and October.
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 Pasture" 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 "Going Nowhere" photo collage, 2nd 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 Annyual Art Adventure Abroad receive one as a gift.
Volume 2 is in the works & 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
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