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Liz Lemon Swindle has a deep, abiding faith that she feels blessed
to share through her art. A lifelong Utah resident, she
studied fine arts at Utah State University. She worked for several
years as a set designer and painter for the Osmond Studios television
production company. As her family grew (she and her husband
Jon Swindle today have five children), she saw the need for
a more flexible career and decided to focus on oil painting.
In the early 1980s she tutored under renowned wildlife artist
Nancy Glazier and soon after established her own impressive
reputation as a wildlife painter, participating in shows at
major galleries in the central and western United States. However,
Lemon Swindle became increasingly discontent, feeling artistically
and spiritually unfulfilled. In October 1988 she reached a turning
point when she submitted a portrait of children to the National
Arts for the Parks competition and received the coveted Founders'
Favorite award. She realized then that there was an audience
for her portrait painting and by the early 1990s she had devoted
herself to the topic closest to her heart: her faith. A one-woman
show of her Christian art traveled to cities nationwide in the
summer of 1997 and a book of her paintings, "She Shall
Bring Forth a Son" was published in 1998.
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