Macel Falwell, wife of the late Dr. Jerry Falwell, is debuting a lifetime’s worth of her artwork in “The Journey of a Hidden Artist,” a new exhibition at Liberty University.
Falwell’s art spans the decades from the 1950s to 1998, when she painted her last piece based on a trip to Peaks of Otter with her husband. Her subjects — inspired by the world around her — include landscapes, animals and people.
“I don’t really have a favorite subject,” she wrote in an e-mail.
“I would simply see something, whether a landscape that I thought was particularly beautiful or a tree or anything else that would catch my eye, and paint it.”
The seed for Falwell’s love of art was planted when she took an art class during her senior year at E.C. Glass High School, she said.
The collection showcases her experimentation over the years, said Todd Smith, director of Liberty University’s Visual Communication Arts Program and organizer of the show.
“Some of her pieces are really tight, or realistic, and other pieces are impressionistic,” he said.
Falwell kept her art private. Some paintings, not even her husband had seen.
“It’s part of her life that a lot of people don’t know about,” Smith said.
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