Rebecca Narramore, as an artist, creates for herself.
"But I do want the viewer to be as impressed by nature as I am," she said.
Narramore is good at her attempts. She recently won four ribbons among the six objects she submitted for the fifth annual Hughes Springs Spring Art and Photography Show held at The Legacy event center.
"I am an impressionist, and I enjoy expressing what I feel. I hope the viewer sees that, too. That's why I do what I do," she said.
Narramore said she is not an abstract creator by any means. She said she simply likes to take the things she sees and make something even more beautiful of them than nature has already done.
For the art show, she presented two paintings, first of a flower and then a setting sun at seashore. She also submitted a sunflower and goat weed photograph and also a gourd that had been turned into a stylized bird. The gourd/bird is standing on wood with pebbles and glass about its feet. Each of these won ribbons.
Last year, a Narramore desert-and-mountain scene won best of show in the Linden Wildflower Trails Art Show.
In years past, Narramore has directed the art competition of the Linden Wildflower Trails of Texas, an event scheduled during the last full weekend in April. This year's festival will be the 48th celebrating the blooming of native wildflowers along State Highways 11, 49 and 155 among the cities of Linden, Hughes Springs and Avinger.
Narramore first began leading the Linden event in 2004 and brought back the art show competition.
"That first year, I had to raise the prize money for the artwork submitted," she said. "I found that hard, but I thought even a small prize should be there for the artists' efforts."
Narramore said she found the secret of success to be the securing of competent people to run the various sections of the festival. For the art show, she said such people like Mary Dowd and now Patsy Griffin and Teri De Natalie have kept the art show successful.
This year, Allie Anderson, Linden's Main Street program manager, is directing Linden's Wildflower Trail's program.
Narramore said she finds most of her art subjects around her own home. She also is a skilled photographer and once having made the photograph, she
can transform the view with her painting.
"I'm not skilled at imagining what I want in my head, but I work with a photograph," she said.
The Hughes Springs art show accepts entries from five area schools and Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana as well as locally.