New Franchisee Joins The Odyssey Art Family

COLUMBIA, SC (Sunday, September 03, 2006) - Paula Bowers is very excited about being a new owner of an Odyssey Art Center. She looks forward to sharing her passion of art with others through this outstanding program. Paula has been drawing since she was very young age. She discovered her real passion for art while she attended Dreher High School in Columbia, SC. At the age of sixteen, she was accepted into the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts at Furman University. There she studied art under several well known artists, as well as art professors from colleges up and down the east coast. By the age of eighteen, she was accepting commissions for portrait work. After high school, she attended Columbia College on an art scholarship as an art/education major and studied under Stephen Nevitt. She married her high school sweet heart and started to raise a family. She and her husband now have 4 children which means there is never a lack of subject matter to draw or paint. Paula specializes in drawing portraits of children in colored pencil and watercolors. She is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, the South Carolina Watercolor Society, as well as the local artist guilds in her community. She just recently designed her own website that contains some samples of her work (www.portraitsbypaulabowers.com). Her portraits appear in private and corporate collections. For art classes in the Columbia, SC area contact Paula at (803) 252-5329.

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