Art on 12th

  • Studio 1
    • Amanda Sandos
    • Melinda Arthur
  • Studio 2
    • Julia (Diane) Dean
    • Lynne Silver
  • Studio 3
  • Studio 4
  • Studio 5
    • Christine Rooney
    • Cheryl Hawkins
  • Studio 6
    • Purnell Pettyjohn
    • Anne Novak
  • Studio 7
  • Studio 8
  • Studio 9
    • Rosalie Day White
    • TJ Liston
  • Studio 1
    • Amanda Sandos
    • Melinda Arthur
  • Studio 2
    • Julia (Diane) Dean
    • Lynne Silver
  • Studio 3
  • Studio 4
  • Studio 5
    • Christine Rooney
    • Cheryl Hawkins
  • Studio 6
    • Purnell Pettyjohn
    • Anne Novak
  • Studio 7
  • Studio 8
  • Studio 9
    • Rosalie Day White
    • TJ Liston
TJ Liston's Bio
I started painting in 2010 after I received an art class from my wife Lisa as a Christmas present. I was always taking pictures on vacations and my wife would say "Why take photos of landscapes when you can just buy a postcard? You should always put people in your photographs." Then I took a picture of an old abandoned truck and said, "Wouldn't this make a great painting?" And she took it from there.

The oil class my wife gave me was taught by Rosalie Day White, one of Lynchburg's most renowned instructors. I had just turned 51 and had never taken art outside of elementary school. Maybe it was a mid-life crisis thing but I loved it. The present was one of the best-ever; I found painting to be very relaxing and a nice escape from my job as a professional swim coach. I have enjoyed the class and have become a chronic repeater; I can't seem to graduate, but I do believe that I have improved with each subsequent course load. I have also ventured into watercolor and taken classes from Lynchburg's Solly Blank and Purnell Pettyjohn, two excellent instructors. I have learned style and techniques from both, but find watercolor a bit more frustrating as it is less forgiving, so mostly I work in oils. I love that painting is very relaxing yet, at the same time, very challenging. Now that I have retired from coaching, and especially during the coronavirus quarantine, painting has become a welcome routine.

Studio #9 at the Art Box, sharing space with Rosalie White.
First class: January 2010 with Rosalie Day White continuing to this day
Watercolor class: Summer of 2012 with Solly Blank and with Purnell Pettyjohn 2013-2014
Art Camp, Nimrod Virginia 2012 and 2017
First sale: March 2012 Auction sponsored by the YMCA of Central Virginia
​Jurors Fence, Lynchburg Art Festival 2016 Red Rocks of Sedona
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