Ina Ingram spends her retirement days eagerly waiting to discover what new creation will come from her color palette.
“My mother said I started drawing when I could pick up a pencil around one and half or two years of age,” said the artist. And she has been expressing herself through her art ever since.
The mother of three daughters and wife of “Duck” Ingram, Ina attended Coker College and then Converse College. After she married, she went back to school to obtain a degree in education and a minor in art. She taught art one year and then elementary education until her retirement several years ago from Washington Street Elementary School.
For Ingram, retirement meant more time to explore her artistic talent.
“I like doing portraits, still life and water scenes, “ Ingram said. “I use pastels, pencils, whatever I have.”
Ingram describes her work as traditional and realistic in nature. She doesn’t do modern, abstract work. She said she tends to prefer to use bright colors but not in a bold way. Ingram prefers a subtler use of color.
“I’d like to do some Hartsville scenes, but I haven’t done that yet,” Ingram said.
“I call her the ‘unassuming artist,’ because it seems to me that she does not realize how much talent she possesses,” said Bruce Douglas of Black Creek Arts Center. “She works in pastels and watercolor that I know of. I have one of her works on display at Black Creek right now. It is wonderful.”
Ingram has her own studio on Home Avenue and does commissioned work, also.
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