Sally Rogers Angove has drawn since an early age and her parents encouraged her by enrolling her in a correspondence course with Art Instruction, Inc., located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She completed the course and has her Certificate of Graduation. Sally attended Montana State University in Bozeman as an art major. She was an active member of the Helena Art Center for many years, serving as board secretary, office secretary, and was director for two years. She is one of the founding members of the Upper Missouri Artists Gallery in Helena, MT, which has been in business in downtown Helena since 1996.
Angove feels it is important for the essence of the artist, as well as that of the subject, to show in her paintings. She works in several mediums, but primarily in watermedia because of the challenge of allowing the medium to “do its own thing.” Landscapes, still lifes, birds and small animals are favorite subjects. Angove’s work has been accepted into shows from coast to coast including: the Helena Art Center’s Meadowlark Art Review (taking first place in the watercolor category in ’96); Montana Institute of the Arts in Butte for several years and Montana Watercolor Society’s national show, Watermedia in ’99 and ’02 through ’09 receiving signature membership in the society in 2003 and a merchandise award in ’04. A seascape painting was accepted into a show in Huntington Beach, CA in ’05 and won First Place in the Watercolor/Pastel category. In January 2009 she received her Associate Membership into the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington D.C., the oldest miniature show in the United States. That fall she had two paintings accepted into the oldest miniature show in the world sponsored by the Royal Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of London, UK. Both pieces sold and she received a commission to paint a new miniature of one of the subjects.
Sally also enjoys the simplicity and philosophy of Sumi-e (oriental brush painting). She teaches classes in this medium and does demonstrations for school groups and other organizations. Her education in this art form has included private lessons, workshops in Helena and a tour of China led by Ning Yeh, nationally known Chinese Brush Painter from Huntington Beach, California.
To further artistic growth, Angove takes workshops from nationally known watercolor artists and tours art galleries around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Louvre in Paris, France and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.
