Gallery 1001 - Peggy Williams-Thomas

Peggy formerly taught art at Tonkawa High School in Oklahoma in the mid-1970s. She moved to Winfield in 1977, where she married L. Steve Williams, a Viet Nam veteran. After the dissolution of their marriage in 1988, Peggy went to work for Binney & Smith, Crayola Crayon manufacturers, where she remained until the company close in the 1990s. It was during this time when Peggy, a self taught artists, would exhibit and sell her art at the occasional arts & craft fairs. She was also deeply involved with the local theater where she would work as a set designer and painter. Peggy met Richard aka "Tiny" Thomas who she married in 1999. While they were planning their wedding and with aid from Binney & Smith, Peggy was able to earn her MEd in Counseling from Wichita State. She did do some substitute teaching, but her real passion was art. Her beautiful photo-realistic paintings are now on permanent exhibit at Gallery 1001, and Peggy is a valued Member Artist. Always challenging herself, Peggy experiments and works with a variety of mediums and materials in her imaginative and creative art works.