Derby resident and artist Shirley Carrick will be featured in a New York City gallery beginning today.

Carrick’s painting, “Vase of Poppies,” was accepted into the 36th Annual Pastel Society of America Exhibition.

The show, held at 15 Gramercy Park South in New York City, ends on Sept. 20.

Carrick, a painter since high school, creates works in oil an pastels.

“Oils remain my favorite medium,” Carrick said.

Studying under well-known artists has enhanced her artistic skill, she said.

A pen and ink drawing of the Eastborough duck pond was featured in the Wichita Music Theater calendar in the mid-eighties and in 1987, an oil painting titled “The Wild and the Tame” was presented to Sen. Robert dole, in person, on behalf of the Spinal Cord Society. Also in 1987, two of her pastel works were exhibited in Lille, france with the Wichita Pastel Society.

Recent recognition includes a cash award for professional artists at the Kansas State Fair and an invitation to exhibit in a national show in St. Louis and Kansas City.

Carrick was selected to have a painting hung in the 1997 Governors Special exhibit and had a one-woman show at the Wichita Art Museum in the spring of 2000.

Since then, she has participated and won awards in national and local exhibits, including the Wichita Garden Show.

Several of Carrick’s paintings can be viewed and purchased in the Wichita area, at City Arts gift shop, as well as in special exhibits and at her home studio in Derby.

She  is an active member of the Kansas Academy of Oil Painters, the Midwest Artists and the Wichita Women Artists.