Ginny Merett has considered herself an artist beginning in early childhood. She was raised in Denver, moved from place to place growing up, and made SC home in 1987. Art traveled with her and is the cause for her every success. 

Merett graduated from the University of Georgia and holds two master’s degrees from the University of South Carolina. Because art played such an important role in her school years, she studied art education and taught art in public schools for 30 years and served as adjunct at the University of South Carolina. 

 

Merett creates mixed media collage pieces inspired by stylish women from her grandmother's era and portrays unique characters by reconstructing parts and pieces from current day and vintage papers.

Her art has been shown in solo and group exhibits at 701 Whaley's Hallway: community art gallery, Stormwater Studio, ArtFields, Koger Center for the Arts, the Jasper Project, USC’s McMaster Gallery, SC State Library and Fair, and other local venues like Sound Bites Eatery, Trustus Theater, Cottontown Art Crawl and Melrose Art in the Yard. Her work is published in the Jasper Project’s Jasper Magazine Spring 2019 and Fall 2022 editions, in Sheltered: SC Artists Respond During the 2020 Pandemic; and in Bullets and Band-Aids, Vol. 3.

 

She published the book Tall Women showcasing herTall Women series of work and ekphrastic poems from distinguished female poets from SC, and authored several articles for the Jasper Project's The Jasper Magazine. 

 

Merett has two children, 4 grandchildren, and lives in Lexington, SC.. Look for her on all social platforms.