|
|
Click on an image for a larger view in a new window or to play audio or video. |
| |
Saugatuck Winter, 1996
watercolor
Not For Sale
|
|
Autumn Shade, 1999
watercolor
10 x 14 in.
$800.00
|
|
Blackfoot Dawn, 1999
watercolor
10 x 14 in.
$800.00
|
|
Blue Star Aster, 2001
pastel
24 x 36 in.
$2,500.00
|
| |
White Light, Taos, 2000
pastel
18 x 24 in.
Not For Sale
|
|
Atlantic March Islands, 2002
oil
36 x 40 in.
Not For Sale
|
|
Estuary Caracus, 2000
pastel, watercolor
16 x 20 in.
Not For Sale
|
|
Tidewater Down, 2001
watercolor
16 x 20 in.
Not For Sale
|
| |
Saugatuck Down, 1999
watercolor
10 x 14 in.
$800.00
|
|
Weston Woman, 1998
watercolor
10 x 14 in.
$800.00
|
|
Weston Grange, 2002
watercolor
10 x 14 in.
$1,200.00
|
|
|
I have always painted.
Three NYC artists, Greta Matson Khouri, Philip Pearlstein, and Lennart Anderson, were influential to my thinking and to my artistic development. At age 12, Greta Matson Khouri expressed an interest in teaching me after seeing my classroom work at the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; now the Chrysler Museum. Summers thereafter were spent in my father's garage "seeing and doing" under Ms. Matson's tutelage.
In 1974, while pursuing a graduate degree at Brooklyn College, I was fortunate to be able to work with Philip Pearlstein who taught me the importance of positive and negative space in a composition. Lennart Anderson taught me how to see color with all its ephemeral interrelationships. During this time, I was also working at the Brooklyn Museum Conservation Laboratory. Here I learned from the paintings in need of restoration. I was able to view, via conservation X-ray, the underlying structure of a painting and thereby see the original intention of great artists. It was an exciting and inspiring opportunity beginning with "The Philosopher" by Jacques Villon.
In 1998, I was elected to membership in the Connecticut Watercolor Society and in 1999 to Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. My work has been in numerous juried shows, twice in Art of the Northeast, four times in Spectrum: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 with various awards...the most recent being 1st Place Pastel. In 2002, I was honored to be asked to serve as a "portfolio judge" for the prestigious national student art competition, "The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards" which, since 1923, has been sponsored annually by Scholastic, Inc. to recognize outstanding student work in art and writing.
My work now is constant experimentation in 3 media: watercolor, oil, and pastel. I try to see a landscape as a face and a face as a landscape...while the brush or line...being true to the original intention.
|
|
|
|
Copyright © 2002-2010 by the Westport Arts Center, Inc. All rights reserved. Individual artists hold copyrights on their works, including images on this site. Questions or problems? Contact us. 0.371s; 3675K
|
|
