Description
53rd Annual Mark Twain Library Art Show
Artist’s Bio:
Originally from South Texas, Clelia Powers discovered her artistic calling later in life, following a long and rewarding career as a flight attendant. After retiring in 2013, she finally devoted herself to the passion that had always lived quietly in her heart: painting.
Clelia’s lifelong love affair with art began decades earlier when she owned an art gallery in the 1970s in Brookfield, Connecticut — the same town where she now lives and paints. Her creative journey took flight anew when she began studying under acclaimed artists Betsy Rogers, Peter Seltzer, and Katushka Millones, whose mentorship helped her refine her technique and deepen her artistic voice.
She began her practice as a watercolorist, drawn to the medium’s luminosity and immediacy, but has since found her true home in oil painting. Her current work reflects a vibrant blend of realism and emotional intuition, capturing moments of stillness, color, and light that reveal the quiet poetry of everyday life.
For Clelia, painting is both a rediscovery and a celebration — of art, of beauty, and of the joy of beginning again
