Description
53rd Annual Mark Twain Library Art Show
Artist’s Bio:
I am a classically trained figurative artist, having studied drawing and oil painting at NY Academy of Art, and Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan CT over a period of about 6 years, and over the years since then have regularly taken private workshops with talented artists such as Mark Boedges, Steven Assael, as well as Florence Academy trained artists Jennifer Gennari and Jesus Villarreal. I was a member of The New Street Guild of Artists while it existed for about 10 years prior to COVID, a group of women realist artists. I also studied with artist Justin Wiest in Wilton CT painting from live models, portrait and figure in oil.
Over the past several years I have devoted more and more of my work to painting animals, especially dogs, horses and wildlife. I am a lifetime lover of all animals, an active animal rights advocate, and served on the board of the Humane Society for about 20 years in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. I do commissions of pets and also have been working on several paintings of wild Mustangs, which are being round up and slaughtered from land in the west, as well as on a series I call “Dogs in Cars” of silly dogs I find in parking lots at the grocery store, parks and anywhere they think they can be mistaken for a human passenger….
I can be reached by phone or message: 203-788-3197.
