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Mystic Sea
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Maureen E.
Kerstein GWS
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An internationally collected artist, Maureen is a Signature Member of The
Georgia Watercolor Society; a Juried Member of the Atlanta Artists Club; an
Exhibiting Member of the Southern Watercolor Society; and a Juried Member of
Aquafolio, a group of international artists exhibiting in 7 countries. Recent
works have been accepted by the 2003 Georgia Watercolor National Exhibit, The
Hilton Head Art League 2003 National Juried Art Exhibition and the 2006
Florida Watercolor Exhibit.
Along with painting in her
home studio, Maureen frequently meets with other local artists to paint
plein air in the Savannah area. She is one of the founders of the local
outdoor painting group:
The Plein Air Painters of Savannah. Maureen�s work can be viewed at two
Savannah galleries
- Gallery 209 on River
Street, Savannah, Georgia
- The Gallery in City
Market, Savannah, Georgia
- Alvida Art Gallery,
Abercorn St., Savanna, Georgia
- Catch-22 Gallery, St.
Augustine, Florida
Artist's Statement
"I am drawn to the water and
the beautiful coastal landscape. Springtime inspires me with its rich palette
of colorful flowers. My paintings spark the imagination by capturing the
essence of my subject. I invite my viewer to take a closer look, to
participate in the painting, and to experience the reason I love to paint. "
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Spirit and Flesh
Water Color 26 x 33
Price: $600
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I suppose I can call myself an opportunistic artist since I have no strong commitment to one way of doing things. Yes, I do watercolors. It is my main medium. But I do other media as well and each media seems to call for a different part of me.
In my watercolors I sometimes try to be realistic but never totally so. Yet in other instances, I take several photographs and combine elements from each to make a dramatic statement. I still others I work from rapid sketches done at performances of the dance or the theater.
These sketches work wonderfully well in my silicone intaglio prints. Often these sketches are directly drawn on the program of the event and all that information is included in the print.
My collages might start with something I picked up from the street. Of they might start with a theater sketch and I fill in the spaces with colored paper, crayons, watercolors or other media.
Sometimes News events start me going as for example, the piece I call Requiem for Mathew. This piece was made to remember Mathew Shephard who was beaten and left to die while tied to a fence in Wyoming because he was gay. |
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Meadow in Early
Light
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My name is Danielle Shier and I have been an artist most
of my life, doing professional work for the past 17 years. I was born in
Montreal, Canada, and grew up in St. Lambert, Quebec. There I spent much of my
early childhood outdoors, exploring the many untouched wooded areas by the wide
and rushing St. Lawrence river. When I was nine we moved to New Mexico, where I
loved to draw, write and act out the stories of my vivid imagination. The years
spent there were magical and instilled a love of the U.S. Later, we returned to
Quebec where I studied art in school, got married, took art classes at night
while I worked during the day, moved to the U.S., had two children and lived my
life, never forgetting my passion for art. I would draw my babies in the
bathtub, by the beach, draw from my imagination, study art books and so
continued honing my talent. By the early 1990�s I had mastered colored pencil
and created several colored pencil posters which were published by Angel
Graphics and very successfully sold nationwide. I also did commissioned pieces
and based on that work was hired by Bovard Stained Glass Art Studio in 1992,
where I was employed in the art department for five years, painting landscapes
and biblical scenes on glass.
For the past few years I�ve studied and painted landscapes in pastel and have
won awards and shown my work in several Iowa Galleries. I am currently
represented by the Iowa Artisan�s Gallery and Catiri�s Art Gallery in Iowa . |
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