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About the artist Arleta Pech
Friday, June 18, 2010
Arleta Pech
Arleta Pech’s striking watercolor paintings have received critical acclaim for their high contrast, unusually intense use of color and exquisite detail. Pech’s ability to achieve both impact and delicacy in her paintings attests to her facility with her preferred medium — watercolor.
Born in the Midwest, Pech has lived in Colorado since 1960. Trained in fine art as a youth, she began her art career as a commercial artist. Pech returned to painting in the late 1970s when she continued her training in watercolors. Pech feels that the turning point of her career came in 1980 when she began to concentrate on floral subjects. At this time she began to receive recognition in local and regional shows and to receive awards for her art.
Watercolor is Pech’s medium of choice because she feels that she can control it and use it to best create the effect of light on her subjects: “I’m painting the light on the flowers, not just the flowers themselves.” Her goal, Pech says, “is to create beautiful images that glow with light and inspiration.”
Her lavish flowers look real enough to pick, bathed in radiant light and surrounded by cascades of elegant white lace. When Arleta paints lace, she really only paints the holes — she doesn’t use any white paint. The only white seen in her paintings is the white of the paper!
Pech is represented by several galleries, and her work has been selected for numerous juried exhibitions and invitationals. She won the Colorado Watercolor Society Award in the 1986 Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition and a special award at the 1988 National Watercolor Society Western Art Invitational. She is a signature member of The Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, The NWS Western Invitational and was invited to participate in the 1996 Great Women Artists of America Show. She holds painting workshops for Mill Pond dealers and art organizations across the country. In 1997, The Artist Magazine invited her to join 10 of the top watercolor instructors for a special workshop, attended by 300 artists from around the world. She was invited to show her work in the American Artist Realism Today 2000 competition at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and was invited to attend Presentation Weekend for BK Photo in Troy, Ohio, in 1999. Pech served as the still life juror for The Artist magazine’s national competition in 2000. Feature articles spotlighting her work in major art publications include: Australian Artist (Feb. 2000), American Artist (“Realism Today,” Oct. 2000), International Artist (“Master Painters of the U.S.A.,” Jan. 2000).
Pech’s original paintings are included in many private and corporate collections, and her work has been featured in publications such as American Artist and The Artist Magazine. Her paintings were selected for a series of plates by The Bradford Exchange as well as jigsaw puzzles and posters. Her works are the subject of the book, Painting Fresh Flowers in Watercolor, published by North Light Books.
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Art work by Maynard Reece
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Maynard Reece
The success and tradition of Maynard Reece’s art has made his work the standard for North American waterfowl art. The range and variety of Reece’s work are matched only by the variety of the waterfowl species he paints and the ranges of the continental flyways they traverse. The art of Maynard Reece captures the drama, the serenity and the elusive sense of reality of the wetlands. He brings a lifetime of experience to his art.
The high esteem in which Reece is held by conservationists, sportsmen and by his colleagues in the art world is unmatched. The generation of wildlife artists that has followed him considers him their inspiration and model. The anatomical perfection with which Reece paints is a result of many years in the field observing, sketching and painting.
Reece’s honors are legion: His work has appeared frequently in prestigious magazines; he was 1973 Ducks Unlimited’s Artist of the Year and honorary trustee of the organization; his paintings have been regularly included in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s “Birds in Art” show, and he was honored as Leigh Yawkey Woodson’s 1989 Master Wildlife Artist; he has won two awards from the New York Art Directors’ Club; he was commissioned by the government of Bermuda to design their indigenous wildlife postage stamps, and his art book, The Waterfowl Art of Maynard Reece, is an enduring favorite. It was followed by the publication of The Upland Bird Art of Maynard Reece.
Maynard Reece’s association with duck stamp programs alone spans forty years. The phenomenal success of his 1972 First of Iowa State Duck Stamp remains the benchmark by which all other programs are measured. The only five-time winner of the Federal Duck Stamp Competition — an accomplishment unlikely to be repeated — Maynard Reece has an unparalleled record of artistic achievement. His artwork is collected across the United States and Canada and throughout the world. Reece is a dynamic artist who is never satisfied; as he says, “I’m just beginning to see what is possible.”
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Art work by Robert Bateman
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
ART WORK by ROBERT BATEMAN
Born in Toronto, Robert Bateman has been a keen artist and naturalist from his early days. He has always painted wildlife and nature, beginning with a representational style, moving through impressionism and cubism to abstract expressionism. In his early thirties he moved back to realism as a more suitable way to express the particularity of the planet. It is this style that has made him one of the foremost artists depicting the world of nature.
Bateman’s art reflects his commitment to ecology and preservation. Since the early ’60s, he has been an active member of naturalist clubs and other conservation organizations. This involvement has increased in recent years and is now on a global scale. He has become a spokesman for many environmental and preservation issues and has used his artwork and limited edition prints in fund-raising efforts which have provided millions of dollars for these worthy causes. He says, “I can’t conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I’d like to put it together and express it in my painting. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.”
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Beautiful Art Works By Carl Brenders.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
ART WORKS By CARL BRENDERS
Carl Brenders’ love for all creatures, from the friendly to the ferocious, is evident in his masterful attention to their every detail; nothing is overlooked. With his imagination, Brenders is able to get close enough to wild animals so that he can almost feel their textures. Consequently, his work has a tactile reality, giving us the sense of having been where even the most intrepid of field guides have not ventured. Of this ability Brenders says, “A painter is a privileged being, because in his imagination he can come very close to the animals he paints. In reality, one can never come this close to wild animals, particularly if they are predators.”
The wildlife images of Brenders’ art are first created from pencil sketches; from these sketches his mixed media paintings of watercolor and gouache are completed with a technique he has developed during the last 25 years. His paintings, encompassing every intricacy of nature, devote equal attention to the detail of the wildlife subject and its habitat as well as to the mood created by the light.
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