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A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by BoldBrush CircleCreating Art is about Creating Magic. BoldBrush Recommends: Elena DegenhardtGet Notified When Elena Posts New Art Biography"A moment; a movement; a mood. In Elena's art, the ephemeral is made permanent ... there is no escaping the emotion that crashing waves and stolen glances can instil in us when laying eyes on one of her creations." - Iggy Fenech, writer and editor. Elena Degenhardt is an internationally acclaimed artist, known for her immersive waterscapes, emotionally charged underwater figurative works and evocative portraits. She is a Master Pastellist with the International Association of Pastel Societies and Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America. She considers herself a realist with an impressionistic touch. Painting en plein air and from life is at the root of her working practice. "I paint en plein air and from life but also from imagination and my knowledge of a painting subject, using my sketches, colour studies and my own photography as a memory support. I often paint by the sea, in all weather conditions, and swim in the open sea all year round, daily. I must feel the sea, carry it within me, hear its noise, breathe in its smell and taste it to feel well and be able to work back in the studio." Her application of pastel and charcoal - in a rare for these dry mediums wet-on-wet technique, with intensive mark making, on unusual painting surfaces (including product packaging) - together with the emotional impact of her work have brought her international recognition and prestigious awards, including Best of Show Award for "Just The Way I Feel" in the Richeson75 Landscape, Seascape & Architecture 2023 international competition and Best of Show Award for the portrait "Inheritance" (from the series 'Pandemic Kids') in the 38th juried exhibition of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, USA, 2021. She was shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2023 with her "Self in a Cheese Box". "Painting is a deeply reflective and personal process for me. This explains my love of soft pastels - they create no barrier between me and an artwork. I express a lot through painting process itself, through the way I apply pastels - from a featherlight touch to the expressive mark making. A lot happens on a subconscious level. Pastel allows the immediacy of translation of an emotion and of a not-quite-formed-in-words thought into a visual image." Classically trained in art in her teens, Elena graduated with two university degrees in philology and linguistics and had a successful international career in literary research, teaching and translating for more than a decade until becoming a full-time artist in 2017. Between 2015 and 2018, she learnt pastel painting under British artist Jo Hall, Hon. member and Past President of the SGFA, in England, took masterclass in portraiture with renowned Irish portrait painter Gareth Reid and attended a year long class in life figure drawing with Maltese artist and printmaker Jesmond Vassallo at the Malta Society of Arts in Valletta. She has shown her work extensively in curated, invitational and juried gallery and museum shows, including Mall Galleries, London, UK (with the Royal Society of Marine Artists, Pastel Society UK and Society of Fine Graphic Art); Salmagundi and The National Arts Club NYC; The Atkinson Museum Southport, UK; Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; Lian Yiqing Pastel Painting Art Museum, China; SolArt Gallery Dublin, Ireland; Abend Gallery, Denver, USA; and Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U, Germany. Featured in the Fine Art Connoisseur, PleinAir Magazine, American Art Collector, Pastel Journal, Artists & Illustrators, PoetsArtists publications and Pratique des Arts, her art is part of the Lunar Codex and of private collections throughout Europe, USA, Canada, UK and Australia, including that of world-renowned Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja and notable Magazzu Collection. Born in West Siberia, Elena Degenhardt is a German artist, currently living and working at the Mediterranean coast in France but also from her studio at the North Sea coast in Germany. Her multicultural background and frequent relocations, both in childhood and as an adult, have influenced the choice of themes she explores in her art: lost (and found) identities, bonds and boundaries, fragility of life and fears, memory and time. Time was part of her literary research as a philologist. The connection between literature, music and art is evident in her work. Learn More About Elena Degenhardt FASO Loves Josh Elliott’s oil paintings! See More of Josh Elliott’s art by clicking here. Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website hosting company that actually promotes their artists?As you can see, at FASO, we actually do, and, Click the button below to start working Get Started with FASO for Free New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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