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Many of my current works have this focus as I paint my family enjoying our cottage up north and also our Norwegian heritage through paintings of I have alsoĬombined my love of geneology with my art work. Today, retired, I enjoy painting, drawing and pen and ink sketches.

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I also made a little money which is a plus for something you love to I also made the art fair circuit which was a lot of fun and made my feel more like a professional. I taught art classes at Monroe Art Center and Blackhawk Tech and through private I budgeted my time so I was able to draw and paint regularly while they napped. When my children were small art was my escape from the everyday world of Since this is not the way my mind works, I was always hesitant to think of art as a I have a college degree in English withĪn Art minor. The arts are very important to me and all through my life I have practiced these as hobbies and sometimes as a side moneymaking hobby. To learn more about Victoria Bein, visit her website at orĮlaine Bethke: I have always loved to paint and drawĪnd write. Thus each final piece reflects my journey blendingĪbstraction, finding unity and harmony in the chaos of fragments. Theme in my work is the expression of a synergistic feminism with inclusivity at its core: the creation of wholeness out of diversity.

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Key to my vision and compositions are palette restriction, layering, and the creation of transparency withinĬarbon pencil and pastel on paper allow me to emphasize linear marks ranging from bold to barely visible and to build a rich surface of texture and shading.Īs each drawing goes through a series of transformations, I seek to maintain the impulse of the initial sketch by retaining much of its primitive line-the ancestral source. Iconography is personal, the resulting images tap into a collective unconscious. Through the use of contrasting elements that project a combination of whimsy and dis-ease, I integrate conflicts of both my inner and outer world. I tell stories that are not necessarily in a known language often they appear to me as a Intersecting lines reveal hidden content, patterns, and possibilities for positive and negative space. Shapes communicate and are broken or rearranged in search of As simple sketches evolve into more complex forms, I explore and uncover my unconscious world. She feels her intuitive line drawings are foundational to theĭevelopment of her work. Victoria Bein - Pastels & Drawings are Victoria's main artistic pursuits. Chuck Bauer is represented by the Milward Farrell Fine Arts Gallery in Madison. Infuse substantial, and maybe even universal, emotional content into one's paintings.' Now retired, he carries his painting materials with him wherever he is. Taking the larger view, I believe, and I hope, that by merely trusting to the rich visual bounty of virtually any subject, one can, potentially, I tend to choose subjects that offer opportunities for color expression, suggest lightĬapture, or provide compositional challenge. There is no substitute for direct response to the natural world: photographs deceive, memory falters.

About his painting Chuck says, ' My works are usually executed, or at least begun, out of doors, on site (en plein air), and completed during one or more painting sessions. Formerly from Madison, he lives with his husband,Ĭhuck Beckwith on country property in the Blanchardville, WI area. Other commissions for private individuals keep me busy.Ĭhuck Bauer has been painting for many years and is an original founding member of the Driftless Area Artists. These six drawings are now on permanent display at the Monroe Public Library.

Historic Monroe to draw a series of pictures portraying past schools of Monroe. I have had four drawings go onto the state competition resulting in one award. This will be my 13th year in the WRAP competition. Many art shows at the Monroe Arts Center, Monroe Clinic and Middleton Public Library. Old school houses, cheese factories, the Green County Courthouse, scenes from the Farmer's Market both in Madison and in Monroe, animals, flowers and a few people. My subject matter varies in each picture. My style is slightly Impressionistic because the colors are applied side by side to create the right effect. The medium I use is colored pencils on colored paper. I draw from photographs some new and some antique. My artistry records the present and re-creates the past.

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