Amazing progress from student to disciplined artist. Dee's work shows a strong sense of form and accuracy of line. A promising artist.
Barclay Sheaks; Associate Professor of Art at Virginia Wesleyan University, Norfolk, Virginia. He was my most inspirational art professor. I dedicate my love of creating art to him.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Making art for me is like being on a very long creative and spiritual journey. The art process has always been a consuming, stimulating passion in my life. I live to create…it is something that keeps me going every day.
BIO
Creating art is an introspective and deeply inspiring experience for me. This essential need deepens the artistic connection within myself. It sparks my personal interpretation through my artistic accomplishments.
When people view my work I want them to feel the essence of the painting and connect with the mood of appealing colors. Expression of form, color use and placement of the subject is relevant for every piece of art I design.
All of the art I create portray images that have an illustrative-stylized quality. My fine art paintings reveal rhythmic fluid lines and flowing design. The colors I use echo the strength, beauty and allure of nature. I like to blend curvilinear stylization with traditional realism. My subjects (nature, animals, people, florals) are captured with graceful fluid lines, unifying decoration and aesthetics. I create my own personal interpretation of what I see and feel through color and visual expression of the subject.
I began creating art at a very early age and have never stopped. I was always interested in art and by the time I got to high school and then college, I was totally immersed in it. I presently work full time at DevaArt Studio as a freelance artist, painter and jewelry designer.
SELECTIONS: 1990 - Present
Solo Exhibitions
Permanent Commercial Collections
Fine Art Juried Competitions
Juried Invitational Shows
Fairhaven Designer’s Showcase Art Nouveau: planned an interior design for a room in an 1892 French second empire house.
Four gouache paintings were specifically created for this showcase which was visually translated into an Art Nouveau gallery, Fauquier County, Virginia
Group Shows
SELECTION - AWARDS
Piedmont Regional Art Show, First Place: judges comment; Judge: Mr. Val Lauton, Chief Designer of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
I like this painting, Inner Sanctum, because of the way it is composed in the space. It’s about dancing and has the feeling of the dance. It also has a strong rhythmic, graphic image. Color matches mood. Extraordinary. Doesn’t use anymore then it has to.
Publication
Education
B.F.A. Virginia Wesleyan University, Norfolk, Virginia
A.A.S. Communication Design; Specialization in Illustration, magna cum laude
A.A.S. Web/Digital Design; Sessions Education, Soho, New York, NY
There were many art history, painting, illustration, sculpture, ceramics and graphic design classes during my entire art education. Communication design and website design were also a large part of the curriculum.
2000 - Present: Commissions, Freelance Work
DevaArt Studio is where the artist works and creates fine art paintings and custom orders in several collections:
COMMISSIONS
Numerous private commissions for clients (some subjects include architectural buildings, landscapes, florals, portraits, dogs)
SELECTION - FREELANCE WORK
Commercial Illustrative work for retail businesses (dance apparel, accessories), magazines, newspapers, brochures, invitations, calendars, posters
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