Beau Wild Acrylic Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach

433 South Palmetto Avenue

Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

Tel: 386-947-7103

Beau Wild Acrylic Daytona Beach Artist

A “people watcher”. Several questions intrigued me then and continue to intrigue me now – why do people do what they do? What motivated their actions and reactions? What makes us all “tick”? Whether it is an elderly woman’s feeling of isolation, the outsider’s anxiety when courting a new friend, the conflicting joy and sadness of the surrogate mother, the unforgotten lives of those who have passed, these deeply empathetic connections are sensitive glimpses.

Recently, I am compelled to address some of our most pressing and often most contentious social and political problems within the topic of women’s issues such as domestic violence, body size acceptance, and a closer look into our indigenous women and girls who are disproportionately targets for hatred, violence, kidnapping and murder.

Whether I create work in a non-objective or figurative abstract format, these personal glimpses open a small window through which I can hopefully increase understanding and inspire change for the benefit of all of us.

A native Floridian, Beau Wild was educated in occupational therapy at Tufts University and in painting at the Museum School / Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. Dual roles as therapist and painter spanned decades and each enhanced the success of the other.

Beau returned to the childhood hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1983 after 22 years in New England. Since then, Beau has shown work in nationwide art festivals, competitions and museums across the world and, in 2015, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award during a competition in Cincinnati, OH.

Today, Wild paints daily in her studio on Rose Bay in Port Orange, FL.

Deborah Smith Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach
433 South Palmetto Avenue
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
Tel: 386-947-7103

Deborah Smith Daytona Beach Artist

Award winning, Central Florida artist Deborah B. Smith reveals her perspective on the world through her vivid, impressionism paintings. Smith’s love for art was nurtured at a young age when she was fortunate to have lived in Taranto, Italy. The culture and breathtaking art of Florence and Paris has ultimately influenced her current themes and style of painting and use of the acrylic medium. She has incorporated hints of the old masters in the use of lighting effects and themes in her work. 

Deborah received great recognition for her art as a child. She has won prestigious awards including Best of Show and 1st place for sculpture and painting throughout her career. Her work entitled "Broken Vessel" won 3rd place in the painting category at the Osceola Center for the Arts. Her award winning painting "Cello" was chosen by Kirkland's Home Stores to be reproduced and sold throughout the USA. It ranked in the top 5 of their national "The Next Great American Artist" contest. 

"I love to create works that have mood, rich color and the dramatic illusion of light in them," said Deborah B. Smith. "Painting is my passion. The acrylic medium allows me to create unique themes that portray an ethereal atmosphere." 

Smith has devoted her life to being an artist and today her paintings are widely collected. Her work "Shalom" was collected by Brigadier General Gal Hirsch of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism, and now hangs in a private collection in Israel. Smith also won 3rd place for her mixed media piece called "Letters of Love" at the Scan Design 5th Annual Fall in Furniture Love Contest.

Marianna H. Ross Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach
433 South Palmetto Avenue
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114Tel: 386-947-7103

Marianna H. Ross Daytona Beach Artist

EXPRESSIVE COLORS OF MARIANNA HAMILTON ROSS

Early exposure to the lush colors in her parents' California gardens underlies her love of Nature's strength and beauty now found in the Florida landscape. Botanicals, gardens, forests, and irregular tree forms of the Southeast  combine with emerging/hidden figures in her transparent watercolor paintings and luminous colors of dyes on silk.

Marianna received an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the San Francisco Art  Institute, and a BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Important influences were her teachers, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Beal and Sondra Freckelton in composition, as well as  travel to Papua New Guinea, Indonesian batik factories,Italy, Mexico, and Peru.

Johanna Riddle Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach
433 South Palmetto Avenue
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
Tel: 386-947-7103

Johanna Riddle Daytona Beach Artist

 My work is truly mixed media, involving many processes and including a number of types of water-soluble media. I begin by creating a collection of painted, printed, and chemically altered papers. It's a slow and beautiful undertaking, always filled with surprises and discoveries. I often incorporate found papers from my repository of family archives—a piece of music, a letter, a page from an old ledger. It's important to me to include the voices and essence of those who came before me. The paper that I create and incorporate forms the foundation of my design. I craft each piece in layers, freely combining and adding paint, watercolor dyes, watercolor pencils, sumi and gel inks, gloss varnish, and other media to develop richness, depth and glow.  Lately, I have been incorporating pen and ink as the final layer in my work. The evolution of each piece is a slow process requiring a certain brand of meditative Zen. My art is all about letting the process unfold. It cannot be hurried.

Though I always have a dedicated point of departure--a sketch, a dream, an event, my environment, a piece of literature--each work inevitably begins to take on a life of its own. The process is a bit like beginning to write a story, then standing back in wonder as the story continues to write itself, inserting unanticipated twists and turns and details that offer additional layers of richness and complexity and meaning. I love that part of the process—that feeling of working with the piece, and not simply on the piece. There are times that I have to wait for the next part of the story to reveal itself.  Sometimes, the road ahead is so clear and intricately defined that I can’t get it down on paper fast enough.

I will always believe that the magic of art lies in its ability to form a kinship between the viewer and the artist.  In that spark of connection, two worlds and perspectives merge. The artist reaches across time and tells her story. The viewer makes fresh interpretations, discovers intricate details, layers their own culture, values, life experiences over the image. A richer story is born, a new voice heard. Each piece of art ultimately becomes a never-ending story.

Clare Radagin Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach
433 South Palmetto Avenue
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
Tel: 386-947-7103

Clare Radagin Daytona Beach Artist

My paintings for the last 10 years generally fall into two bodies of work. The first stems from an interest in the complex ecosystems found in the southeast. The resulting paintings are compositions involve some drawing skill, and  creating illusions of light and atmosphere  while solving structural issues of balance, movement,  texture, etc. I see the painting process as an opportunity to make visible the ideas, based on the natural world, that take shape in my mind. 

The second body of work is more narrative.  Where there are indications of the human presence, a story will develop around lawn sculptures, chickens, or icebergs.  The topic is limitless, and the sense of a planet in crisis is always present.   

I was born, raised and educated in Virginia, and had a fairly well-rounded upbringing.

I lived and studied Art near Washington D.C, and in Richmond Va., graduating with a degree in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. I then moved to San Francisco where I was a curator and board member of a non-profit alternative art space, while working in commercial art galleries and as apicture framer for those galleries. I then studied at San Francisco State University, earning an MFA in painting.  At this point I had been living in San Francisco for thirteen years, and had the opportunity to move back east. 

After moving to Florida 25 years ago, I soon began teaching art at Daytona Beach Community College, where I worked for 9 ½ years. Within a few years I also became a teacher for Volusia county Schools. I began the current phase of my artistic production in 2010, and renewed exhibiting my work.  All of the work in my current portfolio is from 2011-2022. I retired from teaching at the end of 2017 in order to produce art full-time. 

Sheila Psaledas Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach

433 South Palmetto Avenue

Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

Tel: 386-947-7103

Sheila Psaledas Daytona Beach Artist

Direct contact: 603-491-3590
7 am to 7 pm daily

Contemporary Fine Art    I am a modern impressionist. 

Nature's colors and movement are my inspiration.  Childhood memories of watching tidal ebb and flow, foliage and flowers blowing with the breeze, sun and shadow on surfaces, demanded my feelings to be represented  visually.

My work encompasses personal feelings expressed through observation.  Do you feel a déjà vu moment, or, do you feel like you are part of the picture when seeing my works?  I love capturing an audience with that connection.   

My aim is to  share the beauty of our wonderful planet by bringing strong mood to the canvas through the use of bold color, texture, light and shadow.  Explore my site...join me in my journey as an artist.

Eliza Pineau Casler Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach

433 South Palmetto Avenue

Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

Tel: 386-947-7103

My Tel: 407.284.7441
Eliza Pineau Casler Daytona Beach Artist

Born in Paris, France, Eliza lived in Belgium, Egypt, and India before settling in Central Florida.  She earned a dual degree in Studio/Fine Art and Graphic Design and worked in the offset printing field and as a freelance designer.  

 Inspired by her museum visits as a child to the Louvre and the Grand Palais, and by the works of Berthe Morisot, Pierre Bonnard and Edgar Degas,  she brings a uniquely French talent and enthusiasm to her imagery.

 Largely self-taught,  she depicts human portraiture in oils or in charcoal and pastel in a traditional realist manner.  Her portraits sensitively capture the sitter’s personality and evoke their story. 

 Eliza is a member of the Portrait Society of America; she exhibits her artworks with the Women Artists Group (WAG), the Florida Women's Arts Association (FLWAA), and at the Art League of Daytona.