Growing up in Australia provided me with a long-lasting fascination with light, whether it is reflected colors bouncing off a landscape into the water, the overwhelming scenic alterations resultant from vivid sunsets or the glowing radiance seen in a simple still life.
I vary my subject matter greatly accentuating color and paying particular attention to the painted surface. I use my hands to smooth out brush strokes
and work in oil, gouache, tempera, oil-pastel and watercolor. Both landscapes and still life paintings share a combination of simplicity, fluidity, mood and reverence. I choose to exemplify large open spaces in my landscapes that remind the viewer of freedom while my still life works are intimate,moody and evocative. Artists that have influenced me over the years include Tim Storrier, Fred Williams, Albert Pinkham-Ryder, Rembrandt and van Gogh.
To see more of Vanessa Stockard's work, or to purchase her art directly from her, please visit:
www.stockardart.com and / or www.stockardart.blogspot.com
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Raised in what they now call The O.C., I got my first taste of Art with a capitol A there under the guidance of Bob Alderette, Brian Conley and Norm Tornheim at Goldenwest College in Huntington Beach before getting my BA in Drawing and Painting in 1981 from the College of Creative Studies, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where I worked with Rick Stich, Tom Wudl, David Trowbridge and Charles Garabedian.?Moved to Los Angeles and worked under the guise of a hermit for several years until 1987, when I simultaneously launched my career, with the show Galen Hansen and Two from L.A., and put it on hold to become preoccupied with the challenges of parenthood. My Hiatus stuttered into being, taking a solid hold by 1990 and lasting until 2002. I moved permanently to Portland Oregon in the fall of 1993, and in 1997 began to re-model an out building on Stewart Street there to become my painting studio.
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