Valerie is a contemporary landscape painter and printmaker as well as abstract artist. Her impressionistic and abstract monotypes, prints, and oils capture the balance and change of light in nature. Through form and color, and motivated by introspective inspiration, Valerie’s compositions emphasize feeling. Her evolving artistic approach is derived from creative intuition. Art pieces are done in plein-air and studio settings and are impressions and concepts derived from nature with abstract dimensions.
Valerie is a Vero Beach Art Club member and Vero Beach Museum member. She has been a 20 year Artist Guild Member at the Silvermine School of the Art in New Canaan, Connecticut. She has also been a member at the Rowayton Art Center, The Graphic Art Center, and The Westport Art Center. She has attended classes at the Art Student League in New York City and the New School for Social Research and graduated from Finch College in New York. She has shown her work in Japan, Italy, Manhattan and Ct.. Her works are in private collections in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East as well as the U.S .
2023
2022
2020-2021
2017-2019
2016
2015
2010-2012
2006-2009
2005
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2000-2001
1999
The choice of medium varies, including: oils, watercolors, monotypes and other media. My style varies between the representational, semi-abstract, to totally abstract. The thread that connects these styles and mediums is the elemental transformation of mood. I express my inspirations through atmosphere and the intimate relationships of air and space as well as through the contrast of light and dark, color, form and texture to surface.
I take this relationship to the studio where I infuse perception and feeling to create effect. During this transformation, I become part of the physical process of creation by scratching, brushing, mopping, and manipulating in a quest to discover new visual territories and demonstrate different ways to discover art.
My introspective and intuitive nature helps me to intervene between medium and the process to heighten the viewer’s participation and involvement in the creation.
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