Artist: Faith Copeland  tel  31145421

www.faithcopeland.com                                                          faithcopeland@yahoo.com
 

Artist Statement:

My work is mainly influenced by the beauty I find in "Nature" mainly from "the Sea" also plants and animals. It is a celebration of life in joyous colors, influenced by Nordic landscape from The Faroe Islands and Iceland with bird life (puffins) other motives are inspired by charming Danish villages and coast lines ,The SEA is a constant motive. I have also made paintings. Influenced by visits to Florida Spain, Italy ,France ,

Artwork

working in mainly watercolors, but also in oils and acrylics,  egg tempera, collages  graphics,  and painting on silk, some large wall hangings and wall murals. Generally described as, Expressionist, impressionist ,Colorist at times Naivistic
One Critic Wrote in the
Cape Cod Times....."Imaginative, original work, with the Primitive Charm of Rousseau and the sense for color and light as Raul Dufy" .

style is impressionistic,narrative,naivistic,coloristic,decorative,narrative, filled with fantasy humor and love of Nature, plants ,animals. "The Sea" is a recurring motive.

Selected  Exhibitions
Soho Gallery , West Palm Beach Florida
Gallery Europa  Rungsted kyst, Denmark
American Embassy  Denmark
Kirsten Kjaers Museum   Denmark
Shaknow Museum  Fort Lauderdale
Coral Springs Musuem   Florida
Selfoss Museum  Iceland
Gallery Smedjan   Faroe Islands
Notingham Unviversity  England
Hotel Oceania , Brest France
Italian Cultural Center  Denmark
Icelandic Culture house  Copenhagen
The Armory Museum   West Palm Beach Florida
Astel Gallery    Copenhagen
Carlstberg Museum Copenhagen
Nordenshus,Faroe Islands
Smedjan Gallery Faroe Islands
the Embassy Gallery Copenhagen