Back Artist: Faith Copeland Watercolors, Acrylics ,Paintings on silk,  Prints and Cards,  Inexpensive web design for artists and others!! www.faithcopeland.com Faiths Atelier faithcopeland@yahoo.com Denmark  45   31385421   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 I am 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  Henri Rousseau and the sense for color and light as Raul Dufy"   Recent Exhibitions  USA Delray  Beach Open Air  Art Market ,Veterans Park with Delray Art League  -Florida   2008-9 Lake Worth Art League Open Air Market  ,  Lake Worth Florida  2008-9, Sugar Sands Park Comunity Center  ,Boca Raton Florida  2009 Exhibitions in Denmark "Tinghus Gallery" Fredensborg   2008,2009.1010 Gallery Shanbala,Copenhagen Gallery Blaa ,Roskilde  Nov 2007,2008,2009 Gallery Astel, Copenhagen North Zealands Embassy  Gallery  Humlen Kunstforening, Hedehusene October 2007 Ringsted, Kunstforening, Miljo Ministry, Energy Ministery,Novo Nordic,Otikon,etc.Price and Watergade,etc. Denmark's Aquarium, Charlottenlund Kunst I byen , Kongens Nytorv (Art in the City)Copenhagen American Embassy, The Italian Culture house Hellerup The Icelandic Culture House Copenhagen Horsholm Sygehuset august 2007 Rigshospital,Copenhagen Teachers Seminary,Ribe Haderslev"Slots Bio"Gallery Cafe Paradiso ,Hornbaek Cafe "Le Chat Noir" ,Copenhagen Cafe "Bla Time",Copenhagen "Tinghus Gallery "Fredensborg august 2007 The  Embassy Gallery ,Copenhagen   sept 2007 Gallery Astel Copenhagen January 2006 Faroe Islands Cultural House  Copenhagen  June  july til august 11 th 2006 Various Kunstforeningar,banks and Cafes Tranhuset  Cristianshavn Copenhagen  ,permanent, (Nordic  center for Greenland, Iceland Faroe islands) permanent Frederiksund  Sparekassen Bank  Feb 2006 Delray Art Fair(veterans park with Delray Art League ,Delray Florida Lade Worth Art Fair ,with Lake Worth Art League ,Florida The Court Yard Gallery , Boca Raton Florida with Women in the Visual Arts Selected  Exhibitions Soho Gallery , West Palm Beach Florida Gallery Europa  Rungsted kyst, Denmark American Embassy  Denmark Kirsten Kjaers Museum   Denmark Shaknow Museum  Fort Lauderdale Cornell Museum Delray Beach Armory Museum  Palm Beach Florida Coral Springs Musuem   Florida The Armory Art Center West Palm Beach Cornell Mluseum  Delray Beach Florida Selfoss Museum  Iceland Gallery Smedjan   Faroe Islands Notingham Unviversity  England Hotel Oceania , Brest France Italian Cultural Center  Denmark Icelandic Culture house  Copenhagen Astel Gallery    Copenhagen Carlstberg Museum Copenhagen Nordenshus,Faroe Islands General exhibitions: Gallery Astel,Gothersgade 105,Copenhagen, Herkules Pavillon,  Copenhagen,kongens have Sjællands Sparekassen Bank, Frederiksund,Denmark Pilegaarden Medborgerhus, Brønshøj Denmark Nord Atlantens Brygge,Nordic center,Copenhagen Denmark(Cafe N Tranhuset. Strandgade 100 , christianshaven Kirsten Kjær´s Museum, Frøstrup, Jutland Denmark Shacknow Museum,Fort Lauderdale Florida The Armory Museum, West Palm Beach Florida The Bonnet House Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida The Coral Springs Museum, Coral Springs, Florida.April 2005,"Juried Show" Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen Vedbaek Cultural Center, Denmark "Gallery Europa",Rungstedkyst, Denmark Fyglsanghus,Hørsholdm, Denmark "Villa Bournonville ",Fredensborg, Denmark "Smedjan Gallery",Faroe Islands,solo "Nordens Hus",Faroe Islands,(Olai festival) group "Icelandic Cultural Hus,Jons Hus",Copenhagen, "Faroe Islands kultur Hus",Copenhagen "Italian Kultur hus,Copenhagen" "American Embassy",Copenhagen "Gallery Gammelstrand", Copenhagen Gallery LB Coprnhagen "Gallery Shambala",Copenhagen "Haderslev Bio,Gallery",Denamrk Hotel Oceania,Brest, France Nothingham University,England Soho Gallery,West Palm Beach Florida,USA Gallery Astel, Copenhagen ,solo,January 2004 The Jeannett Hare GalleryNorthwood University West Palm Beach Forida,April 2004,Received award"The Judges Honorable Mention" The Art Serve Gallery,Sunset Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale Florida, 2004,Coral Springs Art guild,group The Armory Museum of Art,West Palm Beach Florida ,2003 Received the honor award of"Judges Recognition",Witva group Delray open Air Art Show,Veterans Park, Delray Art League, 2004 "Gators Galore" project ,fundraising for  Boys and Girls Clubs of  Palm Beach County,florida creating the aligator statue placed in Lake Worth, Florida, April 2004 Lake Worth Art League,2004 Delray Beach Florida ,group Cafe Le Chat Noir,Copenhagen ,solo "Gallery LB",Copenhagen Gallery Witva,Pinapple Grove Delray Beach Florida,group Lake Worth Art League Gallery,group,2004 Delray City Hall,group Jannette Hare Gallery,West Palm Beach Florida Helligandshus, Copenhagen Slagelse Music Hus",Denmark "Birkerød Musikhus "MantziusGård" "Slagelse Theatre", Denmark "Mostingshus" Frederiksberg ,Copenhagen "Brøndsalen,Copenhagen "Heligåndshuset",Copenhagen Jyllands Post Gallery",Copenhagen Miljø Ministery ,Copenhagen Ringsted,kuntforeing",Copenhagen Hillerod kunstforening",Denmark and others Strand Hotel",Dragor,Denmark Paradis Cafe,Restaurant",Hornbaek,Copenhagen Energy Ministery ,Copenhagen and others "Cape Cod Art Association",Mass.USA "The Artists Guild",Falmouth Mass.USA "Creations Gallery",Osterville MA USA "Woods Hole Gallery", Woods Hole MA USA "The Barn" Gallery, Haynnis MA USA etc etc, Member of : "Nordic Akvarel Society",Stockholm, Sweden   "Astel Gallery ,Copenhagen "Caravan", Denmark   Delray Art League  Delray Beach Florida "Women the the Visual Arts", Boca Raton, Florida "Lake Worth Art League  Lake Worth  Florida>     Grants Received "The Paul Becket Art Fund"(Spain)1998 "The Hasselund Art Fund ,1998,1999,2000,2001",2006 (Denmark)1998,99,00 Prizes Won "The Judges Recognition" The Jeannette Hara Gallery show,    Palm Beach Artist Guild Spring Show ,2004 "The Judges Recognition" The Armory Museum Show,2004, "The Cultural Award" from The American Women's Club of Copenhagen "Excellence in Watercolors" 1st prize" Artists Guild Falmouth,Mass.Annual Juried Exhibition "Peoples Choice Award,Ist Prize"Barnstable County with Silk painting "The Surfer" which was hung in The City Hall Barnstable Massachusetts USA Education B.A.Degree,Modern Language German-French, Vanderbilt University,Nashville,Tennesee USA Teaching Degree Modern Language,Miami University USA Phil.Cand.Art History Lund University, Sweden Ærø Kunsthøhjskole(Art School)Denmark,Art School Denmark Samsø Art School, kunsthojskole.Denmark Biography Originally from Massachusetts, lived in Tennesee and Florida has lived mostly in Europe:Austria, France,Spain,Sweden and  Denmark, Worked teaching Art. Language , computer, doing translations and as a Toursit Guide in Spain,  Educated as a language teacher,Degree in Modern Language from Vanderbild Unviersity , Nashville,Tennesee , speaks 8 languages. Teaching Degree,,University,   Art Hstorian,  Phil. Cand. degree in Art history from Lund´s University, Sweden Offering inexpesnvie web design for artists and others, Many paintings from Faroe Islands and Iceland ,Denmark,  Florida,Spain. Exhibited in Iceland  in the "Museum of Modern  Art "in Selfoss, The Blue Lagune Hotel, In the Faroe Islands in" Gallery Smedjan" and "Nordens Hus,"  in Denmark ,he Carlsberg Museum,Kirsten Kjaers Museum Jutland, Gallery Astel Copenhagen, Gallery Gammel Strand Copenhagen, Gallery Gallery Blaa,Nord Atlantens Brygge(Restaurant Nemos), Copenhagen ,Roskilde,Tinghus Gallery ,Fredensborg,Europa Rungsted kyst. In USA Florida;"Shacknow Museum", Plantation Florida, ,"Bonnet House  Museum," Fort Lauderdale,  The "Armory Museum ", West Palm Beach Florida, Soho Gallery West Palm Beach ,"Cornel Museum "Delray Beach Florida, Jeannett Hare Gallery Northwood University, Witva Gallery  Delray Beach Florida, "Hotel Oceania ",Brest France, Notingham University, England, ´Known for paintings with the "Playing Puffins", mainly from The Faroe Islands and Iceland. style is  Impressionistic,narrative,naivistic,coloristic,decorative,narrative, filled with fantasy humor and love of Nature, plants ,animals.coastal towns, "The Sea" is a recurring motive.