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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.

     
     
     

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