Artist: Faith Copeland www.faithcopeland.com Faiths Atelier(Studio) Olfert Fischersgade 10,2 sal tv 1311 Copenhagen Denmark faithcopeland@yahoo.com tel+45 31385421 usa   561 372  6147 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 and France   Artwork I am working in mainly watercolors,oils and acrylics, but also doing egg tempera,collages and graphics, paintings on silk, some large wall hangings and wall murals. Generally described as,Expressionist,Colorist One Critic Wrote in the Cape Cod Times....."Imaginative,original work,with the Primitive Charme of Russeau and the sense for color ane light as Raul Dufy" Selected Exhibitions: Resent  exhbitions    Hotel Frederiksberg Store Kro   2015    Dragor Havnegalleriet ;  2014 Modern Museum of Art,Selfoss,Iceland 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>br>April 2005,"Juried Show" Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen Vedbaek Cultural Center, Denmark "Gallery Europa",Rungstedkyst, 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 liGallery LB Coprnhagen "Gallery Shambala",Copenhagen "Haderslev Bio,Gallery",Denamrk Kirsten Kjær´s Museum, Frøstrup, Jutland ,Denmark Hotel Oceania,Brest, France Nothingham University,England Soho Gallery,West Palm Beach Florida,USA Gallery Astel, Copenhagen ,solo,January 2004 The Bonnet House Museum,Fort Lauderdale Florida 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 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   Member of : "Nordic Akvarel Society",Stockholm, Sweden "Montmartre" group,Copenhagen "Women the the Visual Arts",Delray Beach Florida,USA "Artist Guild for the Palm Beaches",West Palm Beach Florida "The Falmouth Artist Guild",Cod Mass.USA The Palm Beach Watercolor Society the Coral Springs Artist Guild,Florida The Lake Worth Artist Guild,Florida Palm Beach Artists Guild Grants Received "The Paul Becket Art Fund"(Spain)1998 "The Hasselund Art Fund ,1998,1999,2000,2001" (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 Musuem Show,2004, "The Cultural Award" from The American Womens 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 Faith Copeland is an American artist from Massachusetts,who has lived most of her life in Europe:Austria, France,Spain,Sweden and has settled in Denmark Originally educated as a language teacher speaking 8 languages. Phil. Cand. degree in Art history from Lund´s University Sweden.At present She is living in Copenhagen Denmark and has established her Studio in the heart of town in "Nyboder" the old Seaman`s Quarters built in the 1600`s by the Danish builder king Christian lV and still quite a charming area has done many paintings from Faroe Islands and Iceland and exhibited in Iceland Museum of Art in Selfoss;Faroe Islands in Gallery Smedjan and Nordens hus, Denmark ;the Carlsberg Museum,Kirsten Kjaers Museum Jutland, Gallery Astel Copenhagen,Gallery Gammel Strand Copenhage, Gallery Europa Rungsted kyst. In USA Florida;Shaknow Museum Fort Lauderdale ,Bonnet House fort Lauderdale, Soho Galleryn West Palm Beach ,Jeannett Hare Gallery Northwood Univsity, etc. ´Known for paintings with the "Playing Puffins",mainly from The Faroe Islands and Iceland. style is impressionistic,exprerssionistic  naivistic,coloristic,decorative,narrative, filled with fantasy humor and love of Nature,plants ,animals. "The Sea" is a recurring motive.