WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS!
Stella Canfield & Carrie Olsen Gerrard
STELLA CANFIELD
Stella Canfield‘s watercolor art is known for its deep emotional content, the dynamic of the brush stroke and vivacious colors. She creates intuitively and spontaneously in a relaxed, natural way of expressing her individual emotional response to the subject or scene she paints. Her work is charged with the energy of her own life, her passion for people and nature. The inspiration for Stella’s art comes from her appreciation of beauty and her positive view of the world. Stella prefers to introduce symbols, giving the viewers the opportunity to visualize the details. She strives to emotionally involve them as partners, to give them a feeling of the ownership of the painting. She believes that art is a way of spiritual communication. Today Stella teaches watercolor, juries and participates in exhibits initiated by art organizations in the USA, Europe and Asia. She has received many international awards for her work. Her paintings are in several private, corporate, and museum collections in America, Europe and Asia.
CARRIE OLSEN GERRARD
After years in the Commercial Art World, Carrie Olsen Garrard is finally back in her own home studio. Through her career in Product Development, Carrie has enjoyed the opportunity of engaging in the creation of a wide variety of products in a multitude of mediums. In tandem with many Home Décor, Gift and Garden Companies, she has created products, and gathered cherished experience from around the world. Carrie returned to her roots, where she finds herself drawn back to the raw, tactile experience of her hands in clay in all varieties and textures. Casting in Stone compounds provides another layer of nuance of color and texture. This reconnection with the medium has reignited her original inspiration, reminding her of the reasons she chose a creative path in the first place. Through her work in clay, Carrie seeks to capture the essence of emotion between subtle human expression and the beauty of nature that surrounds us.
