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Elaine Emery Bedell
seebedell@aol.com
Jacksonville, FL USA
Artist Biography
I can't remember when I did not draw or paint. My parents say I was about 18 months old when I drew a horse's head. I was always drawing. I began private lessons at the age of nine with Harold Hilton who also taught my father. I spent several years drawing with charcoal and pastels before I was introduced to oil paint. I studied art through high school, at Jacksonville University and spent a year at Ringling Art School in Sarasota, Florida. I am a fifth generation native of Jacksonville and love to paint the North Florida landscape I grew up with. I have had work in local juried shows of the Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, several Art Walk venues, and I am one of the emerging Artists for Art After Dark 2006 at the Florida Theatre. I am also one of 2006's Otis Smith Kids Foundation Jaguar artists; my design was sponsored by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. I am on the board of the Arts Center, an artist's cooperative. I work in all mediums but my favorites are acrylic and watercolor.
Artist Statement
I love the creative
process from start to finish, everything from stretching the canvas to watching the image come to life is a
thrill. I look at the beauty around me as paintings waiting to happen. I want to make you open your
eyes and see things that soothe the soul and lift the spirit, things that surround us every day in the simplest to
the most complex forms.
Painting is my passion; I love everything about it from mixing the colors to
watching an image come to life with the brush under my fingertips. I see the world around me as an endless
array of paintings waiting to happen. I like the spring of the canvas when I paint with acrylics or oils and
the slow flowing of watercolors across the white paper. I think a lot about each piece of work before I begin
it and I have a vision in my head of the completed piece. I often will paint to a certain point and then put it
in a spot where I can sit and look at it for a period of time before I complete it to see where I want to go next.
It is a satisfying and sensual experience from beginning to end. I work from out of my head with images in my
mind gathered from past observations to photographs and scenes done live. Each process is as satisfying in the
end result and when I am satisfied I know it is time to begin another journey with yet another image the next even
more intoxicating than the last.
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