Harbor with Soft Light
Pastel on paper, 13" x 20" image
size, approx. 26" x 26", framed
Artist: Christie Scheele

"I explore power and beauty in both the landscape and the abstract elements of painting. I interpret images that hold meaning for me from personal experience as well as those that say something resonant about our planet. With the right atmospherics, anything and everything can reflect a powerful beauty- --from smokestacks or headlights on a road to the timeless presence of salt marsh, sea, or mountains."

Christie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA from the College of Art and Design at Alfred University, which included a year on fellowship at the Royal academy in Madrid. She started painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City.

A full-time painter of many years, Scheele's work has been collected nationally and internationally through galleries nationwide. These collections include the Queens, the Samual Dorsky and the Tyler Museums of Art; the Provincetown Artists Association and Museum, American Airlines, Waterford Crystal, and the Mayo Clinic. Her work has been featured in major films and has been profiled and reviewed extensively in such publications as Architectural Digest, Hook Magazine, the Woodstock Times, Art New England and Cape Cod Art.

"The single most important aspect to what I do as a landscape painter is to reduce a scene to its essentials. This gives the viewer what is important, without the distraction, or visual clutter, of too much detail. Both by creating this overview and by using soft, scumbled edges, these paintings can quiet a viewer's mind and evoke a direct emotional response."

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Special Thanks to Albert Shahinian Fine Art