"Montreat: Untitled No. 3"
by Stephanie Visser

Reflects Visser's time in the Montreat artist residency. Light and motion are captured through dynamic brush strokes. Brimming with confidence and energy, the piece reflects inspiration and a creative fire that guides and nourishes.

Details

• Medium: Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas
• Size: 45" X 37"
• Shipping: Artwork will be shipped by the artist directly to the purchaser. Purchaser will cover the shipping cost and insurance

Artist Bio:

A native of southwestern Michigan, Stephanie Visser relocated to sunny southern California in 2003. Educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan, she graduated there with her BFA in Fine Arts. She continued her education in fine arts and painting at Western Michigan University and Pasadena College of Art and Design.

Stephanie began her artistic journey as a realistic painter. Graduate study led her into landscape abstraction and then to non-objective abstraction. Stephanie Visser uses color, light and emotion to articulate abstract compositions on canvas. Her mature working methodology is inspired by instruction received at the graduate level layered upon a classical arts education. The ideas for the canvases are distilled from techniques that she learned from Mary Winterfield, whom she counts as one of the primary influences to her current painting style. Winterfield, an instructor at the Pasadena College of Art and Design, studied at the the Arts Student League of New York and the Cape School under Henry Hensche. Winterfield taught Visser the spatial push pull theories of Hans Hoffman as well the use of color keys to depict the color of light itself. Visser employs what she terms abstract simplification to create strong soaring work.