Artist: Faith Copeland

 

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 etc. I have also made a series of tropical paintings. Influenced by visit to Florida and a series of Spanish paintings from Mojacar,Almeria.

Artwork

Faith is working in watercolors and making orignal paintings on silk which are quite unique some large and as wall hangings,other mediums: guache , oils, acrylic, egg tempera ,collage and graphics
Expression is Colorful Imaginative ,Decorative often Naivistic,Narrative expressing Joy.

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Selected Exhibitions:

• Villa Bournonville.Fredensborg,Denmark
• Gallery Astel,Copenhagen Center
• The Orchid Society in Delray Beach Florida,October 2003
• Armory Museum of Art,West Palm Beach Florida September 2003
  Received the honor of "Judges Recognition"
• Modern Museum of Art,Selfoss,Iceland
• Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen
• Kirsten Kjær´s Museum, Frøstrup, Jutland ,Denmark
• Hotel Oceania,Brest, France
• Notingham University,England
• Soho Gallery,West Palm Beach Florida,USA
• Jannette Hare Gallery,West Palm Beach Florida>
• Bethesde Health Center,Delray Beach,Florida
• Italian Culture Center,Copehagen,Denmark
• Icelandic Culture House,Copenhagen
• Faroese Culture Center,Copenhagen
• Gallery Smedjen,Torshavn Faroe Islands
• Nordens Hus,Torshaven Faroe Islands
• Helligandshus, Copenhagen
• Slagelse Music Hus,Denmark
• Birkerød Musikhus "MantziusGård"
• Slagelse Theatre, Denmark
• Mostingshus,Frederiksberg ,Copenhagen
• Brøndsalen,Frederiksberg ,Copenhagen
• Heligåndshuset ,Copenhagen
• Jylands Post ,Copenhagen
• Miljø Ministery ,Copenhagen
• Energy Ministery ,Copenhagen
• Vedbaek Cultural Center, Denmark
• Gallery Europa,Rungstedkyst, Denmark
• Gallery Gammelstrand, Copenhagen
• Gallery Shambala,Copenhagen
• Cape Cod Art Association,Mass.USA
• "The Artists Guild",Falmouth Mass.USA
• Creations Gallery, Osterville MA USA
• The Barn, Haynnis MA USA
  

Member of :

Nordic Akvarel Society,Stockholm, Sweden

"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

Grants Received

"The Paul Becket Art Fund"(Spain)1998
"The Hasselund Art Fund ,1998,1999,2000,2001" (Denmark)1998,99,00

Prizes Won

The Jurers Recognition,Armory Art Museum Show september 2003
"The Cultural Award" from The American Womens Club of Copenhagen
"Excellence in Watercolors" 1st prize at the Artists Guild Falmouth Mass.Annual Juried Exhibition
"Peoples Choice Award",Ist Prize: for Silk Painting "Surfer" Barnstable Annual Juried Show

Education

B.A.Degree,Modern Language German-French, Vanderbilt University,Nashville,Tennesee USA, Teaching Degree 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

She has done many paintings from Faroe Islands and Iceland and exhibited in Iceland last Summer at the Museum of Art in Selfoss

This Spring she exhibited her Tropical Paiantings on Silk in West Palm Beach at the Soho Gallery .

She is known for her paintings with the "Playing Puffins",mainly from The Faroe Islands and Iceland.

Her style is impressionistic,naivistic,coloristic,decorative,narrative, filled with fantasy and love of Nature,plants ,animals "The Sea" is a recurring motive.

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Recent Exhibitions:

The Armory Art Museum,West Palm Beach sept 2003

Café "le Chat Noir" Copenhagen july2003

Veterans Park Delray Beach ,Summer 2003

Witva Gallery(Women in the Visual Arts),Pinapple Grove,Delray Beach Florida

Radiometer Art Society(kunstforening) Copenhagen Denmark,summer 2003

Gallery LB,Copenhagen>

Jannette Hare GalleryNorthwood University,West Palm Beach Florida

Witva Gallery Delray Beach Florida

"The Artist Guild of the Palm Beaches,Annual spring show