01 Jul Roberta Remy
Past Featured Artists | July 2016
About the Artist
Award-winning artist Roberta Remy, whose work can be found in corporate and private collections throughout the US, Brazil and Europe, attended Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League of New York. There she studied painting with master painters Frank Mason, George Passantino, David Leffel, and Sherrie McGraw; and drawing and anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale. She has exhibited at the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts. Remy has been featured in International Artist’s new book, “How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Florals”.
Previously a New York-based illustrator whose clients included Macmillan Publishing, Playskool, Cabbage Patch Kids, and McDonalds, she now makes Santa Fe, New Mexico her home base, where she’s been expanding her teaching activities since 1995.
“When I fell in love with painting, it was the Old Masters and the American Impressionists who inspired my artistic search. Their traditions and techniques are the standards that I have set for myself. It’s my endless quest to learn how they accomplished their magic. I strive to develop my craft to the highest standard. I feel a great reverence for the basics and for the time and care devoted to the entire process necessary to create a work of art. With each work, I seek to deepen my understanding of the language of drawing…to explore the beautiful, mysterious and magical qualities of light…to paint it, and to capture its endless variations and effects…to bring to my paintings the illusion of sculptural form through the play of light upon the subject…to explore how atmosphere envelops the whole natural beauty of the subject…to give life to the work with a strong painterly quality.”
“Finally, when I paint my subject, I fall in love with its finest and best qualities. I perceive its nobility and elegance; whether it’s an old man, a little child or an apple. At that time, the light and the subject become the important focus, to be expressed in the most moving and spiritual interpretation.”