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.

More About the Artist:

Selected Exhibitions:

• Gallery Astel,Copenhagen
• Tranhuset,Christianshavn,Copenhagen
• Fuglesanghuse,Horsholm.copenhagen
• Tranhuset,Christianshavn,Copenhagen
• Pilegaarden,Copenhagen,Bronshoj
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• Armory Museum,West Palm Beach Florids
• Soho Gallery,West Palm Beach Florida
• Shaknow Museum,Plantation,Florida
• Witva Gallery,Delray Beach Florida
• Modern Museum of Art,Selfoss,Iceland
• Jeannette Hare Gallery, Northwood Unversity West Palm Beach Florida
• 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
• Miljø 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

Astel Gallery ,Copenhagen

Monmartre,Art Group,Copenhagen

Grants Received

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

Prizes Won

"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

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

she exhibited her Tropical Paiantings on Silk in West Palm Beach at the Soho Gallery,The American Embassy in Copenhagen Slagelse Theatre etc .

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

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

Present Exhibitions

• Gallery Astel ,Gothersgade 105,Copenhagen,Dec 2006"
• Tranhuset,Christianshavn.copenhagen.strandgade 100,continual 2005 and 2006

Denmark Tel 31145421
faithcopeland@yahoo.com

Olfert Fischersgade 10,2 sal tv.1311 Copenhagen ,City,Denmark
www.faithcopeland.com