Volume 2, #44 October 31, 2000    

Welcome to Volume 2, #44 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art deals, news and information. We also introduce you to several PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.

BASEBALL MANIA!! Read all about the renowned artist and baseball devotee Vincent Scilla, whose artworks hang in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Exclusively on PaintingsDIRECT, acquire one of his works this week and save 15%.
Enjoy the fantasy of Roxa Smith's tableaus of animals, self-portraits and interiors in this months' Featured Artist.
From Nigeria to Morocco, view The Art of Africa in this week's MyGallery.
All this and more in this week's True Colors. We hope you enjoy it! Please let us know if there is other information you might like to see on our site by contacting Majordomo@PaintingsDIRECT.com with comments or questions.

Introducing this week's PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.
  Rosalind Webb
Rosalind Webb has many approaches to her still-life watercolors. Her realistic works are reminiscent of the home and the hand-made, including quilts, baskets and fruit. Her more abstract works are called "tapestries" in which she repeats a foliage or floral pattern in a monochromatic palette. Webb has exhibited in New York and Miami, and her work belongs to the corporate collections of the Hyatt and State Farm Insurance.
 
  Symon Cowles
Symon Cowles has added new works to his portfolio of landscape and still-life paintings on wood. “I reach back into my life for subject matter. I try to portray the moments of my life, whether it be the New York cityscape of my childhood or the turmoil of today’s stormy sea outside my studio window.” Cowles studied at the Art Students’ League of New York and has exhibited his work prolifically throughout New Jersey. His paintings are included in the corporate collections of ABC Television, Union Camp Corp., Clapp Realty Corp. and Reeves Communication Corporation.
 
  Jimmie James and Nuala Clarke
Jimmie James and Nuala Clarke have added a new series of striking abstract works to their collection on PaintingsDIRECT.com. Jimmie and Nuala make up a painting team that has traveled all over America, performing their collaborations in galleries and on the street. Jimmie James was born in New York and was trained at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Nuala Clarke, born in Dublin, Ireland, studied at the National College of Art and Design in Ireland. The couple has exhibited in galleries in New York, San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland.
 
  Kassanda Pontien
Kassanda Pontien is an artist from the Republic of Congo who creates expressive portraits of his African culture. Scenes of fishing and dancing reflect the traditions of his ancestors as well as a glimpse of daily life in this region of Africa. He has exhibited his work in the Republic of Congo.

 
  Lewis Lehrman
Lewis Lehrman employs Chinese landscape painting techniques to create his watercolors of the changing seasons. His newest Food series marks a departure in subject, with still lifes of pears, bread and wine. Lehrman studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and at the Pratt Institute, and has exhibited his work at the Nassau County Museum of Art in New York.

 
  Guillemette Schlumberger
French artist Guillemette Schlumberger portrays the female body as elegant and symbolic. In the seemingly insignificant images of her characters in various aquatic environments, lie meditations on the body, childhood and absence. Schlumberger studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and has been showing her work in solo exhibitions since 1991. She lives and works in Paris, France.

 
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