My passion for painting started as a young child and was enhanced when I began studying portraits, figures, and still life with Arthur Maynard at the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey. Maynard was a student of Frank Vincent DuMonde, a protege and contemporary of Winslow Homer. My style developed from that early training using techniques of the masters and evolved to the use of dramatic lights and shadows. Art reviewers now suggest that my work is somewhat similar to that of the famed American artist Edward Hopper. It often tends to have a lonely, forlorn quality. I concentrate on attitude, often a confrontational message to the viewer, or some other nuance that establishes pride, or happiness, or an inner loneliness.
Styles: Figurative, landscape, still life, city scape, representational, expressionistic, portrait, nudes
Memberships: Oil Painters of America, Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, San Diego Portrait Society
Classes: Everett Raymond Kinstler, official White House and The Smithsonian portraitist; William Scott Jennings of Sedona, AZ; Wolf Kahn, New York City; Arthur Maynard, New Jersey; Mary Beth McKenzie, New York
Awards & Exhibits: One of five "Artists of the Year" awards by the San Diego Museum of Art, Artists Guild for "Don't Look at Me I;" 72nd and 73rd Annual Grand National Exhibitions, American Artists Professional League, New York City; First Place, Oils, for "My Other Self," at Southern California Exposition; A.E. Labutis Klue Award for Best Atmospheric Effect in the Seventy-Fifth Grand National Exhibition of The American Artists Professional League in November 2003
Website: www.dottiestanley.com