| Many steps have lead to
C.J.Myers’ current passion for her art. A first place award for a
landscape in oil while studying at the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, was one of the first. Her steps slowed when the many demands
of everyday life interrupted for a time; career and family changes kept
her art as a thing of private passion, something for a few lucky friends
and clients. She continued her study, attending seminars with Thomas
Leighton of San Francisco, Bob Gerbracht of Pinole, California and Daniel
Greene of New York, gaining experience (both artistic and life) and
confidence in her mediums. Several years ago her pace sped up, as she was
able to again devote herself fully to her art. She gained new techniques
with two landscape workshops by Albert Handell of Sante Fe, renewing her
love of her native San Francisco Bay Area, which is evident in many of her
landscape paintings. Her list of lucky friends and clients grows as she
sells her portraits and landscapes internationally. Her steps as a
re-emerging artist who works in both oil and pastel, in both portraiture
and landscapes, had lead her to exhibit at two galleries: Gallery Morgan
Hill in Santa Clara County and Valley Art Gallery in Monterey County,
California, as well as working for many private clients. Her work is now
shown in Gallery Morgan Hill in Morgan Hill, California, and Casa Galleria
in San Juan Bautista, California. She is currently working out of her
studio in Rio Vista, California.
C.J.Myers has won several awards and has received recognition for many of her paintings. She currently holds memberships with the Portrait Society of America, the Pastel Society of the West Coast, and the Los Gatos Art Association. With a practiced eye and refined, representational touch, she renders her subjects, people or landscapes, with a deep understanding of what is beneath the surface, drawing the viewer into the picture and making them wish they were there or could meet her subject.
|