Liz
Crimi Olsson
Having grown up around art and
artists, I have become a very visual person. Sometimes I think I see what
others may not see. Very often I may be taking a walk or driving my car and my
eye is caught by something beautiful. Something that I think will make a
beautiful photograph or
painting or sculpture.
I come from a family of artists and
sculptors, both professional and non-professional. As a child my mother took me
to the many art museums in New York City and I fell in love with the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. I always participated in special art projects in elementary
school. I spent childhood summers in our little cottage in Lake Carmel where I
sketched and painted the wildflowers, made outfits for my paper dolls, and
taught myself needlework. I majored in art in high school and participated in
several art projects. I majored in art in college where I studied sketching,
life drawing, design, sculpture, and art history. The creative genes in me
always found a way to surface…either by painting stage sets for community
theater, needlework, making my own clothing, assorted crafts, baking, cooking,
gardening, painting and wallpapering my home, directing the repainting of a
Westchester railroad station, and as an active member of a town beautification
committee. In my more recent years I have visited Italy and Sicily many times
to revel in the art of the masters. However, I never really learned
how to “paint”.
I have always been attracted to the
beauty of watercolor. I never had the confidence to take a watercolor painting
class until I met an artist in a gallery who encouraged me to take the plunge.
So I enrolled in classes at the Putnam Arts Council, the Westchester Community
College Center for the Arts at the White Plains County Center, the Bronx
Botanical Gardens, HRCE (Hudson River Community Education) in Dobbs Ferry. I
have participated in many art workshops in watercolor, acrylics, calligraphy,
and drawing at several public libraries.
I am a member of the Putnam Arts
Council in Mahopac, NY and Arts-on-the-Lake in Lake Carmel, NY. I have
participated in local group art shows and have sold some of my watercolor
paintings.
I have fallen in love with the
meditative aspect of painting which allows me to focus on my art and put all
worries aside! Having been bitten by the ”painting bug”, I hope I
have enough years to paint all the beauty around me.
2020
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