Monday, October 28, 2019

Artist of the day, October 28: Carrie Pearce, an American painter (# 823)

Carrie Pearce (1969) was born in Peoria, IL. She has been drawing and painting as long as she can remember. Her earliest memories include a Walt Disney light-up table and asking her mom to draw her pictures as she described them to her.

Carrie's first major inspiration came from Ann Adams, an artist who drew with a pencil between her teeth. At the age of 6, Carrie was amazed at her ability, and tried to duplicated her drawings with and without pencil in her teeth. Carrie attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she graduated with honors.  In 2007, Upon seeing DaVinci’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, she declared, “I want to paint like that”. Her paintings can be described as imaginary realism.  Although dedicated to the 16th Century techniques of the Masters, she also finds room for the occasional scribble, inspired by children’s drawings. Pearce describes her work as emotional portraits rather than portraits of people. The people are inspired by turn of the century photos that she finds at antique stores and estate sales.

Carrie's work has been featured both nationally and internationally. She is a "Living Artist" with the Art Renewal Center, a website dedicated to the revival of realism in fine art. Her work has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, "When artists paint themselves".

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Ms. Carrie Pearce

2011, Mums
2015, LLoyd and His Imaginary Friends
2015, Pin the Tale
2015, Who in Hell Let Jack Out?
2016, Princess Cotton
2016, Boyblue
2016, Cookie
2016, Gloria
2016, Piphany
2016, Voices of Reason
2017, Blue Ribbon Chicken
2017, Clown Cake
2017, Godspeed
2017, Horse Feathers
2017, Joy Ride
2017, Tickling Fancy
2017, Trouble With Bubbles
2017, Unicornelia
2017, Voila
2017, Weezy
2018, Dreamgirl
2018, Fair Game
2018, Hunting treasures
2018, Lullaby
2018, Mousetrap
2018, Paddywhack
2018, Promiseland
2018, Sweet Tooth
2018, What Child is This
2019, Boss Hog
2019, But a Dream
2019, Ever after
2019, Liar, Liar

2019, Monkeyboy and the Neighbors
2019, The Merry Makers

1 comment:

  1. What a fantastic artist! But if I owned one, it would scare me daily!

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