BIO OF ELAYNE KUEHLER
9223 Round Oak Drive
Baton Rouge, LA. 70817
www.ElayneKuehler.com
225-939-3703
If there is one thing that is essential in this world it is the power of art. Art is the individual expression of ones self offered to the world.
Elayne Kuehler is a Baton Rouge native, and known for being a romantic realist with a passion for the beauty seen in life. She strives to portray the truthfulness of nature. Nature is healing and inspirational, and her colors and her designs can't be beat. And she is the best teacher. Elayne's work is done freehand; her still lifes are painted directly from life without the use of photography. Landscapes are started on location and finished in her studio. Her chosen medium is oil but she loves to work in pencil and enjoy gouache as well. She finds endless still life compositions in her home and gardens. She is absolutely astounded with Louisiana landscapes, especially the ones that encompass the live oak.
Drawing the figure from life keeps her drawing skills sharp, and sound compositions are attributed to studying the old masters, Vermeer, Corot, Chardin, Constable, Peter Paul Rubens, and William Trost Richards, among others. She has painted for over 38 years and have studied with professional Arts in the Parks award winning artist Barrie Van Osdell, also with Carol Peebles and Auseklis Ozols of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and won each of their Faculty Awards. She has also studied with Scott Waddell has taken workshops with Michelle Dunnaway. She is a full time artist and also teach oil painting classes in her studio and also teaches workshops nationally.
She is Full Member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, a Signature Member of American Women Artists, a member of the Portrait Society of America, Associate Member of Oil Painters of America, the Baton Rouge Art League, the Associated Women in the Arts and the Mandeville Artists Guild. She's been juried into and is a member of the International Guild of Realism. She has won awards internationally, nationally and regionally. Her work is owned in private and corporate collections. She has had many one person shows and participated in many group shows. She is represented by the Gallery 600 Julia Street in New Orleans. She exhibits in New York with the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Club.
She has been juried into Paint the Parks Top100 and Mini50, Paint America's Top100 and Second100. Her work has been juried into the Salon International Competition at the Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. Wade Henderson of Cox Television televised and filmed an interview of her and her work in the production, named "Delta Hands" has run for several years. She has participated in the LSU School of Art Summer Invitational at the LSU School of Art Gallery in the Shaw Center held every year in July. Also participates in the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts Annual Invitational Miniature Exhibition. Her work shown in the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Zigler Museum, the Masur Museum, The Barnwell Museum of Art, The Woman's Hospital and the Baton Rouge Little Theater, and among many other establishments. Other juried competitions she has been accepted into recently are the Richeson Landscape Competition, Oil Painters of America's Regional Competition.
Please be sure and take a look at my newest category, "A Child's Imagination". These paintings were painted specifically for children in pediatric wards of hospitals, telling a visual story to children so they can be nurtured therapeutically.
My goal is to share the beauty I find. My work is done directly from life and I wish to connect with others the respect I have for my subject. There is a magic quality about paintings that are created from life. They capture the beauty of nature, with the radiance of her glorious colors, details, textures - the designs they create; the vastness of the sky and the air that surrounds it all. Painting in nature and from the brilliance of life is a very serene and an extremely nourishing place to be and serves as a great inspiration to me. My artwork is about communication through peace, caring, respect, order, tranquility and beauty. I blissfully strive to render these qualities in my landscapes, as well as my still lifes and figurative compositions, and to share the good and positive forces of life and to connect with all who partake.
