May 1, 2023
This exhibition, Spring's Silent Unfolding, lays bare the warmth and beauty honoring the season of renewal.
Stephanie Birdsall
“There has never really been anything I wanted to do, other than paint. I never travel without my supplies. Painting is about seeing, each in our own individual way.”
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Biography
Stephanie Birdsall
Stephanie Birdsall loves to paint from life. She is enchanted by the way light falls on her subject and travels through it.Her goal is to share the softness and mystery that it brings to her paintings. After spending many years as a plein air painter, the heat in Tucson, AZ, chased her inside and she began painting what she describes as “a natural still life”., everything from nature or natural materials.
She graduated from The City and Guilds of London Art School, London, England.
In 2004, she was invited to paint with the Putney Painters, founded by Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik. This ultimately inspired her move to New England and the close proximity to VT. She currently lives in a converted barn with a huge north light window.
“There has never really been anything I wanted to do, other than paint. I never travel without my supplies. There is so much beauty around us and I don’t want to miss an opportunity to capture a beautiful moment, be it a desert landscape or a glorious flower garden or simply light with its unique ability to transform whatever I am looking at. Painting is about seeing, each in our own individual way.”
Stephanie is a Pastel Society of America Master and is Master Circle with International Assoc. of Pastel Societies. She is also a signature member of OPA. She’s been featured in many publications and has four dvds available.
Ms. Birdsall has received more than 50 awards, including:
2018, Florence Glesmann Floral Show, Salmagundi Club, 1st Prize
2016, Florence Glesmann Floral Show, Salmagundi Club, 2nd prize
2014, Members Show Award, Salmagundi Club
2013 Salmagundi Club, "Honorable Mention For Outstanding Work", Summer Online Exhibition
News & Press
July 8, 2020
"To make the world more beautiful." This is why Stephanie Birdsall paints. Learn more about her motivation and Stephanie's philosophical view of her own vocation as an artist.
June 3, 2020
As the snow recedes off south-facing buttes and low-lying flats, Indian potatoes and sagebrush buttercups are starting to bloom. While the human residents of Jackson Hole are isolated and distressed, the ecological processes of spring are proceeding as normal, unaware of our plight. It is this sentiment that, in part, gave rise to Turner Fine Art’s coming exhibition, “While We Were Still … Flowers Bloomed.”
April 21, 2020
Because flowers are a universal experience of beauty and delight, the goal of this exhibition is to uplift the spirits through these intimate visual meditations of florals crafted at the highest level by the country’s greatest artists.