Just in and on the walls are paintings by Giselle Gautreau, an artist we have carried for several years.
Giselle creates contemporary landscape paintings in oil and encaustic. She received her MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and has a BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art.
Giselle has received numerous awards for her work, including a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and exhibited her work for 20+ years and has had multiple solo shows. Her work is in public, private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan.
The artist states: In my work I explore my ideas of memory of place, the landscape and ecology. Endlessly influenced by nature, my paintings explore the intersection of color and atmosphere along with the impact of what nature inspires.
I paint with numerous layers of oil or encaustic paints, using both opaque and translucent layers to achieve a sense of depth, atmosphere and luminosity. The landscape for me is both visual inspiration and sometimes a metaphor for loss, change, resiliency and adaptation. For me, painting the landscape is a reminder of our connections to it.