American Art Collector - USA (2021-11)

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Below: Southwest

Hollyhocks,

digital painting,

multiple sizes

Sunny With

Marbles, digital

painting,

multiple sizes

Want to See More?
(574) 265-5501 | http://www.beverlyfagangilbertson.com

Represented by Fine Art America
http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/beverly-gilbertson

Beverly Fagan

Gilbertson

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orking mainly in watercolor and acrylics, self-
taught artist Beverly Fagan Gilbertson paints what
delights her the most. Florals, barns and landscapes are her
main subjects. She has sold her work in several galleries in
Oklahoma; Taos, New Mexico; Indiana; and recently in South
Carolina. This continued through her 60s, when she switched
gears and tried something new.
Gilbertson started working with Photoshop, using a Surface
Pro screen, painting her florals and landscapes. She also started
digital painting her “critters,” satisfying her love of whimsy.
“I have tried to re-create digitally what I have painted in the
past on canvas and paper,” Gilbertson explains. “After watching
several online digital painting workshops, I started painting
my ‘critters’...Digital has filled this need and has me excited to
create again! Digital painting has become my passion and I look
forward to working in this medium for a long time to come.”
Want to See More?
(239) 273-7677 | http://www.alinaeydel.com
Represented by Eydel Fine Arts Gallery
800 Fifth Avenue South, Suite 101 | Naples, FL 34102
(239) 594-0266 | http://www.eydelfineartsgallery.com

Alina Eydel

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lthough she works with many different mixed media

materials, including gold and silver leaf, semi-precious

stones and real butterfly wings, Alina Eydel is best known for

her unique glass bead mosaics. She glues glass beads to the

surfaces of her acrylic paintings, creating a spectacular and intri-

cate mosaic-like effect that shimmers in the light and interacts

with the viewer when seen from different angles. Eydel has been

working with glass beads as a medium since 2003, after a family

trip to Italy inspired her to reinterpret the traditional mosaics

she saw there into a fun, contemporary new style.

“Making my paintings is a joyful experience and I believe

that energy of joy translates through the visual surface,” Eydel

explains. “Lately, I’ve been reinterpreting the colors of my

subject matter, whether butterfly or botanical, and playing with

overlapping the images like transparencies to take the compo-

sitions almost to the point of abstraction. My work ranges in

subject matter from botanical to figurative to abstract, but my

main goal is always harmony—lines and colors flow together

and textures interact with each other harmoniously, and there

is a healthy balance between boldness and detail, simplicity

and interconnectedness.”

While beading the surfaces, Eydel plays with the interac-

tions between directionality, texture, opacity and brilliance.

The result is a visual experience that is simultaneously excit-

ing and harmonious—a balance within itself.

Tropical Kaleidoscope, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48"