"Bringing the Museum to You"
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The Cyber Art Show
Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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Gallery #78
October 3, 2014
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Willo Balfrey (Born 1939)
- Image of the Day -
"Euclayptus Monarch"
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Feature Artist Bio
By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist painter Willo Balfrey (born 1939 in Bend, Oregon).
Based in Siskiyou County, California, Willo is a certified PSA, PSWC, NPS, and SPS who has worked in pastels and oils for a number of years. Currently teaching art, she is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Pastel Society of the West Coast, Sierra Pastel Society and Northwest Pastel Society.
In 2013, two of Willo's works were accepted into the Northwest Pastel Society’s 27th Annual International Open Exhibit and the Pastel Society of America's 41st Annual Exhibition in 2013. Her works were displayed at the International Association of Pastel Artists in Albuquerque, New Mexico in May 2011. She is represented by The Contemporary-Masters Gallery in Maui, Hawaii, the Art & Soul Gallery in Ashland, Oregon and The Gallery in Mt. Shasta, California.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
"I grew up in Durango, Colorado, a town surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, meadows, red rim rocks, trees, streams, and the beautiful colors of fall. These impressions are with me today as an inspiration for my landscape paintings. Now living in Weed, California, the beauty still surrounds me with the many changing faces of the majestic mountain of Mount Shasta and the areas of Northern California and Southern Oregon. Working on location as often as possible, I bring the viewer into my work by painting the dramatic sense or quiet solitude I find in nature."
