Popes of the Sistine Chapel Painting

Renee Samuels (b.1958 St. Johnsbury, Vermont) grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts, studied English and art from 1976-1980 at Boston University and moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1987, where she began five years of study with the late Nicholas Buhalis, working six hours a day, three days per week on drawing, painting and art history. Exhibiting since 1987, she won a First Prize in a painting show at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 1990. Since then she's had more than 10 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 80 group shows in the Hudson Valley region, New Jersey, New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her home and studio are in Woodstock, New York, where she is listed on the Chamber of Commerce's Famous Artists web page. Inspirations: nature; lots of different kinds of art, from the Monets and Manets and ancient sculpture I saw as a child in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to contemporary art I see by chance or plan; my late teacher, Nicholas Buhalis; dreams; historical memoirs and photographs; art books; music; very old movies--all the things that enrich my visual memory and my subconscious Reneesamuels.com https://www.dropbox.com/home/Charcoal https://www.dropbox.com/home/Graphite%20Conte http://www.artistrising.com/shop/search/N/0/Ntk/all/Ntt/renee+samuels/Num/1/