Greta Corens

After a fashion design career in New York City, I now paint realistic floral watercolors, and realistic portraits in watercolors, pastels, oil on canvas and digitally tinted portraits. What motivates me to paint Native Americans in this new watercolor collection is the beauty of the true personality and character of a magnificent race of ancient people issuing from pre-history and call doing them justice an awesome honor. In my watercolor flower paintings, I am inspired by the exact luscious realism of Dutch Baroque Flower painting traditions that consoled me throughout my lonely years in boarding school, from which I drew solace in experiencing botanic beauty, elegance, luscious generosity, color, and frivolity, in short, in all things that are out of the realm of a strict upbringing. They still provide glorious satisfaction, even if my standards for classical realism still drive me.

I have a master's degree A 1 in Architectural Interior Design from St Lucas Institute, Div St Imelda, Brussels, Belgium. I studied Fashion Technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where I became a fashion designer. As an artist, I studied with various famous artists, such as Richard Miller, Alan Reingold, Karl Gnass. At the Royal Antwerp Academy of Art in Belgium, and at the Saint Petersburgh Art Academy in Florence. Continuously studying art is an integral part of practicing and producing art. I am a teacher of watercolors and drawing. I love to work in all mediums that are represented in my art portfolio and believe that the highest expression of art and the most challenging form of expression and self-appraisal for an artist is a simple but perfect pencil sketch of the human body. To align eye with hand, I practice life drawing as much as I get the chance.