Kippy Hammond

Name:  Kippy Hammond, PSA

URL:  http://www.kippyhammond.com/

Bio: Kippy Hammond graduated with a BFA from the University of Georgia. She studied pastel and oil portraiture with Daniel Greene, Kate Fetterolf, and Constantine Chatov. She has taken pastel workshops with Kay Polk, Alan Flattman, and Albert Handell. Kippy Hammond’s work has been recognized in numerous exhibitions and solo shows receiving national and international awards.  Hammond was a demonstrator and lecturer at the International Association of Pastel Societies Eighth Biennial Convention in 2009 and 2011. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the Southeastern Pastel Society and a former Salon International du Pastel international guest of honor. Kippy Hammond has been a full-time art teacher for middle school, as well as being Artist in Residence for the Georgia Council of the Arts. She is co-founder of the Hammond-Boyd Art School.

Presently living for the majority of the year in France, Kippy continues to paint landscapes and commissioned portraits for clients in the United States and Europe, offering pastel exploration workshops in France and through art facilities in the United States.  She and Jerome Henriquez serve as directors and hosts at La Bonne Etoile, 60 miles southeast of Paris, in the small village of Fontaine-Fourches.

Medium: Pastel, oil

Subjects: Landscape, Portraits, Still Life.

Style: Representational to impressionist

Navigation: Gallery links remain visible at all times while viewing artwork.

Gallery: Numerous subgalleries, including Still Life and Oils – so presumably the rest of the paintings are in pastel.

Image View: Thumbnails enlarge in Adobe Flash viewer on same page. Download is not possible. Information is not provided either on size or medium, although I expect the oils are confined to the Still Life and Oils gallery.

Blog/Demo: No

Andrea Starkey

Name:  Andrea Starkey

URL:  http://www.starkeyart.com/

Bio: Ohio artist Andrea Starkey has been a commercial artist since 1990. She finds inspiration for her artwork from both nature and the natural materials used in its creation. She took up pastels in 2004, and dropped the “commercial” in front of “artist” in 2009, when she began to show her work. She has since been selected for The View 2009 - A Juried Landscape Competition which is open to all Ohio artists, and she won an award in the  2010 Pastel 100.

Medium: Pastel, printmaking, computer graphics.

Subjects: Landscape, Portraits, Architecture.

Style: Close to abstract.

Navigation: Clean, simplistic website.

Gallery: Pastels (Landscape; Abstract; Portrait; Architecture); Prints.

Image View: Thumbnails enlarge in viewer on same page. Download is possible. Information is provided only in the Portrait and Architecture subgalleries.

Blog: http://www.starkeyart.blogspot.com/ 

Claude Bauret-Allard

Name:  Claude Bauret-Allard

URL:  http://jfbauret.free.fr/Bauret_Allard.html

Bio: Claude Bauret-Allard , was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, and raised in Savoie in a family of artists. She is married to Jean-François Bauret, a photographer, and lives near Paris, in Place de l'Eglise, in Fontenay . Their two children are also artists. Bauret-Allard has been painting for over forty years. She exhibited in  1963 at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, and since then she has held numerous shows both in France and in the United States.

Bauret-Allard blends soft pastel to create her atmospheric landscapes. Fine detail is created with pastel pencils, especially when working on her finely wrought studies of mouldy fruit or metal cans.  "Pastel is a very delicate medium to use," says Bauret-Allard. "Some painters consider it impossible, much too difficult and time consuming.”Bauret-Allard was featured in a special pastel edition of Pratique des Arts,  in 2010.

Medium: Pastel. Pastels Henri Roché,  the brand favored by Claude Bauret-Allard is widely regarded as remarkable for its quality. "I painted with all types of mediums until I discovered these pastels and became ‘addicted' to them," states the artist. "The color range is enormous and the texture corresponds totally to my needs."

Subjects: Landscape, still life. She tends to paint in series.

Style: Her vision is personal and not aligned to any established school. The light in her work has been compared to that in Turner and Friedrich. The interpretation varies from almost photoreal to impressionistic to even expressionistic, depending on the subject matter.

“When I paint a large landscape, I use a smoother, more classical paper which will not interfere with the image and I use the pastel as a pigment, more than as texture."

"The mould series developed after I did a vegetable garden and kept the cucumbers, squashes etc for their beautiful shapes. As they aged and moldered, I saw a new world in this extraordinary 'second life.' I started to look at what happens on some fruits and I discovered magnificent changes on lemons, oranges, pears or quinces. To fully express this process I use a thick paper which gives an interesting texture. Pastel is the perfect medium to translate the moulds; powder to represent powder, and for the details, I use pastel pencils which allow me to keep the sharpness of the drawings. It's the same thing for the 'can series,' the rust is also breaking down to powder and the shape, as it is for the moldering fruit and vegetables, is in continuous transformation."

Navigation: This website is in French. All galleries open on a new page with no links thereon.

Gallery: Arbres (trees); Bidons (container); Espaces (spaces); Floral; Moisissures (moulds); Paysages(landscapes); Paysages Urbains (townscapes); Petits Formats (small formats).

Image View: All images are presented with a single view. The size variesL think large thumbnails. Download is possible. Information is provided on dimension of original work. The tryptich Frost is 112 x 188 cm. and is one of the larger images on the website.

Demo/Blog: No. There is an informative interview with the artist on the website of the TewGalleries, Atlanta, USA. 

Corry Kooy

Name:  Corry Kooy

URL:  http://www.corrykooy.nl/

Bio: Dutch artist (a first for this blog) Corry Kooy (born October 19, 1960) lives and works in Schoonhoven. She attended drawing and painting training in England and participated in various master classes in England and the Netherlands. Her work is regularly exhibitions and is represented by several prominent galleries. She has won prizes in England and the Netherlands, including the Cross Gate Gallery Award, London, 2000, and the Frank Herring Award, London, 2001. More recently, she carried off the Green Heart Art Prize, Nieuwkoop, 2007 with a pastel of newborn calf. In 2007, the book Corry Kooy: Schilderen in Pastel en Olieverf (Corry Kooy: Painting in Pastel and Oil) was published. 

Corry has a fascination with dance and music which she shows in pastels and oil paintings. She also like to work with a model, especially in winter when the weather does not allow for plein air work.Corry Kooy is a member of the artists GSA in Hilversum

Medium: Pastel, oil, watercolour

Subjects: Figurative, animals, landscape

Style: Nice loose, painterly style. Kooy is not shy about using a full colour palette. She does not seek a photographic representation of reality. "I prefer to work on location; from movement and emotion of the moment I reach something different than when I take a picture and I paint that later....Often those moments are determined by the light. If the earth has warm colouring and there are long shadows, then I stop and grab my sketchbook. Or when I suddenly see a mysterious shadow of a palm tree on a closed door, I immediately want to convey that on canvas or paper." 

Navigation: This website is in Dutch. Links generally remain on top of page.

Gallery: Dieren (Animals) ; Portretten (Portraits) ; Modellen (Models), Stad en Land (Town and Country), Muziek en Dans (Music and Dance), Interieur (Interior); Schetsboek (Sketchbook).

Image View: There are no thumbnails. All images are presented as a slideshow. No information is provided on medium or dimension of original.

Demo/Blog: No. But you can see a splendid video of Corry at work on YouTube. This is the version with an English commentary:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvQu-r9LvVY

This is the French version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1uLor7hTM

French Pastel Society 2012

The French Pastel Society, or Société de Pastellistes de France, has just issued their programme for 2010. Events will be staged in Ville d'Yerres, Feytiat, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Montluçon and Ville de Chaville.
Most exciting, from my point of view, is a session with Master Pastellist Gwenneth Barth in Rock House, Westport County Mayo, Ireland, from the 7th to the 12th of June. Rock House is an 1820s lodge on a 30,000 acres sporting estate in North Mayo, one of the wildest and most unspoilt regions of Ireland. Tell your partner to pack a  fishing rod

The Société  has also announced a competition with the aim of discovering the hidden talents of all you closet pastellists out there - the first prize is a session in Ireland! The competition is confined to artists who have never exhibited before with the Société. Closing date for entries is April 10th. For full information, go to http://www.pastellistesdefrance.com
Look for the legend A RETENIR - CONCOURS, click on the word suite > >, and click on Reglement de concours et bulletin d'inscription on the bottom of the left hand column. This will bring you to  a page with a choice of 5 pdf documents to download. You need the single document in the centre row of the table.
Alternatively, this link will bring you directly to the pdfs.
Bon chance à tous!

Pierre Boncompain

Name: Pierre Boncompain
URL: http://homepage.mac.com/boncompain/web1/CADaccueil.html
Bio: I must thank Margaret Zayer of Pastels Henri Roché for pointing this website to me.
Pierre Boncompain was born in 1938 in Valence, Provence into an educated family where an interest in all of the arts was nurtured from a young age. In 1959 he entered the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and in 1963 the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts where he won the Prix de Collioure. He was selected for the 1970 Prix Charles-Paquement des Amis du Musée d'Art Moderne, Grand Prix de la Critique.
A 1972 residence at the Fondation du Château de Lourmarin was followed in 1977 by a cultural mission to India with the writers Michel Tournier and Robert Sabatier. Over the years that followed he built an international reputation as one of the most promising post-School-of-Paris artists, with exhibitions and retropspectives in Paris, Lausanne, Milan, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Beijing, and Shanhai.
In addition to his permanent presence on the walls of Artfrance in Paris that has presented a major solo exhibition of his works every three years since 1976, Boncompain has exhibited frequently elsewhere in France and abroad. He is currently represented in New York, Tokyo, Vallauris, Dieulefit, Hong Kong, and Aspen.
In 2002 he was commissioned by Johnson and Johnson to paint a large mural at their headquarters in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Publications: Boncompain has published a number of monographs and catalogues raisonés, and illustrated works from the Canticle of Canticles, to Alexander Solzhenitsen. As Georges Borgeaud has remarked in his book about Boncompain, "fruits and flowers provide an Epicurean feast for the eyes and the spirit, the distant mountains let us know that the slopes which we see in the picture are caressed by Mediterranean light".
Medium: Pastel, ceramics, tapestry. It is not simply Boncompain's choice of subject that sets him apart, but his bold use of color. Whether in oil or pastel, Boncompain is the quintessential colorist. As Michel Deon commented, "we do not speak in front of his pictures, our attention captured by the peace it is steeped in, this longing for Summer, these haunting blues, these ochres and these yellows of Provence, this festival of light, good taste and discretion".
Subjects: Figurative, interiors, landscape, still life. His figurative works depict beautiful women in languid poses or enjoying a siesta while evading the heat of the Provence afternoon. His figures do not confront the viewer, but gaze off in the distance, lost in a daydream or lost in the dream world of sleep. The sensual line that winds its way through the form of the female figure is reminiscent of the works of Matisse.
Style: Post Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse
Navigation: Links generally emain on top of page.
Gallery: Retrospective: Figures, Nus, Intérieurs, Paysages, Nappes et batiks, Bouquets, Nourritures terrestres.
Image View: Thumbnails enlarge in viewer and may be saved. No information on dimension.
Demo/Blog: No

Lisa Fricker

Name: Lisa Fricker, PSA, PSWC-DP
URL: Lisa Fricker has not just one website, but two. They are quite similar, so I don't really understand the rationale. Anyway, here are the  links: http://www.lisafricker.com/Home/Home.html and http://www.lisafricker.com/Site_2/newHome.html
Bio: Tennessee native Lisa Fricker started her artistic career drawing portraits from life in a theme park. She attended art school in Nashville, and at Paier College of Art, Connecticut. She was awarded a scholarship to Scottsdale, where she studied with Bettina Steinke. Her work has been published in The Best of Portrait Painting, The Best of Flower Painting, and Painting More Creatively (North Light) as well as in the Pastel Journal and Pastel Art International. She is a member of Oil Painters of America, and holds signature status with the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society; she is a Member of Excellence in the Southeastern Pastel Society. She has had seven solo shows to date.
Medium: Pastel, oil.
Subjects: Figurative.
Style: Representational in an impressionistic fashion.
Navigation: Both sites are similar. Links remain visible at top or bottom of pages.
Gallery: Pastels available; Oils available; Archive (no dimensions or medium stated in this collection). Encounters is linked twice, both links ending in the same virtual show – mainly if not entirely pastels. This is wonderful plein air stuff on the move.
Image View: Thumbnails enlarge in slideshow, but there is a download button. They may be saved. Gentle Waters is 32 x 40 ins, 800 x 627, 111 KB.
Demo/Blog: No