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Charlotte Severin
Watercolor
Charlotte Severin is an award-winning Bay area Plein Air artist
whose works are displayed in public and private collections in the
United States and many foreign countries, including Japan, Guatemala,
France, Germany and Mexico, as well as the foreign consulates and
embassies in San Francisco. Some corporate collectors have acquired
as many as 25 of her works in permanent collections, and she has
completed commissions for international corporations as well.
Charlotte began painting in oils at the age of 12 and studied with
a German artist and an Italian artist as well as at the California
College of Arts and Crafts. Later she continued her studies at Stanford
University, where she graduated with honors, in Wurburg, Germany,
and with many well-known watercolor artists.
Charlotte enjoys working in all media, but at present is painting
mostly in watercolors. She prefers this medium because of its flexibility
for on-location painting and for the freshness it inspires.
Charlotte says, "Painting is for me a celebration of life,
an opportunity to express my joy and awareness of the beauty and
fascination of life all around. Nature abounds with color and form.
It fills my palette with warm earth tones. It flows on the paper
in fields of bright flowers, dark mountains and blue-green oceans.
When I paint old buildings full of history, I feel I am a part of
that time.
"Painting also opens a world of people to me. When I paint
the vibrant colors of a native marketplace, I am sharing again the
excitement of that scene. My paintings are impressionistic realism
in the 'California style' tradition. They are a reflection
of my soul and an embodiment of my feelings about all of life." |
