About the artist:

As an artist I respond to life and its emotional stimuli through the use of color and shape. I try to capture the vanishing moments, the visuals layering of time, the pleasure of life through the creative use of imagery. I am drawn to the beauty and expressiveness of the gentle juxtaposition of the real with the unreal. I’m fascinated with the not so obvious narrative the underlying tone of it. I hope to expand the experience of the viewer with excitement of color and all its vividness and variation of shapes. I like to paint from Life experience, I love the outdoors and I paint whenever feasible outside. I'm always photographing moments in time so that I can use them as my reference library. I am fascinated with light and how it changes its subject matter in the progress of time. I use oils and acrylic or watercolors depending on my subject matter and what I think will help in expressing that moment. I have always been a working artist, starting as a colorist and a textile artist, then expanding as a scenic and a set and costume designer, in the theater you wear many hats.(The theater has always been one of my loves) Presently I teach fine art and digital animation in the Bronx at Saint Philip Neri school and private lessons in my studio at ArtsWestchester. I am a commission artist and because of my theater experience I work on murals. I paint my love and hope for life, for the very fragile moments that disappear in a twinkling of an eye. I love this earth and all its inhabitants with all its fury, and it's a struggle to exist. - Eileen Stodut