The West Coast's Premier Giclée Print Shop pp
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Olivia “Livvy” Schemanski Like many wildlife painters in America, Livvy came to know her craft through an intimate familiarity with her natural surroundings. She was raised in South Central Alaska and now lives and paints in the Rogue Valley, Oregon. Livvy is a member of New York’s prestigious Society of Animal Artists and viewed by many as a premier nature artist and fervent conservationist. In 1998 she was chosen as one of six American “wildlife painters to watch” by InformArt magazine. Today, Livvy works closely with Wildlife Images, a rehabilitation and education center for North American wildlife. Her close contact with the animals and trainers reflects very well in the paintings she makes today. Regarding her “Portraits of Wildlife Images” series, Livvy explains, “ I was given the pleasure of observing the beasts close up and told anecdotal stories of their arrival and life. Combining that with the fantastic photographs that Denise [a Wildlife Images volunteer] so generously shared helped me produce what I think are my most intimate animal portraits. The two-fold forms of inspiration allowed me to capture the greatest of detail and textures, as well as each individual personality.” Proceeds from reproductions of paintings that profile a Wildlife Images’ animal go directly to the animal housing fund for creatures that must remain at the center. A popular collection of Livvy’s, called the “Wilderlife” series, expresses her unusual sense of humour and delight with her conceptualizing lens of the mind. This on-going series (begun in 1997) illustrates her own personal odyssey through nature without limitations or boundaries, and often compels patrons to exclaim, “Imagine that!” Recently, fantasy wildlife has stepped into the “art scene” spotlight and Livvy, once again, shows that she is an artist ahead of her time by taking advantage of her greatest assets and rendering her scenes with such reality that the impossible becomes possible. Click on the link below to go to a specific series New Releases - 2005 Portraits of Wildlife Images North American Wilderlife The Other Side - under construction Wildlife |
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