Clea and Moi

This is Clea my art teacher in Minneapolis. She is well known in the Minneapolis art scene was one of the bright lights of our 3 years in Minnesota. This is the portrait she did of me before we left to return to New Zealand in 2004. Clea, though right handed, paints portraits with her left hand. It gives her work a very funky intuitive edge.

Oranges

Oranges
Oil on Canvas
250x250mm
USA
2003.

We painted all varieties of fruit and vege in Clea's class.

Minneapolis Studio School

This is where I got started with painting while living in Minneapolis. I was very lucky to have the lovely Clea Felien as a tutor at her Minneapolis Studio School. Clea teaches classic realism in the atalier tradition. It was an excellent discipline to learn as it taught me how to really observe and then gave me a framework to translate what I saw to the canvas.