Born in Romania, Blanche studied drawing, portraiture, and landscape painting at the Art Community College of Bucharest, followed by four years of university studies. She came to the US in 1996 to attend graduate school at Syracuse University. While a couple of watercolors made it across the ocean, tens of pounds of drawings and paintings were left behind and eventually discarded, to the chagrin of future art critics.
In 2000, life changes allowed her to return part-time to painting – a husband, two children, and a dog claimed the other half. In time, painting became a full-time profession. Art museums and galleries, courses and workshops with artists such as Scott Christensen and John Crump, art books and videos have been sources of inspiration and challenges to improve her artistic taste and technique.
If you drive around, you may see her painting at her plein air easel. If you don’t find her, she is in the studio.
In 2000, life changes allowed her to return part-time to painting – a husband, two children, and a dog claimed the other half. In time, painting became a full-time profession. Art museums and galleries, courses and workshops with artists such as Scott Christensen and John Crump, art books and videos have been sources of inspiration and challenges to improve her artistic taste and technique.
If you drive around, you may see her painting at her plein air easel. If you don’t find her, she is in the studio.
STATEMENT
I look to paint the air in between things that holds the shape of seen and unseen, the transient beauty of changing light, the passing hours and seasons, the fragile balance between the wealth of material world and the simplicity of formless. Transient, understated, imperfect things shine for a moment full of life, and encourage the painter and the viewer to connect and share their personal interpretation.
Art is a thread that binds humanity and opens us to appreciate the fragility and uniqueness of our environment with its signs of the past marching away to inevitable passing and the marks of the future yet to take shape. In a world marked by the unraveling of environmental balance and social fabric, art becomes again relevant to heighten our sensitivity and bring us back together to focus again on what is important for us all as human beings.
I look to paint the air in between things that holds the shape of seen and unseen, the transient beauty of changing light, the passing hours and seasons, the fragile balance between the wealth of material world and the simplicity of formless. Transient, understated, imperfect things shine for a moment full of life, and encourage the painter and the viewer to connect and share their personal interpretation.
Art is a thread that binds humanity and opens us to appreciate the fragility and uniqueness of our environment with its signs of the past marching away to inevitable passing and the marks of the future yet to take shape. In a world marked by the unraveling of environmental balance and social fabric, art becomes again relevant to heighten our sensitivity and bring us back together to focus again on what is important for us all as human beings.