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Angela Arkway
Angela Arkway has studied painting in pastel in New York and in Vermont. In New York she took classes at both the Art Students League and the National Academy School of Art. At the National Academy she worked with Ellen Eagle, a well-known portrait painter who paints exclusively in pastel. In Vermont she has studied landscape painting with pastel artists Robert Carsten PSA, Karen Baker PSA, and Virginia McNeice. She has also studied with Sally Strand PSA, an award-winning pastel artist from California.
Although she originally worked in watercolor Angela finds that the immediacy and flexibility of pastel, its potential to create astonishingly luminous color and to suggest a broad range of textures is better suited to her endeavor to capture whatever it is that appeals to her in her subjects. She works both plein air and in the studio. Angela’s subject matter ranges from landscapes to portraits of human beings and animals, and genre painting . She often works on commission. Her work can be seen at the annual members show of the Southern Vermont Arts Center and at the Redux Fine Art Gallery in Dorset, VT. Some of her work is currently (September 2011) on display at the Spiral Press Café in Manchester, Vermont.
Angela was born in Great Britain and has lived in France and Kenya (East Africa). She now lives in Vermont. She has a PH.D in philosophy and formerly taught the latter at NYU and Baruch College in NY.
This artist can be reached via e-mail: ajarkway@comcast.net
On the A Train - 23" x 17" soft pastel
Calico Kitten - 13" x 10" soft pastel