Connie Newton Stancell is an award winning artist whose paintings have been juried into many prestigious art shows, including the Salmagundi Club (NY), The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc. (NY) and the Silvermine Guild’s Art of the Northeast (CT). Her BA was earned at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where her coursework included German, Physics and History of Art. She now resides with her husband in Connecticut where she has her studio.
Stancell’s interest in art started with her love of paintings by her grandmother and was further heightened by her History of Art studies, by two and a half years living in London and by extensive international travels which included visits to numerous museums and galleries around the world. She studied drawing and painting, notably at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and at The Spruill Art Center in Dunwoody, GA.
Born in Vermont and raised in rural New England, Stancell’s expressive paintings incorporate the rich and exuberant colors and textures inspired by nature which surrounded her as she grew up. Luxuriant blossoms, foliage, fruit, windswept trees are all painted in exciting colors – fiery reds, vivid blues, lush greens and rich darks. Stancell’s creative process is to work spontaneously and intuitively to maximize the fluidity of her work.