Phyllis Schafer is a very talented artist focusing mainly on
oil paintings that I had the chance to see. She started off by telling us a
little bit about herself and her various travels. From what I gathered she was
born in New York, completed her BA at the State University of New York,
Potsdam, and then moved on to complete her MFA at the University of California,
Berkeley. As you could already pick up, Phyllis had a thirst for travel and
seemed to never really settle down in one area. I believe this mainly had to do
with her interest in painting surreal landscapes. She noted that where she was
currently living always was a huge inspiration for what scenery she painted.
However, her most recent works were the product of becoming an art teacher at a
community college in Tahoe, California. She described that she was skeptical at
first to just up and move there from her current residence but eventually fell
in love with the scenery. The mountains became a very big inspiration to her
work and she described how much she enjoyed hiking out to them and painting
directly on the spot. One of my favorite works from her was “Lake Tahoe From
East Shore,” as simple as it sounds she has such a great wispy style of
painting that really made me imagine the cool breeze on the shore. All of her
work had a kind of “Starry Night” feel in my opinion and I was very impressed
with all of them. It made me interested in potentially trying my own oil
paintings in the near future.
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