SKYLARK'S STUDIO IN LOWELL

ART BY ALANA CAMPBELL

As a child, my family were creative people who desired that a love for the arts would flourish in my life! My father, an attorney in corporate law, loved to travel, and lived in Europe for several years. His law practice encompassed Hawaii, Alaska, Illinois and Arizona. He saved my drawings and paintings in a file drawer at his office. Dad was devoted to learning and spent a good portion of his life obtaining an education, working in Hawaii.

My Mom was always one of my mentors in the arts! Her sense of color made an incredible impression on me! Our apartment on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle was decorated with fresh Hawaiian flowers, barkcloth drapes, and Renoir prints. My mother never purchased the type of books that people frequently buy for children, that are filled with cartoons. She loved realism, selecting those with beautiful drawings, paintings or photographs.

Her mother was born and raised in the South Pacific. As a child I was intrigued with my grandmother's sewing skill as she made barkcloth drapes and clothing for my mother. Mom was a legal secretary for law firms, and sold Polynesian jewelry by ML Stewart on the side. She studied fashion design, and sold antique art prints and other vintage items to boutiques in downtown Seattle. The multi cultural background of my family has definitely influenced my painting style, and I enjoy painting island, European and Asian themes.

Life in the seaport city of Seattle, Washington, where the annual rainfall intensifies the colours has been an inspiration. When I was small, I also spent time with friends that owned a flower farm where flowers were raised commercially, from pansies to dahlias that grew in rows, higher than my head. A number of family members painted. My Uncle Tony's wife, Lillian; was an artist, and as a child I can recall scenes she'd painted in her home. My grandmother was an artist in oils. The light of New Zealand's North Island where her family owned a dairy farm in the 30 Mile Bush, had to have been incredible, together with it's plethora of voluminous clouds, fiery volcanos, seascapes, landscapes, flowering exotic trees and tropical shrubs, and exotic birds. Her Danish family colonized there in the 1800's. My sister enjoys Chinese brush painting. Our cousins painted. One worked for Disney Studios. Another was an artist that owned her own gallery. I was trained in china painting, and I paint in watercolour, acrylic and oils, however oil painting what I love to do most.

The Snohomish River Valley where I currently live and work, is a feast of impressionist colours. Our studio has been on the Everett Register of Historic Places since 1990-91. The home and work space was once owned by paper mill boss, Frank R. Killien. I love where I live and that painting is my line of work.

The Song of The Sea Girl In A Red Velvet Cape The Moulin Rouge At the Lake The Canoeing Picnic The Iris Field The Apple Seller Palais de Grace Flower Seller At The Park Boys At The Flower Stall Tuscan Market Place Under The Apple Trees On The Canal Rue de Paris The Minister Geisha Vase & Flowers Vive Le France The Boating Picnic The Vineyard The Straw Hat The Angel's Song Flower Market On The Singl Johannisberg Reisling Vineyard Marche Du LaRochelle Palais de Grace Asian Still Life The Gift of the Cranes Two Dancers St Albans Beaujolais Nouveau Children of Bretagne Celebrating The Feast of Tabernacles Deerfield Village Breton Women Picking Apples The Village of Auvers The Fencing Lesson Trouville Sur Mer The Wine Steward By The Riverside
The Angel of Provence Cannas The Lovers Gare De L'Est The Tree of Life Is Blooming The Song of Jericho The Circus Ticket Man The Flower Shop Still Life-Dahlias Gathering Rosebuds Bon Marche The Paris Flower Seller The Parisian Florist Le Vieux-Marché-Bretagne Still Life Apples The Flower Shoppe Glimpse In The Mirror Afternoon In Seville The Water Ballet Mammoni Girl With A Yellow Vase The Goat Herdress Street Musicians Song of Jericho The Lily of Provence The Tree of Life Is Blooming The Quai Paris Jour de Commémoration (The Memorial) Breton Woman Knitting The French Lesson Afternoon Boating Lavender Farm
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