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If you like our writing, we’d be much obliged if you would click the ❤️ or the 🔁 icon on this post so more collectors, art lovers, and artists can discover us on Substack. 🙏 Elena DegenhardtBoldBrush Recommends: Elena Degenhardt
A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by BOLDBRUSH.Free Art Marketing Webinar with Arthur GainFree and Open webinar for all visual artists happening next Thursday, February 1st at 11:00 AM CDT! Join us for a free, artist-focused webinar as we dive into art, creativity, & marketing with acclaimed artist Arthur Gain. Along with industry experts Clint Watson, BoldBrush’s Founder & the marketing team. This webinar is open to all artists! Thursday, February 1st at 11:00am CDT (12:00pm EDT, 10:00am MDT, 9:00am PDT) BoldBrush Recommends: Elena DegenhardtGet Notified When Elena Posts New Art BiographyARTIST STATEMENT "Painting is a very reflective and personal process for me which partially explains my choice of soft pastel as a primary painting medium. It creates no barrier between me and an artwork. I pour all my being and every bit of my energy into my work, painting and drawing only what I feel and have experienced. I've been always fascinated by time, full of fear of its passing, and keep capturing those fleeting moments of life, my painting subjects being on the verge, in transition: a landscape at dawn or sunset; a person in their transitional age or state of mind, on a move; ever changing water reflections; the light which is about to fade, a breaking wave. I may paint and draw various subjects but it's the vulnerable, the transient in them that I am always attracted to. And the sea is always present, either as such in my waterscapes or as a background, realistic or abstract, in my portraits." BIO Elena Degenhardt is a Siberia born, award-winning German artist, known for her emotionally charged, expressive, colour intense waterscapes, underwater figurative works and portraits. She works in realistic manner with an impressionistic touch, primarily in soft pastels, using them in a painterly way, often in washes, on unusual painting surfaces, pushing the boundaries of this dry medium. Degenhardt's multicultural and multilingual background and frequent relocations have influenced her choice of themes: lost (and found) identities, displacement, human bonds and fears, memory and time - which she explores through various depictions of water. She often works en plein air, painting the sea in all weather conditions. "I must feel the sea, carry it within me, hear its noise, breathe in its smell and taste it to be able to work back in the studio," she says. She is currently residing between two coasts: the Mediterranean in the South of France, and the North Sea coast in Germany, and finds comfort in her daily swims in the sea. Classically educated in art in her teens, Degenhardt obtained two university degrees in philology and linguistics and only got back to art in 2015, after a decade in research, teaching and translating. Between 2015 and 2018, she participated in art workshops with Jo Hall in pastel at the Norden Farm Center for the Arts in England, took Gareth Reid's masterclass in portraiture and attended a year long class in life figure drawing with Jesmond Vassallo at the Malta Society of Arts. Full-time artist since 2017, Degenhardt received Master Pastelist honours with the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) in 2019 and is an elected member of several established art societies, including The Pastel Society of America (Signature Member), Society of Graphic Fine Art - Drawing Society UK (Full Member), as well as of the Association of Professional Visual Artists of Germany (BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf). She has participated in juried, curated and invitational exhibitions with The Royal Society of Marine Artists and Pastel Society (UK), PoetsArtists (USA), la Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, and Art du Pastel en France, among others. Galleries and museums, that have shown her work, include The Atkinson Museum (UK), Museum Ostwall in Dortmunder U (Germany), Mall Galleries, London (UK), Lian Yiqing Pastel Painting Art Museum (China), Palazzo de la Salle and Wignacourt Museum (Malta), Salmagundi Club and National Arts Club, NYC, SolArt Gallery, Dublin (Ireland), Abend Gallery, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, and Wausau Museum for Contemporary Art (USA). Her work has been featured in The American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, Pastel Journal, Artists&Illustrators, Pratique des Arts and in various PoetsArtists publications. It is part of the Lunar Codex (https://www.lunarcodex.com), archiving art in time capsules on the lunar surface, and of private collections throughout Europe, USA, Canada, UK and Australia, including that of renowned Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja and notable Magazzu Collection. Her most recent accolades include being a finalist in 2023 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (UK), in the International Biennial Portrait Competition 2023 (Honorable Mention Award) and in the Painting The Figure Now 2023 Exhibition at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), curated by David Willson and Kiki Kim. In 2023, Degenhardt was a recipient of several international awards, including the Best in Show Awards in the Richeson75 International Landscape, Seascape & Architecture 2023 Competition (USA) and in the "Self as Self" PoetsArtists exhibition on Artsy, curated by April Cater Grant. Learn More About Elena Degenhardt Creating Art is about Creating Magic. New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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