| About the Artist Cheryl Fecht |
As a child born to an Air Force officer in Rome, NY in 1953,
I have lived from there to the beautiful island of Oahu in Hawaii.
Eventually, settling in central Arizona with my husband and
daughter in 1989.
My father introduced me to my first camera when I was 8 years
old. He taught me the importance of composition, lighting and
subject matter. My appreciation of photography has been a big
influence on my love for Realism in my artwork today. I carry a
camera everywhere. You never know what scene could turn into a good painting.
I adore the Southwestern United States for it's huge expansive scenery, especially
prevalent on the Colorado River Plateau. The colors in this desert are distinct, and I'm
constantly enhancing them on my canvas'. I spend my vacation time on the water;
boating, fishing and admiring the reflections of nature. I'm always analyzing contrasts
and textures of surfaces and how they each play a part of the big picture.
I'm a self-taught artist, and have taken a few workshops and classes over the years,
to learn additional techniques to improve my style. I prefer to work from my own
photography as studies for my oil paintings on canvas. I also enjoy the fluidity of
watercolors and their spontaneous reactions for a different interpretation, but prefer
the oil paints to most mediums.
You'll rarely see evidence of people in my artwork. I try to recapture the natural
world, as it was before we forever changed it, for the sake of "progress". I like to
imagine that I, the viewer, am the only person in the landscape that I have created,
soaking in the serenity and appreciating the beauty of nature.
I have had a passion for drawing as long as I can remember, and have been painting
for more than 30 years. Since the early 1990's to the present, I have been working as
a full-time professional artist in my desert studio. Painting the landscape and it's
delicate flowers, is a result of my enthusiasm for the outdoors, and my immense desire
to record it on canvas for all time.
I have lived from there to the beautiful island of Oahu in Hawaii.
Eventually, settling in central Arizona with my husband and
daughter in 1989.
My father introduced me to my first camera when I was 8 years
old. He taught me the importance of composition, lighting and
subject matter. My appreciation of photography has been a big
influence on my love for Realism in my artwork today. I carry a
camera everywhere. You never know what scene could turn into a good painting.
I adore the Southwestern United States for it's huge expansive scenery, especially
prevalent on the Colorado River Plateau. The colors in this desert are distinct, and I'm
constantly enhancing them on my canvas'. I spend my vacation time on the water;
boating, fishing and admiring the reflections of nature. I'm always analyzing contrasts
and textures of surfaces and how they each play a part of the big picture.
I'm a self-taught artist, and have taken a few workshops and classes over the years,
to learn additional techniques to improve my style. I prefer to work from my own
photography as studies for my oil paintings on canvas. I also enjoy the fluidity of
watercolors and their spontaneous reactions for a different interpretation, but prefer
the oil paints to most mediums.
You'll rarely see evidence of people in my artwork. I try to recapture the natural
world, as it was before we forever changed it, for the sake of "progress". I like to
imagine that I, the viewer, am the only person in the landscape that I have created,
soaking in the serenity and appreciating the beauty of nature.
I have had a passion for drawing as long as I can remember, and have been painting
for more than 30 years. Since the early 1990's to the present, I have been working as
a full-time professional artist in my desert studio. Painting the landscape and it's
delicate flowers, is a result of my enthusiasm for the outdoors, and my immense desire
to record it on canvas for all time.
