Art Reception: Joan Koppel

My appreciation for the visual arts began when I was a teenager, when I fell in love with so many wonderful artists from the Impressionist Era.  My interest focused primarily on the women I observed in Figurative Art, i.e., those paintings in which people were included.  Four years ago, while vacationing in Florida, I had enrolled in a Beginning Watercolor class at the Art School of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, which provided the introduction and basics I needed to begin painting in this medium I loved.  Watercolor soon became a new niche for me. While many artists concentrate their art on landscapes, urban scenes, abstracts, and florals, the emphasis of my body of work is on figurative paintings.  Most often, I still am attracted to the people on the paper, rather than to the scene itself, as they all seem to have something important to say to us!

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