Contact Us
10 East Broughton Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Wendy Cooper [email me]
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday
12-5 p.m.
(or by appointment)
phone: 912-236-0221
Artists
Maureen E. Kerstein
Savannah
An internationally collected artist, Maureen is a Signature Member of The Georgia Watercolor Society; a participating 2 member of The Florida Watercolor Society and an exhibiting member of The Southern Watercolor Society. Recent works have been accepted by the 2008 Florida Watercolor Society’s 37th Annual Exhibit and The Southern Watercolor Society’s 2008 Annual Exhibit. Her formal education is in Occupational Therapy with an emphasis on using art in therapy. As part of her practice she taught, published articles and instruction, and used her interest in art as a teaching and therapy tool. After a moving to Atlanta she began teaching fine art and watercolor classes. Maureen currently lives in the Savannah area and paints full time in her home studio. She is represented by galleries in Savannah, Atlanta, and St. Augustine, Florida.
Awards
2005 Listed in The American Artist’s Bluebook
2003 Honor Signature Membership Georgia Watercolor Society
2005 Georgia Watercolor Society Honorable Mention
Artist Statement
The sea, the ocean, the waves rising, breaking and crashing on the shore and the movement of the water as it ebbs on the sandy beach: this is what I try to capture in my seascapes. In order to accomplish this I allow the painting to take on a life of its own by turning the color loose to mingle and float freely over the surface of the paper. The results are "landscapes of the se", the ocean used as a means of artistic expression.
Painting with various watermedia on a very smooth paper, I begin a painting by choosing colors that interest me at the moment. The mixture of intensity of paint application, water movement, and even the weather highly influence the direction and final outcome of the painting. The result is a completely unique painting.
