About the Artist

Connie Ewin Commette is a contemporary realist painter who specializes in landscape, seascape and figurative works in oil and egg tempera. She studied painting and anatomy at the Art Students' League in New York with Robert Brackman, Robert Beverly Hale, Frank Mason and David Leffel. Recently, she has studied at The Boca Museum of Art School with artists Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, who teach renaissance techniques of gold leaf and egg tempera. Ms. Commette maintains a studio with the Brushstrokes Group in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at the Galleria Mall


Artist Statement:

When I paint, I work to convey not only what I see, but the inner feeling the subject evokes in me. I am fascinated with light as it defines form in nuanced ways. As light changes, it reveals different aspects of the world around us that we might not have noticed at first glance. Each object, landscape or seascape that I paint has a special meaning to me, always in the context of the atmosphere surrounding a moment in time. Many of my paintings explore this theme in the first light of dawn, a time of new beginning and hope.