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Evening Light

Evening Light Oil on Canvas 40 x 30

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Artist Biography:
Vander Meijden settled in Charleston, South Carolina in 1996 where she found the Lowcountry and the history of the city reminiscent of Europe. Born in New Jersey, she spent her formative years living in The Netherlands and the United States. She received a formal education in classical painting, drawing and printmaking at the National Academy of Design (NAD), New York, 1985-1988. Prior to NAD she studied Graphic Arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Early in Vander Meijden’s career she established herself as a plein air painter and a printmaker.
On behalf of the Art in Embassies Program, Ms. Vander Meijden recently lectured to the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, The Akureyri School of Visual Arts and The University of Akureyri, in Iceland. She has lectured to the The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She has served on the boards of Print Studio South, Charleston, SC, and the Printmaking Council of New Jersey. She participated as a Master Printer in the Monothon, 99, at The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM and taught monotype workshops at the Gibbes Museum School in Charleston, SC. She continues to teach printmaking workshops in gravure and monotypes.
During the last twenty-five years, her prints and paintings have been featured in numerous exhibits, including City Gallery, Charleston, SC; The American Embassy, Reykjavik, Iceland; Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; MacCulloch Hall Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ to name a few.

 

 

Tjelda Vander Meijden

Portrait of Tjelda Vander Meijden

 

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About the Work:

“Nature does not distinguish one species from the next. It only celebrates the beauty of shape, color and texture. Its infinite palette is carefully blended to orchestrate combinations that are simultaneously simple, clean and perfect. Like nature, we share an infinite range of shape, sizes and colors, but we often fail to accept and celebrate this diversity.

The visual impact of painting in the United States, Europe and Iceland triggered a deep sense of the veneration of nature, profoundly accentuating time and mortality. For millions of years the elements -- water, fire, and air -- have continued to construct and deconstruct the landscape, while the laws of motion grind their marks into eternity, indifferent to all traces of humankind.”