The inspiration for my art has always been the natural environment. I spent my childhood summers on Cape Cod where my visual priorities were formed by vast spaces of sky and sea, and the subtle colors of the landscape. I painted until I was 20, and assumed I would be an artist, living like my role model, Georgia O’Keefe, whose lifestyle in New Mexico I admired as much as her work. But my confidence crashed in the master painting class at college where the instructor doubted that most of his students could become real artists.
I did many other interesting things in my life, but did not return to art until I’d retired. Then I started full time classes at the Art Students’ League in New York City. After some years of painting, I began making collages and have continued doing that work. I use mostly handmade papers, occasionally incorporating acrylic paint and pastels in my work. The papers I use are made mostly in Japan. Nepal. Thailand and Canada. The rich colors and textures stimulate ideas for my work. I feel that I am working in collaboration with the artisans who create these papers: the finished art work is theirs also.
Initially I made the change from painting to collage in order to free myself from too much attention to recognizable subject matter, and to focus more on abstract forms, colors, movement. But even my abstract work always begins with an image of some element in the natural world.
Andrea has studied at the Art Students League with instructors Ronnie Landfield, William Scharf, Fran O'Neil, Bruce Dorfman & Deborah Winiarski.
More artwork and information about her process is available at www.andreakapoor.com/
I did many other interesting things in my life, but did not return to art until I’d retired. Then I started full time classes at the Art Students’ League in New York City. After some years of painting, I began making collages and have continued doing that work. I use mostly handmade papers, occasionally incorporating acrylic paint and pastels in my work. The papers I use are made mostly in Japan. Nepal. Thailand and Canada. The rich colors and textures stimulate ideas for my work. I feel that I am working in collaboration with the artisans who create these papers: the finished art work is theirs also.
Initially I made the change from painting to collage in order to free myself from too much attention to recognizable subject matter, and to focus more on abstract forms, colors, movement. But even my abstract work always begins with an image of some element in the natural world.
Andrea has studied at the Art Students League with instructors Ronnie Landfield, William Scharf, Fran O'Neil, Bruce Dorfman & Deborah Winiarski.
More artwork and information about her process is available at www.andreakapoor.com/