Coast has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Art from the Univ. of Colorado. Her paintings and collages have won numerous awards and been exhibited and sold in museums and Galleries throughout the western United States.
About The Artist
Watercolor, acrylic, oil painting are the primary media used to create this
artists’ unique view of the world.
While art is an expression of Coasts’ direct experience, she personalizes it with memory and imagination. She paints what she knows. Recurring subjects of mountains, forests, canyons & rivers, horses, birds, and figures, show masterful use of stylized forms, saturated color, and symbolism.
Infinite variations, as seen in her landscape paintings represent the ever-changing seasons, weather, and light, distinctive hallmarks of her work. Her work evokes a timeless sense of mystery and magic. It suggests evidence of the ‘origin story’, or how we are all connected, and how we adapt.
Studies in Geology, Anthropology & Sociology reveal artefacts skillfully adorned with patterns and symbols with striking similarities to other cultures’ storytelling thru their art. Pictographs and petroglyphs personify another way of life that inspires ‘Soul Series’ mixed media. Her signature ‘PLAINS PONIES’ series conveys a spiritual impression and reveals this distinctive hallmark of her work.
Capturing a moment in time compares, contrasts, and highlights the present with other places and times. The award winning Muse’ D’Orsay watercolor was inspired by events of 9/11, upon returning home from photographing this scene, when time appeared to stand still. Images of birds, houses, and chairs in flight, appear in some paintings, symbolizing beginnings and endings. Coast began again after wildfire destroyed 18,000 acres, and 346 homes, including her own in Colorado. Its another example of creative problem solving and adaptation that continues to inform this artists work today.
The infinite horizon and diverse subject matter in Colorado continue to inspire and make her feel at home. ‘These are favorite subjects of my work. They are what I know and what I love.’
Growing up in Cleveland, with a calculated escape to New Mexico at 18, enabled travel and research throughout the American west. Considering challenges with grace and beauty is key in my art.
Galleries & Exhibits
Watercolor West XXXVI Annual, Riverside Art Museum, CA | 2004 |
PPWS Signature Members Show, Pikes Peak Center, Col. Springs, CO | 2002,03,04 |
PPWS Poetic License, Fountain Valley School, Col. Springs, CO | 2004 |
PPWS International Watermedia XIII, Col. Springs Fine Art Center, CO | 2003 |
30th Annual Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Col. Springs, CO | 2003 |
Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO | 2003 |
CSAG Exhibit, Colorado Springs, CO | 2003 |
CSAG Piper Jaffray Exhibit, Colorado Springs, CO | 2002 |
CSAG Regional 2002, Olympic Training Center, Col. Springs, CO | 2002 |
Western National Bank, One Woman Show, Col. Springs, CO | 2001 |
PPWS Poetic License Exhibit, BAC, Manitou Springs, CO | 1999 |
PPWS Pandora’s Box Exhibit, Palmer Lake, CO | 1999 |
PPWS Vail Art Festival, Vail, CO | 1996 |
Boulder Art Festival, Boulder, CO | 1996 |
Rio Grande Art Festival, Albuquerque, NM | 1995 |
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Univ of CO, Col. Springs | 1990,91,92 |
