Marilyn Turtz

Autumn Road

2025

Represented by George Billis Gallery in Westport CT.

Represented by George Billis Gallery in Westport CT.

Represented by George Billis Gallery in Westport CT.

Represented by George Billis Gallery in Westport CT.

Painted from life, the artist standing on a street corner looking across to three buildings lit by ambient street lights. Rising up behind the city is a dark mass, a hill silhouetted against the comparatively brighter blue night sky. Signed "Personett" lower right corner. Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim. Framed dimensions: 17 x 15 inches Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes. Artist Statement My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian painters...

In this contemporary landscape painting in oil on panel, expansive gray clouds float in an idyllic blue sky over a field with crimson red shrubbery and hilly mountains on the horizon...

In this contemporary still life painting in oil on panel, white tulips with a light pink hue sit on a wooden windowsill while a winter landscape with a snow-covered field and barren ...

In this contemporary botanical painting in oil on panel, purple and white crocuses are bright against dark soil, while little tufts of grass begin to sprout from the ground. Signed, ...