Please read these summer 2009 updates.

Thank you for visiting my artist website, to read my artist Bio only, you may skip the summer updates. However, I want to tell my viewers and art lovers a little bit about the changes which are happening now.

The Archives folder is up now and is currently active. This folder exhibits ten years of art that I created. For the first time, viewers can see conceptual sketches, drawings, paintings and more, completed during high school and from all three colleges I attended while achieving my BFA in fine art (MICA, UGA, and SVA). Many of my works during high school were shown in regional high school juried exhibitions, and were used in my college portfolio, which earned me a presidential scholarship to my first college.
So for any young artists, this is a good example of the kind of breadth you may want to try and have for your own portfolio, and a good example of the journey ones work takes over the course of time.

I have devoted many hours of my time to photograph and retouch these images, so people who make art, love art, and love what I do, can see the process, dedication, risks and changes my work has taken over the span of my life. You will be able to see the direction I was headed for, and how my work has matured. My goal is for people to fully appreciate the work I do, see the breath of mediums I have dabbled in, and how I have never pigeon-holed myself into one style.

The Archives folder became a much larger project than I anticipated, and it’s still being tweaked. Many of the literary details have yet to be added. I plan to better explain certain themes in bodies of work, especially ones designed and created for class assignments. I am diligently working on crafting explanations, and photographing more work, which should be up no later than early this June.

In addition, this July I will be relocating back to the state of Georgia where I grew up, and feel for many reasons, that after seven years of living in New York, that this is the next best step for me to make, in my creative life and otherwise. I will deeply miss New York, I ended up living in New York much longer than I ever anticipated, it is a place filled with equal amounts of magic and disappointment, each making you appreciate life more, and each one making you stronger. This will be a bittersweet change, but as an artist, you learn to embrace change with open arms, and acknowledge that every adventure makes your work advance.

Thank you for visiting oliviapeach.com! Please feel free to send me e-mails, I love getting feedback about my work. Have a great day, and may beauty and creativity be with you.

Bio:
Born and raised in Atlanta Georgia, I pursued my career as a visual artists from an early age, and although I contemplated other career paths, nothing ever made me stop creating. Art is challenging, to create with pure love and enjoyment is impossible, it takes research, time, and energy to create successful artwork. After years of taking chances with my artwork I am still discovering what it takes to inspire onlookers.

I am consistently working on new paintings, and showing in various venues. I have worked in many styles and mediums excluding photography and printmaking. I intertwine lush colors with rendered objects and flat figurative shapes. There is a brilliance and luster that realistic colors cannot always capture. The best way for me to know if a piece is complete is when it looks the way I imagined it in my mind. The finished result should make the viewer want to look again, that is one of my goals when creating.

The messages conveyed are commentaries on the human mind and nature. Where you’ve been in your life, where you might go, and what objects represent that time. I capture what we style and shape our lives around. My biggest inspiration is man and nature; spreading light on the aspects of this world that may be over looked. These types of ideas paralleled with human figures show a duality, fragility and sometimes-odd similarities of these objects.

I love the work I do because it is the only time I escape from the hustle of every day life. There is no ecstasy as that of squeezing a new tube of paint onto a freshly cleaned pallet. I know my work will take many turns and changes, I’m not afraid of what others will say as long as I paint what I feel is honest and true.