Studio Discovery Tour
Labor Day weekend & the weekend after
on the Sonoma / Mendocino Coast
September 5 - 7 and 12 - 13, 2009
Artists' studios open 10am - 5pm each day
Craven Alcott - Watercolors | map #2 → |
Craven Alcott, a native Floridian, has lived, worked and played in Northern California for the past twenty years. She began drawing and painting as a child and doesn't remember a time when art was not a part of her life.
While pursuing a degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida, Craven completed many drawing and painting classes which deepened her interest in creative art. Participation in art history programs in Florence, Italy and historic architecture at the Nantucket Preservation Institute inspired her to integrate her appreciation for natural landscapes, classical art and historic structures into her watercolor painting.
While living in the California foothills for sixteen years, Craven was a member of the Gold County Artists Cooperative Gallery and pursued her art while working full time and raising a family. Following a professional career as a landscape architect, city planner and parks and recreation director, Craven retired and moved with her husband to The Sea Ranch in 2005. The hours now available in retirement have allowed her to devote more time to her life long dream of studying and painting watercolors.
Her first solo show at the Sea Ranch Lodge, "Mendonoma Whitewash," portrayed the wild landscape and historic farming history of the Mendocino and Sonoma coast. Her paintings of the coast have become a popular subject for her on-going work in watercolors.
While continuing to paint the north coast landscape she has also begun to explore other subjects for her work. As a scuba diver, she has long appreciated the beauty of the underwater world and has focused some of her newest work depicting scenes found off the north coast. This work explores the movement and the rich interplay of colors found beneath the surface of our local coastal waters, which includes an exploration of the local ocean flora and fauna.
Inspired by travels in the East and the ancient Asian motifs of nature, she has recently begun to create her own graphic works using this more stylistic approach. An example of this new body of work is "Joy," her feature painting for the Studio Tour brochure.
Craven feels that approaching her art from different vantage points and areas of interest inspires further exploration of each. As she crosses between subject matter and styles of watercolor, her art continues to be renewed and refreshed.
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Contact Information:
Craven Alcott
Email: cravenalcott@aol.com |