Elisabeth Estivalet : Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA

<body> <p>Elisabeth Estivalet, featured artist available at Newbury Fine Arts, located at 29 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Contemporary fine art gallery featuring over 50 internationally and nationally renowned artists. <i>Nobody can resist the charm and poetry of the Provencal landscapes of Elisabeth Estivalet</i>"... So begins a recent review of an exhibition of the work of Elisabeth Estivalet, a painter whose transcendent evocations in oil of Provence in the South of France are winning not only ecstatic praise, but prizes and honors wherever they are shown.But no one who has seen Elisabeth Estivalet's work can be surprised by its growing international reputation. Under her touch, light and color achieve a subtle harmony that speaks of the perfect mastery of her medium - of her art. It is the quality of light and color that Cezanne himself was extolling when he chided others for painting only likenesses of nature, instead of a portion of nature itself. And "a portion of nature itself" is precisely what Elisabeth Estivalet brings to light in her marvelously luminous canvases - that portion which seems to embody the poise and serenity of gently rolling hills, sun-swept villages and the pleasures of winding country roads. These are the hills, villages and roads of ELisabeth Estivalet's beloved adopted home in the South of France, a home she moved to in 1978 from Poland, where she was born. Though trained in philosophy and economics, Elisabeth Estivalet found in the countryside of Provence the inspiration that ignited her long-standing passion for painting and she set to work to master the uncompromising medium of oil painting. Working with a palette knife only, she soon began to paint canvases of such poetic beauty that galleries, collectors and juries in France and abroad were singing her praises and honoring her efforts with prizes and exhibitions. Gold medals for painting followed in rapid order - from the Salon International de Nyons, the Salon International de Cassis, the Salon International de Mallemort de Provence, the Salon International de Cavaillon, the Salon International de Rive de Giers, the Salon International de St. Chamond, and the Salon International de Teil, among others - and collectors around the world began seeking out her work to add to their collections. As a result, Elisabeth Estivalet's paintings can now be found in collections from the U.S., Great Britain and Switzerland to Venezuela, South Africa and Australia, and every day as her stature and reputation increases, her body of collectors, both public and private only grows. Elisabeth Estivalet was born on April 27, 1952 in Varsovie, Poland. She studied philosophy and economics at the University of Varsovie. She arrived in France, Provence, in 1978 and has lived there ever since. Painting became her passion, and the landscapes of Provence became her principal subject of inspiration. She is a figurative painter with modern tendencies, usually stylized. She works with a palette knife.</font></p> </p> </body>