Up-and-Coming Artist Wendy Coad

Wendy Coad:

"People always ask where the inspiration for my paintings comes from… For the past 30 years I’ve been fascinated by figurative paintings. My early art history classes required viewing the faded slides of art history labs where images clicked on the screen and the size, scale, color and details were profoundly altered from the originals which were housed in museums and galleries, not yet accessible to me. In fact, as I remember seeing the originals for the first time, the grand masterworks of Titian, Renoir, Goya, el Greco and countless others. They seemed to be the copies – the colors too bright and the surfaces too smooth from my beloved first impressions. As long as I can remember, I wanted to make these pastel and faded images my own."

Paintings from Upcoming Artist Wendy Coad are for sale in our Eyes in Store.