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	CANDACE PETERSEN Website: www.candacepetersen.com Contact: candacepetersen.art@gmail.com
In 2005, after 30 years as a software systems analyst, Candace left the world of charts and diagrams behind to focus, instead, on portraying the world outside. Her favorite subjects are those where light and dimensionality play leading roles. Being "bi-coastal" with residences in coastal New Jersey and the north shore of Lake Huron in Michigan, Candace often draws inspiration from dunes, farms, and forests. But the play of light against man-made structures also provides alluring subject matter, particularly when she travels.
Candace finds that painting in plein air is a natural way to practice mindfulness. Just being in the moment, painting outdoor, imbues her paintings with atmosphere, texture, and feeling from the onset. She says that once she gets into the rhythm of a plein air painting, everything extraneous falls away. After painting outside on location for a couple of hours, she can return to the studio and, still feeling the weather and hearing the birdsong, be transported back to the vision that moved her.
One of the greatest pleasures of painting outdoors, she says, is the reaction of children. They seem universally delighted with the bright colors of her pastel and the fact that she is out there, in a swirl of people and weather, trying to capture a feeling on paper. Their feelings become part of the scene being captured. When not painting, Candace runs Shark River Design with her husband, supplying a variety of services and products to artists interested in promoting their work. (An example is this PAPJC website.) Candace is president of the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast and runs a critiquing group for pastel artists called the Pastelists’ Salon. Education: B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Candace is largely self-taught as an artist, but has taken workshops with Alan Flattmann, Kim Lordier, Richard McKinley, Clark Mitchell, Stan Sperlak, and Skip Whitcomb. Other strong influences include the artwork and writings of Kevin McPherson, Lois Griffel, and Richard Schmid. Galleries: Fredricks Galleries in Spring Lake, NJ Cafe Artiste, Spring Lake, NJ Awards: First Place, Artist Member/Small Works, "A Breath of Plein Air" Annual Member Show, Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast Award of Merit, "Pastels North" Great Lakes Pastel Society, Upper Penisula Chapter Show (2011) Associations: Degas Pastel Society Great Lakes Pastel Society Pastel Society of New Jersey (Signature) Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast Three Village Arts Plein Air Group Paint Outs: Second Annual Hammonton Paint Out (2011) Plein Air Brandywine Valley (2011) Publications: Featured artist in Purely Pastel, July-August 2009 issue		Exhibits: 26th Annual Internation Open Exhibit (Juried), Northwest Pastel Society, Tacoma, WA (2012 - Upcoming) 8th Annual Juried show, Belmar Arts Council, Belmar, NJ (2012) 17th Membership Exhibition, Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans, LA (2011) Members Salon Show, Belmar Arts Council, Belmar, NJ (2012) "A Breath of Plein Air" (Juried) Annual Member Show, Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast Middletown, NJ (2011) "Fall" Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI (2011) “Three Village Arts: Summer Plein Air Paintings 2011” Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI (2011) “Italy and Elsewhere” Via 45 Restaurant, Red Bank, NJ (2011, Solo Show) “Pastels North” (Juried), Great Lakes Pastel Society-U.P. Chapter, Bonifas Arts Center, Escanaba, MI (2011) 2nd Annual Hammonton Paint Out (Juried), Noyes Museum at Hammonton (2011) 7th Annual Juried show, Belmar Arts Council, Belmar, NJ (2011) 6th Annual Juried Show, Belmar Arts Council, Belmar, NJ (2010) “River Views 2010: Plein Air and Beyond” Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, NJ (2010) Monmouth Country Parks 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Monmouth County Library, Shrewsbury, NJ (2010) National Juried Show, Great Lakes Pastel Society, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midlands, MI (2010) “Winter Delights: Annual Member Show” Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast, Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, NJ (2010) 32nd National Annual Exhibition for Non-Members (National), Salmagundi Club, New York, NJ (2009) Three Village Arts 2009, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI (2009) “Winter Delights: Plein Air and Beyond” Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast, Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, NJ (2009) “River Views Exhibit and Gala” Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, NJ (2009) Invitational art auction, Belmar Arts Council, Belmar, NJ (2009) 1st Annual NJ Open Juried Pastel Show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (2009) Three Village Arts 2008, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI (2008) “Plein and Simple” Great Pacific Frame Shoppe and Gallery, Point Pleasant, NJ (2008) Sandy Hook Foundation Show, Sandy Hook Lightkeeper’s House, Sandy Hook Gateway National Park, Sandy Hook, NJ (2008) Deep Cut Gardens, Middletown, NJ (2008) National Juried Show, Great Lakes Pastel Society, Ella Sharpe Museum, Jackson, MI (2008) Great Lakes Pastel Society-U.P. Chapter Show, Sault Arts Council, Sault St. Marie, MI (2008) Exhibiting and Associate Member Show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (2008) Annual Juried Show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (2008) New Exhibiting Members Show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (2008) “Atlantic Highlands” Atlantic Artisan’s Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (2008) “Making Marks” (Juried), Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ (2008) All Members Show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (2007)


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