Daisy de Puthod Sometimes, there is a fleeting scene that will catch and hold my attention because of its beauty, perfect balance, luminosity, intensity or human connection. My goal is to capture these moments.

BACKGROUND
Born in Paris, France, to an artistic family, Daisy de Puthod moved to the U.S. via Colorado. In 1975, after graduating from the Colorado Institute of Art, she became a succesful commercial artist, illustrating in pen and ink or watercolor for ad agencies and publishing houses.

In 1988, she relocated to the Hudson Valley, where she studied portraiture in pastels and oils with renowned artists Aaron Shikler, Daniel Greene and Burt Silverman.

Since working in oils, Daisy de Puthod's work has evolved into a more contemporary bold and colorful style, "leaning a bit towards Fauvism" as described in a recent New York Times review of her recent solo show at the Garrison Art Center, NY.
 
Daisy de Puthod is a Signature member of the American Impressionist Society and the New York Plein Air Painters and a member of the Oil Painters of America, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters and the Artists in the Parks. Whether painting her plein-air landscapes or her studio figures and portaits, Daisy prefers to paint from life.

PERMANENT COLLECTION:
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St.Michaels, Md

EXHIBITIONS:
New York City
Audubon Artists Show at the Salmagundi Club
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe at the National Arts Club
The Pen & Brush Club

Hudson Valley
Edward Hopper Museum
Flat Iron Gallery
Garrison Art Center
Museum of the Highlands
Rye Arts Center
West Point's Eisenhower Hall

Connecticut
Greenwich Arts Council
Westport Art Center

Massachusetts
Norman Rockwell Museum
Train Station Gallery

JURIED PLEIN-AIR EVENTS:
Paint Annapolis 2009, Annapolis, Maryland, 2009
Plein Air Competition & Arts Festival, Easton, Maryland, 2008
San Luis Obispo Plein Air Painting Festival, California, 2007

ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint from direct observation, immersing myself in the subject,
I let myself absorb the moment.
My brush records the forms, the light, the shadows, the colors.
I paint quickly because moments are fleeting:
light changes in a landscape, figures move imperceptibly.
I work fast, getting only the essential, avoiding details,
keeping it fresh, loose, vibrant....
Connecting to the moment... A la Prima!
Clearing my mind, instinctively.... I just paint.
Painting for me is a form of meditation
freeing myself into a spiritual state of mind.
Art is an expression, a visual communication, a connection
to our universal cosmic soul.