Deliece Blanchard
Painting needs to be fun.
Deliece Blanchard paints landscapes, with lyrical and rhythmic marks that reveal her background in music. Her plein air and studio paintings are colorfully impressionistic, and frequently depict her favorite environment, the Blue Ridge Mountains. A cellist, as well as a painter, Deliece has degrees in biology and music from the University of Virginia. Painting en plein air and being outside "with a purpose," make her feel like a fellow creature on the earth.
Deliece has been juried into 4 American Impressionist Society shows and 2 Oil Painters of America shows. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst Va. Her work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. To learn more about her, check out her resume, statement, and awards below.
Artist Statement
Painting makes me happy like nothing else. Just mixing paint on the palette is fascinating and worthwhile. John Ruskin said that one should be no more proud, nor defensive, nor anguished when making art, than a robin building a nest. It should come naturally and be practiced by all humans. I agree and I feel the most natural when I am painting! I also feel the most challenged, which keeps me striving.
My paintings are organized works of reticulation, repetition, stripes, tremolos, and patches – like the handsome markings of a pickerel frog, or the doubled sixteenth notes of the violins in Mendelssohn’s string symphonies, or the repeats of William Morris’ textile designs. Rhythmic patterns attract and trigger a yearning within me. My intention is for my paintings to show a dynamic relationship between spatial depth and surface pattern. It is the process of mark making that brings this ineffable attraction into focus. The act of painting shows me something I can’t find through intellectual searching. The essential thing is to work hard and follow the yearning.
Deliece Blanchard paints landscapes, with lyrical and rhythmic marks that reveal her background in music. Her plein air and studio paintings are colorfully impressionistic, and frequently depict her favorite environment, the Blue Ridge Mountains. A cellist, as well as a painter, Deliece has degrees in biology and music from the University of Virginia. Painting en plein air and being outside "with a purpose," make her feel like a fellow creature on the earth.
Deliece has been juried into 4 American Impressionist Society shows and 2 Oil Painters of America shows. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst Va. Her work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. To learn more about her, check out her resume, statement, and awards below.
Artist Statement
Painting makes me happy like nothing else. Just mixing paint on the palette is fascinating and worthwhile. John Ruskin said that one should be no more proud, nor defensive, nor anguished when making art, than a robin building a nest. It should come naturally and be practiced by all humans. I agree and I feel the most natural when I am painting! I also feel the most challenged, which keeps me striving.
My paintings are organized works of reticulation, repetition, stripes, tremolos, and patches – like the handsome markings of a pickerel frog, or the doubled sixteenth notes of the violins in Mendelssohn’s string symphonies, or the repeats of William Morris’ textile designs. Rhythmic patterns attract and trigger a yearning within me. My intention is for my paintings to show a dynamic relationship between spatial depth and surface pattern. It is the process of mark making that brings this ineffable attraction into focus. The act of painting shows me something I can’t find through intellectual searching. The essential thing is to work hard and follow the yearning.
Presently showing in our 2022 Online Gallery Sale
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Memberships
Oil Painters of America – associate member, juried
American Impressionist Society - associate member
Selected Juried Exhibitions and Awards
“Art Alley” mural installation, public art, Downtown Lynchburg, VA 10/2021
BEST STILL LIFE - Bath County Plein Air Festival – Warm Springs, VA, 9/2021, Judge: Dawn Whitelaw
“American Impressionist Society All Member Online Juried Show” – 10-12/2021, https://online.flippingbook.com/view/137960345/48/, Judge: Dan Beck, AISM
“Oil Painters of America 2021 Salon Show” – Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA, 6/10-8/7, 2021, Judge: Charles Young Walls
“American Impressionist Society Associate Member Online Juried Show” – 4-6/2021 https://online.flippingbook.com/view/566614582/44/, Judge: Anne Blair Brown
THIRD PRIZE – “12th Annual Juried Art Show” – Riverviews Artspace – Lynchburg, VA – November 6-December 11, 2020, Judge: Jeffry Cudlin, Profesor of Curatorial Studies and Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art
"Homeward Bound", Juried Triennial - the Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA - May 1-Sept. 20, 2020 - Judge: Nandini Makrandi, chief curator of the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
“Academy Center of the Arts National Juried Show” – Lynchburg, VA – April 3 –May 25, 2020 Judge: Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
“The 20th Annual American Impressionist Society National Exhibition” – the Salmagundi Club, NY, NY – Sept. 19 – Oct. 2, 2019 – Judge: Kevin MacPherson, AISM, OPAM, PAPA
HONORABLE MENTION – Bath County Art Show, Hot Springs, VA – July 20-28, 2019 – Judge: John Henry Rice, Associate Curator, VMFA, Richmond, VA
HONORABLE MENTION – “Gloucester Plein Air Festival” – Arts on Main, Gloucester, VA – June 1-8, 2019 – Judge: Kenn Backhaus, AISM, OPAM
“American Impressionist Society Small Works Showcase” - Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI – June 1- August 31, 2019 –Judge: Camille Przewodek, AISM
JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD – “Academy Center of the Arts National Juried Show” – Lynchburg, VA - April 2019 – Judge: Joan Ranzini, artist
HONORABLE MENTION - “87th Annual Georgia Morgan Show” Lynchburg Art Club – February 2019 – Judge: Barbara Rothermel, Director of the Daura Gallery and Assoc. Prof. of Museum Studies at the University of Lynchburg
“Annual Benefit Art Auction Exhibition” – Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, February 2019-2022 – Juror: John Calsbeek, assoc. curator
“2019 Biennial Juried Exhibition” – Olin and Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA – January 25-March 17, 2019 – Juror: Elizabeth Cross, PhD, poet and Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of Well Being
SECOND PRIZE - Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, SUNY Orange, Middletown, New York, October 10-14, 2018 – Jurors, 30 participating painters
"Oil Painters of America 2018 Juried Salon Show," Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI, June 22-September 1, 2018, Judge: Roger Dale Brown, OPA Master Signature
FIRST PRIZE - "Lynchburg Paint Out," Lynchburg Art Club, Virginia, May 4-27, 2018, Judge: Rosalie Day White, painter and instructor at Art on 12th and the Academy Center of the Arts in Lynchburg, VA and co-founder of the Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD - "Lynchburg Paint Out," Lynchburg Art Club, Virginia, May 4-27, 2018
HONORABLE MENTION - "Queen City Plein Air Festival," Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA, April 16-22, 2018 - Judge: Nancy Tankersley, Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters
AWARD OF MERIT - "Edna Bower/John Curry Exhibition," Bower Center, Bedford, VA, Jan. 23-Mar. 3, 2018 - Judge: Vera Dickerson, artist, instructor, and founder of the Studio School in Roanoke, VA
HONORABLE MENTION - "Paint Out Lynchburg - Quick Draw," Randolph College, April 30, 2017, Judge: Dr. James Muehlemann, Professor of Art, Randolph College
“2017 Biennial Juried Exhibition” – Olin and Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA – January 27-February 26, 2017 – Jurors: Joanne L. Cassullo and Beth R. DeWoody, board members of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
“The Virginia Artists 2016 Juried Exhibition” – The Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA – August 21-October 9, 2016 – Juror/Judge: Jeffrey Allison, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
HONORABLE MENTION – Bath County Art Show, Hot Springs, VA – July 16-24, 2016 – Judge: Kimberly Spears, Executive Dir., Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC
SECOND PRIZE – “We Got the Blues – Art in the Blue Ridge,” The Lynchburg Art Club – July 1-24, 2016 – Judge: Laura McManus, Curator of Education, Maier Museum of Art
THIRD PRIZE - “National Juried Exhibition,” Bower Center, Bedford VA – June 7-July 8, 2016 – Juror/Judge: Janly Jaggard, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
HONORABLE MENTION - “Bath County Plein Air Festival,” Quick Paint Competition, Warm Springs, VA – Oct.3, 2015– Judge: Steve Doherty, Editor “Plein Air Magazine”
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - “24th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Central Virginia Watercolor Guild, McGuffey Center, Charlottesville – Sept. 2015 –Juror/Judge: Julia May, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Virginia
FIRST PRIZE - “Local Art by Local Artists” The Lynchburg Art Club – July 2015– Judge: Gina Louthian-Stanley, artist, Roanoke, VA
HONORABLE MENTION - “Annual Georgia Morgan Show” Lynchburg Art Club – February 2015 – Judge: Delane Karalow, Assoc. Professor of Art History, Lynchburg College
Solo Exhibits
Virginian Hotel, ACOA satellite show, Lynchburg, VA, August-November 2021
Arts on Main, Gloucester, VA, March-May 2021
Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA, December 2020
Smith House Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA, July 2019
Art on the Trax, Crozet, VA, December and January 2018
Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA, December 2017
Ox Eye Winery, Staunton, VA, March 15 – May 15, 2017
Gallery Representation
Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA, 24484 540-839-2985
Lindor Arts, 306 First Street, Roanoke, VA, 24011 540-400-8442
Findings Art Store, Boonsboro Shopping Center, Lynchburg, VA 24503 1-434-941-1768
Enchanted, 1204 Main St., Lynchburg, VA, 24504
Plein Air Events
Bath County Plein Air Festival, Warm Springs, VA - September 7 -October 3, 2021, 2017,2016
Estes Valley Plein Air – Rocky Mt. National Park, CO – August 10-24, 2019, 2018
Pacific Northwest Plein Air – Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA – July 29-August 3, 2019
Glacier Paint Out – Hockaday Museum, Kalispell, MT – June 14-22, 2019
Blowing Rock Plein Air, Blowing Rock, NC - August 18-21, 2021, 2020, 2019
Gloucester Plein Air – “Heart of the River”, Gloucester, VA – June 1-8, 2019
Hudson Valley Plein Air – Middletown, NY - October 10-14, 2018
Collections
Carilion Health Care, Roanoke, VA
Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA
Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Westminster Canterbury, Lynchburg, VA
Gentry Locke Law Office, Lynchburg, VA
Artist Fellowships:
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Painting Fellowships Jan.18-31, 2022, Jan.30-Feb. 13, 2020, Mar.21-Apr.4, 2019, Feb. 4-12, 2019, Nov. 20-26, 2018, Nov. 7-15, 2017 and Nov. 10-23, 2016
154 San Angelo Drive, Amherst, VA 24521 www.vcca.com
Tyrone Guthrie Arts Centre – Painting Fellowship, TBA 2021 – Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland http://www.tyroneguthrie.ie
Arts on Main Artist in Residence Program, through the Cook Foundation – Painting Fellowship, October 1-22, 2019 - Goshen estate, Gloucester, VA https://gloucesterarts.org/artists-in-residency-program/
Education
University of Virginia Master of Arts, Music 1991
University of Virginia Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction, Biology 1975
Postgraduate Coursework:
Randolph College – advanced painting with Jim Muehlemann 2014
Lynchburg College – advanced painting with Bev Rhoads 2012
Virginia Commonwealth University – etching and aquatint with David Freed 1979-1981
Workshops – Kathleen Dunphy, Colin Page, Peggy Kroll Roberts, Scott Christensen, Patrick Saunders, Derek Penix, Holly Hughes, Andras Bality, Ron Boehmer
Past Work Experience
Lynchburg City Schools - orchestra director and string specialist 1991 - 2015
Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra, cellist
Oil Painters of America – associate member, juried
American Impressionist Society - associate member
Selected Juried Exhibitions and Awards
“Art Alley” mural installation, public art, Downtown Lynchburg, VA 10/2021
BEST STILL LIFE - Bath County Plein Air Festival – Warm Springs, VA, 9/2021, Judge: Dawn Whitelaw
“American Impressionist Society All Member Online Juried Show” – 10-12/2021, https://online.flippingbook.com/view/137960345/48/, Judge: Dan Beck, AISM
“Oil Painters of America 2021 Salon Show” – Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA, 6/10-8/7, 2021, Judge: Charles Young Walls
“American Impressionist Society Associate Member Online Juried Show” – 4-6/2021 https://online.flippingbook.com/view/566614582/44/, Judge: Anne Blair Brown
THIRD PRIZE – “12th Annual Juried Art Show” – Riverviews Artspace – Lynchburg, VA – November 6-December 11, 2020, Judge: Jeffry Cudlin, Profesor of Curatorial Studies and Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art
"Homeward Bound", Juried Triennial - the Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA - May 1-Sept. 20, 2020 - Judge: Nandini Makrandi, chief curator of the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
“Academy Center of the Arts National Juried Show” – Lynchburg, VA – April 3 –May 25, 2020 Judge: Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
“The 20th Annual American Impressionist Society National Exhibition” – the Salmagundi Club, NY, NY – Sept. 19 – Oct. 2, 2019 – Judge: Kevin MacPherson, AISM, OPAM, PAPA
HONORABLE MENTION – Bath County Art Show, Hot Springs, VA – July 20-28, 2019 – Judge: John Henry Rice, Associate Curator, VMFA, Richmond, VA
HONORABLE MENTION – “Gloucester Plein Air Festival” – Arts on Main, Gloucester, VA – June 1-8, 2019 – Judge: Kenn Backhaus, AISM, OPAM
“American Impressionist Society Small Works Showcase” - Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI – June 1- August 31, 2019 –Judge: Camille Przewodek, AISM
JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD – “Academy Center of the Arts National Juried Show” – Lynchburg, VA - April 2019 – Judge: Joan Ranzini, artist
HONORABLE MENTION - “87th Annual Georgia Morgan Show” Lynchburg Art Club – February 2019 – Judge: Barbara Rothermel, Director of the Daura Gallery and Assoc. Prof. of Museum Studies at the University of Lynchburg
“Annual Benefit Art Auction Exhibition” – Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, February 2019-2022 – Juror: John Calsbeek, assoc. curator
“2019 Biennial Juried Exhibition” – Olin and Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA – January 25-March 17, 2019 – Juror: Elizabeth Cross, PhD, poet and Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of Well Being
SECOND PRIZE - Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, SUNY Orange, Middletown, New York, October 10-14, 2018 – Jurors, 30 participating painters
"Oil Painters of America 2018 Juried Salon Show," Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI, June 22-September 1, 2018, Judge: Roger Dale Brown, OPA Master Signature
FIRST PRIZE - "Lynchburg Paint Out," Lynchburg Art Club, Virginia, May 4-27, 2018, Judge: Rosalie Day White, painter and instructor at Art on 12th and the Academy Center of the Arts in Lynchburg, VA and co-founder of the Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD - "Lynchburg Paint Out," Lynchburg Art Club, Virginia, May 4-27, 2018
HONORABLE MENTION - "Queen City Plein Air Festival," Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA, April 16-22, 2018 - Judge: Nancy Tankersley, Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters
AWARD OF MERIT - "Edna Bower/John Curry Exhibition," Bower Center, Bedford, VA, Jan. 23-Mar. 3, 2018 - Judge: Vera Dickerson, artist, instructor, and founder of the Studio School in Roanoke, VA
HONORABLE MENTION - "Paint Out Lynchburg - Quick Draw," Randolph College, April 30, 2017, Judge: Dr. James Muehlemann, Professor of Art, Randolph College
“2017 Biennial Juried Exhibition” – Olin and Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA – January 27-February 26, 2017 – Jurors: Joanne L. Cassullo and Beth R. DeWoody, board members of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
“The Virginia Artists 2016 Juried Exhibition” – The Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA – August 21-October 9, 2016 – Juror/Judge: Jeffrey Allison, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
HONORABLE MENTION – Bath County Art Show, Hot Springs, VA – July 16-24, 2016 – Judge: Kimberly Spears, Executive Dir., Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC
SECOND PRIZE – “We Got the Blues – Art in the Blue Ridge,” The Lynchburg Art Club – July 1-24, 2016 – Judge: Laura McManus, Curator of Education, Maier Museum of Art
THIRD PRIZE - “National Juried Exhibition,” Bower Center, Bedford VA – June 7-July 8, 2016 – Juror/Judge: Janly Jaggard, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
HONORABLE MENTION - “Bath County Plein Air Festival,” Quick Paint Competition, Warm Springs, VA – Oct.3, 2015– Judge: Steve Doherty, Editor “Plein Air Magazine”
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - “24th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Central Virginia Watercolor Guild, McGuffey Center, Charlottesville – Sept. 2015 –Juror/Judge: Julia May, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Virginia
FIRST PRIZE - “Local Art by Local Artists” The Lynchburg Art Club – July 2015– Judge: Gina Louthian-Stanley, artist, Roanoke, VA
HONORABLE MENTION - “Annual Georgia Morgan Show” Lynchburg Art Club – February 2015 – Judge: Delane Karalow, Assoc. Professor of Art History, Lynchburg College
Solo Exhibits
Virginian Hotel, ACOA satellite show, Lynchburg, VA, August-November 2021
Arts on Main, Gloucester, VA, March-May 2021
Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA, December 2020
Smith House Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA, July 2019
Art on the Trax, Crozet, VA, December and January 2018
Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA, December 2017
Ox Eye Winery, Staunton, VA, March 15 – May 15, 2017
Gallery Representation
Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA, 24484 540-839-2985
Lindor Arts, 306 First Street, Roanoke, VA, 24011 540-400-8442
Findings Art Store, Boonsboro Shopping Center, Lynchburg, VA 24503 1-434-941-1768
Enchanted, 1204 Main St., Lynchburg, VA, 24504
Plein Air Events
Bath County Plein Air Festival, Warm Springs, VA - September 7 -October 3, 2021, 2017,2016
Estes Valley Plein Air – Rocky Mt. National Park, CO – August 10-24, 2019, 2018
Pacific Northwest Plein Air – Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA – July 29-August 3, 2019
Glacier Paint Out – Hockaday Museum, Kalispell, MT – June 14-22, 2019
Blowing Rock Plein Air, Blowing Rock, NC - August 18-21, 2021, 2020, 2019
Gloucester Plein Air – “Heart of the River”, Gloucester, VA – June 1-8, 2019
Hudson Valley Plein Air – Middletown, NY - October 10-14, 2018
Collections
Carilion Health Care, Roanoke, VA
Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA
Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Westminster Canterbury, Lynchburg, VA
Gentry Locke Law Office, Lynchburg, VA
Artist Fellowships:
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Painting Fellowships Jan.18-31, 2022, Jan.30-Feb. 13, 2020, Mar.21-Apr.4, 2019, Feb. 4-12, 2019, Nov. 20-26, 2018, Nov. 7-15, 2017 and Nov. 10-23, 2016
154 San Angelo Drive, Amherst, VA 24521 www.vcca.com
Tyrone Guthrie Arts Centre – Painting Fellowship, TBA 2021 – Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland http://www.tyroneguthrie.ie
Arts on Main Artist in Residence Program, through the Cook Foundation – Painting Fellowship, October 1-22, 2019 - Goshen estate, Gloucester, VA https://gloucesterarts.org/artists-in-residency-program/
Education
University of Virginia Master of Arts, Music 1991
University of Virginia Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction, Biology 1975
Postgraduate Coursework:
Randolph College – advanced painting with Jim Muehlemann 2014
Lynchburg College – advanced painting with Bev Rhoads 2012
Virginia Commonwealth University – etching and aquatint with David Freed 1979-1981
Workshops – Kathleen Dunphy, Colin Page, Peggy Kroll Roberts, Scott Christensen, Patrick Saunders, Derek Penix, Holly Hughes, Andras Bality, Ron Boehmer
Past Work Experience
Lynchburg City Schools - orchestra director and string specialist 1991 - 2015
Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra, cellist
