Armida Espaillat, Painter at Madison Green Festival
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Biography
Armida Espaillat is an award-winning artist and art teacher, she is also an interior designer. Born in the Dominican Republic and currently residing in Middletown,CT with her family since September of 2007. She works with a variety of media, including charcoal, pastel, watercolor, oil, and more. This talented visionary delivers soulful paintings full of life and flavor, everyone must see. Painting mementos and photos of her childhood in the Hisponiola in earned her a spot as a finalist in the 2012 ESSIE Awards. She spends time working in crafts when she’s not painting or drawing. She has always been interested in art and how it changes the world.
” I intend to make a statement, yet opt to express my artistic visions and soul into my pieces. My recent work deals with a variant of expressionism, using the human figure to tell life stories. I implement sand, ink, gesso, rice paper, tissues, even fabric for texture in these pieces. My art tells a story in a subtle way so the viewer can draw their own conclusions.”
Armida Espaillat holds a passion and ability to see beauty in everything and it encompasses her artistic message that she wishes to express through her work. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design and Decorating from the University of Pedro Henriquez Ureña, (UNPHU), and is a certified interior decorator by Penn Foster. These degrees have allowed her to develop and artistic vision and diverse way to look at things, and how her art impacts on live spaces and structures.As member of the local and International Pastel Society, the Art Guild, and a volunteer at The New Britain Museum of American Art, she has expanded her traditional setting to the direction of the art in her community and worldwide. Opting to remain constant rather than stay in aged ways, and methods. As an artist her art primarily centers in realism: Still life, landscapes, faces, and nature. Her use of materials for these include oil-on-canvas, watercolors, as well as pastels, and other dry media that allows the subject to be closely replicated. Her recent work has been close to expressionism using the human figure to paint life stories, whether people she knows or what she imagines their life to be like. Working a variety of elements for texture that consist of sand, plaster, sea salt, rice paper, among others to achieve this. Art tells a story, and Armida attempts to replicate life, or mix her feelings with the figure.
2015 Outdoor Autumn Arts Festival
Saturday, October 10 (9:30am-5pm)
and Sunday, October 11 (Noon-5pm)
Rain Date Monday, October 12 (10am-5pm)
Festival located at Madison Town Green - Boston Post Rd and Copse Rd, Madison CT
Presented by Arts Center Killingworth - (860) 663-5593 - A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
