EMILY ANN FREIMAN

Emily Freiman, a Connecticut-born artist and Art Therapist, has lived in the California Bay area for over 30 years. Emily creates intense, high color florals in acrylics, painterly abstracts and portraits, dreamy impressionistic landscapes, mixed media pieces and still lifes that vibrate with energy. Emily's gift is a sensitivity to the use of color, form, tone and texture in her work, that create a mood or mirror an emotion. Her work's intent is to remind us of the powerful light energy forces that dance behind all objects in nature.

"Emily's goal is to create art to "uplift and transform the human spirit."

Mediums of choice are acrylics, watercolor, pastel and gouache. She also hand paints silk scarves.

Artists that have influenced her work include Chagall, O'Keeffe, Monet, Wolf Kahn.

She studied two and three dimensional art at both the University of Hartford Art School and Massachusetts College of Art. Going on to major in illustration at Paier College of Art in Connecticut, she studied under fine art teachers that include Rudolf Zallinger, Ken Davies, and John Massamino. Emily studied Chinese Brush Painting with Madeleine Fu in San Francisco and textile surface design with Zeida Rothman in Berkeley.

Within the last ten years Emily and fine artist/illustrator Gary Morgan collaborated on and completed five commissioned murals on site in Sonoma County. She interfaced with the designer industry, designing and producing a line of  home textiles that included custom hand painted pillows, which led to hand painted raw silk sportswear. Emily has taught watercolor, acrylic and other art classes at several community colleges in the bay area.

Please also visit Emily's Website, EmilyFreimanDesigns.com.

For Emily's Resume, click here.

Currently Emily is showing at Artists of the Valley Gallery in Napa California.