Valerie Corvin Abstracts
I loved lying in the grass looking at clouds as a kid. Those memories and feelings still fill my imagination. Shapes in nature spark my creativity. My artwork is about reclaiming that sense of wonder from looking at nature. Searching for that sensation of aliveness. All the while working from my intuition for authenticity. Ultimately my visual language of shapes, marks and lines bring forth the feelings we all share of joy, beauty, curiosity, and our fundamental humanness.
I work in mixed media and collage. My works are both as joyful and energetic and vibrate with color. I began my career in the visual arts at 40 years old. I returned to college and received her Masters in Museum Administration and worked for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as a museum educator. I began my education in painting at the California College of the Arts and with numerous Bay Area painting teachers. I am a founder of an arts center, the Piedmont Center for the Arts, and managed the visual arts program for eight years. Promoting and creating opportunities for fellow emerging artists is a passion and I am the founder and administrator of a juried art competition exhibition now in its eighth year. Originally from New Jersey, I live and work in my home studio in the East Bay Hills of the San Francisco Bay Area.
