Faye Vander Veer
FAYE VANDER VEER —A lifelong oil painter and award winning artist, Faye Vander Veer’s captivating paintings reflect her intense interest in the human spirit. Inspired by her observation of everyday life, she takes the most insignificant event and makes it appear extraordinary. Her sensitivity to the effects of light, shadow, color and form evokes an emotional reaction that has drawn collectors to her work and keeps them coming back.
Born in Hampton, Virginia, she does not remember a time when she wasn’t drawing or painting. Her parents encouraged her early interest in art. On her tenth birthday her father gave her an easel he had made and presented her with her first set of oil paints. She has been an oil painter ever since.
“For me, each painting is a journey into the soul, an opportunity for me to explore my own reactions to the color and light I observe in everyday life. I see the most ordinary occurrence and think how wonderful that would look as a painting, from the simplest gesture of a young girl putting on her shoe in Paris, to a group of seniors standing on a street corner in Italy, the world is a living canvas. I have experienced each of these scenes personally. They are like visual entries from my travel journal. As I am creating a painting, my memory takes me back, and I am transported once again to that moment, that day, and I am there. Painting becomes a language I use to express my emotional response to what is before me and share my experience of the subject with others.”
Testimonial: Collector, Ritanne McLaughlin of Philadelphia, PA says, “Faye Vander Veer has a special way of conveying deep contemplative feelings in a way that is intimate but not intrusive. Her subjects are treated with such respect for their humanity. There is a serene dignity about them. Her paintings are alive and filled with her soulful spirit. A true feeling of love pervades her art.”
Travel with the artist through these compelling paintings and share her journey, where that fleeting moment becomes a painting of lasting beauty.
