SKYLARK'S SNOHOMISH RIVER ART STUDIO

Welcome to Skylark's Art Studio! My name is Alana Marielle Campbell. My love for art began as a child, when I was mentored by an extremely creative family, My grandfather was a lecturer on the Chattaqua circuit, a published writer and poet, my grandmother, Amy Laughlin was an artist in oils. My mother studied clothing design. One cousin is an artist with her own gallery, her sister is an artist that teaches painting, another family artist worked for Disney Studios, Aunt Lillian, who was married to Uncle Tony, was an artist-illustrator and as a child, I recall being fascinated by the fabulous murals on the walls of her home. I loved to draw and paint as a child. Anna, my sister paints in Chinese brush painting.

My family, which is richly culturally diverse and the extended family were of great encouragment me, consistently urging me to develope my artistic talent in drawing and painting in watercolour.

As a child I loved history, including music of composers and art history, and my curriculum at school was replete with paintings of the masters, and the stories of their lives.

Art during the reformation period was employed as warfare. Faced with the threat of Protestantism, the Roman Catholic church spent lavishly on religious art to revive the faith of their congregations. Wealthy churches, abbeys and bishops commissioned the leading artists such as Rubens. Many trained in Italy, and were influenced by Michelangelo, Raphael and the whole history of Italian art. In Antwerp, they had to paint religious subjects - aiming at spectacular, grand effects, whilst looking very realistic, and conveying a simple emotional message to the faithful.

In my current studio, I paint in an octogon shaped dining room that we've converted into a studio which has adequate floor space and floor to ceiling windows which let in lots of light. My studio easel accomodates canvases up to 8 feet high, and I work with the following mediums. * Oils * Watercolour * Acrylic * Pen & Ink * Pastel * Mixed Media

In the photo on the side of the page, is the studio where I paint.