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Edie Wells Bristol

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artist's biography

Working mostly in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil and pastel, Edie Wells Bristol is an accomplished painter. Her works fall into step with the early 20th century style called Fauvism, exhibiting a wide array of colors to create an image. Using brush and palette knife, Bristol creates vibrant still-life and semi-abstract paintings of flowers and objects. Bristol avoids pure representational styles, and her work commonly includes distorted figures, allowing for more freedom of form. Bristol studied art at the Barnes Foundation in Merion before she began painting, at age 50, in 1980.
Bristol has exhibited in the Bucks County area where she lives and paints, and throughout the Delaware Valley and beyond.  She has won awards at the annual art exhibitions at Phillips' Mill.  She has traveled extensively, taking her painting to Siena, Italy and Cornwall, England.

 

“…I started painting at the age of fifty, took a class or so along the way.  The best way to describe what my paintings are all about is to quote two art critics”

Edie Wells Bristol

 

“...first and foremost a natural, full throated experience of an artist who simply likes to paint.”
“….emotionally charged high spirited style...”
“...up-scale patrician—though informal—lifestyle.”
“The challenge Bristol set was to trigger emotional responses…”

Victoria Donohoe—Inquirer

“...images materialize with hazed definition in the mass of colors and shapes, in chaotic energy of form and figure, like scattered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.”
“...unhindered by expectation and conformity.”
“...delights in spontaneity.”

Naila Francis—Intelligencer