My Intention | To create meaningful, soulful artwork that inspires us to live a more compassionate, peaceful, and harmonious life. And that this work brings comfort, life-sustaining happiness and freedom to all sentient beings.
(b. 1958)
Victoria Schon lives in the countryside near Dexter, Michigan. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art from the University of Michigan, her career developed around interior design. When good fortune allowed her to move to Santa Barbara, California in 2003, she had the opportunity to explore more deeply her inner calling. A vast artist community there provided her with the opportunity to explore, where she ultimately discovered her true love, oil painting. Since then she devotes herself full-time to painting.
She is known for her impressionist, colorful and expressive brush work. Victoria's love of nature inspires her work. “In nature, we see quite beautifully ideas about relationships, or a fleeting moment, or even a particular phenomena. And when I see something that strikes me on a personal level, something so beautiful, then I am drawn to capture and communicate this. I see it really as sharing.” Victoria's early paintings were primarily still life’s in the time-honored tradition of the old master's style Chiaroscuro. But more recently she has shifted her focus to include more animals, landscape painting, and buddhist imagery, while simultaneously exploring more painterly brushwork that is playful and loose, impressionistic, and more reflective of her own personality.
Victoria received her bachelor’s degree in Art History at the University of Michigan and has studied oil painting and design with nationally recognized artists. She is an associate member of Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society. She is an animal welfare advocate and donates 10% of all painting sales to select animal welfare organizations.
Selected Shows
2012 Small Works Annual Exhibit, Riverside Art Gallery, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2010 19th Annual Juried Art Competition, Breckenridge Fine Art Center, Breckenridge, Texas
2010 2nd Place Prize, Casper Artists' Guild 16th Annual Miniature Art Show, Casper, Wyoming
2010 Ann Arbor Women's Artists Summer Juried Exhibit, Riverside Art Gallery, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2010 Art On The House, Michigan Capitol Building, Lansing, Michigan
2009 "Inflight" Birds viewed through the artist eye, Side Door Gallery, Dexter, Michigan
2007 Southern Nevada Desert Impressions-One Person Show, Paseo Verde Public Library, Henderson, Nevada
2007 Ann Arbor Women's Artists Spring Juried Exhibit, Ann Arbor Public Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
EDUCATION
University Of Michigan, B.A. 1998
AFFILIATIONS
Oil Painters of America
American Impressionist Society
