Andrea Stajan-Ferkul

If Red Is Your Colour - 5"x7", Red Dress With Black Lace, Original Art On Paper

2021

This is a set of two original artworks on paper showcasing timeless, elegant dresses through the use of paint, colour pencil and collage elements. Delicate details and intuitive mark...

The Dressing Room: This is a set of three original artworks on paper showcasing timeless, elegant dresses through the use of paint, colour pencil and collage elements. Delicate detai...

This stylish black and leopard print dress is an artwork on paper blending paint, pencil and collage elements. Intuitive mark-making and loose textured detail make for an outcome bot...

SILHOUETTE - This artwork on paper captures a sense of understated glamour. The blending of a textile texture and delicate gold detailing around the waist creates a refined and elega...

"Moonlit: Blue II" (2022) by Erica Rose Levine Color pencil and acrylic wash on Arches paper, mounted on cradled wood panel; Contemporary academic r...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness...

"Moonlit: Blue I" (2022) by Erica Rose Levine Color pencil and acrylic wash on Arches paper, mounted on cradled wood panel; Contemporary academic rea...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1978. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness, California, north of San Francisco and working from a studio in Point Reyes, Inez Storer creates mixed-media narrative paintings, collages and assemblages in naive-sophisticated style, which she describes as Magic Realism: "I am a visual raconteur. I use paint to tell stories." Most of these stories are explorations of the human condition with characters who seem allegorically to be walking tightropes. She gets many ideas from her studio collection of old postcards, toys, photos and other random items that she often incorporates into her work. Inez Storer is also known for her prints and drawings. Storer was born in Los Angeles to German parents who left that country in 1933 to avoid Hitler. Her father got a job in Hollywood with Billy Wilder as an art director, and her mother was an actress and dancer. Inez spent much time as a child on movie sets. She was raised a Catholic as her parents wanted no one to know her mother was Jewish and uses Catholic imagery in her work. In 1974, she met Andrew Romanoff, a Russian artist who became her second husband. In this marriage, she became a part of Russian royalty because Andrew was the grand nephew of the Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor...