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Welcome to my Website!
Thank you to all of you who continue to collect
and appreciate my work! I am so grateful to be able to continue to do
what I love even in these challenging times. The Gallery business has
faced difficulties like many other businesses and Phillips Gallery on
Worth Ave. was forced to close. However, many people are now reaching me
through the Internet which is very exciting!
Each year one painting venue stands out above
the others for me and while last year was Landscapes, this year it was
Florals…there’s something about getting the live flowers in the Studio
and trying to express their character before they fade! Additionally, I
have been involved with commissioned works which I really enjoy..!! Keep
that in mind for those special occasions when nothing else seems right!
Locally, my paintings can be seen at N.P.
Trent, located @ 3729 South Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach,
561.832.0919, and I am currently looking for other Gallery options. If
you find yourself in Naples, I hope you’ll stop in and see Heather at
the Weatherburn Gallery there.
New to the Website
this year is the “Notecards” Page….so many people have requested them I
thought it might be a good idea to offer them for sale. See details on
that page!!
I would love to hear from you and any comments
you may have. Many thanks for visiting my website!!
Hope Reis |
 Hope Reis is a contemporary artist,
originally from Greenwich, Connecticut.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interior Design
from the Fashion Institute
of Technology in New York. Hope ran her own interior design firm in
Stamford, Connecticut for eight years.
In 2000, Hope relocated with her husband and two
teenagers to West Palm Beach, Florida. It was then that she devoted her
attention exclusively to painting.
Hope seeks to combine realism and impressionism in
both her floral and landscape paintings. Experiencing the actual
“feel” of whatever the subject matter is, the unfolding of a flower,
or the texture of a summer squash. Painting
from life is what really inspires her, and heightens the emotional
charge and depth in her work. Whether she arranges a live floral set up
in her studio, or is painting en plein air, Hope wants to capture the
freshness of the flowers, or the effect of the light on the landscape.
She works in either watercolor or oils, depending upon the effect
she is trying to achieve.
Inspired by the richness of the work of the Old
Masters, Hope’s work has a timeless quality to it enhanced by her
intuitive sense about contemporary taste and color.
Painting from life: “I feel the energy and
passion that comes from having to translate what I see in a short amount
of time. This element is one
of the things that really excites me. It’s what I want the viewer to
feel also, says the artist. I
want my work to reflect the appreciation I feel for the glorious beauty
God has given all to enjoy.”
Hope studied at the Silvermine School of Art in
Connecticut, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, and L’ecole des
Beaux Arts in Montreal. She
continues to travel to all parts of the country taking Master classes
given by such artists as Dimitri Wright, Joe Anna Arnett, Hedi Moran,
Sherrie McGraw, Robert Johnson, Jeremy Lipking, Morgan Weistling, and
Scott Christensen.
In the summer of 2005, Hope donated a painting,
“Peonies in a Chinese Urn” to the Cape Cod Museum of Art for their
annual auction and it brought in the highest bid of the auction.
One of her florals is featured in a book from
International Artist Publishing entitled, “How Did You Paint That?
100 Ways to Paint Still
Life & Florals”.
Hope’s work is represented by
Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL, Phillips Gallery, Palm Beach; and her paintings can be
found in private and corporate collections world wide. |
