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Artist Statement:
I was born and raised on the
Island of Manhattan, NYC. My
spirit learned early about the
concrete jungle with its
melting pot of cultures and
the grand variety of NYC's
architecture . It was at the
age of 16 that I first
traveled to the tropical green
jungles OF ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
"ISLAMORADA ISLAND FEST 08"
Islamorada, Florida Keys
May 3, 4th, 2008
"POSTER ARTIST"
Mile Marker 87 at Founders
Park.
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Artist Galleries:
I can create an original
commissioned oil on canvas or
watercolor. please feel free
to email me.
If you are coming to Coconut
Grove, South Florida area and
would like to make an
appointment please feel free
to email me.
When you visit my website
directly you will see all ...
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Collections:
American Airlines Admirals
Club, Miami, FL International
Airport
Xcaret Playa Del Carmen,
Mexico
2005 COVER ART for South
Florida "NATURAL AWAKENINGS
MAGAZINE" - "The Mango House"
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Commissions:
American Airlines Admirals
Club,
Miami International
Airport,Miami, Fl USA
Health Central Hospital,
Occoee, Florida
Xcaret Ecological Park,
Quintanaroo, Mexico - 4 OIL
PAINTINGS
MD Anderson, Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas - 2 LARGE OIL
PAINTINGS
CD COVER - "GATEWAY TO INNER
PEACE"
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"DEERFIELD BEACH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS"
Jan 26, 27-2008
AWARD
""" BEST OF SHOW"""
http://www.eileenseitz.com/newsletter
http://www.miamiherald.com/1052/story/221569.html
""MIAMI HERALD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE""
FLORIDA FIND
For Grove artist, "LIFE IMITATES ART"
Posted on Sun, Sep. 02, 2007
BY MIREYA NOVO
mnovo@miamiherald.com
PETER ANDREW BOSCH / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Eileen Seitz visited the Caribbean at age 21 and fell in love with the light and colors of the islands. She has captured the tropical scene in her bright watercolors.
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Eileen Seitz Fine Art
Prices: greeting cards, $3; posters, $30; paintings, $600 to $10,000; rugs start at $1,682 plus shipping. Call 305-443-1416.
Artist Eileen Seitz treats us to watermelon for breakfast in the house her architect husband, J Beattie, built for them in Coconut Grove. The home boasts enormous windows, soaring ceilings and a skylight that afford us a magnificent view of her tropical garden. It's a cozy place to be on a rainy morning. Her bright watercolors, hanging everywhere, appear to be an extension of the lush Grove setting. It's a matter of life imitating art.
In reality, Seitz was born into a world light years away from the tropical splendor she would later idealize in her paintings. Born and raised in Manhattan, her artistic bent surfaced early: she began drawing as a precocious 8-year-old and at 16 sold her first painting to a New York City art dealer. After high school, she was admitted to the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but she dreamed of faraway places and took time off to travel.
Her journey of discovery began at 21, when she visited the Caribbean and was immediately smitten with the light and colors of the islands. ''The tropics take me right back to the Garden of Eden,'' says Seitz. The trip became a sort of epiphany for her, so much so that she spent months living on the islands and even worked on a farm in Eleuthera.
With a friend, she hitchhiked through Mexico. ''I wanted to live the exact opposite of the concrete jungle,'' she said. ''I found the beauty of these places overwhelming.'' As she discovered this new world, she also began capturing its beauty on canvas. ''Each painting has a spiritual personality of its own, as the culture, climate and nature it rejoices in,'' Seitz said.
Seitz moved to Coconut Grove in the early '80s and began publishing her paintings as art cards, posters and prints. They have been commissioned for use as art festival posters, purchased for television and movies, and bought by international hotels and airports.
She was poster artist for the Beaux Arts and Goombay festivals, among others, and, not surprisingly, her tropical prints hang at the restaurants of the popular Pollo Tropical chain throughout the state. A few years ago, she branched into rug design. Made in Mexico of 100 percent New Zealand wool, the rugs are either based on her paintings or clients' requests. ''But I won't do coffee mugs or T-shirts,'' she grins. ``I don't want to see my work at a gas station on the Turnpike.''
But she did find her work on a beach in the Bahamas. A client called and asked, ''Would it be OK with you if I take your art and create a house?'' David Pauley had fallen in love with her painting, Sophia's Rest, a bucolic scene of two West Indian houses on the coast.
An engineer who lives in the Florida Keys, Pauley decided to build a house exactly like the Seitz painting that hung in his bedroom. ''My wife and I had always been fond of the Bahamas, so we took trips there looking for lots. I ended up commuting there for a year until the house was finished,'' he said.
''He even sent me the blueprints,'' Seitz recalled excitedly, 'and then some months later, I received an e-mail saying, `do you want to visit?' '' Pauley had duplicated her painting in Exuma, Bahamas.
''Marie and I contacted Eileen thinking she might be interested in someone nuts enough to build the house from one of her paintings in the Bahamas, so we invited her out to see the results,'' Pauley said.
''It was like walking into a dream,'' said Seitz, who spent several days in Exuma. ``I was sleeping in my own painting.''
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