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Marita Redondo
Marita Redondo was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Ventura County. She studied Graphic Communications at San Diego State University and received her BFA from Cal State University, San Marcos with an Emphasis in Painting in 1991. She has a Master’s in Education and a California Teaching Credential in Art. Much of her adulthood was spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area while painting murals in homes and businesses, sets for theater, and commissioned portraits and landscapes. Marita’s oil paintings on wood and canvas are characterized by bold, colorful brush strokes. Portraits and figures are cherished interests of the artist, as she depicts family members, friends, and others she has connected with, striving to express the mood of each interesting character.. Her landscapes and still life paintings portray places the artist calls home and cherished objects in and around her home; gratefully paying homage for these moments in life. For the past 12 years Marita has taught high school art; currently at Hueneme High. She lives and paints in Ventura County and has exhibited at galleries in San Diego, Camarillo, Napa, and Benicia. Artist Statement Capturing the light and atmosphere of a place I know well and is rooted in my past is my aim in painting these landscapes. I hope to tell a visual story through color and light, as well as geometric and bold strokes of my brush. Some of my paintings are inspired by my walks down Sanjon Road to where it meets the beach in Ventura or from my hikes above the cross and botanical gardens of Ventura. These spots are a comfort to me; they are places I have always known, places I can call a home. The piece, “Banana Tree”, was painted on my patio as my cat explored the yard. The banana plant’s leaves changed from green and red to orange and yellow, curled up, died, and were trimmed during the weeks of painting this. I adjusted the painting as Summer passed to Fall, leaving the traces of time, and again preserving a memory of sunlight and home. My portraits tell my own stories of the people I’ve pictured, but you the viewer, may imagine your own version. |
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