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Lucinda O'Connell

Cloud Nine Studio | Lucinda O'Connell
#1 Norre Gade
Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands 00802

Email: Lucinda@Islands.vi

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"Originally from Florida, celebrated artist Lucinda O'Connell has been a fine artist in the Virgin Islands for 20 years. From her Caribbean home, she travels the world collecting images of light and pattern and transforms these impressions onto canvas and paper.

Lucinda is an alchemist of sorts. Her unique style distills the deepest qualities of island life. It translates into a positive feeling that emanates from the paper or canvas. The move to the Caribbean directed her full attention to painting and her creative drive. Lucinda is able to focus on the light of the islands by using pastel colors against dark shadows and painting the intense light that meets the reflective waters.

The artist is inspired by early mornings and late afternoons when the island becomes rich in texture and bold in color. Lucinda's current works capture these times with the thick medium of oil. These paintings are a study of radiance in abstract with overtones of tropical colors and patterns.

The guiding spirits of such masters such as Milton Avery, Vincent Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse also have a place in Lucinda's creative inspiration. Of course, their expert tutelage came with the careful study of books and tenacious viewing of exhibits.

Lucinda's many accomplishments include being the resident artist at Caneel Bay Resort on St. John for eight years and, in 2000, becoming the first artist-in-residence for Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley. Her work has been featured in several magazines such as Caribbean Travel & Life and Islands Magazine, as well as on wine labels and even the television show Law & Order.

In her present position as resident artist for The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas, Lucinda was asked to create seven original paintings that reflect the ambiance of the property and the feeling of the island. Six of these pieces were reproduced and now grace over 150 of the hotel's newly renovated rooms. Each of these rooms also showcases an original monotype.

Currently, you will find the lively and engaging Lucinda during her weekly art shows and watercolor classes at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas or at her studio, Cloud Nine."

"I remember handing my grandmother a drawing I did of the Easter Bunny. Right then and there, at the age of six, I declared I would be an artist.

It was said and therefore it had to be. Over the years, the desire to make the cynics eat crow fueled my growing passion. The pervasive sentiment at the time was, "It's a hard life; I hope you marry someone rich." Well I did and I didn't. I did become a professional artist and I didn't marry into money.

Being an artist is not optional. I need to create. I need to teach. Both are authentic. That I have the ability to touch someone with my art gives me a powerful sense of purpose. A collector may look at one of my paintings in her home and be transported. A student may take a watercolor class and years later send me an invitation to his first art show. These moments make my life full.

I've enjoyed watching my art evolve and mature over the decades from the Easter Bunny to the abstracts of today. To make art is to communicate my extended consciousness. The texture I am able to add to my abstracts with a palette knife and the hard end of a brush deepen the emotion of a piece. My abstract paintings truly reflect my passion for life.

Almost daily I enjoy painting in my studio, Cloud Nine. It makes me feel alive, especially as I get close to finishing a piece. For me, it is equivalent to completing a complicated puzzle or solving a complex problem.

With a final stroke of the brush I have just accomplished something that took not only creativity and skill but also time and determination. Once I have completed a painting and I know that I've hit it on the head, I feel as if I'm driving fast over an open highway with nothing between me and the horizon.

I hope my art is able to enliven your senses so you readily recognize the vivid colors and textures surrounding you in the everyday."