TITLE: MATILIJA POPPIES
ARTIST: CHARLOTTE SEVERIN

Charlotte Severin is an award-winning Bay Area Plein Air artist whose works are displayed in public and private collections in the U.S. and many foreign countries as well as in foreign consulates and embassies in San Francisco. Some corporate collectors have acquired as many as 25 of her works in permanent collections and she has completed commissions for international corporations.

She began painting in oils at the age of 12 and studied with a German and an Italian artist as well as at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Later, she continued her studies at Stanford University, where she graduated with honors, and in Wurzburg, Germany.

Having been honored with more than thirty one-person shows, she is a Signature Member of the California Watercolor Association, charter member and Past President of the Pleasanton Art League, Founding President of the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council and founder of their "Arts in the Schools Program". An inspired teacher, she has taught classical watercolor, oriental brush painting and drawing in Bay Area schools for over 30 years. She has served as an "Artist in Residence" at many schools and has enjoyed lighting the spark of creativity in thousands of children and adults by teaching weekly classes in watercolor for the City of Pleasanton.

Charlotte enjoys working in all media, but at present is painting mostly in watercolors. She prefers this medium because of its flexibility for on-location painting and the freshness it inspires. She has works in permanent collections in the Oakland Museum as well as the Riverside Art Museum. Her painting, Hollyhocks, recently won first place in an international art exhibit at the Moscone Center, where one of the jurors was a curator from San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. This painting was sold at the exhibit for $2,500.