Biography
Constance Wooldridge is a native New Brunswicker who has been painting and teaching for over twenty-five years. Constance creates art using various media, including oil, watercolour, acrylic, pastel and conte, as well as pencil/charcoal, gouache and encaustic waxes.
Most of her art is considered to be of "high-realistic" style, and requires a considerable amount of detail and time. Constance's award-winning work has been exhibited and sold in provinces across Canada and in the United States.
In her Sienna Arts Studio and Gallery, on a weekly basis, Constance also instructs her high-achieving students who have gone on to become successful artists in their own right. In 2011, one young student won a well-deserved honourable mention in Canada-wide Robert Bateman Art Competition and another was awarded second place in the ANE Art Competition.
She also teaches pastel, watercolour, oil painting and encaustic courses at the Saint John Arts Centre. Her business, Sienna Arts, is now marketing both original art and prints worldwide online and she is scheduling and conducting out-of-province workshops.
She is presently chair of the new Art Education Committee at the Saint John Arts Centre, which will be reaching out to young people in local area schools, with special art programs in both the schools and at the Arts Centre.
Community projects include art classes for seniors in area churches and schools.
Constance resides, with her husband, Roy, and their devoted black Labrador retriever, Prince Seguard, in Saint John, New Brunswick.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION regarding website:
Sienna is such a deep, earthy colour, and one that is usually included in my work. It symbolizes, for me, the richness and value of our Communion with Nature, and all that it offers to us every day of our life.
My mind and soul absorbs the contrasting colours, shapes and textures, and the different levels of intensity of life and colours in our world.
I have attempted, in my artwork, to express those emotions associated with the images of Nature and its changing moods through crisp, defined composition. Strong emotion can be evoked by the strength, serenity, and overall beauty of our landscape and people.
I've had the privilege of teaching art and exhibiting art in many venues, and meeting many wonderful people, many of whom are now friends. My desire is, that through the Canadian art on this website, you will be able to share some of that experience.
Hopefully, it will promote a desire for additional, more intent observation, stimulate discussion, and inspire the joy that I have felt upon further discovery in this great land of ours.
Constance Wooldridge
