El trbajo de Pixie glore es reflejo de la aventura, basado en la fuerza, la belleza de la gente y lugares de la tierra. Crecida en el oeste de Estados Unidos (Utah), vivio de cerca el mundo rural y su gente, lo cual le llevo a desarrollar los sentimientos que plasma en su pintura, al igual que el color de sus cuadros pura extraccion del desierto. Cada trazo de su pincel lleva las adventuras de sus viajes por el mundo, desde Papua nueva Guinea, china, el Pacifico-sur, Africa, etc. Paso un año en Francia en 2003 donde practiaba como los impresionistas famosos, como Ceyzanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Degas etc. Los colores de ellos y de Provence desde entonces ha introcido en su trabajo para siempre. Ahora desde España pinta los rincones intimos, la luz, y el rostro de Andalucio.

Pixie Glores work reflects adventure, power and beauty of the people and places she paints. Raised in the Western United States (Utah), often living in the country, close to farmers and cowboys, she developed a sensitivity that expresses itself in her work, be it through the colors of the desert or emotions in her portraits and figures. Every brushstroke carries with it the adventures of her many travels around the world from Papua New Guinea, china, the south Pacific, frica, Asia and Europe. She spent a year in Provence in 2003 studying in the same places as the early impressionists, Ceyzanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, etc. Now their colors have infused themselves permanently into her work. Now living in Spain, she searches for intimacy found in lost corners and strong light, the character of Andalucia.

Brush strokes of people, beauty and strength
Adventure artist Pixie Glores work is about people, beauty and strength.
In West Africa, Glore picked up on the inner strength of the tribeswomen she met. Her painting, Waiting for Power, depicts women whose lives are unimaginable to "Westerners". Their life expectancy is only 35 years due to the long hours spent mostly raising children and toiling in the fields. Even so, they carry an inner strength and beauty most of us would envy.
Glore feels a kinship with many of the women whose paths she has crossed while globe trekking. No stranger to adversity, Glore, at 26, was the single parent of a 7-year-old daughter. Home was a converted school bus in Utah.
Pulling herself up by the bootstraps, Glore broke through economic barriers to earn a living operating heavy equipment from 1979 to 1985. Though financially secure, she yearned for an artistic career and later received two scholarships and a cum laude B.F.A. degree.
While women are often the subjects of her work, men are also depicted in many of her watercolors, such as Shark Caller, in which a Papua New Guinea villager, conch shell to his lips, calls shark hunters back to shore.
Motivated in part because traditional ways of life in many corners of the world are quickly slipping away, Glore educates herself through travel and reading then picks up her brush to visually capture the culture on paper. The evocative images are alive with color and energy. Her painting, Women Warriors, inspired by the annual Sing in Papua New Guinea, received a top award in the Colorado Watercolor Society show.
Her studio is filled with photographs and paintings of numerous trips she and her husband, Charlie, daughter Dawn, and son Foster, have made to Africa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, China and other distant shores.
Colorado is home but they now live part of the year along Spains southern coast, in Andalucia, where Glore spends her days painting its sleepy, whitewashed towns and villages, always digging for something beyond what meets the eye. Here, it is the history of the region - a place where Arabs, Jews and Christians lived peacefully together for 800 years.
Her paints and sketch pads are always packed for adventure travel to out-of-the way locations. She has sketched in a narrow, two-person dugout canoe while paddling out to sea four miles with local villagers to hunt sharks. Glore also sailed on a 60-foot boat to an area where headhunting thankfully is no longer practiced. She and Charlie were the first outsiders to ever walk into some of the regions isolated villages
Now, from Spain, Glore crosses the Strait of Gibraltar for adventures that lead her through the streets of Morocco and into North Africas mountains where she is drawn to the timeless scenes of donkey carts and huge mud palaces.
Glores sense of adventure will continue to lead to new subject matter, which she explores through her art.
By Laurie DiBattista
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