Geesherdeers
watercolor & ink, 23" x 32"
Young Woman
faux aquatint, 21" x 30"
Still, Life, Rusty Kettle
acrylic, 12" x 28"
Still Life with Bright Kettle
acrylic, 24" x 24"
Janet at Three
acrylic, 18" x 24"
Jumping the Dunes
acrylic, 24" x 24"
And Beyond
acrylic, 36" x 24"
Circling the Drain
acrylic, 24" x 30"
Artist Statement
The luckiest inheritance I ever received was whatever gene turns a person towards making things. All my life I’ve taken great joy in drawing, sculpture and painting. I’m very thankful that all these pleasures, unlike several sports, have stuck with me even into, what some may consider, a rather oldish age.
Over the course of her career, Virginia Bates has studied at the Art Students' League, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Silvermine Art School, and Connecticut Graphic Arts Center. She studied woodcut with Antonio Frasconi, etching with Vijay Kumar, and monotype with David Dunlop. For 18 years, Bates edited the Second Section, which dealt with the arts, of the Darien News-Review, a Brooks Community Newspaper. She considers herself a split personality artist:
"Half of what I do is representational and impressionistic: landscapes, still lifes, portraits.
But the one that is the most fun, the other half, involves fabulous creatures... flying people...
extraor Monotype Monotype dinary places!!!"