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The Art of the River Towns Artist of the Week: Claudia Fountaine

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This week we are featuring a participating artist from the Art of the River Towns Juried Show.

Art of the River Towns, presented by River Towns Magazine, was held Oct. 1 to 4, at Prallsville Mills in Stockton, N.J.

Claudia Fountaine of Newtown loves to paint the natural world; trees, flowers, animals, people.

“Bucks County is the perfect place for her to live,” she said in her artist statement. “The changing seasons and the light are a constant source of inspiration in her art, where you will find very few straight lines, but lots of color.”

Fountaine received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute. “Since then, she has worked as an illustrator in New York, and a mom in Pennsylvania,” she said in her artist statement.

Volunteering in the Art Goes to School Program in the Pennsbury schools for over 20 years, and becoming a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum have added to her knowledge of art and art history.

“Now that the kids are grown and out of the house,” she said, “‘All I want to do is paint.’”

Her work can be seen in local galleries, and she’s won various awards in exhibitions in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her website is: claudiafountaine.com.

Works by Fountaine and over 100 other local artists can be found and purchased on the Art of the River Towns Online Sales Gallery through Dec. 31. The online gallery features over 400 unique works by local artists. For information, visit Rivertownsmagazine.com.


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