Liza Curtis received her BS in Art Education from Skidmore College and is an artist, certified Holistic Health Coach, and Reiki practitioner living in Natick, MA with her family. She has lived in many different places around the United States and traveled quite extensively in Europe and the Middle East. Liza has over 20 year experience as a professional artist and teacher with a passion for spirituality, nutrition and wellness. In 2012 she co-founded and co-owned Palettes paint and wine studio in downtown Natick, which was sold to the new owners in June of this year. Currently Liza is working as the membership coordinator at the Natick Community Organic Farm.

Sandrine Colson is born in Provence, France, she is a world traveler and has visited many countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. She lived in France, various parts of the US, and now resides in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries, museums and other venues throughout New England, the US as well as Europe: France and Spain. Her studio is based in Charlestown, MA. She is presently focusing on mastering her art as a painter, mixed media and jewelry artist.

Sandrine is a versatile artist working in acrylic and mixed media abstract compositions, referencing natural forms and movement, filled with bright paint swirls, playful paper cut-outs, and three-dimensional objects, resulting in richly textured abstract canvases with intricate layering. Her work is a continuing experimentation with form, color, and medium. It is a snap-shot representation of stories that unveil under her brush, or through various mixed-media, letting innovation and creativity materialize on the canvas, leaving the viewer to his or her imagination to finish the story she started, making imagination, visible.

Her mission as an artist is to value the uniqueness in each of us by telling stories of who we are or is important to us.

www.artofheart.com.

"I have always imagined myself as a teller of “stories” except that images, landscapes, colors, flowers, mixed media, sculptures, paintings, and other ways of expressing myself as an artist using colors, materials and textures, are my ways of telling stories. I am a painter of stories. All my pieces have a story to tell. Some for the viewer to find on their own, some more guided through my brush or the theme of the piece."

Paris Stories describes a series of unique and original pieces of mixed media work where each story - each piece - represents an unique series of events, memories, words, and accounts of imaginary or real people, past events or emotional journeys related to Paris. Each invites the viewer to let his or her imagination decides where the story goes, somewhat guided by the composition I created based upon my own journey in Paris. This journey is just beginning...