| Belva Ann Prycel is a landscape
painter and former art instructor who lives in Sheepscot Village,
Maine, with her husband Lewis and dog Jolie. Raised near the bayshores
and tidal wetlands of southern New Jersey, she now finds inspiration
in the expansive skies, rivers, and rocky shorelines of the northern
coast.
Prycel is a graduate of Rowan College who taught painting and
drawing for 25 years in public schools and in her private studio.
She was a frequent cover artist for “South Jersey Magazine”
and has illustrated two books on maritime history. In 2000, she
was the featured subject of an award-winning NJN Public Television
documentary, “Bayside Artists: Celebrating Our Sense of
Place”.
She has received numerous awards for her work in oil and watercolor,
with juried exhibitions at the Port of History Museum, Philadelphia;
Philadelphia Art Alliance; Atlantic City Arts Center; Wheaton
Museum; and Long Beach Island Gallery to name a few. She is a
past member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society and the Society
of New Jersey Artists where she has served as a President and
Exhibition Chair.
Since moving to Maine she has exhibited at the Maine Art Gallery
in Wiscasset, Round Top Center for the Arts, and the Saltwater
Artists Gallery in Pemaquid.
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