The endlessly inventive and exuberant Connecticut artist Claudia Mengel says: “My work comes from not looking, but experiencing the world around me, and then translating these visual and emotional perceptions. With every creation, there is a new discovery, a new problem, a new solution. Every time I approach the blank white space, I take a unique journey always unlike the last, and never like the next. It is what keeps me coming back.”
The artist’s fluidity with form and color, her placement and choice of reds that thrust and dance, juxtaposed next to quieter, cooler colors, create a dynamic harmony, the kind that works well at the Lodge at Woodloch. Claudia has an art degree from the Brainerd Art School at SUNY; her studies continued at the Art Students League in New York, the Silvermine Art Center, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and the Darien Art Center, as well as with several private teachers. Currently she is studying with Robert Reed, Professor of Art at Yale. She also studies and works with Constance Kiermaier, a prominent New England artist, Master Printer Marina Anacona, and Master Printer Anthony Kirk, who has printed with major American artists including Helen Frankenthaler and Wolf Kahn.