A
New York area native, she attended the Traphagen School of Design
and Fashion Illustration, Parsons School of Visual Arts, and the Art
Students League. She gains inspiration from past and present renowned
painters, which influence her greatly. For many years, Coni Adams
worked in New York as a free lance fashion illustrator, and now creates
portrait masterpieces. She has studied with Robert Brackman, Sidney
Dickinson and Daniel Greene.
Her work has been exhibited in many galleries, shown in solo shows
in major cities, and hangs in hundreds of private and corporate collections.
Adams belongs to the National Arts Club, Salmagundi Club, Metropolitan
Portrait Society, Copley Society of Boston, and Artists' Fellowship.
Her work has appeared in Art & Antiques, Town and Country,
Southern Accents, and Veranda magazines and was profiled
in the 1991 New York Art Review. In the past, she has served on the
Advisory Board of Directors of The American Society of Portrait Artists.
Adams' style and technique utilizes an impressionistic palette of
pale tints, bright colors and colorful shadows. Clients throughout
the country have fallen in love with her loose, dreamlike background
with focused attention on the subject's face. She works from a combination
of life and photography in a wet on wet treatment. By traveling to
many parts of the country to work, Adams enjoys the excitement and
challenges of being with her clients in their own environment.
If you are interested in commissioning Coni Adams for an oil portrait,
please contact Arnold McRae, President of LEONLOARDCOMMISSIONEDPORTRAITS,
at 800.270.9017.
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