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FANTASTIC SALLY SWATLAND PAINTINGS CHILDREN ON
THE BEACH
Helmut Zacharias Makin'Whoopee
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Sally Swatland was born in 1946 in Washington, DC
and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut when she was
seven. Her father was a successful attorney,
which allowed her family to spend long periods in
the countryside with many vacations at various
seaside locations throughout the United States.
She shared a passion with her family for beaches,
sunshine, and fresh air. Most summer days were
spent at the beach playing in tidal pools,
chasing minnows, collecting shells and
exploring.Sally has two sisters who were also
encouraged to study drawing, painting, and
anything that developed creative expression.
Throughout her childhood and teens she painted
and drew constantly, developing skill at
observing and recording the world around her. She
started painting when she was five. Throughout
grammar school, high school and college she was
always enrolled in art classes. She has always
had a passion for art and loves experimenting
with color and light.
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After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from
Mount Saint Vincent College, she went on to study
formal figure drawing for six years (1969-1974)
at the Art Students League of New York. There she
studied under Robert Shultz (the illustrator who
continued Norman Rockwell's tradition and became
famous for his illustrations that graced the
covers of many Zane Gray books).During the
summer months Schultz held numerous plein-air
classes on landscape painting in the New Jersey
countryside where Sally would religiously drive
long distances to attend.Sally married in her
mid-twenties and painted her first 'beach scene'
while she was pregnant with her first child.
Sally remembers the time quite well It was
somewhat of an accident that I thought about
painting children at the beach. I had studied
figure and landscape painting at the Art Students
League and I was somewhat searching for a subject
that interested me. While I was pregnant with my
first child, one day I went to the beach with my
mother and took some photos of children playing
in puddles. I went home and painted a small
painting and showed it to some people. The
response was very encouraging. They liked the
feeling of the painting. I painted a few more
that summer.
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After the birth of her first daughter, Noelle in
1975, she spent many summer days at the beaches
around Greenwich, Connecticut. She would take
Noelle and her friends to the beach during the
summer months. There she would capture children
on film in all types of beach activities. Her
favorite images are of children playing in tidal
pools, yielding light filled and colorful
reflections. When her second daughter, Katie,
was born in 1981 she continued the daily summer
visits to the beach - adding a new model for her
work. The groups of children who gathered to go
to the beach grew in numbers and as Noelle and
Katie got older, the family would travel to
beaches in the Hamptons, and to various beaches
in Northern and Southern California. Sally would
carry a variety of colorful clothing and an
assortment of hats to the beach and she spent a
considerable amount of time searching for the
right beach apparel. There was a significant
amount of bribery that went on between Sally and
her children so that they would co-operate in
what she now calls her 'beach dress up photo
archives'. The children knew it was a way to
acquire further summer treats and gain extra
benefits the children knew how to gain favors -
it was all quite amusing to Sally. Her beach
photo sessions would always draw a crowd,
especially the young children, which allowed her
access to even more models.
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During the winter months Sally would spend her
time painting portraits with most of her
commissions coming from referrals, however her
love was the summer images on the beach. Today,
while she still receives many commissions for
portrait work, she has turned her attention to
her carefree images of children playing on the
beach. Sally uses her extensive 'beach dress up
photo archives' as inspiration for her warm and
colorful images of childhood.Sally has
exhibited in the Hudson Valley Juried Show was
selected to paint the Governor of Connecticut's
Christmas card two years in a row has had a
number of one-women shows in Connecticut and is
involved in numerous charities. Each year Sally
donates works to Brunswick Academy, Greenwich
Academy, Lime Association of Fairfield County,
Putnam Indian Field School and Sloan Kettering
Hospital (American Cancer Society) so they may be
auctioned off to raise funds.Currently Sally is
a member of the following Societies American
Impressionist Society American Society of Marine
Artists American Society of Portrait Artists and
the Cape Cod Art Association.
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T H E E N D
February 02, 2010
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