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| login id: | VERON |
| Birth Place: | Fairfax, VA |
| Birthdate: | 11.30.1981 |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
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Veron Ennis is a Fort Myers-based painter, curator and art critic. At the crux of her artistic foundation is painting. Stemming from this core and in the broadest sense, all things art engage her interest. Immersing herself into the vast contemporary art world provides an energetic drive, inspiration, and a constant flow of challenges beyond the private, contemplative life of painting in her studio.
As a painter, Veron’s works take on unique manifestations weaved together by an underlying stream of consciousness. Each painting presents a new mission, a new discovery, a new vision for expression, all connected by the golden thread of her distinct style.
She has exhibited her works at some of Southwest Florida’s top galleries, including shows in Fort Myers, Sanibel, Naples and Cape Coral. Her work has also been featured in New York’s Lyrical Luminosci-T, Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art Gallery – a show curated by Ruthie Tucker.
Veron applies an assortment of media in her paintings. She loves to experiment with water-based paints, oils, polymer-based grounds, cotton rag paper and raw canvas. Her toolboxes consist of brushes, archival pens, charcoal, rags, trowels, knives, saws, drills, rulers, squares, buckets full of jar lids, scrap canisters, odd metal shapes, various widths of tape, razors, a hand sander…and a hair dryer.
Veron’s pursuits, beyond her painting, enable her to examine a diverse range of theories and constructs in the art world. Veron served as the curator for the Ferrari Gallery in Cape Coral, where she designed shows by noted artists including David Hatchett, Uri Berger and Jeffrey Scott Lewis. Her writings in art theory and criticism have appeared in Art Districts, Times of the Islands, RSW Living, Bonita Living, and Gulf and Main.
A native of Northern Virginia, Veron graduated from Virginia Tech where she majored in graphic design. However, even at an early age Veron found herself drawn to class after class in art history, art theory and painting. After a brief career in graphic and interior design, she dedicated herself to a fine-art career in painting.
Veron is married to Duncan Ennis, a proponent of green energy technology, who inspires her scientifically, mechanically, literally, mathematically, historically and philosophically. A vast source of knowledge, Duncan represents a central pillar of inspiration in Veron’s work.
Veron finds a major source of strength in her faith. She is actively involved in St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church in Cape Coral, where she is a Sacramental Catechist for 2nd grade students. She volunteers there working with children and painting temporary murals for the parish’s annual festivals and events.
A student of art history and theory, blessed to grow up visiting the museums of Washington, DC, Veron established her foundation as a painter by emulating those works and artists who moved her the most. She gradually ascended, from emulation, to developing her own vision and voice, her own themes and motifs, and her own techniques as a modern and contemporary artist of today. |
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