Veronica Winters, MFA, is a contemporary Russian-American artist, art instructor, and book author who illuminates the beauty and power of the feminine spirit through her figurative paintings. Winters creates vivid portraits of women, transforming her private, inner world into complex visual stories. Symbolic and influenced by classical artistic traditions, Winters’ work serves as a tool—for herself and her viewers alike—to experience the healing potential of painting. In color, figure, and symbols, the artist explores a relationship between the perceived beauty and beauty inside us, between presence and absence, loneliness and solitude. Veronica investigates her understanding of identity and feelings of loss, love, and hope. Painting visual stories, the symbolic female figure is central to artist’s pieces revealing duality of inner strength and vulnerability.

The artist is nationally recognized for her colored pencil drawing with the publication of the art instruction books titled The Colored Pencil Manual and How to Color Like an Artist by Dover Publications, NY. Veronica’s art and writing have been published in numerous magazines and art books, including Strokes of Genius, Leisure Painter, Colored Pencil Magazine, the Guide Artists, the American Art Collector, and the International Artist Magazine. ­­­Veronica creates art in her studio located in Naples, Florida.

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