Sandy Thibeault
Egg Tempera Paintings
Bees Descending on Three Pears
Egg Tempera
9"x12"
Sandy has worked in Egg Tempera for nearly thirty years. From her earliest years, realism and detail have always been instinctive in her creative expression. As a college student her appreciation for the Italian and Northern Renaissance was nurtured while traveling throughout Europe and studying painting and art history in Italy. Egg Tempera lent itself to drawing with a brush and offered a method of painting that seemed second nature. Her painterly realism is revealed through the application of numerous...sometimes hundreds...of layers of interacting translucent Egg Tempera. All thinly applied to create a luminosity and rich depth of color. No matter the focus, Sandy's paintings expose things that matter to her, where she finds excitement or beauty by means of surface texture, color, pattern or personal relationship.