As many of you are aware, Lianne is no longer with us. I am her son, Gordie, and have kept her account active to preserve the passion she had with her art and this community. Please see below for a 'final note' she posted with a few of the last pieces she completed before passing away in November of 2015.
'Being a part of this Fine Art America community has meant the world to me over the past years and I'd like to express my endless gratitude for all the support and encouragement you have given me so graciously. My one regret is that having lost the battle with leukemia, I have to let go of something so special to me. I won't say goodbye - just may your lives be blessed as you have blessed mine.'
I have a passion for the landscape of Western New York and for the sea that I am unable to express completely in my poetry alone. Now, I have converted both those loves into digital paintings in an impressionist style that express what I see with the heart more than with the eye. I added to that the metaphor of the spiritual journey in my Sea Stories paintings - a visual metaphor for our personal quest for character, courage and truth. Contemporary, yet timeless, my digital paintings are modern realism but with homage to the classic works. In addition to my current art work, I have two self-published volumes of poetry, 'Songs of the Heart's Longing' from Blurb publishing and 'Ecclesiastes for Sixty: Seasons in Solitude' from Xlibris. Both volumes contain my own original art and photography to accompany my contemporary style poetry.
My work has won a number of awards and contests including Light, Space and Time's Seascape competition for digital art, is on display at Trillium Gallery in Saugerties, NY and is currently appearing in Issue 4 of Trillium Gallery Magazine and Woven Tale Press online magazine.
Lianne Schneider joined Pixels.com Licensing on May 15th, 2011.
