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PICAYUNE — Well-known award winning artist Sylvia Doucet Stanton is to be featured in a one-woman show at Gallery 421 in Covington during Art Walk Second Saturday on April 10 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Sylvia always donates a 30 by 30 Iris to WYES TV Art Auction in New Orleans every year. It usually sells for $3000 or more. She donated three paintings this year and will have three gallery boards. The paintings are “Chasing Rainbows,” Mediterranean Harbor,” and “Woman in a Red Dress Year 8,” a very collectable piece.
Sylvia started painting when she was 12 years old and later, after she married Bob Stanton, she attended the University of New Mexico and sold her first painting in Albuquerque to collector James H. Russell of Santa Fe. Her paintings are in collections worldwide.
Since Katrina, she has started painting portraits and her clients include Gillian Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn’s great niece, and Barbara and Pip Brennan’s daughter, Leslee, and her baby.
Sylvia’s work appears in nine galleries country wide including Picture It Gallery, Giaise’s Gallery, Theresa’s Gallery in Ocean Springs, Gallery 421 in Covington, Maggie May’s in Bay St. Louis, Sylvia’s Designs in Slidell, caboose gallery in Long Beach, Montserrat Gallery in new York City and Performing Arts Gallery in Foley, Alabama.
Sylvia has studio’s inside Maggie May’s and The Caboose Gallery where she teaches oil painting Wednesdays and Thursdays.
She also teaches a class in Picayune on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
For more information, visit the website www.sylviastanton.com or call 601-798-0002.
