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Eileen Seitz was born in New York City in 1951. Her interests in drawing and painting began at the early age of eight years old. At age thirteen she won a first-place award for an oil painting in a New York City street art show. At sixteen she sold her first painting to a New York City art dealer. She was accepted to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she studied Fine Arts and developed her already gifted passion for drawing, oil painting and watercolors.
In 1968 her life in the tropics began. St. Thomas, Puerto Rico , Key West, Mexico, all of Central America, Columbia, Kauai, Eleuthera, St. Marten, Tortola, Jamaica, Maui,, Guadalupe, Virgin Gorda, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Anguilla, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago -- the natural beauty of these places inspired Eileen Seitz immensely.
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In 1981 she moved to Coconut Grove and in 1982 began to self-publish her own paintings as art cards, posters, s/prints, s/n limited editions and miniprints. This act of taking her work into print form opened her market to the entire world.
Her colorful, exuberant paintings have gained national and international recognition and acclaim for their originality, unique character and style. However her true joy comes from two things: the actual art of painting, of letting the spirit speak through her brush, and seeing that spirit reborn in the faces and hearts of the people who come to share her anonymous gift. |
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