A fine portrait
There are few things as rewarding as looking at the faces of our children. Seeing their faces on a portrait painted by a fine artist is an even more special experience, one of pure joy.
This is what I experienced when The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists - CSOPA - and the Greenwich Arts Council selected my daughter’s Chiara portrait, by Candance Taubner, to be part of their exhibition Faces of Winter 2008 - Fine Art Portrait Festival. Selected by an independent jury from hundred of entries, these 57 portraits represented some of the most talented artists from Connecticut and New York. The show as a whole displayed - once again - the high standards of the CSOPA and the Greenwich Arts Council.
Chiara’s portrait painter, Candance Taubner (photo), is known for an outstanding ability to reveal the essence of her subjects in her portraits. She says ‘the face is a universe unto itself - ever changing, surprising, mysterious and compelling. I seek to discover and reveal the essence of my subjects, no matter what age they are. It never fails that I find unique beauty in each person, and I delight in revealing it to them and to the world’.
Her portrait of my daughter is a proof that she achieved her goal, once more.