Constance Widen
Profile
•Born in Johannesburg, grew up in Zambia, spent several years in Britain and Ghana, now residing in BC, Canada.
•Studied for a BFA at Rhodes University, Grahamstown: Tutors – Brian Bradshaw and Robert Brook.
•Completed 2 Courses in Ceramic Sculpture under Charles Gotthard in the Magaliesberg.
•Spent 4 years creating and selling mixed media collages using watercolours and dried flowers.
•Attended art sessions with Wendy Martell for 4 years using pastels.
•Attended stained glass techniques course in Johannesburg with Marise Mill.
•Paintings exhibited in McGregor, Robertson, Pringle Bay, Muldersdrift Johannesburg, Bonnievale, Heidelberg, Stilbaai and Swellendam.
•Paintings sold to individuals throughout South Africa, England, Germany, USA and Spain.
•Participated in joint project creating Mixed Media Collages under the name Jaycee.
•Also signs under C.N. Robertson, and the pseudonyms “Conoro” now signs “Conowi”.
•Member of the South African Society of Artists (SASA).
Groups
Constance Widen is a member of ! $$☻The Christmas Shop (Get Art Promoted)☺ !, ! Inspired Art !, ! φThe Dreaming Treeφ !, ! ♥♥♥Love Is (Join us!)♥♥♥ !, " ' Too Bright ' ", "Exceptional Ekphrasis", "I Got The Music In Me" NO NUDITY!!!, "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" (1 photo or painting per 24hrs.), "Real" Life Artwork (No Photography), "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), * Painted Nature *, 12 Great Features - Challenge Themes ONLY, A Fascinating Purple (75% Purple), A Place To Call Home, Abstract Realism, All About Water, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, aqua, lime or indigo, Art of the Mundane (read the rules!), Art Up Close, Beach Art, Bits and Pieces , Body of Work, Both Sides Now, Brissie! It's short for Brisbane - Xmas edition , Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects (2 a Day), Canada ~ *4/day - READ RULES*, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Canadiana - (limit 3/day), Cards: Best of Your Best, Cee's Fun Artsy Friends (no holidays cards or snapshots please), Color Me a Rainbow (RED must include Human or Animal), Coloured Pencil Art, Contemporary Pastel Painters (2 per day), Country Bumpkin, Decorative and Traditional Art, Dilapidated Buildings, Eerie Lighting, Everything Winter, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, FEATURED ONLY, Fine Arts, Fine Arts Influenced by Literature, Finger Painting, Hand Drawn or Painted Art of Happiness or Joy, Horizons, Imaginative Realism, Impressionism Café, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Inspired By Life, International Superheroes of Drawing, Illustration and World Domination, Lakes and Inland Waterways *one* per day, focal point - the water!, Landscape Painting, Light In The Darkness, Live, Love, Dream: , Masterpiece: Art, Miniatures and Mammoths, Minimalist Landscapes, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Painters In Modern Times - TWO PER DAY, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Realist Paintings About Water, Realist Traditional Art, Rivers and Streams, Rural Around The Globe, Safe Haven, SEA, Seachanges, Self Expression, Shameless Self-Promotion, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, Solo Exhibition, South Africa - Rainbow Nation, SPIRIT, The Patchwork , The Scots are Coming, The World, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Tropical Art, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Visual Texture(no pornography,nudes or offensive works), Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, roadways, and railways, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Works On Paper, Yellow Two, You're Accepted and ♫.•°°African Art At heART°°•.♫ - 3/day - NO photography/digital artworks.
