Victoria
Marie Rudd
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Victoria
Rudd was born in Ohio and has traveled and lived in many other
states and visited the British West Indies. Victoria received her
BA from East Carolina University in North Carolina in 1998 with
emphasis in Art Education and painting. She is currently teaching
art classes for adults and children.
Victoria has been
showing her work in galleries and juried art exhibitions since
1998, and has most recently displayed her work in the J C Morgan Art Gallery in the Quintard Mall in Oxford, AL. She is also a member of the Douglas County Art Guild in Douglasville, GA., the South Cobb Art Alliance in Mableton,
Ga., the Carrollton Art Guild in Carrollton, GA., and the American Portrait Society in Tallahassee, FL.
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She has been commissioned
to create murals and other art in businesses like Hightower Memorial Chapel, Gold’s
Gym, Women’s Weight Loss Center, and
many private homes. Many of her paintings are also in private collections.
Locally her work has been shown at the Douglas County Courthouse,
the Douglasville Cultural Arts Center, the Douglasville School
of Art, the South Cobb Art Alliance in the Mablehouse and galleries
in NC and the Island of Anguilla in the British West Indies. Her
art has been on the cover of Douglasville’s local magazine “Chapel
Hills News and Views” and in a book “Behind the Cane” by
Sorcha Duncan (proceeds go to the Muscular Dystrophy research).
She currently works on a portraits and murals for private homes
and businesses.
Victoria enjoys painting
with much contrast for a dramatic affect in lighting and mood.
She has a passion for the human form; this shows in the sentimental
and natural manner in the way she composes them on a canvas.
She is attracted to texture and the way brush strokes move
your eye around on a canvas.
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