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Cedar Lee has been a painter all her life. She received a BA in studio art from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD in 2005, graduating summa cum laude with honors in the major. Cedar's paintings have been collected by friends, family, and admirers and featured in solo and group exhibitions since she was a teenager.

Cedar is the oldest of five children, and has lived in many places throughout the United States, including Miami, FL, Eugene, OR, Asheville, NC, and Baltimore, MD, where she currently lives with her husband, Kevan and their dog and cat. Cedar's work is profoundly influenced by memories of the places she has been.

Cedar runs her art studio from her home, where she paints portraits by commission and vivid, dramatic landscapes. She works as a part-time art instructor at Anne Arundel Community College and is actively involved in the Baltimore art scene.

She loves organic gardening, cooking, and the outdoors. She is a voracious reader and a world traveler. A versatile artist, she is also skilled in jewelry design, photography and pottery.

Artist's Statement:

My paintings are about nature’s exhilarating beauty and the awe it inspires in me. I work from life, from photographs, and from my imagination, sometimes combining all these things into one image, using elements of both realism and abstraction. My goal is to combine vivid color, light, composition, and content to create sincere, spiritual, lasting images of peace, joy, and dramatic splendor. My art is an exercise in wonder and gratitude.

I paint mostly in acrylics because with them I can achieve a large range of colors and effects with a quick drying time. I tend to work rather quickly, which helps me get everything out on the canvas the way I imagine it. My processes range from careful and precise photorealism to extremely loose abstraction, but my work always remains representative of things in the physical world.

Autumn Clouds

2006
112 x 95

Into the Winter Sun

2006
115 x 76

Radiant Sky

2006
107 x 92

Convergence

2006
112 x 77

Fall Jubilation

2006
125 x 86

Glorious Sunset

2005
102 x 117

Approaching Storm

2005
Acrylic on Canvas
76 x 117

Birds at Sunrise

2005
Acrylic on Canvas
102 x 71