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Capturing Hearts Gracing Homes: The Art of Annell Metsker
Issue: 2021/05 – May
For Annell Metsker’s evocative portraits, the life of the heart is always the heart of the matter.
If you’re a Laurelphile, you probably remember Annell Metsker’s beautiful cover/article a decade ago. She’s back, having evolved from a photographer/painter to a stunning oil painter, both digital and traditional.
She still takes photographs and uses them as reference, but today she considers herself first-and-foremost an oil painter.
Annell’s happiest portraying a human or pet, capturing bold color, shape, form, and texture at peak light.
She paints a dramatic story, establishing the subject’s true character with daubs, layers, and textural smears of impasto in photo-realism, impressionism, or abstraction.
While many of her portraits of pets are often an homage to a cherished four-legger now waiting at the Rainbow Bridge, one of her most heart-tugging works of art is that of a child.
Annell shares the experience, “I painted a first-time mom (at age 42) and her newborn. Every six months I created photo-realism paintings of her daughter. By age two-and-a-half the mom was satisfied with my process and allowed more creative freedom for what I call my Angel Portrait. As I studied the daughter’s face I kept thinking, ‘This child is truly an angel.’
“Months after unveiling the Angel Painting, I received a call from the grandmother. She said her daughter and baby were casualties in an auto accident. She said the paintings were a great comfort, for they captured her loved ones’ spirits. She felt their presence. I still get gooseflesh thinking of the foreshadowing of that sweet Angel.”
It’s the heart she paints into her work that makes it so captivating.
Contact Annell through her website, annell.com, or email her at [email protected], or call her at (704) 996-0559. She’ll discuss your commission goals, background settings, wardrobe choices, and all the factors built into her art. Email several photos to get started, or set up a shoot at her Covid-free studio.
While she frequents Charlotte, she is a Lake Glenville resident and available for consultation. Let her fill your heirloom portrait and your home with heart-warming memories and forever smiles.
