Camille Engel (born April 21, 1955) is a self-taught American realist painter currently living in

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. Her diverse pictorial themes include contemporary still lifes, landscapes, fruits and flowers,

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s, figuratives, and animal portraits. She is best known as a bird artist depicting sharply realistic, colorful birds of intricate detail and textures, characteristically breaking through torn trompe-l'œil holes in her art paper. Engel's work has been repeatedly featured in ''

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,'' ''International Artist.'' Her oeuvre has received numerous awards, among them the People's Choice Award at the Gilcrease Museum's “American Art in Miniature” exhibition in 2008, and the third place of the Artistic Excellence Competition by ''Southwest Art'' in 2015.

Career

Engel was born in

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. She attended junior college at Tulsa Tech, majoring in fine arts while working as a

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in a department store. She continued working in graphic design for a number of years until establishing her own design firm, first in Tulsa (in 1974) and then in Nashville in 1984, where she served corporate clients such as

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, MCA, and

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. She also designed music album covers for a number of artists including

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. She began painting in 2000 under the guidance of realist painter Charles Brindley. Praise at the gallery scene and competition success came shortly after. She has been painting on a full-time basis since 2003.

Awards

Engel's painting ''Strike A Pose'' has won the following distinctions: *Selection for exhibition at the Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition organized by the International Guild of Realism (2011, Santa Fe, CA) *Selection for exhibition at the 37th Birds in Art show held at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (2012, Wausau, WI) *Finalist at the 9th International Salon Competition by the

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in 2012 *Selection by ''Southwest Art Magazine'' for publication among the Top 75 yearly album in 2013 *Fourth Place Prize at the "Animals" competition by competition.net in 2014 *Finalist at the Animal/Wildlife competition by ''The Artist's Magazine'' in 2015 Awards for other works: *First Place at the 2016 "Flowers, Plants & Gardens" competition by ArtCompetition.net *Third Place in the Artistic Excellence by ''Southwest Art Magazine'' in 2015 *Finalist at the 2018 ''International Artist Magazine'' "Favorite Subject" Challenge *2017 "Salon International" by the Art Renewal Center *2015 and 2016 "Artistic Excellence Competition" by ''Southwest Art Magazine'' *2016 "Florals & Gardens Challenge" by ''International Artist Magazine''

Solo exhibitions

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(Odessa, TX) * Parthenon (Nashville) Museum * Customs House Museum (Clarksville, TN), October 16 (2018) through January 2, 2019

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Engel, Camille American bird artists 1955 births Living people Artists from Nashville, Tennessee Painters from Oklahoma American realist painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American women painters Artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma Painters from Tennessee