Thelma Appel
Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been working and teaching for more than five decades. She was recently the subject of a career survey October 2019-February 2020 at the Brattleboro Museum of Art in Vermont curated by Mara Williams: Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed. Thelma was born in Israel and educated in Darjeeling, India and in London, England, the latter, where she studied Art at St. Martins’ and Hornsey College of Art. She immigrated to the United States in 1968.
Appel’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including Bennington College Museum, the Berkshire Museum in North Adams, MA, the Childrens’ Museum of the Arts in New York, NY, the Mattatuck Museum, in CT the Brattleboro Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, University of VT and University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Galleries - and seen on A&E Television Series: The Way Home. Early in her career, she was awarded a Yaddo Residency and an Edna St. Vincent Millais Residency…. She co-founded the Bennington College, VT Summer Painting Workship, where many distinguished painters of the late ’70’s and 80’s, both abstract and representational, conducted master classes…This ran for seven years. She has also taught drawing at the Parsons New School, painting at Southern Vermont College and Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Connecticut. Thelma Appel has exhibited in numerous public and private collections both as a solo artist and within a group context, such as Women on Paper, a duo exhibition in 2021 at the Sager-Braudis Gallery, Columbia, MO, and the History of Woman at the Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield, CT. |
"Throughout my life in Art I have tried to express a visual response to the beauty of landscape, citiescapes, animals and still life. My subjects were representational, yet I also painted non-objective abstraction.
In latest works I commented on environmental degradation using mixed media as well as the horrors of war, using a synthesis of representation and abstraction. As a drawing instructor I work to introduce different materials and ways of visually describing any given object, as well as its context by exploring its spatial relationship to the objects, colors, shapes, and textures around it. In painting, I emphasize composition and pictorial coherence, as well as the many possibilities of paint in expressing realism, mood, atmosephere." -Thelma Appel 
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