EDITH VONNEGUT

My aim is to rewrite the history of women as I think we have been portrayed incorrectly from Eve on. I'm here to herald the unheralded and bring majesty to the mundane. I'm also working on some politically charged paintings regarding the trashing of our planet.  I've always painted angels, though that's a mystery as I was raised agnostic bordering on atheist but have a sneaking feeling there is more to this world than meets the eye.  I am more of an illustrator than a painter and proud of it. I begged my parents to send me to apprentice with Norman Rockwell but he was not taking students. Then I begged them to send me to Italy to study with the masters, but they told me they were all dead so I dropped in and out of multiple art schools and consider myself self taught by getting too close to masterpieces in museums and studying books with titles like 'Painting Techniques of the Masters'.  I want to make paintings that are beautiful, with humor and are about something. My mediums are oil on linen or lately, gouache on antique wallpaper.